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70 -- TRIAL USE OF FORTRAN 90 COMPILER POC Contact, Patrick Robertson, Contracting Officer, (703) 648-7368 This is not a notice for a solicitation. The US Geological Survey (USGS) is conducting a market survey of commercial-off- the-shelf (COTS) software that is available that has the following capabilities: meets the ANSI X3.198-1992 standard, includes High Performance Fortran (HPF) and Fortran 95 language features, meets IEEE arithmetic exception handling, includes Fortran 77 language extensions such as Hollerith data, and provides interactive code debugging and static analysis tools. As a part of this market survey the USGS will be examining the capabilities of software from Numerical Algorithms Group, Inc's (NAG) Fortran 90 Compiler with tools (debugger, static analysis, error checking, code formation) for unrestricted use on the USGS computing platform. The NAG software will be examined by the USGS at no charge on a 60 day trial basis. NAG~s software will be returned upon completion of the trial. Required platforms are: Data General Aviion workstations under the DG/UX operating system and Pentium-based computers running Windows NT. Optional computing platforms are Sun SPARCstation under Solaris, Silicon Graphics under IRIX, Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha under Digital UNIX, and International Business Machines RS6000 under AIX. Vendors who have COTS software that believe they can provide the capabilities as stated above are invited to submit product literature for such software along with commercial pricing within 15 calendar days from the date of notice. Any information submitted must be submitted at no charge to the USGS. Following such review, the contracting officer may invite the vendor to furnish the software for a trial examination as is being done with the NAG software. The USGS currently has no intent to conduct a procurement action for software with the above capabilities. In the event the need for a procurement arises in the future, the USGS will comply with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements for publicizing such action. Information gathered during any trial examination resulting from this CBD announcement will not be used as a basis for any potential noncompetitive procurement action. (0297)

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