Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Service, Procurement Division, Room 4210, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20229

70 -- LABORATORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LIMS) SOFTWARE SOL CS-98-023 POC Mark Weinstein, (202) 927-0567 The U.S. Customs Service has a requirement for a Laboratory Information Management System Software Application (LIMS) that will become the core of its new Laboratory Information Management Network (LIN). The prospective contractor shall provide in the software design stage of LIN, a LIMS customized to user requirements and based on LIMS tool, 3.3 HTML-compliant encoded documents, and COTS software. The customized LIMS software shall make extensive use of Intranet/Internet technology (e.g. the user interface shall use MS Internet Explorer or Netscape browser) and COTS such as MS Windows NT 4.0, MS Office 97 Professional Edition, and Oracle database management. The customized LIMS software shall have the following capabilities or features: Login, Labels, Sample Distribution, Work Assignment, Data entering and capturing, data edit/correction, reviewing and approving results, reporting results, managing laboratory operations, Instrument loading reports, On-Line information access, database structure, data integrity, database tools, configuration tools, numerical representation and string manipulation, audit trails, security, links to general purpose tools, on-line reference library, data query capabilities, data archiving and viewing, and support architecture. The prospective contractor must provide the complete source code and detailed documentation on the original software design and subsequent changes (database structure, graphical user interface, screen forms, customized modules developed using a high level language -- e.g. MS Visual Basic, C+ etc).The prospective contractor shall also provide training and maintenance support and must have an annual maintenance program. Support shall be provided for one year after final acceptance by the U.S. Customs Service under a one year warranty. A firm fixed price contract with a five year systems life (having options for maintenance and support services) is contemplated. As part of the procurement process, the Offerors will be required to provide a oral presentation/demonstration of their LIMS software product, technical capabilities, and offered services. Offerors must provide as part of their proposal past performance information (at least three (3) projects over the past three (3) years) of the same or similar products/services with references in order for Customs to validate past performance. This procurement has been designated as a 100% total small business set aside, SIC Code 7372, Total Annual Receipts and Size Standards $18 Million. This acquisition will be processed using the procedures set forth in FAR Part 12, Commercial Item Acquisition with the solicitation and contract containing the applicable provisions and clauses for conducting,evaluating, and awarding a contract for a commercial item. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, apply to this acquisition. Award will be made to a technically acceptable, responsible offeror at fair and reasonable prices. The offeror shall provide as part of itsproposal descriptive literature, commercial price lists, pricing information and policies, capability statements, a brief technical proposal describing the product and service, financial capability information (i.e. banking information, financial statements, annual reports, etc,) and software licensing documents etc. which would attest to the capability of your firm's ability to meet the Government's requirement. Because this is a commercial item, FAR 12.603(c)(3) (ii) will be used for establishing the solicitation response time, rather than the time established in Note 22, which in this instance is not applicable to this commercial item acquisition. Y2K Clauses shall be included as part of any contract resulting from this acquisition. Written requests in response to this synopsis should reference Solicitation No. CS-98-023 and should be transmitted to Mr. Mark Weinstein, Contract Specialist, U.S. Customs Service DY, Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 4.2-E, Washington, DC 20229, facsimilenumber 202-927-1190, Internet E-Mail Address Mark.Weinstein@Customs.Sprint.Com. No telephone requests will be honored. Facsimile or E-Mail Offers will not be accepted. The U.S. Customs Service anticipates that this solicitation will be released to Industry during January, 1998. (0346)

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