U.S. Department of the Interior, National Business Center, Acquisition Services, 1849 C Street NW, Room 1324, Washington, DC 20240

D -- INTERNET BASED WORLD WIDE WEB REPOSITORY (COTS) DUE 083199 POC Latetia Henderson (202)219-0339 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, Latetia_M_Henderson@nbc.gov. The Department of Interior is interested in receiving capability statements from contractors who can provide commercial-off-the-shelf software which will establish and maintain a secure internet world wide web based repository. The Repository will store Departmental policy directives, including the Department Manual chapters, Secretary's Orders, and Office Bulletins. The repository shall allow for viewing, searching and retrieving by anyone from anywhere.The repository may be expanded to store Bureau documents or other Departmental or Bureau policy documents. The repository shall have the following general functional capabilities: Be a user friendly web site so that users with limited computer knowledge can access the repository and obtain the information wanted. Access should be available to anyone from anywhere with Internet access and web browsing capability. Users should not be required to have an ID or access code and password to log into the repository and retrieve information. The repository should be accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The repository shall support a minimum of 100 concurrent users and should be scalable to allow for increased users. Use statistics shall be maintained and the number of concurrent users may be increased as necessary. All documents in the repository shall be maintained in HTML format, for viewing with a browser, and in WordPerfect format, for downloading. Each current DM Chapter, Secretary's Order, and Bulletin has a unique number. The archives consists of superseded, expired, or outdated historical documents. The archive must be capable of storing multiple copies of DM Chapters, Secretary's Orders, and Bulletins which have the same number documents but differ only by content and date. The storage of documents shall accommodate graphics, in GIF or JPG formats, such as tables; bar, pie, and line charts; simple maps; and organization charts. The repository shall provide text only for users without graphic capable access devices. The repository shall have a full text search capability for the stored documents. A user shall be able to search by any word or phrase in the documents or titles or by the date of the document. The search shall be capable of Boolean logic. The user shall have the option of choosing the search only the active documents, or only the archived documents, or both active and archived documents. The repository shall be read only and protected against unauthorized changes. Also the repository shall have safeguards to prevent the accidental or unauthorized destruction of documents. The printing or downloading of documents shall be possible. The repository shall maintain a continuous log of changes (updates, additions, or deletions) to the stored documents. The repository shall prevent the loss of documents due to system failures, operator errors, and unauthorized destruction. Security provisions shall be built into the repository using automated backup and restore procedures. The repository shall store and provide all functional capabilities for both acurrent set of documents and the archive of those documents. The repository shall provide for a context sensitive HELP capability. DM Chapters and Secretary's Order specific capabilities: The repository shall consist of and maintain the following: The current DM Chapters. An Archive of DM Chapters. The current Secretary's Orders. An Archive of Secretary's Orders. A Table of Contents for each. A chronological list of changes for each.. Bulletins specific capabilities: The repository shall also have the capability to provide multiple Office Bulletin sections, the number of which will be determined by the various offices in the Office of the Secretary who need to provide their bulletins to Department personnel and the public. Each Bulletin section shall consist of and maintain the following: The current Bulletins. An Archive of Bulletins. A Table of Contents. A chronological list of changes. Repository operations capabilities: The repository shall provide for add, replace, and archive actions for DM Chapters and Secretary's Orders. For Bulletins, the repository shall provide for add, amend, and archive actions. The Bulletins amend action will replace the entire Bulletin and change the bulletin number by added A1 or A2 or A3 or ... as required. Actions will be initiated upon receipt of a WordPerfect document in a special holding area and the completion of a change summary sheet by the user in the office responsible for the document. The documents to update the repository will be prepared in WordPerfect format and uploaded to the holding area. The update process will consist of the following: Convert the WordPerfect document to HTML. Create hypertext links to other repository documents.* If the new document replaces an existing document, move the superceded document to the archive. Revise the Tables of Contents for both the current and archive. Revise the Chronological List of Changes. Move the WordPerfect document from the holding area. * The repository shall have the capability to automatically create a hypertext link to a DM Chapter document in the repository when there is a reference. For example, when a DM Chapter or a Bulletin includes a reference such as "... as detailed in 321 DM 12." the conversion process from WordPerfect to HTML will change the reference (321 DM 12) to a hypertext link (321 DM 12) so that the user could go to the referenced DM chapter with only a mouse click. Cability Statements may submitted to Department of Interior, National Business Center, Mailstop 1324, Attn: Latetia Henderson, 1849 C St, NW, Washington, DC 20240. Electronic Mail responses are welcomed. Posted 08/19/99 (W-SN369970). (0231)

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