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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 9,2000 PSA#2660

Naval Air Warfare Center TSD, Code 257, 12350 Research Parkway, Orlando FL 32826-3275

A -- DEVELOPMENT OF SCENARIO BUILDER SUITABLE FOR DISALT SOL N61339-00-T-0120 DUE 082500 POC D. B. Levey, Contract Specialist, Telephone (407)380-8392 E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, LeveyDB@navair.navy.mil. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Solicitation N61339-00-T-0120 is issued as a request for quotations and incorporates the provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-19. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; a quotation is being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation shall be awarded on a sole source basis to Boston Dynamics, Cambridge, MA who retains proprietary rights to and a copyright for the unmodified portions of the PeopleShop(TM). The SIC Code for this solicitation is 7371 with a size standard of $18.0M. The effort requires additional modification of the PeopleShop(TM) Scenario Builder Tool and PeopleShop(TM) Embedded Runtime Application Programmmers Interface (PS-ERT API) currently in use by the Dismounted Infrantryman Survivability and Lethality Testbed (DISALT) in accordance with the Description of Work. The contractor shall modify it's existing PeopleShop(TM) Scenario Builder tool and PeopleShop(TM) Embedded Runtime Application Programmmers Interface to make it compatable for testing and training applications within the small arms community by using the existing DISALT system. Requirements: (1) The contractor shall maintain functionality within PS-ERT API for both the OpenGVS and Vega visual simulation environments. The following PS-ERT API additions shall be provided: (a) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to support communicating data from the DISALT application to the PS-ERT PERL script API, (b) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to support changing the speed and behavior of characters during runtime of scripted paths, (c) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to support interrupting scripted behavior with such actions as prone_now, resume_now, etc., (d) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to allow control of weapon firing either one shot, multiple shots, or burst, (e) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to access a scenario's environmental settings, such as fog and lighting, (f) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to access a character's body parts in world coordinates based on a part link name, and (g) additional functions within the PS-ERT API to record transient script events so the user can recreate scenario events for After Action Review (AAR). (2) The contractor shall provide the following additional features to the Peopleshop(TM) Scenario Builder Tool: (a) precise timing for character actions. (b) an additional soldier character with quicker transitions between actions and minimized character travel during transitions, and (c) Tin and Tout to the right-most two columns of the action spreadsheet. (3) The contractor shall provide full PeopleShopTM documentation, including low level issues such as how to adjust character and target speeds, create character names that make sense, setup default configuration for user, editconfiguration files, etc. Contractor shall provide PeopleShop User's Guide and API Programmers Reference Manual. Delivery shall be made no later than 9 months after date of award to Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, 12350 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL 32828; acceptance shall be made at destination upon delivery. Delivery shall be made FOB Destination. The following FAR/DFARS provisions and clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.212-1, 52.212-3, 52.212-4, 52.212-5, 252.2121-7001. The following subparagraphs of FAR 52.212-5(b) apply: (11),(12), (13),(14), (15), (20), (22). The following subparagraphs of FAR 52.212-5(c) apply: None. The following clauses of DFARS 52.212-7001(b) apply: 252.206-7000, 252.227-7015, 252.227-7037, 252.243-7002, 252.247-7024. A completed copy of the following must be included with the quote: FAR 52.212-3, DFARS 252.212-7000. The following clauses also apply: DFARS 252.204-7004, "Required Central Contractor Registration," FAR 52.227-19 "Commercial Computer Software — Restricted Rights" and NAVAIR 5252.246-9503 "Year 2000 Compliance (MAR 1999)" (a) The contractor shall ensure that all information technology, which will be required to perform date/time processing involving dates subsequent to December 31, 1999, shall be Year 2000 compliant. (b) Describe existing information that will be used with the information technology to be acquired and identify whether the existing information is Year 2000 compliant. (c) Year 2000 compliant means, with respect to information technology, that the information technology accurately processes date/time data (including but not limited to, calculating, comparing and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations, to the extent that other information technology used in combination with the information technology being acquired, properly exchanges date/time data with it. (d) Failures resulting from Government Furnished equipment that is not Year 2000 compliant are not covered under this clause. (End of clause) The DPAS rating for this solicitation is N/A. See Note 22 (forty-five days is changed to read fifteen days). Quotation is due at 3:00pm EST on August 25, 2000 and may be made by FAX to (407)380-4495 (Attn: D. B. Levey) or to the address above. For information regarding this solicitation, contact D. B. Levey, Contract Specialist at (407) 380-8392. Posted 08/07/00 (W-SN482989). (0220)

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