D -- ORACLE DATABASE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES

Notice Date

February 14, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road,Mail Stop 285, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3591

ZIP Code

94025-3591

Solicitation Number

RFP 01WRSS0006

Response Due

February 26, 2001

Point of Contact

Rita A. Leach, (650) 329-4162

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via (rleach@usgs.gov)

Description

This notification constitutes Amendment No. 2 to the Synopsis publicized on January 9, 2001. Companies shall acknowledge all amendment(s) in their offer. This notice serves as the official amendment to the subject solicitation and a written amendment will not be issued. U. S. Geological Survey, Solicitation No. 01WRSS0006, Amendment No. 2. Price will be also be used as an evaluation factor. Electronic responses are not acceptable. The date for receipt of proposals is hereby extended to "no later than 2:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time, Monday, February 26, 2001." The purpose of this amendment is to provide questions from potential offerors and answers from the US Geological Survey. The questions and answers are as follows: Q1. Please provide an estimate of how many non-GIS elements will be stored in this new database? A1. Most if not all ecological sampling data has a spatial component. Administrative tables, such as contract, project and report information do not contain spatial data in general. We are guessing that 5-10% of the information we have does not have a spatial component. Q2. Does you current GIS data include point, line, and/or area features? If yes, could you please provide a rough counts of how many features of each type? A2. Point, line, and polygon features are contained in our GIS. Our GIS contains thousands of Arc/Info coverages that can contain point, line, and/or polygon features. Q3. What is the file format for the imagery? What is the quantity and average size of image the images? A3. Imagery is stored in TIFF format with TIFF World Files for georeferencing (where applicable). Our GIS contains thousands of TIF images and we are expecting our remote sensing efforts to add several hundred per year from this year on. The average size of the files ranges from 30 MB to 600 MB. A single scanned aerial photo can reach 600 MB per photo/file. We have obtained a three-terabyte data storage unit to store these data. Q4. If available could you please provide us with a copy of your firewall policy and/or any security accreditation procedures you may have? A4. I can say that our firewall is brand new, and the USGS has many other ArcIMS and database sites that serve information to the public, so we know that its possible. Q5 (Assumption). This bid will not include any GIS data collection. A5. This is a correct assumption.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010216/DSOL008.HTM (W-045 SN50D783)