CONTRACT NAS1-01052

The following information has been determined to be exempt from disclosure andhas been deleted from the contract:

Cover page: Estimated cost and fixed fee, pg. 1 Section B.2: Estimated cost and fixed fee, pg. 2 Section H.11: Estimated cost and fixed fee, pg. 34

The deleted material is exempt from disclosure under 14 C.F.R. 1206.300(b)(4)which covers trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained froma person and privileged or confidential. It has been held that commercial orfinancial matter is confidential for purposes of this exemption if its disclosurewould be likely to have either of the following effects: (1) impair theGovernments ability to obtain necessary information in the future; or (2) causesubstantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom theinformation was obtained, National Parks and Conservation v. Morton, 498 F2d765 (D.C. Cir. 1974).

Disclosure of the financial information could cause substantial competitive harmto the contractor by providing its competitors insight into the companys costingpractices and management approaches. Furthermore, disclosure woulddiscourage other companies from participating in future competitiveprocurements, thereby impairing the Governments ability to obtain complete andaccurate cost data, and in turn, frustrating the mandate to obtain maximumcompetition in negotiated procurements.

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PART I -THE SCHEDULE

Section 8 - Supplles or Services and PricedCosts B.1 SUPPLIES AND/OR SERVICES TO BE FURNISHED (LaRC 52.21 1-90) [MAY 1999)

The Contractor shall provide all resources (except as may be expressly stated in thii contract as furnished by the Government) necessary to perform the requirements delineated in the DescriptionlSpecifiwtionsMlork Statement in Section C.

6.2 ESTIMATED COST AND FIXED FEE [NASA 1852.21&74) (DEC 1991)

The estimated cost of this contract is -exclusive of the fixed fee of - The total estimated cost and fixed fee is $3,961,696.

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CONTRACT FUNDING (NASAl852.232-81) (JUN 1990)

For purposes of payment of cost, exclusive of fee, in accordance with the Limitation of Funds clause, the total amount allotted by the Government to this contract is $1,879,103. This allotment is for and covers the following estimated period of performance: Effective date of contract through July 31,2001.

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(b) An additional amount of $120,897 is obligated under this contract for payment of fee.

PART I - THE SCHEDULE 3

Section C- DescriptionlSpecificatlonMlork Statement

C. 1. Statement of Work for the NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI) and the Scientific and Technical Information Program Ofice (STIPO) at Langley Research Center

1.1.1.1. Contents

A. Overview B. Current and Future Support

Part 1 - Information Technology (IT) Support for CASI (February 2001) 1. Introduction 2. Information Systems Operations 3. Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Operations Support 4. Continuous Systems Analysis and Re-engineering

Part 2 - Content Management for CASI (December 200 1)

5. Introduction 6. Acquisitions o f STI 7. Organization o f STI 8. Dissemination o f STI 9. Outreach for STI 10. Commercial Technology 1 1. International STI Program 12. Special Projects

Part 3 - Content, Research, and Web Support for the STI Program O f i c e at Langley Research Center (February 2001)

13. Principal Center Information Desk and the NASA Image exchange (NIX)

A. Overview

The contractor shall provide scientific and technical information (STI) content acquisition and management and information technology (IT) support for the NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI) in Hanover, Maryland, and content, research, and web support for the STI Program O f i c e (STIPO) at NASA Langley Research Center. CASI, which is a contractor-run facility in Maryland, collects, organizes (indexes, catalogues, abstracts, and inputs into the NASA database via a structured vocabulary), provides storage for, disseminates, and provides for the archiving o f NASA's STI and other national and international STI o f interest to NASA's missions. CASI also provides a series o f products and services for the Program, some on a chargeback basis, including the design and maintenance o f the NASA STI website at url hm://www.sti.nasa.aov and its related support. CASI provides necessary IT support to enhance these efforts. The STIPO at Langley is the Principal Center o f i c e that administers the NASA-wide STI Program. Support for the STIPO includes content, research, and web activities for the Phcipal Center Information Desk and help desk and backup activities for the NASA Image exchange (NIX) at url hm://nix.nasa.eov.

B. Current and Future Support

Presently two contracts provide these services at CASI within the same facility. IT support for CASI and the content, research, and web support for STIPO are currently provided by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) under contract NAS 1-20048, which ends January 3 1,200 1, The content management support for CASI is currently

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provided by NCI under contract NASI-960 10, which ends November 30,2001. The facility is leased by CSC, and the equipment is partially government-furnished equipment (GFE) (for critical and unique systems) and partially contractor-owned. This contract consolidates support being provided under the two current contracts referenced above. The contractor shall perform Parts 1 and 3 beginning on February 1,2001. The contractor shall perform the effort under Part 2 beginning on December I , 200 1.

Beginning February 1 , 200 1, the contractor shall perform IT and STIPO activities as shown in this statement of work (Parts 1 and 3). The contractor shall submit to NASA (by the timelines shown in section 4 o f Part 1) a plan for a revision of the IT approach at CASI with an emphasis on modernizing, streamlining, and simplifying (or replacing) systems and obtaining better customer communication and satisfaction. Beginning Dec. 1,2001, the contractor shall handle the activities in Part 2 with a focus on examining its current processes and procedures, organization, and record-keeping to improve operations, to evaluate and reduce its existing product line, to institute an E-commerce approach to content management, and to move to electronic dissemination as the primary means of STI distribution.

Part 1 - Information Technology Support for CASI to Begin February 1,2001 - 1) INTRODUCTION

Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) for the NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Programs operations at the Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), a contractor leased facility in Hanover, Maryland. In addition, the contractor shall perform system analysis to re-engineer as well as continuously improve the IT operations, systems, and processes for the Agency-level STI Program.

The contractor shall perform full life cycle information technology (IT) operation and support with

2) INFORMATION SYSTEM (IS) OPERATIONS

The contractor shall perform full life cycle IS work that include but is not limited to the planning, configuring, integrating, operating, maintaining, monitoring, updating, testing, securing, documenting, producing/reproducing, and restoring critical STI data, computer, and communication systems. Moreover, the contractor shall checkout, configure, integrate, troubleshoot, and document operating system software release and/or bug-fix for conformance and interoperability with existing systems to provide non-disruptive operation for all systems. These systems support a wide area of STI applications to collect, organize, store, and distribute NASA and non-NASA data and publications on and off the Internet, intranet, as well as txtranet. Furthermore, these systems shall be available for the STI operations and NASA approved users on the basis of 2 4 hours by 7 days. The contractor shall also operate and maintain the telecommunication and video-conferencing capabilities for the CASI infrastructure. For all IT security work, the contractor shall adhere to the NASA Procedures and Guidelines (NPG) 2810.1, Security of Information Technology. In addition, the contractor shall provide system compliance support to ensure that these systems meet all relevant federal IT as well as acquisition mandates or regulations. Specifically, the IS operations includes but is not limited to the following distributed clientlserver computing and networking as well as telecommunication systems - Input Processing System (IPS), Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), REsearches-CONnected-Plus System (RECONplus), CASI Technical-Report-Serer (CASI TRS), AeroSpace-Access-Page (ASAP), Customer-Support-System (CSS), Accounts Receivable (A/R), NASA Thesaurushlachine-Aided-Indexing (MAI), Machine Translation System, InterhtraExtra-Networking Systems, Back-up Systems, ROLM Telephone Switching System, Low-Bandwidth Video Conferencing System, and Video Duplication System.

a) Computer and Communication System Operations (CCSO)

2.1.1. IPS - The Input Processing System is the data ingestion system collecting and organizing worldwide STI metadata for the NASA STI Database. This system consists of a distributed clientlserver relational database management system (RDBMS) to load new data as well as to re-load corrected data after performing backfile maintenance. The server is a UNIX system currently running the Oracle RDBMS for both manual input and tape loading approaches. The clients are running various versions o f the Microsoft Windows Operating System over the CASI intranet.

manages the image of a document for electronic delivery to the users desktop computers over the Internet. The input devices