The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is issuing a Sources Sought/Pre-Solicitation Synopsis Notice to identify the potential sources capable of developing a SCORM 2004 Run-Time Environment. This SCORM Run-Time Environment will support courseware hosted on the Marine Corps Distance Learning Network (MarineNet). Upon review of the responses to this solicitation an RFP will be issued. The USMC’s goal is to replace the SCORM functionality provided by the existing Learning Management System (LMS) and incorporate additional functionality to be compliant with the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative’s SCORM 2004 specification. Although this project will expand on the current capabilities of the MarineNet SCORM relayer software component to launch and track SCORM content, it is a new development effort not relying on reuse of the existing LMS code. The SCORM 2004 RTE will be based upon a USMC-developed software design specification that will be released as part of the RFP solicitation. The software shall enable the delivery of SCORM 1.2 and 2004 content across a distributed cross-domain architecture with content hosted and pre-positioned near large student populations. The software shall provide the necessary functionality required to track and present SCORM content in a responsive and secure manner taking into consideration the insecurity and high latency characteristics of wide-area IP network links. The software shall be separated into two components: a centralized component responsible for session-to-session tracking, and a distributed or remote component responsible for in-session tracking. The centralized component shall be responsible for importing SCORM meta-data, identifying an authenticated user, launching the content, and recording SCORM attempt data passed from the remote RTE component. The remote RTE component shall be responsible for all SCO and multi-SCO tracking to include a fully conformant SCORM API Adapter and a SCORM 2004 sequencing engine. The software shall be compatible with existing and future USMC and NMCI common software baselines and comply with USMC and NMCI network security policies. The central RTE components shall run on a Windows Server platform and use an Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database to store data. The remote RTE component shall run on a Windows Server platform and shall not require a database. Cross-domain communications between the central and remote RTE components shall utilize only existing HTTP ports (TCP 80 and 443) and shall not rely on timely connections that may unduly hamper the student’s content sessions. This document and all future documents are available for download from the PMTRASYS Website, Business Opportunities Division at: http://www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil/trasys

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