The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), has a requirement to produce a replacement system to support NEIC activities, based on the existing USGS Earthworm Architecture. The Earthworm System consists of: 1) the real-time automatic system; and 2) the DBMS-centric system. The USGS NEIC staff requires assistance in developing programs for the NEIC upgrade. The following unique qualifications are considered essential to this requirement: 1) In-depth knowledge of and experience working with C, C++, FORTRAN, SQL, ORACLE DBMS, TCP, UDP, HTML and CGI; 2) Expert knowledge and experience with Solaris system administration; 3) In-depth knowledge of the design of the regional DBMS-based Alarm System, including schema design and C/Oracle-OCI API development; and 4) In-depth knowledge and understanding of real-time processing modules for the Earthworm System, including decimation module, reftek2ew, compress, decompress, waveman2disk, sniffware, ellipse2arc, and trig2disk. Expert knowledge and understanding of the Earthworm architecture is required to ensure that all developed software is compliant with the existing Earthworm System. In addition, contractor shall be required to attend weekly design meeting at the USGS NEIC in Golden, Colorado. Performance period shall be for a period of one year from date of award. The Request for Quotation (RFQ) can be found at the following web address: http://ideasec.nbc.gov/ecprod/owa/ecmenu$.firstcount/. Telephone requests for the RFQ will not be accepted. It is anticipated the RFQ will be available on or after August 14, 2002. This is a small business set-aside. See Note 1.

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