*The purpose of this amendment is to notify contractors that FAR 52.227-14 Rights in Data-General, Alternate III is incorporated in to solicitation#LCNLS12R0088. Contractors who have already submitted proposals may submit revisions to their proposals if necessary. Proposal revisions are due via email only to [email protected] at 1500 (3PM) EST on 8/31/2012.*


The contractor shall design, build, test and supply source and executable code for an application program to execute under the Google
Inc. Android operating system which includes the following functionality:
1. User navigation and playback of protected or unprotected NLS/BPH (Z39.86:2002) audio Digital Talking Books (DTBs) available
on the application's virtual ‘bookshelf'.
2. User browsing of the catalog of Digital Talking Books and Magazines (DTB) available for Internet download from NLS/BPH.
3. Application authentication, over the Internet, of user supplied credentials with NLS/BPH servers to permit access to materials
only to authorized users.
4. Encryption/Decryption key generation, exchange and storage complying with the DAISY PDTB2 standard.
5. User downloading via the Internet and locally storage in a virtual bookshelf, of DTBs uncompressed from the archive files (zip).
6. User side-loading and off-loading of DTBs to and from the virtual bookshelf through file transfer from a connected computer or
through Google Drive.
7. User review, deletion and organizing of DTBs in the application's virtual bookshelf.
The Government will provide the contractor with:
1. Application Programmer Interface documentation for accessing the NLS/BPH catalog, DTB download server and for PDTB2
key exchange.
2. Object code library for the decoding of AMR-WB+ compressed audio (as used to compress audio files used in Z39.86:2002
NLS/BPH DTBs).
3. Test DTBs.
The contractor shall deliver an Android Eclipse project containing all source code required to build the application.
The contractor shall provide services for the maintenance of the application program, including bug fixes, porting to new Android versions
and for enhancements.
The program developed shall operate on Android phones and tablets using Android 2.2 (Froyo) and later.
The period of performance for the base period of this contract is one year.
The period of performance may be extended for up to three option years beyond the base contract.

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