U -- Learning Management System

This is the second modification to this solicitation. The purpose of this modification is to respond to questions that were received within the alloted question period, which has ended. Proposals are still due on 30 April 2004 at 2:00 pm EST. All other requirements remain the same. Please see the responses to the questions that were received below. SOLICITATION HC1047-04-T-4024,SUPPLEMENT I Question 1: How many separate instances of installation will occur for the LMS? If it is to be installed in multiple locations where and how many? Answer: It should be web based, so there should not be any separate installations. The answer is covered under item b and k of the Statement of Requirements. It will be installed on one server and must be able to serve courses from a variety of sources. _______________________________________________________ The following requirement is included in the solicitation - Proof of Compatibility: Because of the unique operating environment of the White House Communications Agencies intranet (named BEAST), contractor shall be required to prove their LMS can function in the environment prior to formal acceptance. Question #2: What are the requirements / environment of the above mentioned intranet (BEAST) as related to its incorporation and use with the LMS ? What operating system does this intranet function on ? Answer: Windows 2003 Advanced Server running IIS 6.0 The answer is covered under item p of the Statement of Requirement. The data will be stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. _____________________________________________ item (j): LMS can track courses launched on other LMS systems such as SmartForce and NETg and SkillSoft. Question #3: Does this mean that the LMS is expected to track courses which are currently being taken on a completely different and proprietary learning management system? Or is the LMS expected to track the courses and test results that have been previously been taken on the other LMS systems? Will the LMS be required to implement courseware from these other LMS systems? Answer: Yes The answer is covered under item j of the Statement of Requirement. We have courses that are developed that we can access and they will need to be tracked. _____________________________________________ item (o): LMS shall integrate with the White House Communication Agency's (WHCA) corporate database. The contractor shall be responsible to provide the integration scripts between the LMS and WHCA's corporate applications. Question #4: What is the format and platform of the WHCA corporate database ? Answer: Our corporate database is SQL Server 2000 Also, please define the applications that require the integration with the LMS? Answer: Custom written ASP.Net applications that use Windows Integrated Authentication and role base security in the database. The answer is provided in items p and v of the Statement of Requirements. _____________________________________________ concerning item (v): Contractor shall provide a migration strategy to ASP.NET. Question #5: What specifically is being migrated to the ASP.NET platform that requires this migration strategy? Is it the intention of WHCA to have the LMS run under an ASP.Net environment? Answer: It is our intention using ASP.Net. The answer is provided in item v of the Statement of Requirements.