ACTION ITEM B23 - - IMPACT OF NON-COMPATIBILITY OF SAFE GLOBAL ADPE WITH INSTALLED GOVERNMENT ADPE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000500070035-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: January 31, 1980
• Content Type: LETTER

STATINTL
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
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SUBJECT: Action Item B23--Impact of Non-Compatibility of
SAFE GLOBAL ADPE with Installed Governemnt ADPE
REFERENCE: SAF-E012-80 Letter to
from Subject: Use of Life-Cyc e
Costing in the SAFE ADPE Proposal Evaluation,
dtd. 14 January 1980
STATINTL Dear
This letter is in response to Action Item 823, in
which the Government was to evaluate the impact of SAFE
GLOBAL ADPE not being compatible with installed CIA/ODP
and DIA/RSO ADPE.
Over the last several months, the Government has been
involved in a detailed evaluation of this impact. The results
of this evaluation are three cost adjustment factors that
are to be added, depending on system architecture, to the
systems life evaluation cost (see reference) of SAFE GLOBAL
ADPE. These factors represent a dollar estimate of the cost
incurred by the Government for GLOBAL SAFE incompatibility
with installed ADPE architecture(s). For the purposes of
this analysis, prospective SAFE GLOBAL ADPE has been divided
into three architecture categories: IBM-compatible, Honeywell-
compatible and "Other" (e.g., Univac, Burroughs, etc.). The
cost adjustment factor developed for each of these architecture
categories is provided in the attachment. The final impact of
these adjustments in selection is of course dependent on
the weight of cost versus technical and other criteria in
the overall evaluation scheme.
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These cost adjustment factors and resulting adjustments
are made up of additional training costs, loss of support
personnel sharing benefits associated with a compatible
architecture and, for the DIA, certain conversion costs
associated with their installed Honeywell and IBM 360
systems. Additional details are on file in CSPO.
I any dues the use of these
factors on the Governmen contract, please contacts
the Government's on ractina Officer.
The cost adjustment factors we have developed are
considered conservative measures of the cost impact of
an architecture. The Government acknowledges the difficulty
of providing meaningful cost estimates in this type of
situation. To the best of the Government's ability, the
proposed cost adjustment factors represent a balance between
the estimated real resource impact to Government, programs and
the Government's desire for a free and open competitive
procurement. We believe the cost factors have been fairly
developed and will permit maximum competition for SAFE ADPE,
ensuring meanwhile that the Government realizes a cost savings
to (partially) offset the full and real cost associated
with architectures not compatible with installed ADPE.
The RFP and Evaluation Plan should, therefore, be written
to reflect the cost adjustment factors described in the
attachment. The cost adjustment factors depend on vendor
architecture and are to be treated as costs incurred in Mid-FY83
in constructing the systems life evaluation cost of a proposed
GLOBAL configuration. The Government is developing appropriate
language for the fFP to explain to the marketplace the rationale
behind the factors. If you have any question on these factors
please direct them to f CSPO. In addition,
if au have .3
Sincerely,
Attachment: Analysis of Cost of
Non-Compatibility
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Cost of Non-Compatibili~y
STATINTL
Cost Adjustment Factors to Reflect Additional Government Costs
Due to Non--Compatibility with Existing CIA/ODP and/or DIA/RSP ADPF
If SAFE GLOBAL Architecture Is: Add this Cost to GLOBAL
ADPE Systems Life Evaluatic
Cost
(In Thousands of Uid-FY83
1. IBM-Compatible
II. Honeywell
III. Other
(Non-IBBi-Compatible and
Non-Honeywell)
* Systems Life Evaluation Cost for the GLOBAL systems includes
FOC mainframes and peripherals, software and maintenance
services over the systems life (see SAF-E012-80). Cost
adjustment factors are treated as a cost incurred in Mid-FY83
(i.e., 1 April 1983) in determining the overall present
value discounted cost.
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