Ocean Salmon Project Data System - RFI

The CDFW-Ocean Salmon Project (OSP) collects, analyzes, reports, and archives data that is central to the management and assessment of ocean and inland salmon fisheries. For nearly three decades, OSP has conducted its data management and analysis activities within the Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP) environment, a system which has served the project well given its user-friendly and integrated database design, management, and analysis features. However, the language is no longer supported by Microsoft and has not been for some time, meaning that at some unknown point in the future it may become inoperable. The unsupported system also poses a security risk to the State¿s information systems in a broader sense.
Securing the expertise needed to manage, maintain, and even operate programs written in VFP is becoming increasingly difficult due to the language¿s legacy status, thus occupying considerable staff time that could otherwise be spent in areas of legitimate concern for CDFW. In short, OSP is working under a heightened state of data insecurity and this project aims to remedy this situation.
The overarching goal of this project is to migrate OSP¿s databases and associated entry and analysis/reporting programs to a more contemporary platform.