DB design and VB programming

JOB DESCRIPTION Design and Create database to hold about 80 fields of information for about 10,000 business/companies. Information includes earning, balance, sales information, etc for each quarter for each year and write support module(s) to update information, for example, Company Name: SHOE-FOR-ALL Qtr 1, 2000 Qtr 2, 2000 1. Sales $200,000,000 $300,000,000 2. Income $100,000,000 $250,000,000 3. Earning per Share $2.35 $4.03 etc... Data contains about 10,000 companies information for 4,5 years or more, where each year has 4 quarters and each quarter has 80+ values, each with its own description, and category it belongs to. Note: The individual description MAY CHANGE over time. DELIVERABLES 1. Create a Ms Access database structure which can hold all information specified above. 2. Provide minimum queries required to retrieve data for 1 or more companies either by categories or individual item description for a range of dates, ie. the last 4 quarters, last 3 years. 3. Database has to be scalable and be able to handle new description item and data up to 20 years of information. 3. Provide a mean to maintain or update individual item description and its categories as well as merging information if needed. 4. Provide a module to extract data from text files and update database as well as No. 3 above, with new information, including error checking. 5. All documents on the database as well as source code for all modules. See sample text data file attached. ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Installation package that will install the software (in ready-to-run condition) on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) Complete ownership and distribution copyrights to all work purchased. ## Platform Win 98, NT and above