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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 19,1995 PSA#1265U.S. Department of Education, Grants and Contracts Services/RON/Room
3633, 7th & D Streets, SW, Washington, D.C. 20202-4506 D -- PRESOLICITATION CONFERENCE FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S CORE
FINANCIAL REDESIGN DUE 013095 POC Cathy Girouard 202-708-8529 Glenn
Perry. D - The Department of Education will hold a pre-solicitation
conference on January 30, 1995, 10:00 am, at 600 Independence Avenue,
SW, Room 2413, for the procurement of ED's Financial Management Systems
Software (FMSS). The conference will provide vendors with an overview
of the Department's plan to upgrade and streamline its core financial
management work processes, including the systems and technologies
supporting these work processes. The Department plans to implement a
single seamlessly integrated core financial management system, called
the Department of Education's Central Automated Processing System
(EDCAPS), to obtain redesigned core financial functions, work prcesses,
and procedures. EDCAPS shall consist of the following funcations: a
general ledger; funds management, including budget formulation,budget
execution and funds control; grants pre & post award processing;
including grant application, program payments and accounting; contract
pre- & post award processing including invoice processing; receivable
management; fixed assets; cost management; and administrative
processes (e.g, purchasing, travel, miscellaneous payment). With regard
to the Financial Management Systems Software application of EDCAPS, the
subject of the upcoming RFP, the Department has been granted a waiver
from the current GSA FMSS MAS Contracts Program in order to obtain a
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) financial management system with
features that support ED's strategic goals cited in its April 1994,
Strategic Business Plan. The waiver allows ED to issue a ful and open
competition. Offerors will be required to be in compliance with all
aspects of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Procedures
(JFMIP) dated April 1994; the CFO Act; OM a-123; OMB A-127; and OMB
A-130 guidelines amd demonstrate a firm commitment to the Federal
Government marketplace. (0017) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0030 19950118\D-0002.SOL)
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