U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Purchasing Division, Room 1230, 844 Northrush St., Chicago, IL 60611-2092

70 -- ACTIVITY-BASED COST ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMNENT SOFTWARE POC Paul T. Ahern, Contract Specialist, Voice (312) 751-7130, Fax (312) 751-4923 The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) seeks information about the availability of local area network (LAN) based, Activity-based Cost Accounting and Management (ABC/M) commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software. The software must fully interface with the RRB's IBM 3090-400J mainframe-based (1) Financial Management System software -- Federal Finacial System by AMS, and (2) Human Resources Management System software -- Human Resources Manager, Payroll and Position Control by Tesseract. Any firms interested in obtaining the requirements document for the ABC/M software should request it IN WRITING on company letterhead by contacting Mr. Paul Ahern, by U.S. Mail at the address above, or by facsimile at (312) 751-4923, within ten (10) calendar days from the publication of this notice in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD). The RRB shall transmit, by facsimile or by overnight mail, a copy of the requirements document to all firms requesting a copy. Firms must submit their response to this Request for Information (RFI) no later than 25 calendar days from its publication in the CBD. Interested firms must submit the information required on the first page of the requirements document. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR BIDS OR OFFERS, NOR IS IT A REQEST FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. No solicitation document exists. No telephone calls will be accepted. The RRB shall not transmit acknowledgment of receipt of Vendor submissions. (0365)

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