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D -- ELECTRONIC FILING/UPDATING DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION SOL RFP97-3 DUE 081897 POC J. Pehrkon, C.O. (202)219-3600 The Federal Election Commission is soliciting proposals on a full and open competitive basis from qualified organizations to award a contract for the following: The Commission requires the design, development, and implementation of a process which receives electronic filing submissions via telecommunications or some other direct electronic link. The format of the filings has been previously defined. In order to facilitate the direct transmission of electronic filings, the successful offeror will develop and implement a user support facility, staffed by individuals capable of assisting committee representatives with the mechanics of submitting electronic filings. This support is limited to the technical aspects of preparing a filing and submitting the report successfully. The existing configuration of hardware and software for storage and retrieval of electronic filings is sufficient for the early stages of the process (see appendix for description of the existing system). Over time, however, and with increasing numbers of filers submiting electronically, the methods for storage, retention, archiving, and retrieval of information from these submissions must be of sufficient size and have sufficient processing speed to accommodate the volume of data that may be submitted, and also accomodate anticipated demand from the public for retrieval of reports via the internet. The successful offeror will develop a process to extract from electronic filings information consistent with the coding and entry rules currently used in the Disclosure Data Base and present those data to the existing database update process. That is, the same information currently coded and entered from paper reports must be isolated from electronic filings and provided to the update process so that the Disclosure Database contains complete and consistent information (within the framework of the rules for entry of information) for all filers regardless of the original form of the report. In addition to the Disclosure Database, FEC disclosure efforts include a digital imaging system containing images of all reports filed with the Commission. Paper filings are scanned and the images indexed so that individual reports and/or specific pages of reports can be retrieved at imaging stations located at the FEC and remotely in the offices of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. (The Commission is also developing additional imaging capability in order to permit remote retreival of images in Secretaries of State Offices and/or other state election offices throughout the nation. Electronic filings must be integrated into this retrieval system so that reports may be viewed in the same manner via imaging stations whether they were filed electronically or on paper. The solicitation will be available on or about 071897, and may be listed on the FEC Internet Site at www.fec.gov (0183)

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