Immigration & Naturalization Service, Procurement Division, 425 I St., NW, Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536

D -- AUTOMATED RECORDS TRACKING APPLICATION DUE 100597 POC Robert Beaty -- Contract Specialist -- (202) 514-0032 THIS NOTICE WILL NOT RESULT IN A SOLICITATION BEING ISSUED. NO CONTRACT AWARD IS ANTICIPATED AS A RESULT OF THIS NOTICE. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is interested in receiving information about commercially available automated records tracking applications which will support records management activities for the over 45 million records it maintains. Records to be managed are contained in file jackets identified and tracked by the use of a unique identification number. An existing system converts this number into a 2 dimensional bar-code which is applied to the file jacket. Physical location information, and the type of records transaction required at any given time are also reduced to bar-codes which allows for the records transactions, records locations, auditing, and actual unique records identifier all to be bar-coded and consequently to be executed by using either keyboard or reader (wand). The application/system proposed will have to support a centralized records storage environment containing at a minimum 30 million records. It will have to support up to 30 thousand users at over 400 locations across the United States. The location of each records will need to be accounted for down to the individual user. Requests, file creations, shipments, file retirements, consolidations of files, and other fundamental records management and maintenance functions must be supported. National and local audits, national reconciliations, error and exceptions reports, statistical management information, dynamic system reporting, and the ability to easily interface with other INS casework and mission systems. Responses should include as much information as possible relating to the database management system employed, the program languages involved, the overall system architecture, and any real world business enterprises which are currently using the application. THE INS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY COST RESULTING FROM BUSINESSES RESPONDING TO THIS NOTICE. NO PHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED IN REFERENCE TO THIS NOTICE. (0233)

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