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70 -- COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE FOR MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES-RELATED INFORMATION POC Maggie Russell (703) 648-7366 This is not a notice for a solicitation. This is a Request for Information (RFI); neither a draft statement of work nor specifications are available. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Water Resources Division (WRD) is conducting a market search for vendors to provide commercial-off-the-shelf software packages for managing human resources-related information. The software should provide functionality to manage the following information: (a) Employee Information -- current employee information such as name, birth date, social security number, salary, location, phone number, education, supervisor, division, office, etc.; (b) Employment History Information -- a brief description of jobs held during the employee's career; (c) Education -- a summary of the employee's formal education (degrees or additional courses that the employee has taken for a particular academic program); (d) Training -- a summary of training classes taken by the employee to enhance abilities or expand experience in a particular field. The summary should include the course titles, dates, and the number of hours of these courses; (d) Bibliography -- a summary of the scientific or professional publications that the employee has written; (e) Autobiography -- a summary of employee's professional accomplishments (awards or significant achievements/contributions); and (f) Personnel Management Evaluation Data -- the data include the employee's evaluation from the supervisor and self appraisal during a particular rating period. The software package should be user-friendly to allow employees to easily update their career information. The software package should also have an on-line help feature that provides good, helpful information for the user. The software should run under at least one mainstream operating system such as Windows NT, UNIX, and Macintosh. Vendors should state in their response which operating system or systems their software runs on. Vendors are invited to submit their literature. In addition, information on the availability of the software on a Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) or GSA schedule i s also requested. Any pricing information submitted that contains restrictions on its disclosure will be returned to the vendors. No formal solicitation or contract will result from this synopsis for industry information; any subsequent solicitation will be synopsized prior to its release if required by the Federal Acquisition Regulations. All responses, including technical and commercially available pricing information, must be received within 21 calendar days from the date of publication of this announcement. The Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited. (0251)

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