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D -- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PAY AND PERSONNEL SYSTEM -- CORRECTION POC Dawn A. Burnett, Contract Specialist, (202) 267-6203 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via e-mail, dburnett@comdt.uscg.mil. The CBD synopsis submitted Sept 8, 1997, requesting responses from parties interested and capable of providing payroll and perhaps personnel and/or benefits services to the Department of Transportation, stated that the system must be "Title V compliant". The requirement more correctly should have been clarified in terms that the employees to be serviced are covered by Title 5 of the United States Code (U.S.C.). The specifications with which any proffered payroll system must be in compliance are embodied in Title 6 of the General Accounting Office (GAO) Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies; Pay, Leave and Allowance, along with the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program, Personnel/Payroll Systems requirements, published in May, 1990. The regulations for the Human Resources services are contained in Title 5 of the U.S.C., with further guidance provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management through the Guide to Processing Personnel Actions and related materials. Another area of confusion pertains to payroll services; respondents to the DOT solicitation must utilize the proffered payroll system to perform payroll office functions. DOT expects to maintain internal Human Resource offices, but is expecting respondent to provide hardware and software systems support as a future component of the proposed solution. Also, the payroll system solution to be proffered is to be non-developmental; that is, DOT is searching for a payroll system that has been implemented and operated by the offeror for six months by the time of proposal receipt (3rd quarter FY98). NOTE: No solicitation is currently available. Should a solicitation be issued, it will not be available until 2nd quarter FY98, at the earliest. (0260)

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