Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg WV 26101-5312

70 -- INVESTMENT ACCOUNTING PACKAGE DUE 120497 POC Point of Contact, Tammie S. Johnson, 304-480-6461 and Contracting Officer, Orlando R. Yaconis, 304-480-6529 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. The Bureau of the Public Debt (Public Debt) is assessing the market to determine the feasibility of using an off the shelf software package to manage the Government Account Series (GAS) of investments. The system must be capable of managing over 200 accounts with various types of investment activity based on market securities and special Treasury issues and a maximum of 1000 transactions a day. Managing the accounts includes: Integrating a real time pricing service for Treasury Securities; accruing interest on investments; amortizing discount and premium; providing real time investment and accounting information; allowing the entry and reversal of daily investment and redemption activity by CUSIP number and continually integrating updated security regulations. The system must: 1. provide on-line telephone/modem access to our customers, 2. possess industry C-2 compliant security, 3. require minimal user training (user friendly), 4. be table or transaction code driven, 5. provide a general ledger subsystem, 6. provide complete audit logs with user identification and security profiles for each user of the system, 7. provide a report writer with the ability to create ad hoc reports in house, 8. provide flexibility to process non traditional investments and redemptions such as one day securities, zero coupons, and par value securities, 9. store all transactions for each security for 3 years past the security's maturity date. Currently the longest maturity date is 30 years. 10. be capable of multiple batch cycles each day or a combination of batch and real time transaction processing. Information from all postings must be available immediately after the transaction is processed. Desirable optional features would include the ability to: automatically Fax reports to our customers; Internet access to the system or systems reports; External Data Feeds; and a cash forecasting or portfolio analysis tool. Public Debt is requesting technical product literature which will demonstrate the vendor's ability to meet the specified features and commercial price lists (if available), only, at this time. However, at Public Debt's option, evaluation software, product demonstrations, and/or technical presentations may be requested from vendors responding to this announcement. Please note that this information is being requested for information and planning purposes only as Public Debt is primarily interested in assessing the viability of this technology. The Government does not intend to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information requested. Public Debt will assess the ability of the market to meet the needs as stated above based on the information received. Dependent upon the results of this market survey, Public Debt may issue a solicitation to acquire the appropriate tool(s). Any such solicitation would be based on a strictly functional statement of requirements in order to maximize competition. Information sent in response to this Request for Information shall be addressed to Tammie Johnson at the above address. Please note that no solicitation document is available at this time. If one becomes available, another notice will be published in the Commerce Business Daily. (0321)

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