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70 -- NAME SEARCHING SOFTWARE (CORRECTION) DUE 041598 POC CYNTHIA SPENCER, 410-965-3369 WEB: Download Solicitation when/if available, http://www.ssa.gov/oag. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, SSA/OAG, CYNTHIA.SPENCER@ssa.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation, and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is a simplified acquisition issued as a request for quotation (RFQ) numbered SSA-RFQ-98-0407-CCS. This RFQ and the incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through the most current Federal Acquisition Circular. All responsible business sources may submit an offer, in accordance with the requirements as stated herein, which shall be considered by the agency. The standard industrial classification (SIC) code for this acquisition is 7372. The small business size standard is $18 million. SCOPE OF WORK: The Contractor shall provide software and maintenance support for a "Name Searching" software product that will be installed on an unlimited number of personal computers (PCS) and all mainframe systems located at Social Security Administration's (SSA) National Computer Center, Baltimore, MD. This software shall be used to build and access a file/data base using (customer) name as the access key. It shall be used to retrieve information from a file where the names are often incomplete/truncated, names with unusual construct, or misspelled. The software must be able to evaluate (score/rate) the strength of one name string against another, in online and batch processing. The software must also be flexible as to the data store in which the names are stored, giving SSA flexibility as to the storage vehicle. MANDATORY SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: a) The contractor shall provide a software package that is field proven with a proven track record, that is commercially available and currently in use in production environments at multiple customer sites. Software that is in Beta test or in development is not acceptable. b) The software must be tunable/flexible in its ability to: 1) create database keys for storing records in the creationand updating of the database; 2) allow various ways to develop an access key to search the database in order to retrieve data by a customer's name; 3) allow adjustments to be made to the scoring mechanism via initialization files rather than source code changes; 4) allow for scoring based on the name string and Social Security Number string; 5) allow for transposed numbers and letters; 6) allow nicknames and derivative names to be scored as equal. The package shall have a built in store of nicknames and derivative names, and also allow for customization of such; 7) allow for cleansing (ignore) titles; and 8) allow equating names such as St. = Saint. c) The software shall: 1) be able to run on both IBM MVS/ESA compatible mainframes and personal computers; 2) be "callable" from batch or CICS/COBAL; 3) be able to work with a multi-segmented database containing millions of records per segment; 4) contain name match profiling/tuning/evaluation software as part of the suite of tools; and 5) be Year 200 compliant. d) The contractor shall provide full documentation and customer support on technical issues. e) The contractor shall provide a 1-year warranty at no additional cost. Warranty for the purpose of this announcement shall consist of: 1) automatic updates and revisions, as released; 2) the term "warranty" shall be used interchangeably with "maintenance". Quotations shall be for the described software only. DELIVERY: Social Security Administration, Receiving Clerk, 6401 Security Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21235. The requested delivery date is within 15 days from issuance of order. RFQ INSTRUCTIONS: The following provisions at FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial (tailored) apply to this acquisition: (b) 1 through (b) 9, (b) 11, (c), (f ), and (g). There are no addenda to these provisions. The provisions at FAR Part 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items apply to this acquisition. The Government will award an order resulting from this request for quotation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to this request for quotation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors (i.e., ability to meet the required delivery date) considered. A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration date, the Government may accept an offer, whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt. Offerors are advised to include a copy of the provision at FAR Part 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with their offer. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.204-6 Contractor Identification Number -- Data Universal Numbering Systems (DUNS) Number, and FAR Part 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items. There are no addenda to these provisions. The following provisions at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, apply to this acquisition: (a) (1), (a) (2), (b) (6) through (9), and (b) (16). Offers submitted in response to this RFQ/combined synopsis shall be submitted by April 15, 1998, 3:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, addressed to the Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, Attn: Cynthia Spencer, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207. Facsimiled (faxed) responses to either 410-965-9560 or 410-966-5982 and address to the Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, Attn: Cynthia Spencer will be accepted. SSA-RFQ- 98-0407-CCS must be referenced on all responses. (0098)

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