Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Franchise Services, P.O. Box 605, Parkersburg, WV 26106-0605

70 -- SOFTWARE POC Point of Contact, Rebecca Thompson, 304/480-3509, Contracting Officer, Timothy Wilson, 304/480-3506 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, FranchiseProcurement@bpd.treas.gov. Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt, Franchise Business Activity-Cincinnati, intends to acquire through commercial item procedures, on a sole-source basis from Government Retirement and Benefits Inc a software program which calculates civilian Federal Retirement benefits in a multi-tasking environment. The award will be for a base year plus one option year. The software program shall interface with an interactive voice response (IVR) computer platform in a UNIX operating environment. The software shall be able to compute the following estimates, both in a batch mode and a real time interactive mode: 1) OPM retirement annuity estimates for the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), the CSRS Offset Retirement System and employees that transferred to the FERS system from the CSRS system, both for regular employees and law enforcement, firefighters and other special interest employees covered by separate pay plans. Batch computations shall be calculated for optional, early out, discontinued service, disability, survivor's, minimum retirement eligibility (MRA) plus 10 and for special interest employee groups retirement provisions; 2) life insurance proceeds for employees covered by the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) program; 3)Thrift Savings Plan estimates as offered by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, and 4) provide old age Social Security estimated benefits, including applicable adjustments for the Social Security windfall elimination provision. The software shall also make annuity estimate adjustments for monthly health benefit costs that may be borne by the employee. All annuity estimates shall be made available in a formatted, printed copy and/or fax back to the caller. The Bureau anticipates serving one hundred thousand or more federal employees through interactive voice response applications. Firms must submit a description of the software and operating environment offered in sufficient technical detail to substantiate the ability of any alternative product to meet all these requirements. If no affirmative written response is received within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that a comparable software is available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining the software through the proposed contractor, a sole-source award will be made. No solicitation document is available. Requests for a solicitation document will not be considered an affirmative response. Posted 10/08/98 (W-SN260392). (0281)

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