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D -- TREASURY INFORMATION PROCESSING SUPPORT SERVICES-2 (TIPSS-2) SOL TIRNO-99-R-00009 POC Pamela T. Lee, Contracting Officer (202-283-1418); Jeanne L. Slaughenhoupt, Contract Specialist (202-283-1461) or Kay P. Fridenstine (202-283-1279) WEB: IRS A/C Procurement, http://www.procurement.irs.treas.gov. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, *TIPSS-2@m1.irs.gov. The Internal Revenue Service, in support of the Department of the Treasury and its bureaus, to include the IRS, plans to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Treasury Information Processing Support Services-2 (TIPSS-2) procurement. It is anticipated that TIPSS-2 will result in multiple awards of, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity type contracts, providing for a wide range of information processing support services within four (4) Principle Task Areas. The four (4) Principle Task Areas consist of: (1) Information Systems Services; (2) Telecommunication Support Services; (3) Organizational/Management Services; and (4) Operational Support Services. TIPSS-2 will be conducted as a full and open competition with a partial small business set-aside. All businesses who elect to compete under the unrestricted portion of the full and open competition must submit a proposal that includes the Principle Task Area of Information Systems Services -and may include any or all of the three (3) other Principle Task Areas. Task orders under the contracts may be negotiated as either fixed price or cost types. Small Business Offerors who submit a proposal under the partial small business set-aside shall submit a proposal that includes from one (1) to four (4) of the Principle Task Areas. Organizations must be compliant with the Capability Maturity Model (CMM ), Level 2 if they wish to submit a proposal under the Full and Open Competition. The Full and Open Competition will conduct a mandatory pass/fail evaluation of the CMM requirement. Full and Open Offerors who do not successfully demonstrate compliance will not be considered for further evaluation. Small businesses may compete as a prime under the SBSA competition without CMM Level 2 compliance but will not be considered for IRS Software Development Life Cycle work. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for this acquisition is 7379. All prospective Offerors are hereby notified that the collection of the Past Performance survey data will be conducted by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). The cost of each survey report is $750.00 per Principle Task Area. Offerors' requests for the past performance survey reports are to be submitted to D&B no later than four weeks prior to proposal due date. The small business size standard pertaining to the SIC CODE is: the average annual receipts of the concerns and its affiliates of the previous 3 fiscal years must not exceed $18 million. The awarded contracts will be for one year with four one-years options. Most of the work will be performed within the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. Other performance locations include all of the United States, its territories and occasionally locations throughout the world. The exact location will be specified on the individual task orders. The solicitation number is TIRNO-99-R-00009. Release of the solicitation will be on or about August 6, 1999. Proposal due date will be 45 days after release of the Final RFP. Information regarding this acquisition will be available on the internet at the following address: http://procurement.irs.gov. It is incumbent upon potential offerors to monitor the above stated internet site for any further communications. Correspondence shall be submitted to the TIPSS-2 Team via electronic mail at "*TIPSS-2@m1.irs.gov". It is requested that all comments and questions be submitted as an attachment to the message and prepared in Microsoft Word 97. See Note 2. Posted 07/22/99 (W-SN357960). (0203)

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