R -- RETIREMENT COUNSELORS

Notice Date

March 21, 2001

Contracting Office

The Library Of Congress, Contracts & Logistics Service, COTR: Morgan Day, C&L, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540-9410

ZIP Code

20540-9410

Solicitation Number

RFQ01C-10

Response Due

April 4, 2001

Point of Contact

Charlotte Mathis, 202-707-8604

E-Mail Address

cmathis@loc.gov (amathis@loc.gov)

Description

The Library of Congress intents to award a sole source contract with Economic Systems, Inc., 5514 Alma Lane, Suite 400, Springfield, VA, 22151 for Retirement Counselors. ESI is qualified to ensure that the counselors required by the Library are recognized experts in Federal retirement and benefits programs and are certified experts in the use of the benefits calculation software products employed by the Library of Congress. ESI counselors have in-depth knowledge of laws, rules and regulations governing Federal retirement, including voluntary early retirement. Counselors with ESI have served as Federal Retirement Specialists with other Federal agencies. They have demonstrated expert knowledge of the CSRS and FERS retirement systems, highly-complexed creditable service matters and retirement entitlement question. The Library has an integrated retirement software environment consisting of ESI's Federal Retirement Benefits Software for Retirement Specialists and Federal Retirement Benefits Software for Employees. The Retirement Specialists model is a sophisticated and powerful package that has extensive computational features, including detailed CSRS/CSRS Offset/FERS pension benefits; voluntary, early, disability retirement benefits; COLA adjustments; survivors' benefits; health insurance/life insurance premium costs; part-time and intermitten services, Federal Service computation; Thrift Savings Plan benefits; Social Security benefits/FERS Supplement; and severance pay. Interest parties shall contact me via telephone or e-mail: cmathis@loc.gov on or before April 4, 2001. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AND NONE WILL BE ISSUED. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Web Link

www.loc.gov/contracts (www.loc.gov/contracts)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010323/RSOL002.HTM (W-080 SN50G8H2)