70 -- FUND RAISING SOFTWARE

Notice Date

December 19, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of State, Office of Logistics Management, Acquisition Management, SA-6, 2nd Floor P.O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, VA, 22219

ZIP Code

22219

Solicitation Number

S-LMQAM-02-R-0014

Response Due

January 25, 2002

Point of Contact

Robert Wissman, Branch Chief, Phone 7038756059, Fax 7038755272, Email wissmanrb@state.gov -- Sharon James, Contract Specialist, Phone 7038756077, Fax 7038755272, Email jamessd@state.gov

Description

The U.S. Department of State intends to conduct a competitive procurement for a contractor to supply computer software, which will provide best practices Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology, to assist in fund raising activities of the Office of Fine Arts and U.S. Diplomacy Center. This procurement will be set-aside 100% for small business. North American Industry Classification System Code is 421430, with a small business size standard of 500 employees. The computer software commonly referred to as a "fund raising system," must follow federal accounting standards and methodologies, and conform to generally accepted accounting practices for not-for-profit organizations. As part of the supply of a fund raising system, the vendor will provide training, data conversion services, implementation assistance, and maintenance. The software shall be delivered within 20 days of award and shall be fully operational under the fund raising system within 60 days of award. The fund raising system must operate in an Open Architecture, Oracle database, Microsoft Windows NT environment, allow integration of third party report writing tools, and operate on an Intel Pentium 4 workstations and servers. The immediate requirement is for six (6) user licenses with an estimated total of eighteen (18) software licenses over the five-year period. The Department of State has determined that Section 508 accessibility standards, as codified at 36CFR 1194 are mandatory and applicable to this solicitation. Mandatory requirements also include 33 software product features as well as network security requirements of the Department of State, which shall not allow remote access for the purposes of technical support to its networks. Award of a Firm Fixed Price contract, with a Base Year and 4 option years is anticipated. All interested parties should respond to solicitation number S-LMAQM-02-R-0014 posted on or about December 21, 2001 on the Internet at the following sites: https://state.monmouth.army.mil. An alternate site to gain access is: http://statebuy.gov and then go to the Interactive Platform. The solicitation will also be posted on the FedBizOpps site at www.fedbizopps.gov. Please do not contact the Contracting Officer prior to December 21, 2001. Firms requiring assistance in using the Internet should contact Mr. Stuart Toleman at the following address: tolemansc@state.gov or by telephone (703) 516-1694 or FAX (703) 875-6155. THERE WILL BE NO PAPER COPIES OF THIS SOLICITATION. SEE NOTE 1*****

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011221/70SOL006.HTM (D-353 SN5156E2)