SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Payment Application Modernization (PAM)
- Notice Date
- 2/13/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service (FMS), Acquisition Management Division, 401 14th Street, S.W., Room 454D, Washington, DC, 20227
- ZIP Code
- 20227
- Solicitation Number
- TFMS-HQ-04-RFI-0001
- Response Due
- 3/26/2004
- Archive Date
- 3/31/2004
- Point of Contact
- Toya Reynolds, Contract Specialist, Phone (202)874-6963, Fax (202)874-7275, - William Boyd, Contracting Officer, Phone (202)874-6716, Fax (202)874-7275,
- E-Mail Address
-
toya.reynolds@fms.tres.gov, william.boyd@fms.treas.gov
- Description
- FMS has four primary objectives related to the payment systems modernization effort. All objectives are of the same critical importance. Developing a detailed, proven solution that achieves all four is a necessary pre-requisite for embarking on the projects. The objectives include: 1) Modernization of underlying technologies The new payment solution must replace the legacy technologies in use today with newer, more flexible technologies. In particular, FMS has decided to migrate away from flat files to a relational database. Use of a relational database will enable a great deal more flexibility in storing, configuring, transmitting and reporting payments information to stakeholders and to other FMS business lines. An acceptable solution must explain what underlying technologies (HW platform, OS, application language, COTS, and database) will be leveraged and why. 2) Standardization and consolidation of the 30+payment systems The core functionality delivered by the multiple payment systems is very similar and FMS believes it can capture significant cost savings by standardizing and consolidating the systems down to a few, standard but configurable functional modules. An acceptable architectural solution must demonstrate how it can achieve this consolidation while allowing enough configurability to support the minor process differences between agencies. 3) Incorporation of process improvements and automation opportunities The legacy technologies currently employed have hampered FMS? ability to streamline and automate a number of payments processing operations. The attached requirements include a description of the functionality needed to achieve these efficiency goals. An acceptable solution must address these requirements. A superior solution will offer additional ideas on how to improve the payments process. 4) Increased systems flexibility While the payments process is fairly stable, regulatory and legislative changes do impact the process and can drive system changes. FMS is looking for a solution that leverages modern configurable technologies such as databases, message brokers, data translation tools, reporting tools that will allow the organization to respond to new requirements in a quick and efficient manner. In particular, it is looking for a solution that will minimize the need to make ?hard code? changes when new requirements arise. Conclusion In order to accomplish these objectives, FMS believes it needs a solution with a very carefully detailed architecture. A modular, configurable design is an absolute pre-requisite for building a system that can handle the full set of payment processing requirements while ensuring a highly manageable system. Building such a manageable system will likely require standardized business logic combined with configurable technologies. Finally, FMS has a strong bias towards solutions that leverage COTS components. Ideally, the system architecture will consist of an integrated set of packaged SW applications with a minimum of customization and new development.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Hyattsville, MD/Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20227
- Zip Code: 20227
- Record
- SN00522736-W 20040215/040213213022 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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