SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- COTS Budget Formulation Software
- Notice Date
- 4/7/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- General Accounting Office, Acquisition Management, Acquisition Management, 441 G Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20548
- ZIP Code
- 20548
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-OAM-RFI-001
- Response Due
- 5/8/2006
- Archive Date
- 6/8/2006
- Description
- Legislative Branch Budget Formulation Request for Information (RFI) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this request for information. This is not a request for proposals, nor a guarantee for a future solicitation. This is an exploratory request for information purposes only. There is no GAO contract to present. Purpose - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is exploring the capability of COTS software to help Legislative Branch agencies to develop and present annual personnel budget requests to Congress using consistent methodologies and formats. Description - GAO?s objective is to identify COTS capabilities to do the following: (1) Develop and display base level program estimates of employment compensation, benefits, and personnel related costs: o Provide for extensive narrative input o Incorporate business rules and assumptions o Use factors from Legislative Branch (LB) guidance for annual pay raises and other automatic increases o Facilitate use of standardized formats, definitions, and methodology across LB agencies o Produce reports in a standard format suitable for submission to Congress (2) Record explanations and assumptions applicable to each input field (3) Receive data from a variety of systems and applications supporting human capital management, financial management, budget formulation, workforce planning, and payroll processing systems (4) Account for different work schedules and compensation or benefits entitlements, including full time as well as various as part time and temporary employee types or categories (5) Annualize current year Full Time Equivalent (FTE) and salary costs (6) Project FTE usage and dollar costs through end-FY based on year-to-date data and planning factors relating to the following: o Leave without pay (LWOP) o Active duty o Promotions o Hires o Attrition o Changes in employee status o Paid time off (PTO) (7) Estimate FTEs and costs using adjustment factors derived from actual data (8) Develop base FTE and salary costs for the budget year request (9) Provide for ability to enter narrative explanation of why actual compensation changes were higher/lower than expected (10) Provide for the capability to perform FTE and salary cost reporting and projections based on: o Appropriation (Treasury Symbol), organization code or a combination of accounting codes o Appointment type (permanent, temporary, etc) o Pay plan (GS, WG, Davis Bacon etc) (11) In projecting salary costs, provide for factors such as the following: o Expected salary increases (e.g., due to promotions, WGIs, etc.) o Permanent staff on board for only a part of the current year (appropriately adjust FTE) o Salary costs not incurred due to attrition o Net costs to fill vacancies (by categories including civilians, sworn officers) o Cost of living increases o Promotions, within-grade and merit increases o Number of compensable days in fiscal year o New employees requested o LWOP status, trends and changes in employee status o Active duty o Expected pay period of salary increases, promotions, WGIs, awards, etc. o Garnishments or withheld wages o Transit/Metrocheck benefits (12) Provide flexibility to incorporate business rules and assumptions regarding the following: o Overtime (including breakout by specific events) o Promotions o Merit increases o Awards o Specialty pay (e.g., weapons qualification, physical training) o Differential and overtime pay o Compensatory time o Holiday pay o Overtime benefits (FICA/Medicare?shown separately) o Retirement benefits o Insurance payments (FECA and FEGLI) o Benefits for former employees o Separation costs and buy-outs o Student loan repayments and other recruitment, retention, and relocation bonuses o Other base program increases o Non-recurring items for which downward adjustments are appropriate o Specialty assignments. Submission Instructions: Responses to this notice must include information on your company, its capability to address all of the software requirements stated above, as well as any references where software with these features have been provided to other Federal agencies. Please submit your response to this Request for Information on or before May 8, 2006, to the attention of Karen T. Gantt, Director, Acquisition Management at the following email address: ganttk@gao.gov Electronic submissions are preferred. However, if you need to submit in hard copy use the following address: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Room 6B46, Washington, DC 20548
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