SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Investment Portfolio Management Software System
- Notice Date
- 3/23/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Acquisition Management (AQM), 400 7th Street SW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20219, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20219
- Solicitation Number
- CC15HQQ0031
- Archive Date
- 4/18/2015
- Point of Contact
- Andre Adams, Phone: 2026496618
- E-Mail Address
-
andre.adams@occ.treas.gov
(andre.adams@occ.treas.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), is issuing this sources sought as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in supplying a commercial-off-the-shelf investment portfolio-management software system. All parties are welcomed to respond, but the primary purpose of this sources sought is to determine whether there are any small businesses capable of providing the system. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System code assigned to this procurement is 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals. Submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary, and the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs interested parties may incur. Interested parties shall provide a capability statement that describes their companies' demonstrated capabilities to implement and support their recommended Investment Portfolio Management Software System (IPMSS). "Demonstrated" capabilities means that the company has successfully performed this work for other customers. The capabilities statement shall not exceed five (5) pages in length. Pages shall be no larger than 8.5" x 11" in size, and the font no smaller than 10 points in size. No marketing materials shall not be included as part of the capability statement. Interested parties shall provide the following information in their capability statements: 1. Company name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and point of contact; 2. Size and type of company ownership (i.e., small business, 8(a), woman owned, veteran owned, etc.); 3. Dun and Bradstreet Number; 4. CAGE Code; 5. Suggested North American Industry Classification System code; 6. Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements; and 7. A detailed description of three (3) current or past contracts or task orders within the past three (3) years that identify the company's ability to provide the IPMSS system. Include the following information: (a) Project Title; (b) Description of the Project; (c) Contract/Task Order Number; (d) Contract/Task Order Amount; (e) Government Agency/Organization; (f) Contracting Officer Representative's name, address, telephone number, and email address; (g) Current status, e.g., completed and/or in progress, start, and estimated completion dates; and (h) A brief narrative of why your firm believes this reference is relevant to the performance work statement. 8. The OCC anticipates approximately three to four users of the investment IPMSS system. The software shall: (a) Provide an open architecture for access to industry-leading data sources for benchmarking; (b) Fully integrate investment portfolio data with the portfolio accounting system; (c) Be compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220), August 7, 1998; (d) Support customization; (e) Support the role-based security access and single sign on methodologies listed below based upon the deployment model: (i) On Premise - Role-based access via Microsoft Active Directory Services and Single Sign-On via Kerberos Tickets; (ii) Cloud-Based - Software should be claims-aware and capable of using a Security Assertions Markup Language, or SAML, token for Single Sign-On; (f) The software and subsequent implementation shall adhere to required Security Compliance requirements based upon the deployment model: (i) On Premise - Meet all established National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements and capabilities to operate on a hardened server baseline; (ii) Cloud-Based - Meet all established Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRamp, guidelines including operation within a FedRamp approved instance. All virtual server instances capable of supporting a hardened baseline as well as a mechanism for compliance scanning and patch updates; (g) The software shall support a common master database that would maintain all of the relevant current and historical data pertaining to all of the fixed-income securities purchased and redeemed; (h) The software shall support the use of a Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP) number as the primary identifier of an investment; (i) The application shall support Bureau of Public Debt calculation methods; (j) The software shall support categorization of securities by type (e.g., short-term securities, and long-term securities); (k) The software shall provide the ability to obtain the market price of securities by CUSIP using three different methods: manually, by uploading source data, or by means of a data feed from a pricing service; (l) The software shall provide market valuation reporting to calculate unrealized gains or losses on the securities in each portfolio; (m) The software shall support investment accounting compliant with Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); (n) The software shall automatically generate interest coupons and principal maturities on their payment date and calculate interest accruals, premium amortizations, and discount accretions according to the method each portfolio requires; (o) The software shall provide a flexible means to interface account transactions to a general ledger system; (p) The software shall support canned and ad-hoc reporting, as well as multi-dimensional analysis to generate reports in the form of color charts and graphs; (q) The software must be able to calculate the following for each security position: total yield, fiscal year to date yield, annualized yield, last 12 month yield, yield to date, yield-to-maturity, weighted-average-maturity, duration, convexity, and return on revenue; (r) The software shall provide portfolio performance measurements, such as time-weighted or internal rates of return. The software shall also support analysis of interest-rate sensitivity; and (s) The software shall support customizable "what if" analysis customizable by the user. The software shall also be able to calculate and generate reports on income projections, cash flow, book value and market value projections. 9. Description of Software and Services Interested parties should provide a Description of Software and Services that includes, at a minimum, the following information: (a) Describe the software's financial reporting capabilities; (b) Explain how the application's database integrates with general ledger systems; (c) Describe the capabilities of the software to analyze portfolios; (d) Describe software's compatibility with PeopleSoft software including investment accounting information interfacing and other commercial applications; and (e) Identify the vendor's GSA Schedule number and indicate whether services would be directly billed or centrally billed through GSA. The Description of Software and Services shall not exceed three (3) pages in length. Pages shall be no larger than 8.5" x 11" in size, and the font no smaller than 10 points in size. 10. The OCC currently manages a billion dollar portfolio consisting of Treasury notes and bonds. The Department of the Treasury is the primary Federal agency responsible for the economic and financial prosperity of the United States. The Treasury is organized into departmental offices and operating bureaus. The bureaus carry out specifically assigned mission operations. A primary mission operation is the corporate governance of financial institutions. As a bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) charters, regulates, and supervises national banks to ensure a safe, sound, and competitive banking system that supports both the citizens and the economy of the United States. The Comptroller is a presidential appointee with offices headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Comptroller also serves as a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The OCC has approximately 3900, employees, 60% of whom are highly mobile, in locations throughout the United States. OCC employees and assets reside at the headquarters office in Washington, D.C.; a data center in Ashburn, Virginia; and four district offices in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, and New York. The OCC's Office of the Ombudsman is located in Houston. The OCC also operates field offices and satellite locations in cities throughout the United States, with resident examiner teams assigned to the largest banking corporations and an examining office in London, England. The OCC's nationwide staff of examiners conducts on-site reviews of national banks and provides sustained supervision of bank operations. The agency issues rules, legal interpretations, and corporate decisions concerning banking, bank investments, bank community-development activities, and other aspects of bank operations. BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by April 3, 2015. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to Andre Adams at Andre.Adams@occ.treas.gov.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th Street SW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20219, United States
- Zip Code: 20219
- Zip Code: 20219
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