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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 17, 1995 PSA#1326DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REENGINEER TRAVEL POC Mrs. Kay Anderson-Hager
(703) 693-2424. Comptroller of the Department of Defense, Directorate
for Performance Measurures and Results, Attn: Travel Reengineering
Transition Team, Room 1C665, The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1100.
Note this does not constitute a solicitation. The Deputy Secretary of
Defense has directed rapid implementation contained within the January
1995 Report of the Department of Defense Task Force to Reengineer
Travel, to include streamlining the DoD infrastructure and exploiting
the private sector capabilities. The concept includes maintenance and
operation of a full-service travel entity capable of providing
reservations and ticketing for transportation, travel services, rental
vehicles, hotel, motel, and passport services, and for availability
notices and reservations for government quarters and feeding
facilities, and for a ``should cost'' estimate for each proposed
government travel requirement. The information is to be provided
through integration of DoD travel and transportation entitlements and
locality per diem rates into a single continuous automated data flow.
Any software must include interfaces with commercial travel office
reservation systems and must have capabilities to store and access DoD
transportation, lodging and feeding policies. It must provide a
variety of management information reports as decision tools, including
information for local management of travel budgets. The system must be
capable of interfacing with government transportation and billeting
reservation systems. It must contain logic to allow computation of
travel entitlements for or privately owned vehicle travel and identify
the numbers travel days authorized, based on distance traveled, and
compare costs mode-to-mode. Payment for travel devices will be through
use of a government travel card and/or electronic funds transfers
(EFT) or centrally billed accounting practices. Target system is single
source data entry with a totally paperless processes containing
embedded policy compliance checks and internal controls. The government
will accept demonstration models. The following will remain a
government function: authorizing expenses, approving expenses,
accounting disbursing and auditing. To obtain a copy of the Travel
Reengineering Task Force Report, submit address to Fax (703) 693-2432.
Written comments should be forwarded within 30 days of the date of
this notice to same fax number and should reference this notice. No
telephone comments will be accepted. The DOD Travel Reengineer
Transition Team will host an Industry Forum on April 26, 1995, 9:00 AM
- 5:00 PM at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel, 1999 Jefferson Davis
Highway, Arlington, VA 22202, (703) 473-5500, to provide briefings on
the recommended changes, to respond to questions received from
industry in response to this Sources Sought, and to provide industry an
opportunity to express comments. Vendors should provide Company name
and number of attendees to fax number above, by close of business 18
Apr 95. Please note this does not constitute a solicitation. Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0640 19950414\SP-0002.MSC)
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