NASA Headquarters, Acquisition Division, Washington, DC 20546 Attn:HWC/Jeffery M. Lupis

70 -- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SOL REQUEST FOR INFORMATION POC Jeffery M. Lupis tel: The National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) will implement a new core financial management capability and related administrative functions using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software packages. Accordingly, by this Request for Information (RFI) NASA is beginning its survey of the commercial marketplace and other sources of off-the-shelf software to assess the technical and functional attributes of the various financial management and other related application software currently available or that will become available in the next 2-3 years. The information will be used exclusively by NASA personnel to assist in planning for acquiring these systems. Commercial software for which NASA is seeking information includes: Budget Formulation (2 levels - NASA Field Installations and Headquarters Program Offices); Agency system to produce Office of Management and Budget and Congressional submissions; Database structures to support ad hoc queries; Reports -- Actual vs. Planned at various levels; Obligations vs. costs at various levels; SF 132 and supporting schedules; Budget allocation and funds control. Core Accounting (general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cost accounting and other similar functions) and reporting, including budget execution. Travel systems (end-to-end: planning, tracking execution, vouchers). Voucher Payment. Labor Cost Collection and Distribution. Time and Attendance. Procurement; Purchase Orders/Small Purchases; Contracts. Executive Information System. Integrated Personnel and Payroll. Non-Expendable Property. Expendable Inventory Supply (acquisitions and issues). Training Requests, Orders, and Budgeting. GOALS - NASA's goal in implementing these systems include: Integration and standardization of data and systems across all NASA Centers. Providing management with access to timely and accurate financial, budget, asset and related information on programs and projects. Implementation of advanced technology to provide the greatest capability and an extended life cycle. SCOPE - These systems will be used to support NASA's entire civil service population (approximately 22,000) at all NASA field installations and headquarters (10 sites) and for the management of NASA's budgetary appropriation of approximately $14 billion per year. ENVIRONMENT - All NASA centers and field facilities are interconnected via a high speed computer network that is a part of the world-wide Internet. NASA maintains its own backbone network based on the TCP/IP protocol and having direct links to local area networks at each field location. It should be assumed that any NASA employee using these applications would be equipped with a personal computer (either Macintosh or IBM compatbile) and a local area network connection providing connectivity to any other NASA location. SURVEY OBJECTIVES - Objectives of this survey include obtaining an uderstanding of and making assessments about appropriate COTS application software with respect to: I. Currently available and planned future functional capabilities in the near term (2-3 years) in the areas of, Business processes supported; Application capabilities and; Human engineering and usability testing applied; If multiple architectures are offered provide information on functional (application) differences, for instance, between vendor's mainframe and client/server-based systems. II. Will current application software capabilities pass independent third party testing for compliance with Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) requirements? III. Currently available technology and planned technology capabilities in the near term (2-3 years): A. Fundemental technologies employed, including but not limited to: - Client/server architecture; - Graphical User Interface (GUI) and development tools; - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), including the use of X12 transaction sets; - Electronic Commerce (EC); - Digital signatures; - Security (data and system); - Object capabilities (language, database, architecture (CORBA). B. Support for and compliance with standards: - X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 4; Structured Query Language (SQL); - Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA); - TCP/IP; - any others utilized. C. Scalability: The degree to which the systems support workgroup operations and how they scale to support enterprise wide data integration and retrieval. D. Implementation Environment: - Computer platform requirements; - Operating system requirements; - Database requirements (vendors, types, structure, etc.); - Application language(s); - Application structure, integration, etc.; - Data query, download/upload capabilities. E. Architecture: What architecture options are available for implementing your application in the NASA environment? Does it support a distributed environment? IV. Business/Other: Identify potential for on-line Internet access to application software and a test data base at vendor's own facility; Status and readiness of software or planned readiness dates for future capabilities; At least 3 customer references. NASA is not, at this time, restricting its survey to those financial management software packages listed on the Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) schedule developed by the General Services Administration (GSA). While those packages will be considered, NASA wants to survey the entire commercial marketplace to ensure its programmatic and technology goals will be met by the best available COTS product. NASA is seeking comprehensive information for planning purposes. Responses are requested if you can provide: Any part of the relevant applications; tools for system integration, or tools for use in data conversion. It is requested that this information be submitted no later than Monday, June 5, 1995, in the form of a ''white paper'', limited to no more than 50 pages in length. Additional informational brochures or user manuals are welcome. Any material submitted will not be returned. It is requested that the white paper be submitted electronically via 3.5'' diskette in either IBM PC or MacIntosh readable form. The preferred word processor format is Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, or ASCII file. NASA reserves the right to contact vendors, to provide clarifications on capabilities or to ask questions. Submissions should be mailed to the following address: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), IFM RFI Response, Jeffery M. Lupis, Code HWC, 300 E. Street, SW, Washington, DC 20546-0001. Phone number (202) 358-0404. Individual responses should indicate whether they are a large, small, small disadvantaged or women-owned business. NASA shall not assume any expenses incurred by any of the respondents to this RFI. This is not a Request For Proposals. This market survey is for informational and planning purposes only. This market survey is also available on the NASA Headquarters Homepage at http://mercury.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/acquisition/ (0135)

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