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70 -- BROMS SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE SERVICES POC David W. Lum, Contract Specialist, 202-205-5488 70 - The U.S. information Agency (USIA) intends to acquire software maintenance and optional software upgrade services for its Budget Reporting Overseas Management System (BROMS) that currently is being used worldwide. Initially, BROMS was a competitively awarded software development and conversion effort that required the elimination of certain existing software errors and problems from an outdated dBase Clipper financial management program system, the development and programming of software enhancements, creation of system documentation and computer-based training to achieve a fully functional financial management system based upon the Agency's Paradox/Windows standard. BROMS is a comprehensive, integrated financial program that was custom-developed for USIA by INTE-GREAT Corporation of Bethesda, Maryland to increase the accuracy of the Agency's overseas monthly budget updates which often fluctuate with currency exchange rates. It has the capability of maintaining a post budget in both dollars and local currency with a feature that allows the user to update the rate of exchange (ROE); it provides for automatic adjustments each month to all local currency accounts; is capable of generating management reports, allotment and payroll accounts as well as allowing the user to prepare for subsequent years' budgets. With initial testing, training and documentation phases almost completed at designated overseas test sites, the Agency intends to issue a non-competitive contract to INTE-GREAT Corporation to acquire recurring maintenance, programming and troubleshooting services to update functional code, resource code tables and revised report formats in order to insure successful worldwide implementation at over 70 USIS Posts. Software documentation and training updates also will be required to reflect any BROMS software changes. Other sources which have the capability to provide necessary recurring maintenance, programming and troubleshooting services as well as update functional code and resource code tables, etc. for this BROMS software or which have an equivalent commerical financial management software program and can successfully demonstrate cost effective changes, including conversion and retraining to its equivalent software, will be considered only if it is able to successfully demonstrate that integration and emulation of the existing BROMS database, access from remote overseas sites as well as the ability to perform all required training functions and reporting procedures efficiently. Only responses from responsible sources which are prepared to demonstrate the above required capabilities and technical knowledge for an Agency-wide automated overseas financial management system will be considered for a technical interview. See Numbered Note 22. (0157)

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