Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, Room 1541, FB#3, Washington, (Suitland, MD) DC 20233

R -- SERVICES SOL ADAMS-RFI-96-2 DUE 112495 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION- Personnel and Payroll Processing Services - The Bureau of the Census (BOC) is seeking information on the availability of a service bureau to provide automated personnel and payroll processing services to its temporary employees hired for 2000 Decennial Census. These employees will work in the field or in temporary offices during the pretests and other operations including the 2000 Decennial Census. The operations begin October, 1996 and will continue through June, 2001. There will be up to 559 temporary offices located stateside, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island, and Pacific Island territories; these report to 12 Regional Census Centers (RCC). Employees in the 12 RCCs and in 4 Data Capture Centers, all located Stateside, are part of this temporary workforce. The total number of applications for Census jobs may reach 1.5 million with as many as 550,000 employees paid each pay period at peak employment. The employees paid will have no fixed work schedule and no fixed number of hours during the pay period. Personnel and payroll forms used would have to capture all information needed by Census. In addition, the appropriate documents,must be generated for employees as formal notification of appointment, conversion of position, and termination. A file of this information must be created to use in updating the persons record in the Central Personnel Data File at the Office of Personnel Management. Tapes and the Standard Form 1166 ''Voucher and Schedule of Payments'' must be created for the Department of Treasury. Earnings statements must be provided for each employee for each pay period. W-2s and pay cards must also be generated. All state and local requirements must be met for tax and reporting purposes. The temporary employees to be serviced do not: earn leave, receive health or life insurance, have deductions for retirement, Thrift Savings Plan, bonds, or allotments. Employees may be subject to medicare only or social security only. In addition to receiving pay for hours worked, the employee must receive reimbursements for their travel and telephone charges in the same pay check. The pay check must also include incentive pay, if earned. The timesheets must be accepted daily and the payroll period will be weekly The system must reject a claim for a date which has already been paid. The system must handle adjustments and corrections to current and prior pay periods. The pay must be available to the employee 10-13 days after the end of the pay period. The employee must be able to elect either Electronic Funds Transfer to a financial institution or having the check mailed to their designated address. Accounting data as defined by BOC must be provided on a weekly basis. All legal and regulatory requirements must by provided for both personnel and payroll. Interested parties capable of performing these services shall submit a detailed capabilities statement, complete technical information and a cost estimate within 30 days from the date of this notice to the attention of ADAMS-RFI-96-2 at the above address. This is not a request for a proposal. No solicitation package exists. No additional information is available. This is a request for information only. (0297)

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