USDA, Office of Operations, POD, Room 1547-South Building, 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Washington,, DC 20250-9800

D -- PROCUREMENT SYSTEMS FOR USE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A USDA PROCUREMENT SYSTEM DUE 031596 POC Contact Point, Beverly Brown, (202)720-8614 USDA is currently planning development of a new departmental procurement system and is seeking information on candidate systems for possible use. The USDA is seeking sources that are manufacturers/suppliers of partial or completely automated procurement systems. Companies responding to this announcement should provide details on their respective system(s). Information on a system should include data and description concerning procurement system capabilities and requirements. Procurement systems areas of interest include, but are not limited to, acquisition planning, requisitioning, buyer assignment and delegation, order consolidation, knowledge based document generation and assembly utilizing graphical user interface, vendor and information databases receipt of competitive bids and proposals, contract awards and modifications, technical approval and delegated procurement authority tracking modules, simplified instrument usage and tracking (BPA, Credit Card, third party draft), litigation tracking, contract and purchase order file documentation, receipt of goods and services, ad hoc reporting contract closeout, archival retrieval of data, data security, electronic commerce/electronic data interchange capabilities, and interface with other administrative systems including the core financial system as defined in Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) - Document Framework for Federal Financial Management Systems. It is requested that all responses be submitted no later than March 15, 1996. This is not a request for proposal nor does the Government intend to pay for the requested information. The information received from each respondee will be treated as proprietary information. All written responses should be addressed as follows: Ms. Beverly Brown, USDA, Office of Operations, Rm. 1547-South Bldg., 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C. 20250. (0060)

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