Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg WV 26101-5312

70 -- FORMS CREATION AND MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE POC Point of Contact, Wayne Jeffers, 304-480-6529, Contracting Officer, Tammie S. Johnson, 304-480-6465. The Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, is interested in obtaining product literature and, where possible, evaluation copies of forms creation and management software able to operate on a cross-platform environment, as further specified below. Upon initial examination of materials provided, agency may request vendors to provide on-site demonstrations. The on-site demonstrations will not be a mandatory requirement, and will be strictly voluntary on the part of the vendor. The functional characteristics we are interested in for this software include: 1) ability to create forms on 8100 series PowerMacintoshs running on LocalTalk (ethernet-SNAP), 2) ability to make the forms available for multiple end-user ''uses'' including (but not limited to) the following: a) End user will retrieve form to print out in hard copy format to local laser printer, and/or b) end user will retrieve form to PC to fill-in data and then print out to local printer, and/or c) end user will retrieve form to PC to fill-in data and then forward to another PC user for printing or possibly to fill-in additional data, and d) other similar circumstances of on-screen data entry with the ability to continually forward, store and/or print, 3) ability to process and electronically fill-in forms in a Windows 3.1 environment, running on Novell Netware 3.x and Netware 4.x, 4) ability to use Lotus CCMail for routing, 5) offers versatile forms-design capabilities with the ability to import graphics, 6) compatible with a variety of printers (mostly Hewlett Packard laser jet series) using scalable Helvetica and Times fonts (minimum), 7) ability to handle multiple on-line users (100 +) simultaneously, 8) ability to control user access to forms, e.g., content of actual forms should ''lock-out'' end users ability to edit the forms with the exceptions of those portions of the forms ''open'' for data entry, 9) ability to handle/manage an unlimited number of forms, including the ability to create a scrollable ''table of contents'' (TOC) of forms available to end-users and provide ''search and cross-reference'' capabilities for TOC, 10) ability for quick retrieval of forms from TOC to end-user, with as little time as is reasonable within limits set by the hardware used, 11) be end-user friendly and offer on- screen help, 12) ability to offer ''end-user statistics'' on usage of individual forms retrieved, filled-in, and/or printed out, and, 13) relational database capabilities. In addition to providing literature and evaluation copies for software, you are encouraged to provide a list of references, particularly federal government agencies, that have acquired and utilized the software. Please note that this information is being requested for information and planning purposes only. The Government does not intend to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information requested. On the basis of information received, we will assess the ability of the market to meet our needs in this area. Dependent upon the results of this assessment of the market, the Government may then decide to issue a solicitation to acquire such software. (0087)

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