Immigration & Naturalization Service, Procurement Division, 425 I Street, N.W., Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536

D -- VERIFICATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (VIS) SOL HQ-96-29 POC Robert N. Beaty, Contract Specialist, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 425 I St, NW, Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536. The Immigration and Naturalization Service intends to release a competitive request for Proposals for the acquisition of support services for the management support and technical system administration of the Verification Information System (VIS) on behalf of the Systematic Alien Verification for Enitilements (SAVE) Program. An RFP will be issued on or about August 15, 1996. The services to be procured include: access to the VIS database; support of pilot efforts to expand and enhance user access to the database; and, management and administration of the VIS, its databases and subsystems. The SAVE Program is responsible for providing an information sharing capability that assists federal, state, and local governments, as well as private sector organizations in determining the immigration status of non-citizens. The VIS database, formerly known as the Alien Status Verification Index (ASVI), includes primary, secondary, and tertiary verification data, as well as management reporting data.As envisioned, INS will provide daily and quarterly data updates from the feeder INS systems. The contractor will host the data and provide access to INS-approved users. Existing end user applications will be provided to the contractor, who will integrate these applications to access the database or develop functional equivalent access screens and capabilities. The INS envisions that all access costs and database maintenance costs will be recovered by the contractor through per-query access charges levied on the users. The INS would expect quantity discounts as the total number of transactions increases. The INS plans to conduct a bidders' conference on or about September 9. The exact date and location of such a conference will be provided all respondents to this notice when the solicitation is released. All proposals must be received by the INS no later than 30 days after release of the RFP. The INS will incur no libility for, nor will it pay any costs incurrred in the preparation of proposals or for attendance at the proposed bidders' conference. All written requests for the RFP should be directed to: Robert N Beaty, Contract Specialist, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 425 I Street, NW, Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536. The RFP may be requested by fax at (202)514-3353. Only written or faxed requests will be accepted; no telephone inquiries or requests will be accepted. Alternatively, it is planned to have the solicitation and all attachements available for downloading at www.fcbs/INSPRO/index.htm. (0176)

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