Department of the Treasury (DY) Financial Management Service, 401 14th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20227

D -- FOCUS PROGRAMMING SUPPORT POC Mary Lanier, Contract Specialist, (202)874-6888. The Department of Treasury, Financial Management Service, intends to increase the level of effort and increase the maximum ceiling amount for the life of the current sole-source contract for FOCUS PROGRAMMING SUPPORT with Information Builders, Inc., 1700 N. Moore Street, Suite 1100, Arlington, VA 22209. FOCUS is a 4GL proprietary software of Information Builders, Inc. Programmers will be required to modify existing programs and write new programs to support the changes and enhancements to the software. Programmers will provide support using IBM's Customer Information and Control System, Database 2, Structure Query Language, COBOL II, FOCUS MSO and the FOCUS database management system. Programmers must be experienced in performing requirements analysis and physical design of a FOCUS on-line and batch system using DB2 Database. They must be adept in defining system functions and preparing the technical specifications for an on-line and batch system, subsystem, and program changes/enhancements. They must be able to assist with the change/enhancement requests without adversely affecting the Treasury Receivable Accounting and Collection System (TRACS). They must have worked on TRACS. Interested respondents must submit a written capability statement including technical information sufficient to demonstrate a bona fide capability to meet this requirement to the address shown above. Vendors not submitting this information or merely requesting a copy of the contract will be considered nonresponsive. All information must be in writing and received within 15 calendar days after publication of this notice. See Numbered Note 22. (0250)

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