U.S. Department of the Treasury, Procurement Services Division, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20220

70 -- FAME SOFTWARE INCLUDING FAME/HLI AND FAME/FFI RUNNING ON THE VAX 8800 POC Tonya Kemp, Contract Specialist, (202) 622-0788 / Wanda Murphy, Contracting Officer, (202) 622-0787. The Department of the Treasury, Departmental Offices, intends to award a sole-source purchase order to FAME Information Services, Inc. for the lease of FAME software (business decision support software) including FAME/HLI and FAME/FFI, to operate on the VAX 8800/VAX 7610 under the VMS operating system. The lease is for the period October 1, 1996 through September 30, 1997. This requirement is designated under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1), Only One Responsible Source. The decision support package needed must include an easy to use time intelligence feature. This feature must allow the user to mix daily, weekly, monthly, and any other time-period data, not only in the same database, but also in the same analysis, graph or report. The time intelligence function must include the ability to understand and interpret a calendar. Data can be stored at their natural frequency and worked with at any other frequency desired. In addition, data conversion can be automatic or explicit, permanent or temporary. The four types of data conversion techniques required are discrete, constant, linear spline and cubic spline. The software must efficiently handle multiple, multidimensional databases of large sizes allowing users to concurrently access individual databases and combine and compare data from different databases in one analysis or report. The data in the database should be identifiable by name rather than location with the ability to attach descriptions of each data set within the files. Facilities must exist to easily handle the rapid growth or reduction of data files with no impact upon the user. It must handle numeric, double precision, string, boolean, data and name list variables and allow data to be stored in scalars, series, or formulas. Functions allowing for the creation of customized and preprogrammed reports on command and the ability to create your own personal styles and ad hoc reports are required. The software must include flexible, easy-to-use color graphics which support the various plotters in use at Treasury (HP series and Zeta's). It must be able to produce multiple line, bar or combination graphs on the same screen with annotations. In addition, it must be capable of plotting time series with different frequencies on the same graph without conversion. As an analytical tool, the software must have the flexibility and power to solve all business problems. It must allow the user complete control of the behavior of the forecasting commands with whatever options are specified, allowing for the usage of mathematical and logical expressions where variable names are expected. When doing analytical work, the software must summarize, adjust, correlate, extrapolate, fit and perform best subset selections. A full array of analytical and financial functions are required, including amortization ARIMA, central tendency measures, cumulative value, growth rate, moving averages, payback, exponentiation, present value, random number generators, rate of return and trigonometric functions. In addition, the software must solve and simulate the following economic and financial models: Gauss-Seidel simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, automatic equation ordering, automatic detection and blocking of simultaneous equations, simulation diagnostics, user control of convergence criterion, conditional expressions in equations, and factors, ability to exogenize and endogenize equations and sensitivity of what-if analysis. The software must not only be very functional but it also must have the ability to build customized menu-driven application for users. It must be portable, running across many of the popular mainframe and mini series on the market. This software must be compatible with the following data bases, which are acquired in FAME format and may only be acquired in FAME format: the International Monetary Fund International Financial Statistics data base, the U.S. Economic Statistics data base, the Federal Reserve System Flow of Funds data base and the U.S. National Accounts data base. Treasury economists need the ability to access at different times vast amounts of International Monetary Fund and Treasury Flow of Funds data. This data is viewed through frequently changing scenarios. A powerful data management, time-intelligent package with the ability to seasonally adjust the data and store the factors is necessary. Large scale regressions or time series-based simultaneous models will be produced with this software. This synopsis is published for information purposes only. No solicitation document is available. See Note 22 and Note 26. (253)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0237 19960910\70-0003.SOL)