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R -- WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIMS ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, INCLUDING MEDICALBILL PROCESSING, MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING VIA ADP SYSTEM OPERATION. SOL RFP 97-01 POC Raymond J. Vanzego, Contract Negotiator, (202)219-6445 Phyllis McMeekin, Contracting Officer, (202)219-6445. The Division of Coal Mine Worker's Compensation (DCMWC) plans to recompete its existing contract (J-9-E-3-0031) with the first of four Option Years to begin October l, l997. The goal is to issue an RFP in the fall of l996 with contract award expected May-June l997. A transition period will extend from contract award until the start of the first option year. The replacement contract will include the full range of services of the existing contract. Among these, (a) data center to support applications currently running in MVS/ESA, developed in COBOL II supporting a mix of CICS and batch processing using VSAM and key sequential data access methods, (b) fixed price staffing to support job submission, a variety of administrative support functions such as documentation, project administration, (c) fixed price staffing to support the processing of approximately l.5 million lines of medical bills submitted by medical providers and coal miners as well as a correspondence staff to respond to inquiries associated with medical bill processing, and (d) network management services in support of a government furnished Novell network from the contractor's processing facility to ten government sites around the country. Finally, the contract will also call for (e) a labor hour component of support staff in a variety of support areas including ADP development activities. The replacement contract also includes some significant new requirements. Among these: (a) migration of existing mainframe applications to a new processing environment to include (b) transition to relational data base (RDBMS) technology using Informix version 7, (c) migration from the mainframe to a symmetric multi-processor running as a node on 2 novell network (Sequent NUMA-Q running Dynix/ptx), to be located at a contractor provided facility, (d) the introduction of optical disc technology to replace current use of microfilm, (e) the introduction of EDI for the receipt and adjudication of as many medical bills as can be resonably processed in this manner without compromising current medical bill processing policies. This effort has begun under the current contract which will have produced a development RDBMS schema to be taken over as part of the planned contract. The new contract provides for end-to-end responsibility for the DCMWC applicants, platform and Novell network. It also moves to reliance on the Employment Standards Administration, Division of Automated Systems Management for Informix Software Licenses and certain configuration standards. Requests for copies of this solicitation must be postmarked within fifteen(15) days of the date of this synopsis. All requests for this solicitation must cite RFP L/A 97-01. No telephone requests will be honored. Requests may be FAXED on Area Code 202/219-6853 (0298)

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