Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Department of Procurement, 600 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001

R -- CONSULTANT FOR ACQUISITION OF PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM -- POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT -- NO SOLICIATION EXISTS AT THIS TIME. DUE 012397 POC Point of Contact -- Tony Grayson, Senior Contracts Manager. 202-962-1472 or Ralph W. Case, Contract Administrator, 202-962-2484. E-MAIL: WMATA, tgrayson@wmata.com. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is seeking to identify sources to help develop the requirements for a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a commercial-off-the-shelf Procurement Management System, help evaluate the proposals received in response to the RFP, and help manage installation and implementation of the system on a Local Area Network(LAN). The firm must have experience on similar efforts. Key system attributes of the Procurement Management System may include requisitioning through the LAN/WAN, online routing and approval of procurement requests, purchase order processing, contract preparation and management, receiving/invoicing, supplier management and rotation, integration with windows 3.X/95 and WordPerfect desktop tools in a client/server environment, and procurement workload assignment and management. The firm shall have no relationship with existing providers of Procurement Management Systems and will be excluded from competing for any resulting procurement of a Procurement Management System. Interested firms are invited to provide detailed written information concerning their capabilities and experience, to the office address above, addressed to Tony Grayson. Information may be faxed to (202) 962-2038. No telephone calls will be accepted. This is not a request for competitive proposals, no formal solicitation exists at this time. No award will be made on the basis on any response to this notice. (0007)

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