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D -- INFORMATION ENGINEERING SOL CS-97-014 POC Anthony Harvin, 202-927-1127 Solicitation No. CS-97-014 for the acquisition of Information Engineering (IE) and Business Process Improvement/Reengineering experience to support the U.S. Customs Service Office of Information and Technology. This requirement will be conducted as an 8(a) competitive acquisition. Consistent with generally accepted practices and principles associated with IE, the contractor will examine, define and integrate data (entities) with logical groupings of business activities or processes in support of enterprise goals and objectives to portray the Enterprise Business Process Engineering Model. The products generated will include a series of process and data models and an enterprise encyclopedia, depicting and codifying the relationships between entities, business processes and objectives. The contractor shall be familiar with all aspects of Information Strategy Planning (ISP) using state of the art metholodgies, assist the government staff in planning for and integrating the latest technology into current Government automated systems, and have demonstrated experience in Enterprise Model development, Business Area Analysis (BAA), Joint Application Design (JAD), and Rapid Application Development (RAD) techniques. The Contractor shall be required to assist in enhancing current application system capabilities, or developing and maintaining new systems. Demonstrated experience in the planning, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of large scale, batch and online, transaction processing systems in an IBM compatible mainframe environment and utilizing command level CICS, CA-ROSCOE or TSO/ISPF, INTERTEST or another interactive debugging software library management systems, CA-DATACOM/DB, Oracle or another mainframe relational database system, OS-JCL and COBOL II is highly desirable. Customs anticipates awarding an indefinite-quantity type contract with a twelve month base period and four (4) option years. The anticipated issuance date of the Request For Proposal CS-97-014 is on or about 05 March 1997. The proposed 8(a) competitive acquisition will be conducted with FAR 19.805 and Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)). The SIC code is 7379. Only Written requests for the solicitation will be answered. No telephone requests for the solicitation will be accepted.***** (0030)

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