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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 6,1997 PSA#1777U.S Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Procurement Division, 425 I Street, N.W., Room 2208, Washington, DC D -- AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES SOL
HQ-97-07 DUE 020397 POC Robert Richards, (202) 514-4573. The
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a requirement to
support the Verification Information System (VIS) on behalf of the
Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program. Lockheed
Martin Corporation is the incumbent contractor. A solicitation issued
on September 11, 1996 elicited a proposal only from that incumbent. At
this time the INS is proceeding with the proposal evaluation process
with the incumbent. INS intends to make an award on the proposal
received, but is issuing another solicitation in view of the fact that
we received so few proposals. The INS had hoped for a broader range of
solutions to be submitted, and will be conducting an industry workshop
to determine why so little competition was evidenced and to encourage
suggestions from industry in a follow-on solicitation. The industry
workshop will be held on March 17 and 18, 1997, at INS Headquarters,
425 I Street, N.W., 6th Floor Conference Room, Washington, D.C. The INS
will distribute a draft RFP for industry critique, and will conduct
facilitated sessions to discuss telecommunications, computer hardware,
software, and pricing issues. Workshop participants will recommend
changes to the solicitation to promote open competition and fair
evaluation of innovative technical solutions and pricing strategies. An
improved competitive solicitation for essentially the same requirement
will be issued on or about April 1, 1997. The services to be procured
under the new contemplated solicitation include: access to the VIS
database; support of pilot efforts to expand and enhance user access to
the database; and management and administration of the VIS, its
databases and subsystems. The SAVE Program is responsible for providing
an information sharing capability that assists federal, state, ad local
governments, as well as private sector organizations in determining the
immigration status of non-citizens. The INS database, formally known as
the Alien Status Verification Index (ASVI), includes primary, secondary
and tertiary verification data, as well as management reporting data.
As envisioned, INS will provide daily and quarterly data updates from
the feeder INS systems. The contactor will host the data and provide
access to INS approved users. Existing end user applications will be
provided to the contractor, who will integrate these applications to
access the dtatbase or develope functional equivalent access screens
and capabilites. The INS envisions that all access costs and the
majority of database maintenance cots will be recovered by the
contractor thorugh per-query access changes levied on the users. The
INS would expect quantity discoutns as the total number of transactions
increases. All proposas must be received by the INS no later than 45
days after relese of the RFP. The INS will incur no liablilty for nor
will it pay any costs incurred in the preparation of proposals or for
attendance at the industry briefing. All written requests for the RFP
should be directed to Robert Richards, Contract Specialist, Immigration
and Naturalization Service, 425 I Street, N.W., Room 2208, Washington,
D.C. 20536. THe RFP may be requested by fax at 202/514-3353. Only
written or faxed request will be accepted; no telephone inquiries or
requests will be accepted. (0034) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0031 19970206\D-0001.SOL)
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