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V -- DEFENSE TRAVEL SYSTEM DUE 051697 POC DTS Team Chief -- Lexine Arthur (703) 681-7899, Francis A.K. Giordano, (703) 681-3515, E-MAIL: arthurl@baileys-emh5.army.mil, arthurl@baileys-emh5.army.mil. The Program Management Office-Defense Travel System (PMO-DTS) is soliciting information from business sources to provide all personnel, equipment, materials and integration required to deliver Archival and Management Information System (MIS) capability to the DoD community in support of the new Defense Travel system. The objective of the Defense Travel System (DTS) is to provide a seamless,paperless, integrated process that meets the needs of travelers by providing a full range of travel services, while providing an overall cost savings to the Government. Request the contractor to prepare an informational package for the development, operation, and maintenance of the archival functions in support of the Defense Travel System at the level of detail provided below. The package should include all costs by Fiscal Year through FY05. The contractor will be required to provide the following services in accordance with best commercial practices for all authorized DoD personnel worldwide: at a minimum it must have a Common Operating Environment (COE) at level 5 and be compliant (level 7 preferred; refer to http://spider.osfl.disa.mil/dii/ for more information); provide 24-hour access, 365 days per year; and must comply with DoD's Design Criteria Standard for Records Management Application Functional Basline Requirements (DoD-STD-5015.2); able to store an estimated 7 million records a year at the size of approximately 2800 bytes; able to maintain three (3) years of data online; must maintain an additional 3 years 3 months of data offline; able to receive data from the Common User Interface (The CUI provides for integration of travel arrangements, financial, and ADP/communications service to support DoD personnel on official business travel.); capability for file transfer; ensuring appropriate information security is followed to prevent unauthorized access and tampering; must provide complete backup and recovery capabilities; archive must be accessible to all authorized DoD users using the DoD's Unclassified Internet Protocol Routing Network (NIPRNET) and/or modems; must provide the capability for organizational managers, service managers and contract monitors to request available management data designed to their report specifications; must provide audit capability for government monitors; provide on-line help for users; provide toll-free help numbers for systems administrators; and maintain technology advancement by facilitating upgrades over the life cycle of the equipment providing an enhanced performance for the DTS system to the DoD community. At minimum, the following sections should be addressed in your information package. The first section will deal with the "Development Requirements and Cost". The contractor should determine the requirements and cost to develop the archival database update module, develop the communications interface module, develop the interface database with query module, and testing the system. The second section will cover all the necessary "Operational Cost" from System Administration, to Database Administration, to loading new software releases, to performing archive functions in accordance with Defense Travel System's Records Management Plan, for the protection of data using Digital Signature, to a offsite security storage facility; and finally to the implementation of transaction cost based on a trip record size of 2800 bytes, if any. "Maintenance Requirements and Cost" must be addressed in section three. The contractor must identify what it will take to maintain current technology and the contractor must address any service fees that might be levied against the Government. In the final section, the contractor must describe the importance of their technical approach and the benefits to the Government. Also included in this section, the contractor must address storing the trip record with Digital Signatures, identify what are the benefits to CUI and network, ensuring the system is COE compliant (identifying what level), and that the archive system can be accessible via the World Wide Web. To allow sufficient time for evaluation, request the information be submitted to the Project Management Office-Defense Travel System (PMO-DTS), no later than COB, May 16, 1997. For further information concerning the CUI interface please refer to the Defense Travel System, Draft Request for Proposal, 30 October 1996 (www.dtic.mil/travelink/rfp/cover1.html). Venders supplying information on this vehicle are not precluded from bidding on other Defense Travel System proposals. (0122)

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