Internal Revenue Service M:P:T:D, Office of Tax Systems Acquisition, 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD 20745

D -- PRIME SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SERVICES CONTRACTOR (PRIME) SOL TIRNO97H00010 DUE 071597 POC Contract Specialist, Angelika S. Sweitzer 202-283-1206, Contracting Officer, Edmond J. Golden Jr. 202-283-1205 This is a modification to a CBD announcement posted on May 5, 1997. SUBMITTING A REPRESENTATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE FOR THE MODERNIZATION PRIME SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SERVICES CONTRACTOR (PRIME) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to begin communicating with prospective offerors. Therefore, the IRS requests that prospective offerors submit, in writing, the following to the Contracting Officer: 1. A letter indicating the offeror's intent to compete for the PRIME contract. 2. A representation of how the prospective offeror meets or exceeds the following criteria: O Government approved Compensation, Purchasing, Estimating and Accounting Systems; O Available working capital to be no less than $200 million; O Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3 Certification or mutually agreeable equivalent standard; O Software Acquisition CMM Level 3 Certification or mutually agreeable equivalent standard; and O Demonstrated significant program management and systems integration experience including management of subcontractors as measured by lead responsibility for development and implementation of an integrated information system or systems with a scope requiring: o In excess of 5 million lines of computer code or equivalent scope and complexity (e.g., integration of COTS and custom code); and/or o A budget in excess of $300 million. 3. Three (3) client references to enable IRS to validate the offeror representations relative to the above criteria. Prospective offerors must submit the above no later than June 13, 1997 to: Edmond J. Golden, Jr., Contracting Officer Internal Revenue Service Office of Tax Systems Acquisition, M:P:T:D 6009 Oxon Hill Road Oxon Hill, MD 20745 (0149)

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