U.S. Department of Justice, Procurement Services Staff, National Place, Suite 1000, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530

D -- SOFTWARE SUPPORT POC Kenneth Freeman, Contracting Officer, 202-307-1971 It is the intent of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to negotiate on a sole source basis with Elite Federal Forms, Inc. (Elite), 836 Ritchie Highway Severna Park, MD 21146 to assist in the development of an integrated Department-wide financial management system as required by OMB Circular A-127. A primary commercial software package being used at the front end is Informs, a proprietary product of Metastorm, Inc. Elite is the wholly owned contracting and consulting arm of Metastorm. The Department requires highly knowledgeable individuals to address the integration of Informs with Groupwise, PC/LAN database storage, the Justice Consolidated Office Network (JCON) environment, and a variety of PC and non-JCON LAN environments. This effort will often require custom code development using additional software development tools such as C++, Visual Basic, or Delphi to provide DLLs and other enabling code for software integration. The knowledge required for success in the application development area is detailedfamiliarity with the underlying (source) code of the Informs commercial software package and intimate familiarity with ongoing development of that package. Metastorm also has a formal agreement in place with Novell for access to Groupwise source code. DOJ believes that only Elite, by virtue of its relationship with Metastorm, possesses the requisite knowledge of and experience with Informs software. No solicitation document exists. Interested parties must respond with a written statement of capability that convincingly demonstrates that they possess extensive experience with and knowledge of Informs software. In addition, respondents must explain how they will obtain access to Informs software source code. Responses received as a result of this notice of intent shall be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Responses will not be considered as either proposals or bids, and cost or pricing data is not solicited. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based upon written responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The anticipated period of performance under any resultant contract will be one year from the date of award with four (4) one-year option periods to extend the term of the contract. See Note 22. (0167)

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