Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207-0696

70 -- PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE POC Junghie Choi Elky Tel: 410-965-9483 The Social Security Administration (SSA) has a requirement for eight additional copies of an asset management software product called "Property Plus" by Inte-Great Corporation of Bethesda, Maryland, which is currently in use at the SSA headquarters in Baltimore and two of its ten SSA regional offices, the Seattle and Atlanta regional offices (ROs). The additional copies shall be installed at the remaining 8 ROs: New York, Dallas, Kansas City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Denver. SSA has identified Property Plus as the only product that can meet its requirements, based on SSA's previous purchase and current use of Property Plus at the SSA headquarters and the Seattle and Atlanta ROs. SSA has invested approximately $47,000 for the Property Plus system at the SSA headquarters and the two ROs, including installation and training at all three locations. SSA has also invested an unestimated number of staff hours in learning the Property Plus software and the Janus 2020 interface it has with SSA's barcode scanners. Therefore, SSA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Inte-Great Corporation, pursuant to the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), to provide for the acquisition of eight additional software copies, installation, and training for SSA's remaining 8 ROs, unless SSA determines that a more advantageous alternative exists in terms of total cost (i.e., taking into account SSA's previous investment) and product acceptability. Vendors who can provide a software package that meets all of SSA's requirements (listed below) but is NOT compatible with SSA's existing environment shall respond based upon providing a replacement product for SSA headquarters and all 10 ROs. Vendors with a software product that is fully compatible with SSA's existing copies of Property Plus and Intemec Janus 2020 barcode scanners shall respond based upon providing only the required 8 additional copies for the remaining ROs, along with the requisite installation and training for it as described below. Interested vendors are invited to respond within 15 calendar days of the publication date of this announcement. The software must be a commercial, off-the-shelf product and at a minimum meet the following requirements: It must (1) have two-way data transfer capabilities with SSA's existing portable barcode scanners (Intemec Janus 2020) that are currently programmed with the necessary portable software modules, developed by Integrate, for audit and data collection functions; (2) operate in a Windows NT network environment, networked or stand alone Windows 95 or Windows 3.11 environment; (3) have built-in security, including the ability to assign field level user rights with optional password protection; (4) be capable of tracking and reporting active, surplused, and disposed inventory; (5) support and generate bar code technology printing; (6) contain the capability to assign an unlimited number of components to any asset; (7) provide asset profile of internal related components as well as maintenance, service history, and transaction history profile tracking in accordance with GSA property management requirements; (8) provide audit capability functions and life cycle management; (9) contain the capability for the preparation, compilation and view of various on-line reports and custom report generation; (10) be able to handle over 150,000 property records without any degregation of system performance; (11) automatically calculate depreciation for all assets and components and provide summary and detail reports for life cycle property values; (12) currently be used by/installed at a minimum of five federal government agencies, (13) be able to transfer property to SSA field offices using an automated property transfer program; (14) interact with the data collection and audit software developed for the Janus 2020 scanners; (15) be year-2000 compliant. The system shall use tables to input data in specified fields such as model, manufacture, etc. The system shall provide an automated interface to the Agency's existing PropertyExcess Disposal System written in Delphi. The vendor shall provide at the SSA headquarters in Baltimore individual training sessions for 2 people per unit of software to the extent that the trainees are able to fully utilize the software with minimal assistance, i.e., have a working knowledge of the software. The vendor shall not be required to provide more than 16 hours of training. The vendor shall install both the property management software and database at SSA headquarters and the SSA ROs. The database to be installed at each office shall be specific to that office, meaning that the vendor shall create for each regional office its own specialized property records database from the master database currently at SSA headquarters. Interested parties must respond with written capability statements to this notice within 15 calendar days from the date of this publication. Only written responses will be accepted. The capability statements must clearly state the company's ability to meet the stated requirements and indicate a general price estimate (if not already provided via standard product literature). Respondents should indicate whether they are a small business or an other than small business concern. No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received. However, this information will be used in SSA's assessment of technically capable and economically viable sources. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the source data received. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. The Government does not intend to pay for information solicited or received. (0206)

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