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70 -- FAME SOFTWARE INCLUDING FAME/HLI AND FAME/FFI RUNNING ON THE VAX 8800 POC N. Dale Wakefield, Jr., Contract Specialist, (202) 622-9391, William Boyd, Contracting Officer, (202) 622-0802 POC N. Dale Wakefield, Jr., Contract Specialist, (202) 622-9391/William Boyd, Contracting Officer, (202) 622-0802. The Department of the Treasury, Departmental Offices, intends to award a sole-source purchase order to FAME Information Services, Inc., for the lease of FAME software (business decision support software) including FAME/HLI, to operate on the VAX 8800/VAX 7610 under the VMS operating system. The lease is for the period October 1, 1997 through September 30, 1998. This requirement is designed under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source. The decision support package needed must include an easy to use time intelligence feature. This feature must allow the user to mix daily, weekly,,monthly, and any other time-period data, not only in the same database, but also in the same analysis, graph or report. The time inriven applications for users. It must be portable, running across many of the popular mainframe and mini series on the market. This software must be compatible with the following data bases, which are acquired in FAME format and may only be acquired in FAME format: the International Monetary Fund International Financial Statistics data base, the U.S. Economic Statistics data base, the Federal Reserve System Flow of Funds data base and the U.S. National Accounts data base. Treasury economists need the ability to access at different times vast amounts of International Monetary Funds and Treasury Flow of Funds data. This data is viewed through frequently changing scenarios. A powerful data management, time-intelligent package with the ability to seasonally adjust the data and store the factors in necessary. Large scale regressions or time series-based simultaneous models will b e produced with this software. This synopsis is published for information purposes only. No solicitation document is available. See Note 22 and Note 26***** (0280)

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