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

70 -- SOFTWARE NEEDED TO BUILD AND ACCESS A FILE/DATA BASE USING CUSTOMER NAME AS THE ACCESS KEY. POC Cynthia Spencer Tel: 410-965-3369 The Social Security Administration (SSA) is seeking vendors who can provide software that can be used to build and access a file/data base using (customer) name as the access key. It will be used to retrieve information from a file where the names are often incomplete/truncated, names with unusual construct, or many times misspelled. It will also be used to match transaction records against a master name file/database. The software must also be able to evaluate (score/rate) the strength of one name string against another, both in on-line and batch processing. The software should also be flexible as to the data store in which the names are stored, giving SSA flexibility as to the storage vehicle. Mandatory requirements of the software package must be: 1) Field proven with a proven track record, currently commercially available, in use in production environments at multiple customer sites, SSA must be able to contact existing users; software that is in BETA testing or in development is not acceptable; 2)Tunable/flexible in its ability to create data base keys for storing records in the creation and updating of the data base, allow various ways to develop an access key to search the data base in order to retrieve data by a client's name, allow adjustments to be made to the scoring mechanism. Ideally these changes should be done via initialization files, rather than package source code changes (which would result in customized variations of the original product), allow for scoring based on the name string and Social Security Number string, allow for transposed numbers and transposed letters, allow nicknames and derivative names to be scored as equal (e.g. Anthony = Tony, Jose = Joseph = Joey = Giuseppe, etc.). The package should have a built in store of nicknames, derivatives and it should allow for customization of the nicknames and derivatives; allow for "cleansing (ignore) titles (e.g. Dr., Jr., RN, Sr., Etc.); allow equating names such as St. = Saint; 3) Able to run on an IBM MVS/ESA compatible mainframe;4) "Callable" from batch or CICS/COBAL; 5) Work with a multi-segmented data base (containing millions of records per segment). The entire data base currently contains in excess of 200 million records. 6) Contain name match profiling/tuning/evaluation software as part of the suite of tools; 7) The "support package" must contain full documentation that is currently available, pre-existing training programs and courses, customer support for immediate consultation on technical problems/issues (NN hours per day, from xx-yy). Interested GSA schedule and non-schedule vendors who can furnish the required software and support are invited to submit in writing (NO FAXES) a substantial statement clearly demonstrating that the capability of the product offered meets the referenced requirements. Responses to this announcement must clearly state, and be substantiated by the submission of technical literature and other applicable descriptive literature, attesting to the ability to provide the required software and support. If any products and/or support are covered by a GSA Schedule contract, a copy of the contract, and/or GSA Schedule number should be provided. Any requirements herein must be submitted in writing. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP), and the Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited or received. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION and is considered to be Market Research. Respondents will not be notified of the results of any evaluation of the source data received. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. Interested parties must respond to this notice in writing within 15 calendar days from date of this publication. ALL RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MUST REFERENCE CBD1112CCS. (0316)

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