U.S. Office Of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW., Room 1342, Washington, DC 20415

D -- PROJECT ORIENTED MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING OFF-THE-SHELF SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS SOL OPM-98-RFI-0001 DUE 120497 POC Raymond D. Hesson, 202-606-1045 WEB: OPM Procurement WEB Page, http://www.opm.gov/procure. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer e-mail, rdhesson@opm.gov. This is a request for information only. No formal solicitation will be issued as a result of this announcement, and no award will be made on the basis of responses to this request. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to evaluate responses to this synopsis before finalizing technical requirements, work statements and specifications. OPM's nation-wide Employment Service product and service lines need user friendly staff resource planning, project management, project cost accounting and customer tracking for our line managers. We are seeking project-oriented, off-the-shelf software modules which we can interface to our main accounting system and management systems. Our product and service activities include: 1.) high numbers of open projects (500 split among several major program areas and about 20 locations); 2.) projects with complex hierarchies of tasks; 3.) projects being established, executed and tracked simultaneously at multiple locations; 4.) projects being done with multiple employees and levels of management; 5.) projects involving in-house direct and indirect costs (primarily labor); 6.) external contract projects as well as internal projects such as policy setting and product development; 7.) projects that require end-to-end management of progress (status, milestones, percent complete and notes) and costs against budget (relative to progress and total); and 8.) assigning/sharing/tracking staff resources to projects across organizational and geographic lines. Our technology is uniform across the country. We operate with Novell LANS/WANS and Windows at our 20 plus locations with about 600 employees. We estimate up to 50 concurrent users and up to 100 total users of these modules. We are moving to Windows 95/98 and Oracle. We also have some experience developing and using WEB sites, but not for these purposes. Companies are requested to provide both technical and budgetary information as well as information on delivery and other terms and conditions. References to private and Federal sector clients using such software should also be provided. OPM will not pay for information provided in response to this synopsis. OPM reserves the right to not proceed with the acquisition of this software. Those who wish to respond to this request for information should address their response to Ray Hesson at the Office of Personnel Management, Room 1342, 1900 E Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20415. Responses, to be considered, must be received within 14 calender days from the date of publication of this Notice. Responses may be faxed to 202-606-1464 or sent via e-mail to RDHesson@opm.gov. (0323)

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