Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Procurement Department, 1200 K Street, NW, Suite 1090, Washington, DC 20005-4026

R -- PAS BUSINESS OPERATIONS SOL PBGC-RP-98-0005 DUE 030398 POC Contract Specialist, Tova Stein, (202) 326-4160 x3234 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has a requirement for business operations services in day to day operations of the Premium Accounting System (PAS). PAS processes premium filings and payments and calculates interest and penalties when premiums collected by PBGC are paid late or underpaid. "PAS Business Operations" services are being acquired as a separate function under RFP No. PBGC-RP-98-0005. The business operations include providing a Bank Lockbox to receive premium forms and payments and deposit of the payments to PBGC's accounts, imaging the documents received and processing data from forms through Optical Character Recognition into PAS, posting the filings and payment through PAS, answering questions from and corresponding with the Pension Plans. (Previously announced RFP No. PBGC-RP-98-0001 for the acquisition of services to both operate and maintain PAS has been modified to separate the acquisition of the systems functions from the business functions. RFP No. PBGC-RP-98-0001 is now for "PAS System Maintenance and Development.") A single award is anticipated under each RFP. The duration of each contract will be one base period plus four option years. To request a copy of the solicitation please send your request to fax number (202) 326-4162 or write to the mailing address, but do not send your request by both fax and mail. Please be sure to include the solicitation number, your company name, company mailing address, and fax number in your request. If you are requesting a copy of both PAS related RFPs you do not need to submit two requests, submit one request with both RFP numbers on it. Telephone requests will not be honored. Do not include FOIA requests, additional information, or questions in your request for the RFP. (0034)

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