Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 700, ATTN: M:P, Oxon Hill, MD 20745

D -- SERVICE CENTER RECOGNITION/IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM (SCRIPS) II POC Contracting Officer, Louise B. Kearns, (202) 283-1201 The IRS is seeking to identify sources interested in providing on-site, on-call, and per- call system hardware and software maintenance (approximately 800,000 lines of Custom Code and approximately 60 COTS packages) and development; annual and emergency application program and system updates and changes requiring quick turnaround; development of new application programs; hardware and software upgrades and/ or replacement; training; movement of equipment; and maintenance of all system, applications, and training documentation (i.e., Supervisor Handbook, System Administrator Handbook, Computer Program Book, etc.) for the existing SCRIPS. The Contractor will be required to establish subcontracts with some of the existing vendors due to the proprietary software that is integrated in SCRIPS. The SCRIPS production systems, which are located in Austin, TX; Covington, KY; Memphis, TN; Kansas City, MO; and Ogden, UT, are used to process the volumes of Forms 1040EZ (approx. 8M in 1997), Federal Tax Deposit (FTD)coupons (approx. 75M in 1997), and Information Returns Processing (IRP) documents (approx. 32M in 1997) received at their respective IRS Service Centers. All IRS Service Centers have the same equipment configuration with the exception of Covington, KY, which has two (2) SCRIPS systems. There is also a modified SCRIPS system used for Program Development and Testing by IRS which is located in New Carrollton, MD; and a modified SCRIPS system used for program development and testing by the current contractor which is located at the current contractors site. Each SCRIPS production system contains the following major components: three (3) Scan-Optics 9000 Series scanners each with a Peripheral Server, Monitors, keyboards and a scanner printer (except Covington, which has 2 scanners on each system); three (3) Advanced Logic Research (ALR) Image Controllers (1 per scanner, except Covington which has 2 ICs on each system) with their associated Image Controller Monitors, keyboards, and associated multiple disk storage drives; one (1) NCR 3555 Multiprocessor Server with two (2) associated keyboards and monitors, nine (9) NCR 6298 Disk Arrays (totaling 252GB of storage), one (1) NCR Model 6450-0201 Line Printer, two (2) Talaris Model 1794FT Imagestation Laser Jet Printers, and three (3) External Communications Lines (a Diagnostic Modem, RS232 line, HYPERchannel communications line, and an X.25-compatible data transfer line); five (5) NCR Character Recognition Engines with their associated monitors and keyboards; two (2) CEDAR Name and Address Block Readers (NABR); sixty six (66) HP Vectra VL 5 200 Mhz Pentium Workstation Computers with the NCR Model 3292 monitor and Scan-Optics PC-100 Data Entry Keyboard (except Covington which has 2 systems for a total of 133); two (2) HI-PAR Tape Library Subsystems containing a HI-PAR Controller and four (4) Exabyte 10e 8mm Cartridge Handling Subsystems; two (2) NCR Model 6091 8mm Tape Cartridge Drives; two (2) NCR Model 6323 Nine-Track Tape Drives; two (2) Cygnet 1803 Optical Jukeboxwith two (2) Phillips LD6100 12 inch drives and a media module (except Covington, which has three (3) between the two systems); and Inter-Device Communications through SCSI lines, an Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN), and a parallel communications line. The software associated with each of the major components consist of the following. The scanners use MS-DOS operating system, Scan-Optics Transport Driver, Recognition Driver, and Image Driver software, and application software. The scanner application software identifies the form type, forwards the form to the output or reject stackers as determined by embedded software error logic, and keeps track of system statistics. The image controllers use UNIX based Solaris operating system (version 5.4), an Open Windows based Graphical User Interface, TCP/IP communications protocol for the Ethernet LAN, and application software. The image controller application software acts as the interface between the scanner and the Multiprocessor Server, divides the image data into image strips, and formats the image data for use by the multiprocessor. The multiprocessor server uses UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) Version 3.01 operating system, X Window System to create window displays on the server console monitors, NCR's Document Management System's (DMS) Data Manager which integrates the imaging components of the PLEXUS Software Product Set combined with the RDBMS INFORMIX ON-LINE Product Set, TCP/IP communications protocol for the Ethernet LAN, INFORMIX Report Writer feature to define, generate, and print reports, Storage Manager 2.3 to control data storage and retrieval, NETEX as the HYPERchannel driver, and application software. The multiprocessor application software provides log in security for the scanner, provides the database, database interface, and data validation for each form type (1040EZ, FTD, and IRP), keeps track of system and operator statistics, provides workflow management and control, disseminates and tracks document identification numbers used by the scannerand original entry function, provides security administration and maintains an user specific audit trail log, controls the transfer of data to and from the Recognition Engines, archival storage devices, and other IRS systems, provides quality review functionality, controls the database purging activities, and provides software utilities used to back up and restore the system. The workstations use MS-DOS Version 6.22 as the operating system, Microsoft Windows Version 3.1 Graphical User Interface, TCP/IP communications protocol on the Ethernet LAN, NCR DMS Version 2.01, Software Image Manipulation (SWIM) software, V-SHIELD, and application software. The workstation application software provides data entry and data validation functions, tracks system and operator statistics, and controls user access and privileges. The recognition engines use a UNIX-based Recognition Engine-specific software, there is no SCRIPS application software run on these engines. The Name and Address Block Readers run application software that is specifically designed to recognize name and address data and insert it in to the database. Each processing system installed at an IRS Service Center interfaces with the IRS Entity Index File (EIF) via HYPERchannel and interfaces with other IRS tax systems through magnetic tape (i.e., Generalized Mainline Framework (GMF), FTD Mainline, Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), ES9000 Print System, Block Batch Transmittal System (BBTS), and Incentive Pay System and Total Evaluation Performance System). Interested parties are encouraged to respond to this announcement within thirty (30) days of its publication. All responses should be addressed to the Contracting Officer listed above. In your response, please provide the following: 1) Name, address, point of contact, telephone number, and business size; 2) A capability statement, which may not exceed five pages (single-sided), defining your ability to provide the specified services; 3) Three key references, including the names, phone numbers and points of contact for businesses or government agencies to which you have previously provided similar services. This is not a solicitation. No contract will result from this synopsis. If the IRS decides to go forward with this requirement, a solicitation synopsis will be issued at that time. (0058)

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