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70 -- NAME SEARCHING SOFTWARE DUE 041598 POC CYNTHIA SPENCER, 410-965-3369 WEB: Download Solicitation when/if available, http://www.ssa.gov/oag. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, SSA/OAG, CYNTHIA.SPENCER@ssa.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in with FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in t notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation, and a written soli not be issued. This is a simplified acquisition issued as a request for quotati numbered SSA-RFQ-98-0407-CCS. This RFQ and the incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through the most current Federal Acquisition Circula responsible business sources may submit an offer, in accordance with the require stated herein, which shall be considered by the agency. The standard industrial classification (SIC) code for this acquisition is 7372. The small business size $18 million. SCOPE OF WORK: The Contractor shall provide software and maintenance support for a "Name Searching" software product that will be install unlimited number of personal computers (PCS) and all mainframe systems located a Social Security Administration's (SSA) National Computer Center, Baltimore, MD. software shall be used to build and access a file/data base using (customer) nam access key. It shall be used to retrieve information from a file where the name incomplete/truncated, names with unusual construct, or misspelled. The software be able to evaluate (score/rate) the strength of one name string against another and batch processing. The software must also be flexible as to the data store i names are stored, giving SSA flexibility as to the storage vehicle. MANDATORY SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: a) The contractor shall provide a software package that is field proven with a proven track record, that is commercially available currently in use in production environments at multiple customer sites. Softwar in Beta test or in development is not acceptable. b) The software must be tunable/flexible in its ability to: 1) create database keys for storing records and updating of the database; 2) allow various ways to develop an access key to the database in order to retrieve data by a customer's name; 3) allowadjustment made to the scoring mechanism via initialization files rather than source code c allow for scoring based on the name string and Social Security Number string; 5) for transposed numbers and letters; 6) allow nicknames and derivative names to b as equal. The package shall have a built in store of nicknames and derivative n also allow for customization of such; 7) allow for cleansing (ignore) titles; an equating names such as St. = Saint. c) The software shall: 1) be able to run o MVS/ESA compatible mainframes and personal computers; 2) be "callable" from batc or CICS/COBAL; 3) be able to work with a multi-segmented database containing millions of records per segment; 4) contain name match profiling/tuning/evaluati software as part of the suite of tools; and 5) be Year 200 compliant. d) The co shall provide full documentation and customer support on technical issues. e) Th contractor shall provide a 1-year warranty at no additional cost. Warranty for of this announcement shall consist of: 1) automatic updates and revisions, as r the term "warranty" shall be used interchangeably with "maintenance". Quotation be for the described software only. DELIVERY: Social Security Administration, Receiving Clerk, 6401 Security Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21235. The requested deliver is within 15 days from issuance of order. RFQ INSTRUCTIONS: The following provisions at FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial (tailored) apply acquisition: (b) 1 through (b) 9, (b) 11, (c), (f ), and (g). There are no add provisions. The provisions at FAR Part 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items a to this acquisition. The Government will award an order resulting from this req quotation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to this request for will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors (i.e., abil the required delivery date) considered. A written notice of award or acceptanc offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time f acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without fu by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration date, the Government m an offer, whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt. Offerors are include a copy of the provision at FAR Part 52.212-3, Offeror Representations an Certifications-Commercial Items, with their offer. The following FAR clauses ap this acquisition: FAR 52.204-6 Contractor Identification Number -- Data Universal Numbering Systems (DUNS) Number, and FAR Part 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items. There are no addenda to these provisions. The following provisions at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, apply to this acquisiti (1), (a) (2), (b) (6) through (9), and (b) (16). Offers submitted in response t RFQ/combined synopsis shall be submitted by April 15, 1998, 3:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, addressed to the Social Security Administration, Office of Acquis and Grants, Attn: Cynthia Spencer, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207. Facsimiled (faxed) responses to either 410-965-9560 or 410-966-5982 and address to the Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, Cynthia Spencer will be accepted. SSA-RFQ-98-0407-CCS must be referenced on all responses. (0097)

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