Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Denver Center, 6760 E Irvington Place, Denver, Colorado 80279-8000

D -- POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT DUE 053198 POC John D. Morse, Contracting Officer The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is requesting written information for planning purposes only, for a fully integrated and automated software system for making micellaneous payments to military members and for creating tax and accounting reports to summarize such payments. The miscellaneous payments system must accept input from a variety of different sources (including naval vessels communicating via other than land-line connections), compute taxes to be withheld (Federal, State, and local), and either disburse the payment directly through electronic funds transfer or provide an interface with Defense Joint Military Pay System (DJMS) to allow payment to be added to the member's next regular military pay check. The system must incorporate adequate controls to minimize to risk of fraudulent transactions while at the same time providing eas of access to make authorization and disbursement as simple as possible. In addition, the system should accept miscellaneous payment data for payments made directly to the member (such as reimbursement for do-it-yourself moves and loan repayments made on behalf of members) and accumulate these payments for inclusion in the individual members W-2 at the end of the tax year. The system must also produce all required reports, including periodic payment reports, to taxing authorities, end-of-year withholding reports (W-2s and the State and local equivalents), etc. The system must be compatible with modern relational data base systems, and the withholding, appropriation, and accounting data must be in a format to support such ad hoc reporting as DFAS and its customers require. If not a stand-alone authorization and disbursement system, the proposed solution must interface with a DJMS data base which is constructed in a COBOL flat file technology structure. This is not a request for proposal (RFP) and no contract award will be made as a result of this request for information. (RFI). The vendor should describe briefly why its solution is superior. Vendors shall provide written information detailing ability to meet the software and support requirement. DFAS encourages vendors to provide alternative and creative solution during this planning stage. Written information may include pricing for budget planning purposes only. Vendors shall identify all proprietary information. Send information to: DFAS-CSO/DE 6760 East Irvington Place Denver, Colorado 80279-8000 (0120)

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