Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg WV 26101-5312

70 -- INVESTMENT ACCOUNTING SYSTEM AND SUPPORT SERVICE SOL BPD 98-CI-0014 DUE 063098 POC Tammie S. Johnson, 304/480-6461, Orlando R. Yaconis, 304/480-6529 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. The Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD) will issue a solicitation for an off-the-shelf investment accounting system and support services to manage the Government Account Series (GAS). The period of performance of this contract will be for a base period of one year with seven one-year option periods. The system shall be capable of managing over 200 accounts with various types of investment activity based on market securities and special Treasury issues and a maximum of 1000 transactions a day. Managing the accounts includes: Integrating a real time pricing service for Treasury Securities; accruing interest on investments; amortizing discount and premium; providing real time investment and accounting information; allowing the entry and reversal of daily investment and redemption activity by CUSIP number and continually integrating updated security regulations. The system must: 1. provide on-line telephone/modem access to our customers, 2. possess industry C-2 compliant security, 3. require minimal user training (user friendly), 4. be table or transaction code driven, 5. provide a general ledger subsystem, 6. provide complete audit logs with user identification and security profiles for each user of the system, 7. provide a report writer with the ability to create ad hoc reports in house, 8. provide flexibility to process non traditional investments and redemptions such as one day securities, zero coupons, and par value securities, 9. store all transactions for each security for 3 years past the security's maturity date. Currently the longest maturity date is 30 years. 10. be capable of multiple batch cycles each day or a combination of batch and real time transaction processing. Information from all postings must be available immediately after the transaction is processed. Desirable optional features would include the ability to: automatically Fax reports to our customers; Internet access to the system or systems reports; External Data Feeds; and a cash forecasting or portfolio analysis tool. There are two ways to receive the solicitation and any other notifications related to this procurement. Please choose only one of the following methods to receive the documents. 1. If you want to obtain the documents by downloading Microsoft Word or PDF files from our Internet site, you must sign-up for our electronic mailing list by using the sign-up section located at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprmail.htm. Upon release of the solicitation or any other notifications, we will send you an electronic message indicating the location and brief description of the item that is available for you to download. 2. If your firm wants to receive a hard copy of the documents, you must submit your request in writing to Tammie Johnson at the above address, via fax at 304-480-6632, or via the Internet at the address below. Upon release of the solicitation and any other notifications, we will mail a hard copy of the item. Telephonic requests will not be accepted. The Bureau of the Public Debt assumes no responsibility for the receipt of facsimile transmissions. The responsibility lies solely with the contractor. Receipt of faxed requests must be confirmed by calling (304) 480-6529. (0138)

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