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

70 -- SOLICITATION OF INTEREST IN MARKETING SAVINGS BONDS WIZARD TO INDIVIDUALS DUE 062798 POC Contact Debbie Mendenhall, (304) 480-6814 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. The Bureau of the Public Debt's Savings Bonds Operations Office (SBOO) of the Department of the Treasury, is inviting interested firms to enter into a licensing agreement to market the Savings Bonds Wizard. The Savings Bonds Wizard is a software program that helps U.S. Savings Bond and Savings Note holders price and inventory their bonds. The Wizard: 1. Displays the current value and interest earned for each bond. 2. Shows the total value and total interest for all of the bonds. 3. Checks for valid combinations of series, denomination and issue date. 4. Is capable of showing multiple inventory files at the same time using separate Inventory Windows. 5. Lets bond holders change the redemption date and automatically recalculates the bond values and interest for the new date. 6. Allows bond holders to "cut and paste" bonds between Inventory Windows. 7. Can use the clipboard to move bond information to other applications. 8. Provides an update function so bond holders can update the Wizard's database everysix months with new bond data. SBOO will provide certified (virus free) copies of the Savings Bond Wizard to parties satisfying the conditions of the agreement as stated in the CBD announcement. SBOO will acknowledge acceptance of this agreement by signing and returning the letter-agreement, which establishes the terms and conditions. The following terms and conditions apply to this agreement: 1. An application fee of $50. will be levied covering the period the agreement is in effect. If the agreement is renewed another fee of $50 may be levied. The agreement will result in no costs to the Bureau of the Public Debt, other than those in connection with providing certified copies of the Wizard. 2. The agreement will expire automatically after 3 years, unless earlier terminated.. 3. Treasury reserves the right to charge a fee in the future, not to exceed the amount needed to recoup the actual cost of replication of each diskette provided, should the need arise, even though such a fee is not charged initially. 4. The agreement will not be exclusive to any party. All companies willing to comply with the conditions of this agreement will be eligible to participate. 5. This agreement will not imply a Treasury endorsement of the business that the applicant is in. 6. The Savings Bonds Wizard is and must be represented as a Treasury product, i.e., it cannot be represented as something other than a Treasury product. 7. The Savings Bonds Wizard must be redistributed in its entirety, i.e. the applicant would not be permitted to "reverse engineer" the software. 8. The agreement will be non-transferable. 9. Responses will be accepted for a six month period. Interested parties should respond to SBOO by signing and returning the attached letter-agreement and providing a full mailing address to which copies of the Wizard should be sent in the space provided. A copy of the letter-agreement is found on our Internet site http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaproc70.htm. Interested parties should submit a signed copy of the letter agreement indicating interest in marketing the Wizard in accordance with the aforementioned conditions. If, after review of the submission, SBOO accepts the expression of interest, acceptance will be shown by returning the signed letter-agreement with a certified copy of the Savings Bond Wizard, and updates for the period the agreement is in effect Posted 06/26/98 (0177)

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