Minerals Management Service, Box 25165, Mail Stop 2730, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0165

D -- COTS FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND RDBMS FOR RMP SOL 1435-02-99-RP-40315 POC Mickey Lechuga, Contract Specialist, (303) 275-7384 The Minerals Management Service (MMS), Royalty Management Program (RMP), located in Lakewood, Colorado is reengineering its business processes. The principal objective is to design, develop, and implement new royalty management business processes and supporting information technology systems for the 21st Century. The RMP is comprised of several divisions who work together to ensure that all revenues from Federal and Indian mineral leases are effectively, efficiently and accurately collected, accounted for, and disbursed to recipients. These revenues come from approximately 72,000 producing and nonproducing leases and have historically averaged $4.5 billion annually. They are distributed and disbursed to 38 States, 41 Indian Tribes, some 20,000 individual Indian mineral interest owners, other Federal agencies, and U.S. Treasury accounts. The RMP intends to acquire and implement a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) based financial system and a relational database management system (RDBMS) to support its reengineered business processes. A preproposal conference is scheduled for December 15, 1998, in the Auditorium in Building 85 of the Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado at 9:00 a.m. For planning purposes, it is requested that interested parties contact the Contract Specialist listed above and indicate the number of people who will attend. You should time your arrival at the conference to allow for check-in through the Security Desk in the lobby of the building. The period of performance will include a base period ending September 30, 2001 (26 months from the estimated July 1, 1999 contract award date), and two (twelve month) option periods for the operation and maintenance of the system. For information purposes, the following documents can be found on the INTERNET at http://www.rmp.mms.gov/wascproc1.htm: (1) RMP's Preliminary Design Concepts, (2) RMP's Road Map to the 21st Century, (3) the Financial Management Recommendations, (4) JFMIP Standards, and (5) RMP's Corporate Capabilities Statement Solicitation(available on or about 11-25-98). HOW TO RESPOND: In order to compete for any acquisition as a result of this notice, interested parties MUST demonstrate that they are qualified to perform the work by providing, BY 2:00 P.M., MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, JANUARY 11, 1999, a Capabilities Statement (consisting of no more than 30 pages in one original and seven copies) describing: (1) Qualifications and specific experience of the program manager and key personnel (those who would have primary responsibility for performing and/or managing the contract); (2) Organizational Experience (the degree of comparability of past projects); and (3) References/Past Performance (provide at least three specific references for similar previous work your key personnel and your organization has performed within the last three years. Include contract number, project description, period of performance, dollar amount, client identification, a point of contact, and his or her telephone and fax numbers. The References/Past Performance information is exclusive from the 30 page limitation.) If submitting by express mail, etc., or hand delivering, please submit to the following address: Minerals Management Service, Procurement Branch, WASC, 12600 West Colfax Avenue, Suite C200, Lakewood, Colorado 80215. The Capabilities Statement will be evaluated on the following: key personnel skills, abilities, and experience; the currency, quality and depth of experience of the proposed project manager and other key personnel in working on similar projects, i.e., projects similar in concept, dollar value, duration, and complexity; quality and depth of education. The organizational experience will be evaluated relative to the degree of comparability of past projects to this project, including the number of projects, computing environment, complexity and dollar amount; any COTS system or systems the company has implemented and the companies' experience in implementing and integrating a COTS based financial system in response to the requirements and environments similar to RMP; and the experience of any supporting subcontractors, consultants or partners. Following review of all of the Capabilities Statements, each respondent will be advised either that it will be invited to participate in any resultant acquisition or, based on the information submitted, that it is inlikely to be a viable competitor. At this time, a reference evaluation will be conducted for those invited to participate. However, all respondents are hereby informed that, notwithstanding the advice provided by the Government in response to their submissions, they still may participate in any resultant acquisition. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will consist of an oral technical presentation, together with a written technical proposal and a price proposal. Past Performance will be evaluated as a part of the RFP. Past Performance will be evaluated based on the company's history of successful project completions, including technical excellence, adherence to schedules and budgets, quality of deliverables, and the level of cooperation between your company and its clients. The release of the RFP and any contract award made pursuant to this solicitation is subject to receipt of the required agency administrative approvals. See Numbered Note 26. Posted 11/18/98 (W-SN272481). (0322)

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