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99 -- TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE DUE 051199 POC Zalma Ross, Contract Specialist, (202) 512-3422; Darcel B. Hall, Contracting Officer, (202) 512-5102 GAO is requesting informal proposals for travel management software (single package or a choice of packages) for which offerors would provide licensed ownership, technical support for implementation and continuing maintenance and upgrade support for the life of the contract. The software must operate on a Novell computer system platform and have the capability to generate travel orders and vouchers in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) and transfer the data to American Management System's (AMS) Financial Management System (FMS) also known as the AMS Federal Financial System (FFS). The travel system must support the tracking of travel budgets at various organizational levels and must support charges to organizational travel budget from outside of the unit and from geographically remote locations. This requirement will necessitate the implementation of a single central travel database within a technology that supports effective database access across a wide area network or secure access via the internet/intranet. The underlying database must be Structure Query Language (SQL) compliant. In addition, the system must correctly handle amendment and cancellations of travel orders and travel voucher in a manner that accurately accounts for current budget status. In addition the software license must provide access to the application for GAO's entire workforce of 3500 staff. The system security must effectively limit traveler access to their own travel records while providing access to sub-unit administrative staff to the records of all assigned travelers. In addition, administrative staff within units assigned travel budget must be able to access all travel records with charges to their account. Firms have 30 days to submit information on their approach to this requirement. GAO POC for this acquisition is Ms. Zalma Ross, Contract Specialist, Acquisition Management, Rm. 6852. Tel. 202-512-5102. If the government solicits offers, the products must be sold on GSA schedule only. Posted 04/13/99 (I-SN319547). (0103)

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