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R -- IMPLEMENT AND PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE JUDICIARY'S FLEXIBLE BENEFITS PLAN FOR JUDICIARY OFFICERS. SOL USCA 99-5117 DUE 052499 POC Linda Round, 202-502-1330 The Federal Judiciary has an urgent requirement for the implementation and ongoing support services in providing administration of the Judiciary's Flexible Benefits Plan (hereafter referred to as the plan) to be offered to judicial officers and employees. As a result, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) will award a contract that will provide, both open enrollment and ongoing administration, of the Judiciary's plan, to include pre-tax accounts for health care spending, dependent care spending, medical premium conversion, and commuter benefits. The Judiciary has a current legacy payroll/HRIS system which is a 30 year old mainframe system. It is unable to convert annual elections to payroll period contribution amounts, or to determine contribution adjustments due to retro or refund situations. This system is currently being enhanced to add deduction and year to date fields for both the health and dependent care contributions. Further, the Judiciary has plans to convert all HRIS and payroll to PeopleSoft 7.5 over a three-year period beginning in 2000. The resultant contractor for this award will be required to interface with both of these systems. During October of 1999, the requirement will necessitate the resultant contractor to conduct the flexible spending accounts open enrollment for the year 2000. Further, effective January 1, 2000, the resultant contractor will be required to provide ongoing administration and subsequent annual open enrollment services for the plan. The proposed contract will be awarded for a base year with four, one-year options. The minimum mandatory requirements which an offeror must pass, in order to be further evaluated for award are; 1) demonstrate at least five years of experience providing benefit administration outsourcing services with an increasing client base, 2) have clients with more than 25,000 eligible employees, and 3) have conducted and measured customer satisfaction surveys in the past three years. The solicitation will be posted on the Internet on or about May 17, 1999. The address for obtaining a copy of, or viewing the solicitation is: http://www.uscourts.gov/review.html. The AOUSC intends to make an award based upon initial offers. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Reference solicitation no. USCA-99-5117. LINKURL: http://www.uscourts.gov/review.html LINKDESC: <A HREF="http://www.uscourts.gov/review.html">RFP USCA-99-5117 </A> Posted 05/13/99 (W-SN331260). (0133)

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