DFAS-IN Central Procurement, 8899 E 56th St, Indianapolis IN 46249-0240

99 -- MISCELLANEOUS SOL MDA260-00-R-0001 DUE 111599 POC Michael A. Risley, Contracting Officer, 317-510-4702 The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Business Development Office, is seeking information in support of a potential Request for Proposal (RFP) for acquiring outside consultants to establish a standard service and pricing model for delivery of payment. DFAS-IN is 5200 plus employee organization consisting of military, civilian, and contractor personnel engaged in financial, accounting, payroll, and sundry core processes located at over 10 primary CONUS and 2 OCONUS locations. The organization is considering acquiring the assistance of an appropriate source to provide requirements definition support in the area of delivery of payment service. The requirement definition phase, if implemented, is to: (a) Provide a payment delivery system to individuals, businesses, government agencies or financial institution throughout the world. Approximately, 1000 payments will be made annually. (b) Deliver cash, check, EFT to any country in the world within 24 hours to an individual, business, government agency or financial institution. (c) Provide real time exchange rates. (d) Assume accountability of the payments, to include delivery. (e) Track activity on accounts anywhere in the world. (f) Make payments and move funds from a variety of accounts in multiple currencies. (g) Conduct foreign exchange transactions in various currencies. (h) If a draft for foreign currency or something similar is used, return hard copy documents to government, or legally reproduce. (i) Settle the transactions with DFAS within the U.S. (j) Access to the expertise of banking specialists located throughout the world. Requirements will have to be of sufficient detail to create a realistic Statement of Work (SOW) for selecting and implementing a pricing solution with assurance that all processes can be accurately computed. DFAS-IN is requesting at no cost to the Government, information in the form of a white paper appropriate in defining the scope for the initial requirements definition and recommendation phase of this effort. Of particularinterest will be the pricing model, schedule and the approach to the requirements definition and implementation phases. Additional information sought in this RFI includes recommended approaches to this effort, plus the vendor's specific experience in the delivery of payment approach. All information or materials submitted in response to this request will become the property of the Government and will not be returned. FAR 52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997) (a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (b) Although proposal and offeror are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal. (c) This solicitation is issued for the purpose of obtaining information in support of DFAS-IN efforts to develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) for acquiring support in developing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for acquiring support in defining and establishing a standard service and pricing model for delivery of payment. Posted 11/01/99 (W-SN396695). (0305)

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