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D -- COTS SOFTWARE TO ASSIST COMPLIANCE WITH CRA AND FAIR LENDING LAWS SOL RFI DUE 010700 POC Richard J. Miller (202)-942-3136 E-MAIL: RiMiller@fdic.gov, RiMiller. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is seeking sources to indicate an interest in providing a commercial of-the shelf (COTS) software package to assist in the evaluation, reporting and printing of cartographic, demographic and loan data associated with financial institutions' performance and compliance with CRA and fair lending laws. The system would be used to support the current examination process and allow for customization to meet requirements unique to the FDIC and for inclusion of enhancements to accomodate new and/or modified examination policies and procedures, including regulatory changes. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. The purpose of this notice is to develop a list of qualified firms that can provide an automated CRA and fair lending analysis system. Companies are invited to submit information regarding thier software package(s) and the following qualifications and experiences: (1) Experience and/or ability in providing a CRA and fair leding package that support a mobile (laptop use)workforce. (2) Experience and/or ability in providing ongoing support and maintenance, including updates for regulatory changes. (3) A schedule of annual data updates (including the source of data and the month the update is available for use). (4) Specific information on how the proposed CRA and fair lending package can satisfy FDIC requirements. Background: The FDIC through its examination process is responsible for ensuring compliance with Fair Lending and consumer protection laws and regulations. The Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs (DCA) is seeking to acquire an automated PC (including laptop) based software for use in the examination of banks to help determine compliance with Fair Lending and consumer protection laws and requlations through the analysis and evaluation of cartographic, demographic and loan data. The FDIC technical environment: The workstation product will primarily be in operation on examiner laptops at the FDIC. The laptop is a Dell 166 Mega-hertz Pentium processor with 64 MB RAM and a 3-gigabyte hrd drive with an integrated CD-ROM. The FDIC operates in the Windows95/MS Office 97 environment. The FDIC is also interested in abtaining information on web-based packages that meet the requirements stated. Requirements: The software should have or be easily modified to have the capabilities to create analysis for CRA loans, HMDA loans, or other loan types. The following functions are desirable: (1) Build assessment areas based upon consensus geographics (census tracts or block numbering areas), counties, MCD/CCDs, or MSAs. (2) Maintain multiple assessments in one anaysis and the capability to edit an existing assessment area. (3) Ability to export/import all analysis information to media such as diskette, CD-R or network drives. (4)Import loan data into an analysis fromvendor supplied HMDA LAR or CRA Summary data, and bank supplied loan portfolio files. (5) Ability to accept loan data in dBase, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Lotus 1-2-3, text files, comma seperated, tab-delimited and other formats. (6) Ability to geo-code all externally supplied loan data. (7) Ability to process loan data (as an import) in the FFIEC format. (8) View and print maps of loan distributions. (9) Flexability in applying thematic settings (variables), overlays and labels to the maps. (10) Reports that cover but are not limited to the following areas: a. An institution's market share performance and market rank by various factors. b. An institution's minority lending. c. Institution's and market lending by Census tract income classes. d. Institution's and market lending by applicant income classes. e. Demographic and economic information regarding the assessment area and surrounding geographies f. Loan distribution (inside/outside of Assessment Area). g. Business demographic data (industry, employee, and revenue data). h. Information typically used to create a CRA Public Evaluation report. Firms resonding to this announcement are not quarenteed to be included on any resulting source list for future RFPs related to this requirement. Posted 12/16/99 (W-SN409152). (0350)

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