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99 -- TESTING A NEW SERVICE TO ENABLE FEDERAL RETIREES TO CONTRIBUTE TO COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN CHARITIES SOL OPM-00-00921 DUE 030800 POC James C. Thieme 202/606-1570 WEB: OPM's procurement home page, http://www.opm.gov/procure. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, JCTHIEME@OPM.GOV. SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS- TESTING A NEW SERVICE TO ENABLE FEDERAL RETIREES TO CONTRIBUTE TO COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN CHARITIES This is a request for information only. NO SOLICITATION WILL BE ISSUED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking information from small or small disadvantaged business concerns to help support a decision as to whether or not an acquisition for the services of a Central Processing Center (CPC) to test a new service to enable Federal retirees to contribute to Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) charities, may be considered as a Small Business Set-aside or as a Small Disadvantaged Business Set-aside. A separate synopsis will be issued upon completion of the Small Business Set-aside determination. The Combined Federal Campaign, or CFC, currently is made up of 387 local campaigns. Each campaign is directed by a Local Federal Coordinating Committee (LFCC) comprised of members of local Federal interagency organizations, which acts as a "Board of Directors" for the local campaign. The LFCC annually solicits applications for the Principle Combined Fund Organization (PCFO) to act as its fiscal agent and campaign coordinator on the basis of presentations made to the local committee. PCFO responsibilities include acting as fiscal agent, ensuring donor pledges are honored, training personnel for soliciting, and collecting and distributing pledges to designated charitable organizations. Within regulatory guidelines, the costs of the PCFOs' administering the CFC program are recovered from gross receipts of the campaign. As with the current CFC program, the contractor administering the new service will recover from gross donation receipts the costs of administering the new system. Therefore, potential offerors must be financially capable of funding the initial costs of operating the system (i.e. the first six to eight months of the effort) until operating expenses con begin to be recovered from retiree donations. OPM is interested in testing a new service that will provide access to the CFC charitable organizations for the estimated 1.7 million Federal civilian annuitants. Although not a part of the test, the new program may serve as a model for military retirees as well. OPM proposes to establish a program that: (a) builds on the existing systems available within OPM's Retirement and Insurance Services (RIS) -- Voluntary Allotment Program for processing designations made by retirees; and (b) preserves the role of existing PCFOs to process contributions to charities locally. RIS's Voluntary Allotment System is a front-end subsystem of the Annuity Roll Processing System, which currently allows annuitants to make the following types of transactions: State Tax Withholdings, U.S. Savings Bond Purchases and Allotments for Organizations. Under the proposed test, the CPC will be responsible for soliciting campaign pledges from retiree annuitants and processing their allotment requests into the RIS system. The RIS system will deduct the authorized allotments and return the contributions to the CPC for distribution to local PCFOs. As with the current CFC program, the PCFOs will be responsible for distributing contributions to local charities. Small Businesses or Small Disadvantaged Businesses that can meet the above described requirements should submit complete technical information including a sampling of resumes for personnel that would perform these services, a listing of similar projects your company has performed, and references for us to contact. Responses to this market investigation should be submitted by March 8, 2000. Address questions and responses to: James C. Thieme Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street NW, Room 1342 Washington, DC 20415. E-mail JCTHIEME@OPM.GOV Phone (202) 606-1570 Fax (202) 606-1464 Posted 02/22/00 (W-SN427405). (0053)

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