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99 -- TESTING A NEW SERVICE TO ENABLE FEDERAL RETIREES TO CONTRIBUTE TO COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN CHARITIES SOL OPM-RFP-00-00921JCT 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. TESTING A NEW SERVICE TO ENABLE FEDERAL RETIREES TO CONTRIBUTE TO COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN CHARITIES The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Washington, D.C. will issue a Request For Proposals (RFP) to select a contractor for a test program, to form and operate a Central Processing Center (CPC). OPM is interested in testing a new service that will provide access to the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) charitable organizations for the estimated 1.7 million Federal civilian retirees. Under the CFC program Local Federal Coordinating Committees (LFCC) annually solicits applications for the Principle Combined Fund Organization (PCFO) to act as its fiscal agent and campaign coordinator. 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 can begin to be recovered from retiree donations. 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 notifying Federal retirees in the test area about the new service, soliciting campaign pledges from Federal retirees, 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. OPM will award the contract for a period of not more than 18 months. Requests for copies of the solicitation should be received, in writing, no later than fifteen calendar days from the date this notice is published. Telephone requests will not be honored. However, faxed requests are acceptable. The fax number is 202-606-1464, Attn: James C. Thieme. Only one copy of the RFP will be sent to each requestor. Upon mailing the printed RFP, an electronic version will be made available for download through OPM's procurement Home page on the World Wide Web. The Web address for OPM'sprocurement home page is http://www.opm.gov/procure. If you download the RFP, please send an electronic mail message to jcthieme@opm.gov containing your company's name and address. This will insure that you receive copies of any amendments issued to the RFP. All responsible businesses may submit an offer. The SIC code for this action is 8999, Services, N.E.C., Size Standard $5.0 Million. Posted 03/15/00 (W-SN434683). (0075)

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