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D -- UPGRADE CURRENT REUTERS 3000/TRIARCH SYSTEM SOL AD-2000-01 DUE 042000 POC Armenda Daye, Contract Specialist, Phone 202-622-0794, Fax 202-622-2343, Email armenda.daye@do.treas.gov -- Brett Blake, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-622-0791, Fax 202-622-2343, Email WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=M&ProjID=AD-2000-0 1&LocID=1768. E-MAIL: Armenda Daye, armenda.daye@do.treas.gov. Item 0001 Reuters TRIARCH System w/24 accounts for Reuters 3000Xtra 12 mos. Item 0002 Reuters Consultant Plus Allowable Travel Expenses. The purpose of the requirement is to upgrade the current Treasury Reuters 3000 delivery service to the Reuters TRIARCH system. This will provide Treasury the baseline infrastructure to support a World Class Market Room. Proposals should cite "acquisition" cost (not rental cost) for Item 0001. The World-Class Market Room (WCMR) project will provide the Department of the Treasury with world-class capabilities to analyze international and domestic financial conditions and economic news. The Offices of Domestic Finance and International Affairs are the key customers for the WCMR and seek the following objectives: 1. Establish a Market Room to be the central point of dissemination of breaking news on global financial conditions with a state-of-the-art Briefing Room where senior officials can convene and expedite decision-making processes with the benefit of real-time news and data. 2. Establish a cross-functional organization to provide the first-level analysis of economic news and financial data consisting of staff from the Office of International Affairs, Office of Domestic Finance and possibly the Office of Economic Policy. 3. Provide a financial data warehouse that captures historical Financial Market Data (including Commodities, Foreign Exchange, Equities, Money Market Instruments and Bonds) of leading financial services provider's data. 4. Provide a set of desktop analytical tools for data accessibility, data analysis and reporting. 2.0 REQUIREMENTS 2.1 SCOPE OF WORK: The contractor shall provide non-personal information technology services through the conduct of specific tasks in the Statement of Work. 2.2 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: (a) Provide a Datafeed for access to Reuters and other select data service vendor information. The infrastructure should utilize a protocol as the underlying data distribution architecture interface for communication. The protocol should also provide the co-ordination and control of data that ensures effective operation (b) The Datafeed will service the Mian Treasury and will need to provide: server redundancy (if one server fails, the users on that server will automatifally be moved over to the other server transparently to the users); load balancing between the servers; tie-in with the Reuters Satellite Dish on the MT roof (c) The Datafeed will service, in addition, the Annex's Disaster Recovery/Backup site and will need to provide: server redundancy (if the MT servers both fail, the Annex server will automatically pick up the load with transparency to all users); tie-in with the Reuters Satellite Dish on the MT roof as possible (d) Should all servers on the network fail, the proposal should include include a backup mechanism for laptop access to the same information provided through the workstation -- i.e. with the same real-time continuous updating. Other Requirements: Real-Time Datafeed, Historical Feed, System Infrastructure, Desktop Data Software, Data Access Control, WAN Capability, and Developers Kit. 2.3 CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL-SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS: (a) Local Washington DC Technical Support, including at least two engineers with subject matter expertise in the system infrastructure discussed above and possessing several years and experience in installation, maintenance and support of such a system environment (b) Local Washington DC Technical Support, including at least one additional engineer availabel to assist in supporting the current Treasury Reuters systems (c) Support Staff (Consultant) available to provide solutions specifically designed to enable improvements in on-time delivery of Treasury strategic projects, productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. This support staff should be able to assist the engineers in the field in working on specific issues where the engineers need a development interface or liaison to assist the customer when issues are required to be escalated (d) ability to source additional resources on a best-effort basis shold additional support be required. 2.4 AFTER HOURS SUPPORT: Overtime may be required on weeknights, weekends and holidays. 3.0 DATA/REPORTS AND OTHER DELIVERABLES: The contractor shall deliver a status report by the 10th working day of each month and a Task Summary Report at the conclusion of the performance period. 4.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: From Date of Contract through 30 September 2000. 5.0 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: U.S. Treasury Department, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20220 6.0 TRAVEL: The contractor shall conduct travel, as necessary to perform the tasking. These costs shall be reimbursable up to a specified ceiling. 7.0 EVALUATION CRITERIA: Award will be made on a "best value" basis. Factors for Consideration -- Past Performance (75%), Price (25%). Posted 04/11/00 (D-SN443492). (0102)

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