NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 211, Greenbelt, MD 20771

70 -- INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT SOL RFP5-50966\023 DUE 112995 POC Cindy Stoltz, Contracting Officer Marcia Pappagallo, Contract Specialist. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking to procure a new core financial management capability and related administrative functions using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software packages. By this Request For Comment (RFC), NASA is providing the opportunity for sources of financial management off-the-shelf software to submit any comments regarding the subject procurement requirements and strategy. The comments will be used exclusively by NASA personnel to assist in planning for the acquisition of software in the following seven (7) areas: (1) Core Financial (includes Budget Execution and Labor Distribution), (2) Travel, (3) Employee Time and Attendance, (4) Procurement, (5) Budget Formulation, (6) Executive Information System (EIS) and (7) Asset Management. GOALS - NASA's goals in implementing these systems include: Integration and standardization of data and systems across all NASA Centers; compliance with Federal JFMIP requirements, providing management with access to timely and accurate financial, budget, asset and related information on programs and projects; implementation of advanced technology to provide the greatest capability and an extended life cycle. SCOPE - These systems will be used to support NASA's entire civil service population (approximately 20,000) at all NASA field installations and headquarters (10 sites) and for the management of NASA's budgetary appropriation of approximately $14 billion per year. PROCUREMENT STRATEGY - This procurement will consist of two phases. PHASE I will include the following: The Request For Proposal (RFP) will request a technical proposal (Mission Suitability) and Relevant Experience and Past Performance information only. In this proposal, the offerors will be required to demonstrate (in writing) their software products and services they have and how they comply with NASA's functional and technical requirements. Based on this initial evaluation of Mission Suitability and Relevant Experience and Past Performance, NASA will down-select to at least two vendors. PHASE II: the selected vendors will be awarded firm fixed price study contracts to assess and determine how they wil implement and integrate their software within each NASA Center. We will be providing data to the vendors at this time to accomplish their duties. The period of performance for the study is 5 weeks. Phase II will include the study as well as hands on Useability Testing and an Operational Capability Demonstration (OCD). Based on PHASE II evaluations (which will include a Cost Proposal Evaluation), a final selection will be made and a contract awarded. Fourteen (14) months after contract award (October 1, 1997), Core Financial (including Labor Distribution and Budget Execution) will be fully operational and two years of sustaining engineering will begin. Delivery schedules for the remaining functions are to be proposed. NASA reserves the right to change the subject procurement strategies. Only comments are being accepted. It is requested that comments be submitted no later than NOVEMBER 29, 1995. Comments should be submitted by email to: Cindy.Stoltz@gsfc.nasa.gov, or in the form of a ''white paper.'' to: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Attention: Cindy Stoltz, Code 211, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771. No telephone comments will be accepted. In addition, no formal response to comments will be provided as such, however, all comments will be reviewed and taken into consideration for possible revision or incorporation into the RFP and discussed at a Vendor Conference currently planned for mid December, 1995. This is not a Request For Proposals. This RFC will be released electronically via the World Wide Web (WWW), on November 9, 1995. Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm, and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/solicita. (0306)

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