U.S. Government Printing Office, Materials Management Service, N. Capitol & H Sts., NW., Room A340, Washington, DC 20401

70 -- SOFTWARE FOR TIME AND ATTENDANCE, LABOR REPORTING AND PRODUCTIVITY ACCOUNTING POC Joel Hettger, Contract Specialist, Fax (202) 512-1354. This is not a notice for solicitation. This is a request for information (RFI); neither a draft statement of work nor specifications are available. The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) is seeking information on a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Windows NT based time and attendance, labor reporting, and productivity accounting management software system to replace an existing Production Reporting for Operations, Budgeting, and Expenditures (PROBE) system installed at the GPO central facility. The GPO is a Legislative Branch Agency overseen by the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) and managed by the Public Printer of the United States. GPO executes orders for printing and binding placed by Congress and Executive Departments in accordance with 44 U.S.C. It is tasked with furnishing printing supplies to Federal Agencies, and sells Government publications to the public and customers throughout the world. It also supplies selected Government publications to depository libraries located throughout the United States. Not all work is performed in-house at GPO; consequently, GPO awards and administers commercial contracts for a wide variety of printing and binding services, and acts as liaison between ordering agencies and contractors. Most of GPO's work is performed on a cost reimbursable basis through its printing and binding revolving fund. The current PROBE system software is AIDE code, operating on two Data Pathing Processors, each with 64K of main memory and 384K of auxiliary memory, one 30 megabyte data disk, one hundred and forty six terminals (141 SDT 103 terminals and 5 CRT terminals), three 800 BPI tape drives, and one disk processor with 64K memory. The system operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and interfaces with the mainframe to view and store all transactions online. The current system captures time and attendance data for approximately 3800 employees located at the Central facility, working modified or alternative shifts, and at various remote sites located around the country. In addition, the current system provides the capability for employees to charge their labor to approximately 3200 different operations and classes, and for those employees required to charge labor, they must also report productivity (units of production) through the current system with their time being charged to either a Jacket number or Program number, i.e., a multi-functional capability to report and capture various forms of data. The current system provides error detection and correction routines, either at the time they are encountered or through the use of an exception labor transaction. Time and attendance, labor, and productivity information captured via the PROBE system is passed to and utilized in other Financial Management mainframe applications in support of the financial operations of the Agency, including; recovery of costs. GPO requests interested parties to submit information describing product offerings which will perform these functions or provide your URL website address. Interested partiesshould submit product brochures, capabilities statements or other descriptive literature which provides sufficient detail to enable preliminary functional evaluation of the COTS product. Information should be mailed to U.S. Government Printing Office, Rm. A340, North Capitol & H Sts., NW., Washington DC 20401, Mail Stop: MMPS, Attn: Joel Hettger. Telephone calls in response to this RFI will not be accepted. Fax (202) 512-1354, e-mail jhettger@gpo.gov. (0189)

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