Sources Sought Notice - 19AQMM22N0063-0001.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

FOR

MULTI-BANK ACCOUNT REPORTING PLATFORM

19AQMM22N0063-0001

Department of State, Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services (CGFS)

PURPOSE

This is a Sources Sought as outlined in FAR Part 10. The purpose of this Sources Sought is to accomplish market research pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10, and to identify sources capable of providing the items described herein. This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Quote (RFQ) or a commitment on the part of the Government to conduct a solicitation for the requirement described in this notice in the future. Respondents are advised that the Government will not pay for information submitted in response to this Sources Sought, nor will it compensate interested parties for any costs incurred in the development/furnishing of a response. Please note that a decision not to submit a response to this Sources Sought will not preclude a vendor from participating in any future solicitation.

The anticipated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code assigned to this procurement is 511210 (PSC code 7A21)

BACKGROUND

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services (CGFS), Office of Global Disbursing (CGFS/DO), is researching potential sources for platform in order to access various bank accounts where the U.S. Embassies and Consulates handle their finances.

DESCRIPTION OF NEED

At a minimum, any platform being considered:

• Must be capable of receiving transaction data input from any bank worldwide. Data may be via MT940 and/or camt.053.

• Must be able to consolidate this data into a comprehensive reporting platform accessible by Department of State staff worldwide, with access administration by USDO staff.

• Platform must be able to display transaction amounts in foreign currency and US Dollar equivalent per the choice of the user.

• Platform should list transactions and balances by account to include drill down capabilities for access transaction details.

• Should allow time for tasks outside the platform to complete before timeout log out.

Referencing and working with the transaction data can take considerable time. Access sessions should be sufficient to complete task without being logged off prematurely.

• Must be able to create and export ad hoc reports to include bank account statements.

Reports and statements should be available in CSV, Excel & PDF formats for choice by the user.

• Platform must have comprehensive reporting and search functions to allow for data research necessary to resolve reconciliation issues and currency deposit confirmations.

Response Instructions:

Sources who are able to satisfy the requirement as described above are invited to submit information describing their technical approach. Responses must be submitted electronically, limited to 10 pages or less, in Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document format (PDF), using

Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1 inch margins on all sides, on 8.5 in x 11 in paper. The

Government will not entertain telephone calls for this Sources Sought. The responses should include the following information:

1. Company name, physical or mailing address, and telephone number

2. GSA FSS or NASA SEWP contract number, if applicable

3. Company point of contact name, title, email address, and telephone number

4. DUNS Number

5. Small business and socio-economic size-status.

6. All interested companies must have an active registration in the System for Award

Management (SAM) and not be on the Excluded Party List.

7. Define capabilities and resources available and provide one or more examples of successful testing of this type that your company has done in the past.

To aid the Government, please segregate proprietary information. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

The deadline for submitting responses to the Sources Sought Notice is September 20, 2022 at

03:00 PM Eastern Time, and shall be submitted to Michael Henderson, Contracting Officer, and Kellie Herschler, Contracting Officer via email at HendersonMP@state.gov and

HerschlerKR@state.gov. Please include “19AQMM22N0063 – Multi-Bank Reporting

Platform” in the “subject” line. Sales brochures, videos and other marketing information materials shall not be accepted. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged.

QUESTIONS

Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to Michael

Henderson and Kellie Herschler at HendersonMP@state.gov and HerschlerKR@state.gov no later than September 15, 2022 at 01:00 PM Eastern Time.

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