T-FCEN-RFI-11-0002 Agent Registration RFI.pdf

Agent Registration List – Data Entry and Analysis

Solicitation Number: T-FCEN-RFI-11-0002

Bureau: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Notice Type: RFI

Response Date: April 26, Posted Date: April 19, 2011

Set Aside: Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) or HUBzone

Classification Code:

R - Professional, Administrative, and Management Support

NAICS Code:

518210 – Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; 541910 – Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is seeking industry feedback from open market sources for data entry and preparation of figures and tables as outlined within this Request for Information (RFI) and draft performance work statement (PWS).

This announcement constitutes both an RFI as well as a Sources Sought Request (SSR). It is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation in any forum nor the promise of a future one. In accordance with FAR 15.202(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government for form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this request. Further, FINCEN offers no assurance that any solicitation will result from the information provided in response to this RFI.

RESPONDING TO THIS RFI

Information provided in response to this RFI must be submitted no later than 7 calendar days from the date of posting via email to FinCEN’s Acquisition Management Office. The primary point-of-contact and email address is:

Jayne Horvath Contracting Officer Email: jayne.horvath@fincen.gov

Interested parties should comment on the draft PWS and address the points of interest below. Written responses of less than 10 pages are desired.

1. Provide a brief (1 page) capabilities statement, business size classification, and company point of contact

(telephone number, email).

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2. What are some suggested evaluation criteria that the Government should consider in the development of a Request for Proposal for data entry and analysis?

3. What level of resource commitment or Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) would satisfy the desired outcome?

4. The government would issue any resultant contract on a firm fixed price basis. Identify potential issues and discuss possible solutions or mitigation strategies.

DRAFT PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

AGENT REGISTRATION LIST DATA ENTRY AND ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION

The Department of the Treasury designated the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as the agency to establish, oversee, and implement policies to prevent and detect money laundering. FinCEN’s mission is to safeguard the financial system from the abuse of financial crime, including terrorist financing, money laundering, and other illicit activity by serving the interests of financial, law enforcement, and regulatory communities.

FinCEN is responsible for developing and managing systems that support the identification, tracking, and investigation of financial crimes and money laundering activities. FinCEN collects Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data from various sources, including Money Services Businesses (MSB). Upon request, MSBs are required to furnish FinCEN with a list of their agents. An “agent” is a separate business entity from the issuer that is authorized through a written agreement or otherwise, to sell its instruments or, in the case of funds transmission, to sell its send and receive transfer services. A person who is solely an employee of the MSB is not an agent of that MSB.

In order to compile a current listing of all MSB agents, FinCEN is gathering data from the MSB community. Once complete, the database will be used to further FinCEN’s mission needs, in aiding individual law enforcement case investigations, and in conducting strategic analysis of financial transactions and service providers. Further, the data will help inform decisions to be made in the future about the feasibility and desirability of a regulatory change to turn the agent list recordkeeping obligation into a reporting obligation.

STATEMENT OF NEED

FinCEN is soliciting 25,000 MSBs for identifying information on their agent population. Contractor support is required to enter MSB responses into a database, tabulate the data, and generate graphical presentations of the data for inclusion in FinCEN reports. Data and contents of the database are Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) and all work efforts will be conducted at FinCEN utilizing government provided data, databases, and SAS® software tools. Specific task details follow:

Data Entry Task

MSB responses are due to FinCEN on or about June 15, 2011. Of the 25,000 requests, FinCEN anticipates a response rate of one‐half or approximately 12,500. Format of the responses is expected to be comprised of 70% electronic‐based (Excel compatible) or paper‐based (non‐Excel compatible) to be downloaded or physically keyed into the database as appropriate.

The responses are expected to contain identifying information including the following data fields:

of the principal MSB (names, addresses, reference number)

T-FCEN-RFI-11-0002 Page 3 name of the agent, including any trade names or doing‐business‐as names address of the agent, including street address, city, state, and ZIP code telephone number of the agent year in which the agent first became an agent of the money services business number of branches or subagents the agent has the type of service or services (money orders, traveler's checks, check sales, check cashing, currency exchange, and money transmitting) the agent provides a listing of the months in the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the most recent agent list in which the gross transaction amount of the agent with respect to financial products or services issued by the money services business maintaining the agent list exceeded $100,000 the name and address of any depository institution at which the agent maintains a transaction account for all or part of the funds received in or for the financial products or services issued by the money services business maintaining the list, whether in the agent's or the business principal's name.

Data Analysis Task

Contractor support will also be required to tabulate data and provide limited analysis and/or graphic presentation (e.g., figures, tables, exhibits) of the completed database utilizing in‐house SAS® software tools.

Examples of analysis or report figures include: size of the agent population, geographical disbursement of the agents, links between agents and principals, and types of transactions.

CONTRACT DELIVERABLE SCHEDULE

Deliverables shall be created in a defined electronic format compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Suite products and delivered in electronic versions. One electronic copy of each deliverable shall be delivered to the COTR, Contracting Officer and other points of contact as required. The Government will provide comments in electronic form, via electronic mail to the Contractor on all draft versions of deliverables within five (5) working days of the receipt of the draft.

The Contractor shall submit the deliverables listed in the following table:

DELIVERABLE MAXIMUM DUE DATE

Kickoff Meeting Agenda Within five days of award

Project Status Report Weekly

Data Entry Completion No later than July 15, 2011

Exhibits/Graphs/Tables Up to 25 No later than September 30, 2011

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The estimated period of performance is 4 months.

SECURITY

The contractor personnel performing this effort shall be required to obtain/possess a minimum of a secret level security clearance.

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OTHER REQUIREMENTS

The contractor will use a government provided database and SAS® tools to perform the work. The contractor shall have a minimum of 3 years of professional level experience with SAS® tools and be competent in the execution of SAS® Web Report Studio, SAS® Information map Studio, SAS® Enterprise Guide, SAS® Text Miner, SAS® Social Network Analysis, SAS® Enterprise Miner, and SAS® Fraud Framework.

Any resultant contract will be conducted under a firm fixed price contract type.