This is a Request for Information (RFI) for Planning Purposes Only. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise pay for the pricing, technical, or other information requested. Responses will be treated as information only and shall not be used as a proposal. The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is a government agency that operates a worldwide commissary system that provides quality grocery products at cost to active duty military personnel and retirees, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and their families. DeCA employs approximately 18,000 people in 268 locations throughout the world.DeCA is conducting preliminary market research related to implementation of an automated workforce management COTS software package that will interface with the unique Government business systems mentioned below. DeCA is interested in a time clock based package to be used at store level (i.e. retail/grocery store environment), as well as an integrated exception-based timekeeping package for above-store employees (i.e. headquarters office environment) The software should include integrated labor scheduling functionality. At a high-level, the software should support the following: 1. Timekeeping for a multi-department, bi-weekly payroll. 2. Capture of timekeeping and labor scheduling parameters that support government regulations. 3. Scanning employee identification cards to capture sign-in/out times via time clock readers. 4. An automated interface between a timekeeping module and the federal payroll system. 5. An automated interface between Point of Sale (POS) and the labor scheduling module. Along with your software description, please submit high-level cost estimates broken down into the following components: 1. Software (by major type - e.g., core timekeeping,labor scheduler, interfaces - cost per employee) 2. Hardware (e.g., time clock/reader - unit cost) 3. Professional Services (by type - e.g., project manager, technology consultant - cost and total number of hours by type consultant) 4. Education Services (train-the-trainer approach vs. complete training delivery) 5. Labor Standards Development (cost and total number of hours by labor standards consultant) If there are qualifications to the estimates (e.g., hardware costs do not include cabling or addition of wireless components to readers or startup costs not incurred past a specific number of employees), please provide those in your response. Additionally, please provide contact information for one or two retail/grocery businesses that currently have your software deployed. Responses should include a description of the software, high-level cost estimates, additional qualifications to the estimates, and contacts that have the software deployed. Please provide responses by December 16, 2005, to the Defense Commissary Agency, Contracting Business Unit/CICDS, ATTN Will Madera, 1300 E Avenue, Fort Lee, Virginia 23801-1800 or via e-mail to
[email protected]. For questions, please call Will Madera at (804) 734-8024. This RFI does not guarantee that DeCA will issue a formal solicitation for this software.