The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) located in Washington, DC and Fort Worth, Texas manufactures US currency notes. The facility in Washington DC is referred to as the Eastern Currency Facility (ECF). The facility in Fort Worth, Texas is referred to as the Western Currency Facility (WCF). The BEP's Chief Information Officer (CIO) currently has a requirement for consulting and programming support services. These services are for technical information and upgrade infrastructure changes on any or all KBA manufactured or supported equipment at both manufacturing facilities. The vendor shall be responsible for providing the following services at the ECF and WCF: support the design, analysis, documentation, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation and support to existing KBA equipment, IT systems and IT application software. The BEP anticipates a awarding a fixed price type contract. The BEP anticipates utilizing FAR part 15 to make this award. The Bureau intends to award a sole source contract to KBA-NotaSys. KBA-NotaSys is the only vendor able to provide these services as the equipment and software are proprietary to KBA-NotaSys. If your company is able to provide these proprietary services, please contact Kathleen Reidy, Contract Specialist at
[email protected] on or before June 15, 2011 at 2 PM EST. If there are no responses to this posting, the BEP will move towards a sole source award to KBA-NotaSys.