BACKGROUND: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent agency of the federal government. The CFTC headquarters is located at 1155 21st Street, NW in Washington, DC. The CFTC also maintains regional offices in New York, NY; Chicago, IL; and Kansas City, MO and employs approximately 680 people throughout all of its locations. CFTC participates in the federal transit subsidy program and provides transit subsidy benefits to its employees in Washington, DC, Chicago and New York. At present, employees are required to complete a written hardcopy application for transit benefits which is verified and processed manually by administrative personnel at headquarters. A copy of the current form is included as Attachment A to this notice.

REQUIREMENT: CFTC would like information on COTS products that will automate the transit subsidy benefit application process to save time and reduce errors. In particular, we are interested in any applications that have been specifically designed for this purpose including hosted and in-house solutions. The following features are desired:

Electronic Forms - Transit Subsidy Application and Departure Form

1. The user can fill out the form online and access the form from the CFTC intranet site.
2. The web-based form can be modified (i.e., the system owner can modify field labels, remove fields, and add fields without having to seek technical assistance).
3. The user can retrieve the previous years' application, modify it, and resubmit it during the recertification period.
4. The form permits electronic signature and our preference is that the form be easily integrated with the Commission's electronic signature product - CoSign.
5. The product should be able to integrate multiple data sources (e.g., time and attendance systems, active directory, etc.) to prevent users from having to key in information that is in another database.
6. The form will allow a user to attach multiple documents.
7. The user can print a copy of the form before and after it has been digitally signed.
8. The product is compatible with Internet Explorer 7 or higher.

Workflow:

1. The workflow allows the form to be submitted, reviewed and approved electronically.
2. The workflow determines the role and task to be performed based on groups in active directory.

Auditing:
1. All transactions can be logged and the information can be retrieved by the applicant, program manager, and the reviewer/approver of the forms. Transactions include submission of a form, rejection of a form, editing of a form after it has been submitted for review/approval, approval of a form, etc.
2. The user who performed the action and the date and time the action took place can be logged.
3. The audit data can be stored in the database with the ability to display or generate reports based on this data.

Reports:
1. Users can generate both parameterized and canned reports for the program as a whole.

Technical requirements:

1. The forms are compatible with Internet Explorer 7.x or higher
2. Database must be compatible with SQL Server 2008 R2
3. Any server side components must be compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2

Requested Information: Responses to this notice should include: (1) company name, address and point of contact, (2) a description of the relevant product you offer and a description of how it meets the specific capabilities listed above; and (3) client references to whom you provided these products within the past two years with points of contact.

Responses to this notice must be submitted by email and received not later than August 19, 2011.

 

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