Immigration & Naturalization Service, Procurement Division, 425 I Street, N.W., Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536

70 -- VERIFICATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (VIS) ACQUISITION REQUEST FOR COMMENTS POC R N BEATY, CONTRACT SPECIALIST, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 425 I St, NW, Room 2208, Washington DC 20536. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) invites industry comments on the proposed approach for the acquisition of support services for the management support and technical system administration of the Verification Information System (VIS) on behalf of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program. A draft RFP of this proposed requirement will be issued on or about the middle of June 1996. The services that will be procured under the resulting contract include: access to the VIS Database; support of pilot efforts to expand and enhance user access to the database; and, management and administration of the VIS, its databases and subsystems. The SAVE Program is responsible for providing an information-sharing capability that assists federal, state, and local governments, and private sector organizations in determining the immigration status of non-citizens. The VIS Database, formerly known as the Alien Status Verification Index (ASVI), includes primary, secondary, and tertiary verification data, as well as management reporting data. As envisioned, INS will provide daily and quarterly data updates from the feeder INS systems. The contractor will host the data and provide access to INS-approved users. Existing end user applications will be provided to the contractor, who will integrate these applications to access the database or develop functional equivalent access screens and capabilities. The INS envisions that all access costs and database maintenance costs will be recovered by the contractor through per-query access charges levied on the users. The INS would expect quantity discounts as the total number of transactions increases. We invite comments on the proposed acquisition strategy and overall approach to this requirement, as outlined in the draft RFP. All comments or questions concerning the proposed acquisition must be received by the INS no later than 15 calendar after the release of the draft RFP. The INS will not respond in writing to comments received nor will it release any comments to industry. The INS will incur no liability for nor will it pay any costs incurred in responding to this request for comments. All written comments should be directed to: Robert N. Beaty, Contract Specialist, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 425 I Street, NW, Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536. Comments may also be faxed to Mr. Beaty at (202)514-0022. Only written or faxed comments will be accepted, no telphone inquiries will be accepted. (0155)

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