The Prime Contractor will be required to submit plans that enable performance to be measured for individual tasks under the contract. Customs will encourage potential offerors to suggest innovative terms and conditions to assist in achieving this goal. The Customs Prime Contractor will be a Total Systems Business Partner instead of a traditional systems integrator. The Prime partnership will center on innovation and creativity to improve Customs and its systems across the various roles involved, including that of Program Manager, Systems Engineer, Managed Service Provided, Enterprise Architect, Trainer, Technologist, Transition Manager, and Software Designer. Customs envisions the Prime Contractor serving as a Total Systems Business Partner in support of the Customs mission as defined in A.5 above.
Customs welcomes input from potential offerors.
Customs is engaged and will continue to pursue funding from all sources for Fiscal Year 2000 through the Treasury Department. As stated above in A.1, Customs envisions awarding a single contract for the Modernization requirement. Additionally, there will not be any provision precluding the Prime from performing tasks itself. The scope of the Customs Modernization requirement is overall Customs modernization, including end to end support. The replacement of ACS is envisioned as only the first individual requirement under this contract.