Inside track: In brief

The General Accountability Office wants information about off-the-shelf budget formulation software to help legislative branch agencies develop and present their yearly budget requests to Congress with consistent methodologies and formats.GAO is looking for capabilities that can develop and display base-level program estimates for employment compensation, benefits and personnel-related costs, and receive data from other systems and applications that support human capital management, financial management, budget formulation, workforce planning and payroll processing systems.Responses are due by May 8. Contact LaVonne Hill at hilll@gao.gov.The Senate's Sergeant at Arms office needs a vendor to provide hardware, software and IT services.Under the IT Services Contract II, the vendor must acquire, deliver, install, integrate and update workstation and server hardware, and operating system and application software. It also must provide help-desk services and onsite maintenance and support in Washington and all 50 states for Senate members and related offices.The vendor also must perform system administration consulting services, develop and implement Web-based systems to meet business requirements, and support IP telephony applications.Responses are due by May 8. Contact Jill Johnson at jill_johnson@saa.senate.gov.The Navy needs a vendor to support its Law Enforcement Exchange System (LInX) for the Naval Criminal Investigative Services.The services shares criminal records management and investigative information with state and local law enforcement agencies, homeland defense and the Defense and Justice departments. It ensures access to information to deter criminal and terrorist activity in areas that have significant Navy assets in the United States. It integrates law enforcement data from participating agencies into a single database.The contract will be for one base year and four option years. Responses are due by June 1. Contact Kevin Sweetra at kevin.sweetra@navy.mil.