Specifications include, but are not limited to: The State Procurement Bureau, on behalf of the Department of Administration State Human Resources, is seeking a solution with no cost to the State for employment and income verification services for former and current employees. The goal of the proposed system is to improve turnaround time, provide efficiency of responses and remove paper processing within the State Agencies. Verification services required will include employment and salary information for mortgage loans, credit applications, apartment lease applications, public assistance applications, public housing, financial aid, support enforcement, etc. The offeror shall communicate the capability to ensure all personnel data shall be maintained and processed with the highest degree of confidentiality, utilizing encryption, password protection, employee PIN numbers, separation of data within the computer, physical separation of tapes and master files, and restricted access to files and the physical site. The offeror shall have the ability to pull down a payroll data file the State will place on an FTPS server for the offeror to retrieve on a prescribed schedule that will be provided by the State of Montana. The file the State of Montana will provide will be pipe-delimited, *.csv file. The offeror shall affirm the established capability to work from a pipe-delimited, *.csv file modification to an FTPS server. The offeror shall respond to online inquiries within 24 hours The offeror shall provide secure, high-speed internet access to online employment and wage data seven days per week, 24 hours per day. The offeror shall certify that there shall be no transaction fee for searches that result in no match. The offeror must acknowledge that the State retains all data property rights and that the information transferred will only be used for the expressed purpose as originally intended.
