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Release Date: September 5, 2006
Release Number: 06-1553-NAT
Contact Name: Peter Hong/Gloria Della
Phone Number: 202.693.4676/202.693.8664

Labor Department Requests Proposals for EFAST2 Project

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced the release of a request-for-proposal (RFP) to support a new mandate on electronic filing of the Form 5500 Series reports required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The RFP was published online by Federal Business Opportunities on September 1, 2006.

The RFP solicits proposals from the information technology (IT) community for a wholly outsourced IT system to be designed, developed and operated by a private-sector vendor under contract to the Department of Labor. The IT system, known as EFAST2, is intended to receive, process, store, publicly disclose, distribute and archive an estimated 1.1 million electronically filed Form 5500 reports annually submitted by the public via the Internet.

A copy of the EFAST2 Request for Proposal (Solicitation DOL069RP20266) is available online at http://www.fedbizopps.gov or through the Department of Labor’s Procurement Office at 202.693.4585.

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