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[State Entity Name] MN State Retirement System (MSRS) [Description of Work] COBOL Programmer - Maintenance Support The Minnesota State Retirement System (MSRS) is a medium-sized agency that administers six defined benefit retirement plans and four defined contribution plans. Public employees contribute to these plans during their working years and obtain benefits upon retirement, disability or termination of employment. Approximately 258,000 active and inactive employees and their beneficiaries participate in these plans. COBOL has been the primary language used for annuitant payments and other critical business since the early 1980s. With time, our COBOL applications have become inefficient to change and maintain and are poorly documented, or not documented at all. In the last few years, we have lost the equivalent of 100 years of COBOL and business knowledge due to staff retirement. MSRS is in the process of preparing for a Batch System Renovation project targeted to start in the fall of 2012. Prior to the start of that project, and through the duration of the project, MSRS requires two highly qualified and experienced COBOL application developers for a 2 ½ year commitment, to design, develop, enhance, maintain, test and document COBOL applications as necessary until such applications have been converted to JAVA. This position will also meet with business users to identify requirements and testing criteria when necessary and assist in researching existing program requirements as necessary for the conversion project. Skill set required is: Mainframe/Mid-Range  Application (Design & Development). Individuals selected from this SOW process must provide services on site at MSRS central office, located at 60 Empire Drive, St. Paul Minnesota. MSRS reserves the right to award contracts to multiple vendors if needed. The services are anticipated to be needed from approximately March 12, 2012 through June 30, 2014. [Deadline for Vendor Response] 2/9/2012 [Publication Date] 1/11/2012 [Document links] 
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