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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 25, 2004 FBO #1125
SOLICITATION NOTICE

U -- Information Techology On-Site Training

Notice Date

12/23/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Procurement and Property Management, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 1830, Washington, DC, 20212
 

ZIP Code

20212
 

Solicitation Number

BLS-05-05
 

Response Due

1/10/2005
 

Archive Date

1/25/2005
 

Description

Description The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) intends to issue a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) not to exceed $75,000 for Information Technology (IT) on site training as described below. Proposals are being requested by January 10. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation and a written solicitation will not be issued. Orders will be placed against this BPA via the U.S. Department of Labor Training Authorization and Evaluation Form DL 1-101. The vendor will provide the BLS with the following training as required: Introduction to Programming Concepts Using SAS Software: This two-day beginner?s course teaches you how to plan and write simple SAS programs to solve common data analysis problems. Workshops are included to provide practice in running and debugging those programs in an interactive SAS session. The course highlights reading input data, creating simple list reports, creating simple summary reports, defining new data columns, and executing code conditionally. SAS Programming I: Essentials: This is a three-day foundation course that teaches you how to write SAS programs to accomplish typical data-processing tasks. It focuses on the following key areas: reading raw data files and SAS data sets and writing the results to SAS data sets; subsetting data; combining multiple SAS files; creating SAS variables and recoding data values; and creating listing, HTML, and summary reports. This course builds on the concepts and skills presented in the Introduction to Programming Concepts Using SAS Software course. However, students who have some programming experience may choose this course as a starting point. SAS Programming II: Manipulating Data With the Data Step: This three-day course focuses on how to manage SAS data set input and output, work with different data types, and manipulate data. This course builds on the concepts presented in the SAS Programming I: Essentials course and is not recommended for beginning SAS software users. This course focuses on using the DATA step to control SAS data set input and output, combine SAS data sets, summarize data, process data iteratively with DO loops and arrays, and perform data manipulations and transformations. SQL Processing with the SAS System: This two-day course focuses on using SQL as a data query and manipulation tool. You learn to use the SQL procedure as a data retrieval tool within SAS programs. Specifically, you learn how to perform queries on data; retrieve data from multiple tables; create views, indexes, and tables; and update or delete values in existing tables and views. Using features of the SQL procedure to debug, test, and optimize the performance of SQL queries is also discussed. SAS MACRO Language: This two-day course focuses on the components of the SAS macro facility and how to design, write, and debug macro systems. Emphasis is placed on understanding how programs with and without macro code are processed. Processing Database and Spreadsheet Data with SAS/ACCESS Software: This one-day course teaches you how to read and update data in databases and spreadsheets using Version 8 SAS/ACCESS software and how to create new database tables and spreadsheets. You also learn efficiency techniques for optimizing data access performance. SAS Report Writing: A Programming Approach: This two-day course concentrates on the REPORT procedure and also provides information on producing reports using the FORMAT, TABULATE, and MEANS procedures. Information on producing reports with the macro facility and the DATA step is also included in this course. You learn to create detail and summary reports, tabular reports, and use the Output Delivery System (ODS) to create HTML output. The BLS has three training rooms in the Postal Square Building (PSB), each of which is equipped with Dell Pentium desktop computers for up to eighteen students. Classes will have a minimum of 8 students and the training will be conducted on-site in the PSB. The vendor will provide all services associated with delivering quality training for system developers, analysts, computer specialists, end-users, managers, and project leaders who require a comprehensive understanding of the subject material. The training is to provide participants with new capabilities to significantly improve the way complex systems are analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented. Offerors must be able to document instructor qualifications and experience in presenting the training described in this announcement. Any questions concerning the training in this announcement must be received by 3:00 p.m. on January 4. Proposals complete with pricing must be received by 3:00 p.m. on January 10. U.S. Postal Service deliveries to the PSB may be delayed due to special processing requirements. To ensure on-time arrival, all submissions should be transmitted by fax or by e mail to the contacts listed below. Offerors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database to be considered for award. All correspondence must reference this FedBizOpps solicitation number.
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2 Mass Avenue N.E, Washington, DC

Zip Code: 20212

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00725805-W 20041225/041223211845 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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