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R -- INTERAGENCY METRIC CONVERSION SUPPORT SOL 52SBNB5C8763 DUE 080195 POC Sandra Febach (301) 975-6326/C.O. Ruth Maris The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a requirement to provide support for implementation of the Department of Commerce's plan for metric conversion. In March, 1995 a Metric Town Meeting was held at NIST; speakers from businesses, trade and professional groups, educators, and state governments explained their concerns and ideas for accelerating national metrication to a panel of government executives representing most of the major Federal agencies. NIST requires contractor support to continue the efforts begun at the Metric Town Meeting. Working with the Metric Program at NIST, the contractor will be responsible for developing agendas and time schedules for up to six town meetings/workshops. Each town meeting/workshop will be goal oriented and will include panel presentations from 1 to 3 panels (each consisting of 3 to 5 speakers). The development and planning stage of this project requires expert knowledge of national metrication issues (including industrial metrication, state metrication, and proactive metric system use in education and in trade and commerce). Contractor shall provide all necessary services to accomplish these town meetings/workshops, including: site selection, speaker recommendations, attendee promotion/invitations, attendee registration, and pre-meeting information and data collection. The town meetings/workshops may be held throughout the nation, with participants from extremely varied backgrounds and interests. The period of performance is expected to be approximately 16 months. It is anticipated that the type of contract will be firm-fixed-price. The applicable SIC code is 8748. All responsible sources may submit an offer, which will be considered by the agency. See numbered Note 1. All requests for the solicitation must be in writing. Requests may be submitted by FAX to (301) 963-7732. (0164)

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