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U -- IASA TITLE I BYPASS-MISSOURI SOL RFP-96- POC Linda Fenney, Contract Specialist 202-708-8282, Helen M Chang, Contracting Officer 202-708-9740. Notice of Availability of Draft Statement of Work and allied documents. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (the Act), as amended by the Improving America's Schools Act (P.L. 103-382) requires each participating local educational agency (LEA) to provide Title I services to eligible private school children. These services must be equitable to those provided public school children in each LEA. If an LEA is prohibited by law from providing equitable services in accordance with &200.11 of the determines that an LEA has substantially fialed or is unwilling to provide such services to private school children, that LEA is ''bypassed.'' In this case, the U.S. Secretary of Education (Secretary) makes arrangements to provide services to eligible private school children through a special contract. The Department seeks to award a contract to provide opportunities for children served to acquire the knowledge and skills contained in the challenging State content standards and to meet the challenging State performance standards developed for all children. This purpose shall be accomplished through the provision of special educational services such as reading, math, and language arts and other benefits on an equitable basis to those provided to public school students in each bypassed LEA. This procurement is made pursusant to Section 1120 of the Act. A portion of the Title I grant to each LEA wil be witheld from the State and will be used in this procurement to provide Title I services to private school children. The Department anticipates awarding one contract for this purpose in the State of Missouri. Potential offerors are invited to review the Draft Work Statement in order to have a more complete understanding of the requirements of the procurement. The Draft Work Statement and selected Draft RFP sections will be available through the ED Bulletin Board on or about March 7, 1996. Printed copies are not available. The ED Bulletin Board number is 202-260-9950. There are no pre-registration requirements or user charges (except for long distance telephone costs) t use the BBS. The BBS has four 14,400 bps modems (setting: 8-n-1). to log on the BBs, enter your First Name, last Name, Location, and Password (New users will create a password when logging on for the first time). After logging on: (1) proceed to th Main Menu; (2) on the BBS Main Menu press the letter corresponding to Loan Servicing Subsystem; (3) type D and the file names to download (D (filename)) and press Return; (4) select a download protocol (Xmodem, Zmodem, etc.) for the BBS, then select the same on your PC. The Draft Statement of Work is in WordPerfect 5.1 format and is a compressed file (PKZip). After downloading, uncompress with pkunzip which is available on BBS. Type ''pkunzip (filename). zip'' to uncompress the file. Questions concerning how to use the BBS may directed to Audrey Hawkins or George Wagner, System Operators, at (202) 708-6775. ED Board is also now listed on the FedWorld Gateway to Federal BBS. Users can connect to FedWorld by phone (703) 321-8020 or by Internet (See below). On FedWorld, ED Board is BBS number 110. Users can access it from the Top-level FedWorld Munu by entering UDD110 (enter). Internet: Users can connect to ED Board at FedWorld via Internet to Telnet at fedworld.gov. Written comments concerning this procurement should be submitted to the above address no later than March 21, 1996. Written comments/questions concerning this procurement may also be sent via facsimile to the attention of Linda Fenney and Helen Chang at 202-708-8376. THIS IS NOT A SYNOPSIS OF A SOLICITATION. A solicitation synopsis will be published at a later date at which time potential offerors may request a copy of the actual solicitation. Requests to be placed on the mailing list for the solicitation, RFP 96-016, may be directed to the Attention of Yolanda Abney by telephone 202-708-6498 (0059)

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