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R -- DATA PROCESSING AND TECHNICAL ANALYSES FOR THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT (OERI) SOL RFP-N/A POC Contract Specialist: Michelle Ringo, Contracting Officer: Helen M Chang. Notice- the Draft Statement of Work for Data Processing and Special Technical Analyses for OERI is available for review and comment through the ED Bulletin Board. Printed copies are not available. The Ed Bulletin Board is accessible to all caller. There are no pre-registration requirements or user charges (except for long distance telephone costs). The telephone number is (202)-260-9950. There are four 2400 bps modems with setting of 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity. To log on the bulletin board enter 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 the Main Menu/ (2) on the BBs Main Menu, select the Data Processing and Special Technical Analyses'' submenu; (3) under the submenu, select the work statement; (4) select a download protocol (Xmodem, Zmodem, etc) for the BBS and then (5) select the same protocol for your PC. The file should begin transferring automatically. the work statement is in WordPerfect 6.0 format and is a compressed file (Pkzip). After downloading, uncompress eith Pkunzip which is available on BBS. Type ''Pkunzip wide. zip'' to uncompress file. ED Board is also now listed on the FedWorld Gateway to Federal BBSs. 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 Menu by entering DD110(enter). Internet: Users can connect to ED Board at FedWorld via Internet to Telnet at fedworld.gov. The best vile transfer protocol to use during an Internet connection is Kermit. Written comments should be submitted to Michelle Ringo, at the above address or by fax (202) 708-8376 no later than March 22, 1996. 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. (0065)

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