Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, Room 1541, FB#3, Washington, (Suitland, MD) DC 20233

R -- RECRUITING SOL Recruiting-RFI-0496 POC Benita Brickey, 301, 457-1831 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - Recruiting for the year 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Housing - The Bureau of the Census (BOC) is seeking information on the availability of a service bureau to provide assistance in recruiting over 600,000 temporary employees. The below positions types will need to be recruited: 1. Provide Local Collection Office (LCO) field crew leaders and enumerators (interviewer turnover rate is 100 to 300%) These are the majority of positions to be filled and work for a few weeks. Enumerators are household interviewers and for every 10 enumerators there is a supervisory Crew Leader position. 2. Providing Local Collections Office (LCO) management and clerical office staff. 3. Providing regional census center (RCC) management and clerical office staff. Above positions (Items #2 & #3) are general office supervisory and clerical jobs. Positions open on a flow basis early 1998 through early 2000. Usual duty hours are standard office hours and shift work. These employees will work in the field or in temporary offices during the 2000 Decennial Census. Staffing is on a flow basis beginning around October, 1997 and will peak around October 1999 through the summer of 2000. Enumerators are the majority of positions and 95% of the hiring is calendar year 2000. There will be approximately 550 temporary offices located stateside, and Puerto Rico; these report to 12 Regional Census Centers (RCC). Employees in the 12 RCCs, all located Stateside, are part of this temporary workforce. The total number of applications for Census jobs may reach 3 million with as many as 550,000 employees paid each pay period at peak employment. The majority of employees paid will have no fixed work schedule and no fixed number of hours during the pay period. The temporary employees have deductions for retirement, Thrift Savings Plan, bonds, or allotments. Employees may be subject to medicare only or social security only. In addition to receiving pay for hours worked, the employee will be reimbursed for their travel and telephone charges. Employees will be paid weekly either Electronic Funds Transfer to a financial institution or having the check mailed to their designated address. Options under consideration: 1. Employment agency hires and pays temporary employees: a. All temporary. b. RCC and LCO Office employees only. 2. A one time charge to BOC for each referred applicant that is actually hired by BOC. 3. A one time charge for each applicant tested by the agency using BOC Test provided. Interested parties capable of performing these services shall submit a detailed capabilities statement, complete technical information and a cost estimate within 30 days from the date of this notice to the above address and reference Recruiting-RFI-0496. This is not a request for a proposal. No solicitation package exists. No additional information is available. This is a request for information only. (0096)

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