U.S. Department of Education, 7th & D Streets, Room 3633 SW, Washington, DC 20202-4337

U -- IASA TITLE I BYPASS-VIRGINIA SOL RFP-96- POC Linda Feeney, 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 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 Title I regulations to private school children of if the Secretary determines that an LEA has substantially failed 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 stadards 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 pursuant to Section 1120 of the Act. A portion iof the Title I grant to each LEA will be withheld from the State and will be used in this procurment to provide Title I services to private school children. The Department anticipates awarding on contract for this purpose in the State of Virginia. Potential offerors are invited to review the Draft Work Statement in order to have a more complete understanding of the requirements of this procurements. The Draft Work Statement and selected Draft RFP sections will be available through the ED Bulletin Board on or about March 27, 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) to use the BBS. The BBS has four 14,400 bps modems (setting: 8-N1). 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 the Main Menu; (2) select ''D'' for Contract RFPs and Work Statements On-Line; (3) select IASI Title I Bypass-Virginia; (4) at the prompt at the end of the file list, type D and the file name(s) to download (D(filename)) and press Return; (5) select a download protocol (Xmodem, Zmodem, etc.) for the BBS, (6) 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 file which is available on BBS. Type ''pkunzip(filename).zip '' to uncompress the file. Questions concerning how to use the BBS may be directed to Audrey Hawkins of 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, ED Board is BBS number 110. Users can access it from the Top-level FedWorld Menu by entering UDD110 (enter). Internet: User 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 that April 12, 1996. Written comments/questions concerning this procurement may also be sent via facsimile to the attention Linda Feeney and Helen Chang at 202-708-8376. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. A solicitation synopsis willbe published a a 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 96-015, may be directed to the Attention of Yolanda Abney by telephone 202-708-6498 (0096)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0086 19960408\U-0002.SOL)