Federal Bureau of Investigation, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 6875, Washington, D.C. 20535

R -- TRANSLATION SERVICES SOL RFP 7044 DUE 100996 POC Luwanna K. Greene, Contract Specialist, (202) 324-3319. The FBI has a requirement for contractors with translation ability in a wide range of languages, including but not limited to: Arabic, Chinese (all dialects), Dutch, Farsi, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese. The contractor shall translate into English from a foreign language, the speech and/or writings of non-English speaking individuals and on occasion render from English into the foreign language. The foreign language speech and/or written materials frequently involve technical or non-standard terms in describing ideas, things, persons and places relating to economics, politics, science, including high technology, military concerns, legal matters and social events, including terminology and basic institutional knowledge relating to investigative fields of espionage, narcotics, organized crime and/or terrorism. The place of performance will be in a FBI field office within the contractor's geographical area. Travel may be required by the contractor. Contractors will be reimbursed for travel expenses in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulation's per diem rates. The contractor may be required to testify in court as to the accuracy of the translations. The government contemplates a multiple award labor-hour contract with an initial period of performance with four one-year options. The contractor shall take and pass a yearly audiometer examination. The results of this test shall be provided to the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative before commencement of work. Evaluation criteria will include but is not limited to: price, results of audiometer examination, results of the Foreign Language Test Battery (FLTB), education, experience, results of background checks and security clearance. Background checks and security clearances will be performed on companies and all individuals within that company assigned to this procurement. The scope of the background check and security clearance is at the sole discretion of the FBI. INTERESTED PARTIES ARE TO TAKE THE FBI'S FLTB. The FLTB is valid for three years. If you have taken the FLTB within three years, from the date of this CBD Announcement, you can request a solicitation package. Also, if you have taken the FLTB and have not yet received your results or you intend on taking the FLTB while this solicitation package is open, indicate the date and place where the test will be/has been administered. Attach the results of your FLTB to your solicitation request. Requests for RFP 7044 shall be in writing and can be mailed to the above address or sent by facsimile to (202) 324-4521, Attention: Luwanna K. Greene, no later than 15 calendar days from the date of this notice. Telephonic requests will not be accepted. This is a 1997 procurement and funds are not presently available. See Note 1. (0262)

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