Immigration & Naturalization Service, Procurement Division, 425 I Street, NW., Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536

U -- PERSONNEL TESTING SOL HRA-7F-26 DUE 010697 POC Jackie H. Francis, Procurement Technician, (202) 514-2062; Lesa Scott INS requires the creation of 200 logic test questions over a five year period of one base year and four option years. The INS requires deductive and inductive questions. Qualified test question offerors must have a B.A. or B.S. degree; demonstrates a minimum of three years of specialized experience in verbal reasoning ability measurement, successfully completed course(s) in formal logic or have used logic extensively in development of test items for tests or reasoning, and demonstrate the ability to write logic-based reading comprehension questions. All questions must be useable and not previously used in any manner. INS testing staff will use these questions to examine applicants for border patrol, and professional law enforcement and adjudicator occupations at the entry level. Each question format contains a 50 to 100 word stimulus, a single question followed by five answer choices. Successful offerors may have to perform specific research to select job-related subject matter for question ideas. The INS will provide a formal, logic-based taxonomy to the successful offeror. Questions will be written at the college graduate level. The RFP will require offerors to submit resumes, sample questions for evaluation purposes, and ethics/confidentiality references. All usable questions will become the sole property of the INS. Each option year is expected to have a minimum of 100 questions and option quantities up to 100 additional questions. If multiple, qualified offerors are identified, the INS may make multiple awards. Qualified offerors shall FAX requests for the RFP to (202) 616-7876 by 1/6/97 to Jackie Francis, Attn: HRA-7F-26. See Numbered Note(s): 1. (0358)

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