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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 27,1997 PSA#1853Federal Transit Administration, Office of Program Management, 400
Seventh Street, S.W., Room 9315, Washington, DC 20590 L -- TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO THE NATIONAL RURAL TRANSIT
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (RTAP) DUE 062797 POC Sue Masselink or Mary Martha
Churchman (202) 366-2053 The originial announcement submitted and
published on May 13 failed to specify that FTA will award the
competitive cooperative agreement to a PRIVATE NONPROFIT agency. The
following text reflects this change. The Federal Transit Administration
(FTA) intends to award a competitive cooperative agreement to a private
nonprofit agency to provide technical support to the national RTAP. The
cooperative agreement will be for a five year period and the
anticipated level of funding available on an annual basis will be
between $500,000 and $750,000. The recipient of the cooperative
agreement will assume primary responsibility for administration and
management of the national RTAP and will develop and disseminate
training materials designed for use by the state RTAP managers to
ensure that the products developed and activities undertaken through
the national RTAP are of use to and supportive of the state programs,
promote information exchange at all levels, and encourage coordination
of state efforts; maintain a national clearinghouse for rural transit
technology-sharing and information dissemination, a central collection
of products and services that are useful to rural transit
professionals; promote and monitor use of the RTAP national resource
center; develop and implement a national self-help technical assistance
network that facilitates the exchange of technologies and techniques
among rural transit operators on a peer-to-peer basis; provide a
research and technical support capacity to FTA to address issues of
immediate concern to the rural transit programs; maintain a mechanism
for user imput and feedback such as the program review board, which
functions as the mechanism for providing the national program with
guidance on priority needs in the areas of training materials
development, informaiton dissemination, and technical assistance.
Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria: the
overall technical approach to the requirements of the statement of
work, particularly the proposer's understanding of the objectives of
the national RTAP and how those objectives will be met by their
proposal; the qualifications and work experience of proposed personnel;
and the capability for managing an active and varied rural technical
assistance program. Experience in working with rural transportation
professionals from local, state and federal government as well as
public and private transportation operators and volunteer organizations
is an important requirement. If proposals indicate that some tasks may
be performed by other organizations or subcontractor(s), the proposal
should also demonstrate ability to oversee their performance. Requests
from private nonprofit agencies for a statement of work will be
accepted until June 2, 1997. Proposals are due by June 27, 1997. To
request a copy of the statement of work, please call FTA Office of
Resource Management and State Programs at (202) 366-2053. (0142) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0092 19970527\L-0001.SOL)
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