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B -- PROVIDE EXPERT STATISTICAL SAMPLING TECHNIQUES SOL TIRNO97R00065 DUE 090197 POC Contract Specialist, Helen Carmona, 202-283-1514 (FAX) The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Statistical Sampling Examination Program requires expert technical support services to ensure that examinations where statistical sampling techniques are used will be properly and consistently developed. Additionally, expert advice is essential to resolve issues in the event that sampling applications are challenged at the examination level. To provide these services, IRS intents to award, on a sole-source basis, a contract to Dr. Donald M. Roberts, of Urbana, IL. The proposed contract will have a 12 month base period with 3 one year option periods. Numbered Note #22 applies for this acquisition. (0225)

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