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R -- NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE (NCJRS) SOL OJP-98-R-001 DUE 021698 POC Raymond C. German, Contracting Officer, (202) 307-0613 The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the U.S. Department of Justice will issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the maintenance and operation of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). The RFP will be called NCJRS 2002 and is the vehicle for contract support of all OJP bureaus and offices. Under the monitorship of the National Institute of Justice, other primary partners in this contract include 1) the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2) the Bureau of Justice Assistance 3) the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 4) OJP Crime Control Offices, 5) the Office for Victims of Crime, and 6) the Office of National Drug Control Policy. NCJRS provides clearinghouse services for all these partners and is the controlling repository for research, development, program evaluation and planning, and management of documentation serving as the needs of all components of the criminal justice system. NCJRS is an outreach mechanism and service arm, supporting justice-related information needs of state and local justice agencies, justice-related researchers, and the practical needs of criminal justice policy makers and executives by supplying the most current information on the key issues of justice-related programs, research, and implementation of justice policy. The proposed contractor shall provide facilities, personnel, equipment, and selected materials to perform the required services. The requirements include but are not limited to the following tasks: Clearinghouse Operations, Call Center, Computer Operations and Electronic Dissemination; Collection and Analysis, Justice-Related Information Acquisition and Abstracting, Information Search, Retrieval and Referral Services; Networking, Conference Support and Related Services; User Registration and Mail Lists; User Surveys; Fee-For-Service Program; Publication Support and Document Distribution Services. Also included are the maintenance and operations of the NCJRS Special Collections Library, the Online Resource Information Center, the Drugs and Crime Data Center and Clearinghouse, the Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse, the Bureau of Justice Assistance Clearinghouse, the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, and the National Victims Resource Center. The NCJRS contract will be a performance based, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, with task orders placed on a firm-fixed-price (FFP), a time and material (TM) or any combination thereof basis. The contract will comprise one base-year and three one-year options beginning on or about June 15, 1998. The estimated level of effort is 320,000 hours per year. A draft RFP will be posted on the internet on or before Nov. 12, 1997, at HTTP://WWW.OJP.USDOJ.GOV/NCJRS2002. The final RFP will be issued on or about December 8, 1997. A pre-proposal conference is anticipated to be held on or about two weeks after the issuance of the RFP. Proposal evaluation criteria will emphasize past performance and technical approach. Cost will be secondary in importance. Interested firms shall submit their requests for the RFP in writing. All responsible sources may submit an offer. (0289)

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