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U -- INFORMATION MAPPING TRAINING CLASSES SOL 7BC001 DUE 112897 POC Melissa Revely-Brown E-MAIL: NOT AVAILABLE, revely-brown.melissa@epamail.epa.gov. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends intends to award a firm fixed price contract using the Simplified Acquisition Procedures of FAR Part 13 to Information Mapping, Inc.; 411 Waverely Oaks Road; Whitham, MA 02154; to provide two on-site training sessions titled: "Developing Procedures, Policies, and Documentation" for approximately 40 people. The EPA is FACNET certified. STATEMENT OF WORK FOR "INFORMATION MAPPING" TRAINING CLASSES Background: The Resource Management Policy Steering Committee (RMP-SC) of the Office of Administration and Resources Management (OARM) is a standing Project Committee that reports to Assistant Administrator for OARM. The RMP-SC is charged with developing a strategy for re-engineering all of OARM's resource management policy documents. RMP-SC's focus is make OARM's policy documents better written, more structured, easier to use, and be more accessible in an automated format to all internal and external customers. How Information Mapping Training Will Be Used: In order to make OARM's and the Agency's policy documents better written, better organized, and easier to search, offices within OARM, as well as other agency offices, such as OECA, and OAR, have invested in training on a proprietary methodology called "Information Mapping" marketed by Information Mapping, Incorporated (IMI). IMI is the sole licensor of Information Mapping Seminars and Consulting Services. Their training is unique and their training classes are uniquely integrated to provide the benefits inherent in the Information Mapping method. The specialized, IMI methodology teaches a method for organizing text into logical units of information that are connected to each other, or "mapped" throughout a document. Information units in the "mapped" documents are labeled and subdivided to create a visually appealing and easy to use document. The "mapping" of information units in a text document dramatically increases readability of the written material, including policy documents. Using the IMI tool, searching for information in a document becomes much more efficient and accurate. Specialized, formatting templates are provided by IMI as part of their training which can be used with a variety of word processing programs such as Wordperfect. The IMI method also assures that textual material converted to IMI format will be suitable for installation on the Internet's World Wide Web. EPA's Office of Administration and Resources Management has recommended that the "Information Mapping" style of writing policy documents become the standard for the entire office and eventually serve as a model for all policy documents through the agency. To help standardize formatting of policy documents in OARM, the office has already purchased a number of Information Mapping training classes over the past two years to be conducted in-house at EPA facilities. IMI's in-house training classes offer a substantial cost savings over procurement of IMI's commercially available class spaces on an individual basis. Procurement of the two additional IMI training classes requested by OARM's RMP-SC, will help protect OARM's training investment in the methodology thus far, and will further the process of standardizing all of our resource management policy documents. Quotes are due in writing no later than 15 days of notice of this solicitation. This is a combination synopsis/solicitation for these services and will be the only solicitation to be issued. Two copies of all proposals, for the following statement of work, should be delivered to the following address, (fax/e-mail copies will not be accepted): Mail to: US EPA; 401 M Street, SW; Bid and Proposal Room -- 6th floor; Mail Code 3803R; Washington, DC 20460 Attn: Melissa Revely-Brown -- HANDCARRY TO: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW; Bid and Proposal Room -- 6th floor; Washington, DC 20003; Attn: Melissa Revely-Brown -- Due Date: 11/28/97; -- 2:30pm EST (Any proposal received after the due date will not be considered.) NO PHONE CALLS ACCEPTED Timeframe: 1st class 12/1- 4/97 and 2nd class 12/8 -- 11/97 (0311)

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