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R -- HOW MILITARY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE ORGANIZATIONS INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF SEX CRIMES AND OTHER SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ARISING IN THE ARMED FORCES. SOL AT/TC 20267 DUE 042498 POC Patricia G. Walker, Contracting Officer E-MAIL: PatriciaG.Walker@GSA.GOV, PatriciaG.Walker@GSA.GOV. The US General Services Administration (GSA) intends to negotiate a firm-fixed price contract with only one source, National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) under the authority of Section 1072 of the FY98 Department of Defense Authorization Act. The Act directs NAPA to specifically condiser the following matters: (1) The need (if any) for greater organizational independence and autonomy for the military criminal investigative organizations than exists under current chain-of-command structures within the military departments. (2) The authority of each of the military criminal investigative organizations to investigate allegations of sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct and the policies of those organizations for carrying out such investigations. (3) The training (including training in skills and techniques related to the conduct of interviews) provided by each of those organizations to agents or prospective agents responsible for conducting other criminal sexual misconduct. (4) The procedure and relevant professional standards of each military criminal investigative organization with regard to recruitment and hiring of agents. (5) The advantages and disadvantages of establishing within each military criminal investigative organizations or within the Defense Criminal Investigative Service only a special unit for the investigation of alleged sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct. (6) The clarity and guidance for, and consistency of investigative tactics used by, each of the military criminal investigative organizations for the investigation of alleged sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct, together with a comparison with the guidance and tactics used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other civilian law enforcement agencies for such investigations. (7) The number of allegations of agent misconduct in the investigation of sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct for each of those organizations. (8)The procedures of each of the military criminal investigative orgnizations for administative identification (known as "titling") of persons suspected of committing sex crimes or other sexual misconduct. (9) The accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of reporting of sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct by each of the military criminal investigative organizations to the National Crime Information Center maintained by the Department of Justice. (10) Any recommendation for legislative or administrative action to revise the organizational arrangements of the military criminal investigative organizations and to alter recruitment, training, or operational procedures, as they pertain to the investigation of sex crimes and other criminal sexual misconduct. For additional information on other aspects of this study, firms must submit their interest in writing to P. Walker, GSA, FSS, 4FQP, 401 West Peachtree Street, Suite 2600, Atlanta, GA 30365-2550. The interest letter must demonstrate the firm's ability to develop a working understanding of each area and obtain opinions and perspectives on the adequacy of operations in each area. (0099)

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