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U -- GED TESTING AND CREDENTIALLING POC Carla S. Gilchrist, Contracting Officer, 202-307-0985. The Education Branch, Federal Bureau of Prisons, is seeking a provider of GED testing, scoring, and certification services for inmates incarcerated within the Bureau of Prisons. Services will be required throughout the Bureau of Prisons for one base year and four one-year option years. Services include providing testing materials, standardized forms, examiners manuals, training videos, and accreditation forms. The contractor is to provide a complete program that includes: writing skills, social studies, science, interpreting literature and the arts, and mathematics. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability along with sending the appropriate credentials to the Bureau of Prisons, 320 First Street, NW, Washington, DC 20534, Attn: Carla S. Gilchrist, Contracting Officer, by close of business June 1, 1998. (0124)

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