Federal Bureau of Prisons, 320 First Street, N.W., Suite 618, Washington, D.C. 20534

U -- DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NOVELL UPDATE & ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION TRAINING COURSE POC Donna P. Fox, Contracting Officer (202) 307-3223. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is conducting a market research in its efforts to determine the commercial availability of servies to provide the development, implementation and evaluation of a Novell Update & Advanced Administration training course for the Central Office, Office of Information Systems. This training course would be taught at the Management & Specialty Training Center in Aurora, Colorado. Specifically, the contractor would be required to provide a customized, hands-on course to include, but not be limited to preparing lesson plans and course materials/student manuals for each module identified by the Bureau of Prisons, preparing pre and post-test and class evaluations, establish points of contacts for the Government when emergency situations requiring immediate contractor decisions and realighnment of staff occur, and to act as the liaison between the Government and off-site Corporate resources. The contractor would be required to provide certified Novell Administrator (Instructors) in NetWare 4.x, with a minimum of 3 years administrative and user experience. The contractor would be required to deliver manuals and documentations to students during class and met with the Project Manager on an as needed basis to discuss the course content, issues and/or problems. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only and does NOT constitute a Request for Proposal. This notice is to advise industry of an opportunity to sumit information specific to this requirement to include but not be limited to (1) Whether their product/service meets the needs of the Goverment (2) customary practices regarding customizing, modifying, tayloring of services to meet Government's needs and associated costs involved, (3) Customary practices, including warranty and discounts, (4) requirements of any laws and regulations unique to the service being offered, (5) cost estimates of the service being offered, and (6) size and status of potential offerors. Response to this market research should be receivedno later than 3:00 p.m. on 9/11/98. Response may be maild to: Federal Bureau of Prisons, 320 1st Street, N.W., Central Office Business Office, Washington, D.C. 20534. Information of reasonable volume may also be faxed to (202) 514-0523. Posted 09/03/98 (I-SN245344). (0246)

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