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99 -- GRAPHIC PRINT PRODUCTION SUPPORT SERVICES SOL RFP-OO-99-R-10 DUE 012599 POC Marcy C. Adams, (202) 720-3082 voice; (202) 720-9323 fax No telephone requests or questions will be acknowledged/answered by phone. Direct all inquires via FAX (202) 720-9323. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Design Center, a unit within the Office of Communications, requires the services of a graphic print production support contract. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and other items and services necessary to perform as defined in the Performance Work Statement (PWS). The contractor shall perform to the standards in the contract. USDA shall provide design direction, standards and general specifications for each project. Electronic production work must be performed using Macintosh platform applications as primary with some PC platform applications secondary as determined by USDA. This contract is to provide camera ready electronic layout production support of various graphic print products produced by the Design Center including: Technical support to determine, unless specified, the most efficient and effective electronic formatting and software layout application to use for project production. Reflect layout considerations to meet legibility requirements for audience limitations pertaining to the Americans with Disabilities Act; Using the latest available layout and illustration application programs for Macintosh and PC platforms that are compatible with USDA; Providing occasional electronic layout templates in both Macintosh and PC for USDA use; Providing editorial support services of manuscript including proofing, indexing, and language translation. A typical electronic production support project consists of initial meeting with Project/Product Manager for task assignment, objective, production schedule, and cost determination of product to be produced from given specifications. Camera ready artwork to be produced in best quality level for printing reproduction with highest standards of accuracy, durability, and appearance to maintain single or multicolor detailed halftones, trappings, separations, bleeds, very fine line drawings, text, charts, graphs, and up to 300 line screen halftone reporoduction requirements. Size of projects will vary from small to lagre scale. Average sized production project consists of 32 pages including cover, two color inks, 6 charts, 5 tables, 3 photos, to be performed within 10 working days. The resulting contract shall be a requirements type contract as identified in clause 52.216-21, Requirements (OCT 1995) with a base year and one option year. This is a 100% small business set-aside. Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 7336; Size standard is $5 million. Posted 11/16/98 (W-SN271754). (0320)

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