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B -- SPECIAL STUDIES AND ANALYSIS POC Leona C. Cousar, 703 697-6257 On behalf of the U. S Army Office of the Chief, Army Reserve (OCAR) and in accordance with FAR 6.3, the Defense Supply Service -- Washington (DSS-W) intends to award a purchase order (under the simplified acquisition threshold) on a sole-basis to Dr. Leslie Day. The contractor will be required to reexamine existing data collected from recent (OCAR) sponsored studies over the past 3 years. The studies to be reviewed include the Impact of Mobilization and the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) Force Integration Study. The two efforts were conducted separately, but captured data from multiple rotations of Operation Joint Endeavor. This task will synthesize both data sets (Impact of Mob captured rotations 1 & 2; Force Integration Study from rotations 3&4), and examine multiple factors that influenced Reservists experiences and intent to remain in the USAR. This task seeks to combine the data sets, conduct additional analyses, and prepare findings for wider distribution beyond the original audiences of thestudies. Anticipated outcomes include articles in publications with broad readership. Specifically, the study will probe the datasets in more depth than was required, asked for, or possible under the original tasks. It will also identify commonalties across various databases, in terms of specific items and measures that can be pooled for additional analysis and to create a new database(s) of those common items. Additionally, the study requires analysis of these items to look for additional depth of information, validate earlier findings, strengthen conclusions and statements that can be made about those previous findings as a result of a more powerful database, and to discover any additional findings not present in the un-pooled data. Finally, the effort requires developing articles and research reports on those findings for dissemination to audiences within the Army, USAR, DOD, and any other OCAR-identified potential audience. There is no solicitation document. This notice is not a request for quotes. For all inquiries, you may contact Ms. Leona C. Cousar, 703 697-6257. Posted 03/12/99 (W-SN307970). (0071)

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