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A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT -- DESIGN OF COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL REFORM MODELS SOL ERD99CS01 POC Lola Bland, Contract Specialist, 202-401-3538 The United States Department of Education(ED) is issuing this amendment to provide all Offerors with additional information pertinent to the contract award for the Design of Comprehensive School Reform Models. This amendment does not change the closing date of the Broad Agency Announcement. Offerors invited to submit a complete proposal should attend a bidder's conference on or about June 2, 1999 in Washington, D.C. The exact location of the conference will be specified in the Department of Education's invitation for a complete proposal. In the invitation for the full proposal, ED will specify, and provide standards for, proposal format and content. The full proposal shall include and offeror-developed Statement of Work(SOW), a Summary chart specifying each proposed staff member's(by name) commitment to each task and subtask by project year, a schedule of deliverables, past performance information, and a cost Proposal. ED will evaluate all full proposals against the following technical evaluation criteria: 1) Qualifications and appropriateness of the composition of the team proposing to carry out the proposed efforts. Maximum points: 40. 2) Quality of the proposed design, design implementation strategy, and strategy for building scaling up capabilities, together with its supporting justification. Maximum points: 30. 3) Quality and promise of the research and evaluation plan. Maximum points: 20 4)Capacity of offeror and quality of the management plan. Maximum points: 10. All Offerors of full proposals are required to certify that offers made are valid through December 1999. Posted 05/14/99 (I-SN331834). (0134)

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