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B -- SUMMER FEEDING INTEGRITY STUDY: A DESIGN, COST AND FEASIBILITY PLAN SOL 15-3K06-99 DUE 063099 POC Linda M. Fischer, Contract Specialist, (202) 720-7684 The USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) is seeking a contractor to develop a plan to assess the overall integrity of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The contractor will design a study to extract detailed information about SFSP sites, sponsors, participants and eligible non-participants. The types of information sought will be useful for assessing whether the SFSP is efficiently fulfilling its goal of hunger prevention and for identifying possible inefficiencies and barriers to participation among children from low-income households. Interested parties may download the solicitation, effective May 25, 1999, from the following website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/afm2/divisions/ppd/solicit.htm. Posted 05/21/99 (W-SN334443). (0141)

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