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R -- CORE EVALUATION OF LOCAL SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN TEACHER ENHANCEMENT, GRADES K-12, PROJECTS SOL CPO 99-024 POC Steven Strength, Contract Specialist (703) 306-1242 or William Bryant, Contracting Officer (703) 306-1242 WEB: to download the RFP and amendments, http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/contract/sol.htm. E-MAIL: how to reach the NSF contact person, sstrengt@nsf.gov. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting proposals to provide technical services and support for building and maintaining the core data elements evaluation system for its Local Systemic Change (LSC) Initiative. The LSC is a program to improve the teaching of science, mathematics, and technology by focusing on the professional development of teachers within whole schools or school districts. To support the LSC Initiative, a core data system has been constructed to provide information to NSF and to more than 70 projects in the LSC Initiative on projects' implementation, progress and impact. Included in this data system are teacher questionaires and classroom and professional development observation data. Activities needed to maintain this system include creating data collection instruments, training evaluators in the use of all instruments; dispersing instruments to projects for collection; processing and scoring instruments and providing feedback to projects; preparing reports based on the core data collected; studying and reporting on the impact of the projects and initiatives; and maintaining a database of all the core data to serve NSF purposes and GPRA requirements. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be available on or about June 29, 1999. All potential offerors should download the solicitation from the following website: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/contract/sol.htm. All amendments to the solicitation will also be included at the referenced website. Firms are responsible for checking the referenced website to determine if amendments have been issued. A limited number of paper copies of the solicitation will be available for firms not having access to the internet. Those firms must submit a written request referencing the solicitation number to the contact address above. No telephone requests for the solicitation will be honored. To ensure receipt of all special notices and communications that might not be posted on the website, organizations should submit a notice via e-mail to "sstrengt@nsf.gov" indicating potential interest and providing a full return address for receipt of those communications. The SIC code for this solicitation is 8742. A two-year contract with three one-year options is anticipated. This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside. See Note 1. Posted 06/10/99 (W-SN341396). (0161)

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