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R -- AUDIT SUPPORT SERVICES PROVIDED BY UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE FACULTY AND STUDENTS SOL 00130006 POC Harold Miles (Sr. Contract Specialist) 202/512-3607 The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) hereby provides notification that it intends to enter into a non-competitive contract with The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, 5001 Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria, Virginia 22333-5600, for the purpose of acquiring audit support services from college faculty and students. No solicitation will be issued. Other offerors should be aware of the following key requirements that will be met by the Consortium. The Contractor shall provide support which includes: (1) issuing delivey orders as early as March 2000; (2) issuing delivery orders for as little as $500.00; (4) supplying faculty for any U.S. college where research is being performed similar to the audits being performed by GAO; and (5) supplying graduate and undergraduate students to work primarily at the Washington, DC, headquarters with fewer students working in some of the regional offices: Atlanta (and its sublocation in Huntsville, AL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL (and its sublocation in Dayton, OH); Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Kansas City, KS (and its sublocation in St. Louis, MO); Los Angeles, CA; Norfolk, VA (and its sublocation in Raleigh, NC); San Francisco, CA (and its sublocation in Sacramento, CA); and Seattle, WA (and its sublocation in Portland, OR). Faculty-supplied services shall be billed on a daily basis according to professorial rank, and student-supplied services shall be billed for a work year (typically around 1,300 hours -- up to 40 hours per week during the summer and up to 20 hours per week during academic terms). Audit support tasks in delivery orders might include, but not be limited to, supplementing staffing on jobs, auditing financial accounts, conceptualizing studies, locating and acquiring information, sampling from and weighting to populations, developing and pretesting data collection instruments, analyzing data and displaying findings, reviewing reports for content-matter and methodological concerns, evaluating information systems infrastructure, providing computer assistance, translating documents written in a foreign language, training GAO staff, and marking college laboratories and equipment available to GAO. We anticipate award of a contract for a base period (FY-2000) and four one-year options (FY-2001, FY-2002, FY-2003 and FY-2004). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within forty-five calendar days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. No contractual documents are available. The point of contact for this requirement is Harold Miles (Sr. Contract Specialist), U.S. General Accounting, Acquisition Management, Room 6858, 441 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20548, telephone number 202/512-3607, facsimile number 202/512-2879. See note 22***** Posted 12/06/99 (W-SN406063). (0340)

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