Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, FOB #3, Room 1541, Washington,(Suitland, MD) DC 20233

U -- JOINT PROGRAM AND SURVEY METHODOLOGY SOL 52-SOBC-0-00001 DUE 012800 POC Beth Brooks, 301-457-4421 The U.S. Census Bureau has a requirement and intends to negotiate with the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, on an other than full and open competition basis for continued services to manage and develop educational programs in survey methodology through the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM), a consortium operated by the University of Maryland for the period of February 1, 2000 through September 30, 2005. The services will include but not be limited to: 1) the provision of a director and faculty resources to give classroom instruction for JPSM courses; 2) provision of administrative and computing staff to process and prepare classroom materials, also to provide technical computing support; 3) provisionof consortium management of the various university and corporate entities providing resources fo the JPSM; 4) provision of office, classroom, computer laboratory, meeting rooms and storage spaces for required activities; 5) a compressed video classroom containing an ITU H.320 compliant video system using an Ascend Inverse Multiplexor with a still graphics capability; 6) offering of a minimum 25 semester-length graduate courses in survey methodology annually including a survey practicum on proposed topics; 7) offering of professional short courses on elementary, intermediate and advanced topics in methodology; 8) building a national consortium of graduate programs in survey methodology; 9) development of JPSM courses. The Government has determined that the University of Maryland is the only source who can provide the required services because of their inherent knowledge and expertise of survey methodology and their past organization and operation of the consortium of educational and corporate entities in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. Interested firms having the ability to furnish these services of the above described requirements should submit their capability and product information to the above address to the attention of Beth Brooks within 45 days of this notice and reference. No telephone requests will be honored. See Note 22. Posted 12/15/99 (W-SN408967). (0349)

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