U -- EDUCATIONAL SERVICES The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) intends to issue a sole-source blanket purchase agreement for a one year base period, starting the spring semester January 2000, ending December 2000 and a one year option period starting the spring semester, January 2001, ending December 2001. Johns Hopkins University has been determined to be the only responsible source for baccalaureate level classes and services: 1) Provide on-site educational services in conformity with academic requirements established and prescribed by the University, its accrediting agency, and its government board and which meet the educational needs of the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office; 2) Apply admission, transfer, grading, probation, tuition, and graduation policies and requirements as established in the University catalog and student handbook as mutually agreed upon; 3) In cooperation with the Employer, where appropriate, establish beginning and ending dates of terms, class schedules, and vacation dates; 4) Provide appropriate on-site support for PTOU-U staff for registration, placement testing, and professional education counseling/academic advising on a mutually agreeable basis consistent with the requirements of the academic institution and PTO-U programs; 5) Submit enrollment and course data to the Employer upon request; 6) Designate an administrative person, employed by the University, to maintain continuing liaison with the designated representative of the Employer (COTR or PTO-U Director); 7) When engaged in on-site instruction, notify its faculty of the Employer's rules and regulations regarding security, ingress, egress, safety, conservation, parking, and sanitation, as may be transmitted in advance to the University by the designated representative of the Employer (see PTO-U faculty handbook); 8) Admits students of any sex, race, color, handicap, national and ethnic origin or age to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students. It does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, handicap, national and ethnic origin or age in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarships and loan programs, employment or athletic and other school-administered programs; and 9) Provides information and materials for use in publishing schedules and participate in promotion of the University's educational programs. PTO intends to award this blanket purchase agreement to Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218. This is not an RFQ nor will one be available. WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=S&ProjID=Reference-Num ber-45PTO000400&LocID=251. E-MAIL: Katherine Kudrewicz, kate.kudrewicz@uspto.gov. Posted 01/12/00 (D-SN415258).

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