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R -- EDITING AND PUBLICATIONS SERVICES SOL RFQ-CPO00009 DUE 033100 POC Alice M. Fierstein, 703.306.1242 WEB: (Click here to jump to the RFQ.), http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/contract/sol.htm. E-MAIL: (Click here to contact the Contracting Specialist, afierste@nsf.gov. The National Science Foundation has a need for publication requirements -- SIC code 2721 (size standard 500 employees) for its Division of Science Resources Studies (SRS). This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside (see Note 1). The Government reserves the right to make multiple awards for these services. Each award will be issued in accordance with FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Each award will be an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with task orders to be issued on a firm fixed price basis. The period of performance for each contract will be a two-year base period with three one-year option periods. The scope of work includes two primary areas: Statistical editing (substantive, copy editing, proofreading); Desktop publishing (composition, graphic and table creation, formatting of statistical tables according to pre-established format specifications, providing finished documents in PageMaker 6.5 for Windows). Contractors may submit proposals in one or bothprimary areas. The Contractor must possess, and be able to demonstrate, all skills within each primary area. Examples of publications produced by SRS can be seen on the Internet at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm. Copies of the solicitation are available on the NSF external web page at Internet address http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/contract/sol.htm. All solicitation amendments and questions and answers will be published within ten days of release, to the same Internet address. For immediate notification of solicitation amendments and questions and answers, send an e-mail address to afierste@nsf.gov. Reference the RFQ in which you are interested. Telephone requests will not be honored. Proposals will be due at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 31, 2000. Posted 03/02/00 (W-SN430233). (0062)

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