USPFO for Missouri, Purchasing and Contracting, 7101 Military Circle, Jefferson City, MO 65101-1200

U -- AUTOMATION TRAINING POC heislenl@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil E-MAIL: heislenl@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil, heislenl@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil. Small Business Sources Sought for automation training services for a projected period of one year period with one 6 month option period. If interested and capable of providing all training, send e-mail response to heislenl@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil or facsimile (573) 638-9576. The contractor, acting as an independent contractor, and not as an agent of the Government, shall furnish all personnel, management, instruction manuals, class rosters/certificates, and critique sheets to provide various automation courses. Contractor to provide automation training to government employees at various government specified locations within the United States. These areas include Jefferson City, Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, and Austin, Texas. The government will provide the hardware and classroom(s) for all instruction. Additionally, government provided lodging will be provided when possible. Contractor shall be capable of providing qualified and certified instruction for all courses with a fifteen (15) day notification of class start time except for Cisco and Oracle courses (these courses will be given a 30 day notification of class start date). Contractor must be able to provide instruction for all courses; all courses will be resident, not self-study. Class size will be a minimum of 6 students and maximum of 16 students. Contractor is guaranteed billing for the minimum of 6 students per class regardless of actual class size. Contractor to bill for actual number of students in attendance at class (registered at start day of class) unless cost to government is less for the planned class size, then the planned class size will be billed. Contractor will instruct the following courses: 0001- Outlook 97 (3 days), 0002- Introduction to Microsoft Office 97 (5 days), 0003-Intermediate Microsoft Office 97 (5 days), 0004-Advanced Microsoft Office 97 (5 days), 0005 Microsoft Networking Essentials (578) (3 days), 0006- Administering Windows NT 4.0 (803) (3 days), 0007- Supporting MS Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies (922) (5 days), 0008- Supporting MS NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Technologies (689) (5 days), 0009- Internetworking MS TCP/IP on Windows NT 4.0 (688) (5 days), 0010-Implementing a Database on MS SQL Server 7.0 (833) (5 days), 0011- Creating and Managing a Web Server using MS Internet Information Server 4.0 (936) (3 days), 0012- Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (5 days), 0013- Visual Basic 6.0 Development (1013), 0014-Visual Inter Dev 6.0 (1017) (5 days), 0015- Access 97 Power User (5 days), 0016- Access Visual Basic 97 (5 days), 0017- Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Program (1300) (3 days), 0018- Building Client/Server App with Access 2000 (1379) (3 days), 0019- Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices (5 days), 0020- Mastering Visual Basic 6 Fundamentals (1303) (5 days), 0021- Administering MS Systems Management Server 2.0 (827) (3 days), 0022- Illustrator 8.0 (2 days), 0023- Deploying and Supporting Systems Management Server 2.0 (828) (5 days), 0024- Quark X Press 4.0 (2 days), 0025- Photo Shop 5.5 (2 days), 0026- HTML I (2 days), 0027- Mastering MS Visual Basic 6.0 Development (1013) (5 days), 0028- HTML II (2 days), 0029- Pagemaker 6.5 (2 days), 0030-Excel 97 Power User (5 days). Similar courses may be incorporated if necessary. Course descriptions are available on www.microsoft.com, www.cisco.com, and www.oracle.com. The contractor will be responsible for the set up of the classrooms- assume ghosting (disk images) may occur at all sites. The government will provide on site maintenance. The classes will not be cancelled due to inclement weather. The actual number of students will not be known until the first day of class. The government will provide storage place for materials when training at Ike Skelton Training Site, Jefferson City, MO. Instructors are not responsible for making sure that the attendees meet the course prerequisites. The government may cancel a course not less than seven days prior to the start of course- the contractor may be entitled to an equitable adjustment if there are costs associated with the cancellation. Equitable adjustment for this action is that the contractor will be paid the cost of the course that was to be taught and airfare costs, if applicable. (Cost of the course is equal to the charges for conducting the specific course cancelled with the minimum number of students [minimum number of students is equal to six students]). If the contractor fails to provide qualified instructors or show up for the scheduled course, the government will make an equitable adjustment to the contract. Equitable adjustment for this action is that the contractor will not be paid for teaching the course and will reduce the total delivery order/contract by the cost of the course that he/she was to teach. . (Cost of the course is equal to the charges for conducting the specific course cancelled with the minimum number of students [minimum number of students is equal to six students]). The instructor is allowed to bring his/her computer to connect to network. Successful connection is not guaranteed by the government. The contractor will be provided access to the classroom prior to instruction in coordination with the Contracting Officer Representative (COR). The MS office 97 curriculum must be Microsoft certified. The vendor will provide lab equipment for Cisco router training. The vendor will provide 4500 series, mc3810, and 3600 series routers for the Cisco router training indicated.Respondents must identify their business status, i.e. small business, women-owned or Native American 8(a). Respondents must identify their experience and capability to instruct all courses listed in this notice (as resident, not self-study) and must send all their course listings with course descriptions showing ability to teach/instruct all courses with their reply. ALL SMALL BUSINESSES INTERESTED SHALL REPLY BY APRIL 28, 2000. Posted 04/20/00 (W-SN447281). (0111)

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