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D -- DIGITAL LANGUAGE LABORATORY SOL SFISAQ-00-R-0053 DUE 072100 POC Janet Freeman 703-302-6803,Contract Specialist E-MAIL: Freemanjl@state.gov, Freemanjl@state.gov. The Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, plans to issue a solicitation to purchase a digital language laboratory to service the needs of our foreign language learners and teachers. The lab will be used to deliver both teacher-guided and self-study language instruction in 63 languages. Teachers and learners must be able to access audio and video files that are resident on the media server, as well as computerized language learning software to student and teacher stations for individual and group access, to include single-user CD-Rom working over the network. The lab that we purchase must support DVD MPEG-1 and .WAV files, as well as other file formats that can be downloaded from the World Wide Web. It must be capable of delivering video and audio simultaneously from the media server to at least 28 stations; and the delivery of these media files must be controlled by at least two teacher stations.***** Posted 06/21/00 (W-SN467014). (0173)

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