SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- VALIDATION OF VARIABLE SELECTION FOR NET CENSUS COVERAGE ERROR MODELING
- Notice Date
- 6/8/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, U. S. Census Bureau, Suitland, Acquisition Division Room 3J438, Washington, DC, 20233, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-7-01888
- Response Due
- 6/25/2007
- Archive Date
- 7/10/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Bureau of the Census under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation, Part 6, Subparts 6.301 and 6.302 intends to contract to Spencer Statistics, Inc, 1404 Asbury Avenue, Evanston, IL for contracted services on a noncompetitive basis. The contractor will have extensive experience in dual system estimates at the block level, called direct estimates. The contractor will collaborate with mmember of the Estimation Team in conducting research and planning for 2010 Census Coverage Measurement by developing an error profile for direct estimates used in validating the selection of variables for Net Census Coverage Error Modeling. The error profile will address direct estimates of net coverage error as well as direct estimates of components of coverage error, erroneous enumerations and omissions. The goal is to aid in the interpretation of results of methodolgy deveoped to apply to data collected in the 2006 Census Test. The contractor is uniquely qualified to develop an error profile for direct estimates because he has extensive experience in the evaluation of block level estimates because of his participation in the development of the estimation methodology for the revision for estimates of census coverage error from the Acccuracy and Coverage Evaluation Survey (A.C.E) for Census 2000, known as A.C.E. Revision II. The design of some of the evaluations of the A.C.E Revision II estimates relied on methodology developed by Spencer Statistics. This synopsis is not to be considered a request for quotations or proposals, No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be honored. No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice, but offers will be used to determine if a comparable source is available and more advantageous to the government. If no affirmative written response is received by June 25, 2007 by 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time to pamela.a.miller@census.gov, a contract may be issued to Spencer Statistics without further notice.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 4600 SILVER HILL ROAD, SUITLAND, MD
- Zip Code: 20746
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20746
- Record
- SN01313859-W 20070610/070608220806 (fbodaily.com)
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