North Central Regional Contracting, 1300 Metropolitan Ave, Leavenworth, KS 66048

R -- ADVANCED OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION SOL IFB407-0013 DUE 012097 POC Thomas Young, Contracting Officer, 913-682-8700 x615. The Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin, Illinois, intends to make a single award to an educational institution to provide advanced occupational education training leading to an Associate in Arts and Science degree in the field of business administration to the inmates housed at the Federal Prison Camp and Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin, Illinois. The applicable SIC Code for this requirement is 8299, with a size standard of 3.5 Million. The contractor must be listed in the directory entitled ''Accredited Institutions of Post Secondary Education'' and/or designated eligible by the United States Department of Education. The contractor shall provide pre-approved and qualified personnel who act as substitute instructors in the event of a scheduled instructor's absence. Contractor must provide no less than five (5) courses per semester to each of the two (2) facilities which comprises the Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin, Illinois. Provisions of services under this contract will require frequent and unsupervised contact with inmates. This contract will consist of one base year (twelve months) and four option years, for a potential total of sixty months. This contract is not set aside for small business, and is advertised as full and open competition. The solicitation document will be available, on or about December 13 1996. Requests for the solicitation must be in writing, addressed to Federal Bureau of Prisons, Regional Contracting Office, Attention, Thomas Young, Contracting Officer, 1300 Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, KS 66048. You may fax your requests to 913-682-2102. The solicitation number is IFB 407-0013. (0324)

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