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R -- CONFERENCE PLANNING DUE 090799 POC ELIZABETH CLARK, 410-965-9465 WEB: Download Solicitation when/if available, http://www.ssa.gov/oag. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, SSA/OAG, ELIZABETH.CLARK@ssa.gov. The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate a sole-source simplified acquisition with the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) to plan and develop the preliminary/planning agenda for a 2-3 day International Law and Policy Conference as part of SSA's Year 2000 Celebration of the Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The project will entail the planning, the inviting of appropriate participants, and the convening of an international group of scholars and experts to plan and to develop a scholarly agenda for planning the above cited conference. SSA has concluded that only DREDF possesses the unique capabilities for satisfying this requirement because it is the only organization recognized as the preeminent disability rights legal advocacy center in the United States. Additionally, DREDF senior staff have written the only annotated law book series on the Americans with Disabilities Act that includes the legislative history, the text of the statute, and the Federal agency regulations. DREDF has an extensive knowledge of public disability policy that reflects every facet of the development of national disability policy and is the only organization that deals with the development of public policy for people with disabilities from the grass-roots issue of identification to Federal policy development and implementation. In order to successfully organize an agenda development group of scholars and experts and to successfully develop an agenda for the international law and policy conference with regard to the Americans with Disability Act, it is essential that the contractor possess the kind of experience and knowledge reflected above. This is not a request for quotation or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. See Note 22. Posted 08/26/99 (D-SN372821). (0238)

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