North Central Contracting Office, Gateway Tower II, 8th Floor, 400 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66101

U -- CONSTRUCTION CARPENTRY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SOL RFQ40020-0018-0 DUE 092500 POC Thomas Young, Contracting Officer 913-551-1044 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer, tyoung@bop.gov. The Federal Bureau of Prisons intends to award a contract to an occupational-training, educational-institution to provide to the inmates incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp, Duluth, MN, a curriculum leading to certification in carpentry or construction education. The curriculum must include basic-math, construction blueprint-reading, principles of construction-framing (theory and applied practice), building-material estimation, and occupational construction safety (OSHA). See Numbered Note 1. This requirement is 100% set aside for small business. The applicable SIC Code for this action is 8249, with a size standard of $5.0 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. All contractor staff assigned to provideinstructional services under this contract must be certified in the field of building-trades. Semesters will be at least seventeen (17) weeks in duration with fifteen (15) credits available (per semester). Class size will be fifteen (15) inmate students, and classes will be held Monday through Thursday, excluding federal holidays. All equipment and supplies for this contract will be furnished by the government. Provision of services under this contract will require frequent and unsupervised contact with inmates. This contract will be one year in duration. The solicitation document will be available on or about August 25, 2000. Requests for the solicitation must be in writing, addressed to Federal Bureau of Prisons, North Central Regional Office, 400 State, Gateway Tower 2, Attention: Thomas Young, Contracting Officer, Kansas City, KS, 66101. You may fax your requests to 913-551-1074, or you may e-mail your request to tyoung@bop.gov. The solicitation number is RFQ40020-0018-0. Posted 08/03/00 (W-SN481702). (0216)

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