SOURCES SOUGHT
T -- CONTRACTORS FOR NEWS BROADCASTING SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 12/18/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Broadcasting Board of Governors, Associate Director for Management, Office of Contracts (M/CON), 330 C Street, SW, Room 2500, Washington, DC, 20237
- ZIP Code
- 20237
- Solicitation Number
- CON-04-0004
- Response Due
- 2/29/2004
- Archive Date
- 3/15/2004
- Point of Contact
- Regina Shepherd, Procurement Assistant, Phone (202) 205-8019, Fax (202) 260-0855,
- E-Mail Address
-
shepherd@IBB.GOV
- Description
- The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), Voice of America (VOA) and Worldnet Television (TV) are seeking qualified individuals for free-lance assignments. The VOA broadcasts in English and 52 other languages. These languages are as follows: Afan Oromo, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Mern), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Estonian, Farsi, French, Georgian, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mandarin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek and Vietnamese. VOA and Worldnet TV are seeking qualified sources for the following types of free-lance assignments: Radio-TV Broadcast Announcers, Narrators and Personalities; Researchers; Writers; Producers; Editors; Internet News Writers; Listener Mail Processors; Assignment Desk Coordinators; "Directors" for Worldnet Television, Radio and TV Production Assistants; Television Makeup-Artists; Master Control Producers; Television on-camera Talent; General Studio Technicians; Video Switchers; Audio Technicians; Non-English Language Translators; Narrators; Videotape Editors; Lighting Director; TV Technical Support Mantenance Technician; Character Generator Operators; and Electronic Graphic Artists. Additionally, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which broadcasts radio and television programming in Spanish to Cuba, is seeking qualified sources for similar free-lance assignments. General Information on these assignments follows: 1) Free-lance assignments are performed on contract basis. 2) Most assignments require working in Washington, D.C. Some assignments require work at the International Broadcasting Bureau studios. 3) Sources may be required to undergo a background security investigation and successfully pass the security clearance process in order to receive work assignments. 4) Contractor candidates must be willing to work on an "as-required" basis. Some broadcasting activities require working irregular hours - such as very early in the morning or late into the evening - depending on the broadcast schedule. 5) Videotape editor candidates should have at least two (2) years experience as a videotape editor in either a commercial or government television production facility, utilizing modern computerized editing systems and videotape machines. 6) Free-lance assignments are requested as needed. The International Broadcasting Bureau makes no guarantees on the amount of work contractors can expect to receive. 7) The Government is obligated to inspect all contractor performed work to insure that it fully satisfies the Government's requirements. The Government is further obligated to reject all work that fails to meet Government-specified requirements. The following criteria, depending on the type of contract services, will be used to evaluate prospective contractors: 1) Radio or television broadcast or Internet news experience, including translating and adapting broadcast scripts. (Note: For broadcasting work, VOA requires that prospective contractors take a voice test. For translation or on-camera work, VOA/Worldnet TV requires that contractors take a translation and/or on-camera test.) 2) Extensive knowledge of the target broadcast language and the ability to adapt English material into the target language. 3) Ability to produce work that demonstrates a keen knowledge of national and international issues. 4) Ability to explain complex issues in clear, logical terms that can be understood by VOA's worldwide audience. 5) Ability to operate highly specialized and complex broadcast television equipment, such as audio consoles, character generators, waveform monitors and vectorscopes, and videotape machines, such as Betacam-SP and U-Matic machines. 6) Highly developed production skills, such as: assembling/coordinating material, monitoring program segments for proper sequencing and integration, ensuring continuity, editing broadcast scripts as necessary, etc. 7) Ability to research, select and prepare material to provide background and highlight key elements of VOA web news reports, prepare and encode multimedia enhancements and, request and coordinate the preparation and encoding of additional streamed media. Ensure compliance with copyright restrictions. 8) Knowledge or principle and practices of journalistic writing and Internet publishing. 9) Typing/word-processing skills. 10) Ability to operate a wide variety of broadcast equipment, including reel-to-reel recorders, audio consoles, disc turntables, cartridge machines, etc. Individuals having the ability to furnish any of the above-stated services should write and request additional information from: International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), Office of Contracts, ATTENTION: Procurement Assistant, Regina B. Shepherd, M/CON, Room 2520, 330 C Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20237.
- Record
- SN00491943-W 20031220/031218211529 (fbodaily.com)
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