Loren Data Corp.

'

 
 

COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 7,1996 PSA#1717

Room 6875, JEH-FBI Bldg., 935 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington DC 20535

R -- TRANSLATION SERVICES SOL RFP-7044 POC Luwanna K. Greene, Contract Specialist, 202 324-3319. This Request for Proposal is being modified to reflect it as a commercial item, therefore a commercial item solicitation package will be issued on or about December 2, 1996. Previous requests by requestors for RFP 7044 will be mailed a copy when the solicitation package is released. Therefore, you do not need to request another solicitation. Requests for RFP 7044 shall be in writing and can be mailed to the above address or sent by facsimile to (202) 324-4521, Attention Luwanna K. Greene, no later than 15 calendar days from the date of this notice. Telephonic requests will not be accepted. This is a 1997 procurement and funds are not presently available. The FBI has a requirement for contractors with translation ability in a wide range of languages, including but not limited to: Arabic, Chinese (all dialects), Dutch, Farsi, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. The contractor shall translate into English from a foreign language, the speech and/or writings of non-English speaking individuals and on occasion render from English into a foreign language. The foreign language speech and/or written materials frequently involve technical or non-standard terms in describing ideas, things, persons and places relating to economics, politics, science, including high technology, military concerns, legal matters and social events; including terminology and basic institutional knowledge relating to investigative fields of espionage, narcotics, organized crime and/or terrorism. The place of performance will be in a FBI field office within the contractor's geographical area. Travel may be required by the contractor. Contractors will be reimbursed for travel expenses in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulation's per diem rates. The contractor will be required to testify in court as to the accuracy of the translations. The government contemplates a multiple award labor-hour contract with an initial period of performance with four one-year options. The contractor shall take and pass a yearly audiometer examination. The results of such testing shall be provided to the Contracting Officer and the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative before commencement of work. Evaulation criteria will include but is not limited to: price, past performance, results of audiometer examination, results of Foreign Language Test Battery (FLTB) or an FBI approved equivalent, education, experience, results of background checks and security clearance and United States Citizenship. Background checks and security clearances will be performed on companies and all individuals within the company assigned to this procurement. The scope of the background check and security clearance is at the sole discretion of the FBI. Interested parties are to take the FBI's FLTB or provide the results of another FLTB. The FBI's FLTB is valid for three years. See Numbered Note(s): 1. (0310)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0072 19961106\R-0003.SOL)


R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services Index Page