Request_for_Information_(RFI)_for_Proofreading_and_Editing_3-8-13.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

for

PROOFREADING/EDITING/INDEXING

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The General Services Administration (GSA)/Central Contracting Office on behalf of the Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP)/Office of the Regulatory

Information Service Center is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to seek contractors who can provide onsite proofreading, editing, data entry, and indexing

( not onsite) the spring editions of the Unified Agenda and the fall editions of the

Unified Agenda, which includes The Regulatory Plan.

2.0 BACKGROUND

RISC compiles information submitted by approximately 60 Federal departments and agencies on current and planned regulatory activity, for publication in the semiannual Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions

(Unified Agenda) each spring and fall. Each year, the Fall edition of the Unified

Agenda includes The Regulatory Plan, which contains more detailed information about the most important regulatory actions. These publications are disseminated in a limited printed format in the Federal Register and in an electronic format that is available through the Internet. To support this activity, RISC created the ROCIS

(Regulatory Information Service Center/Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs Consolidated Information System, which it has used to gather and compile the necessary information and to edit and prepare that information for publication.

This activity enables Federal agencies to comply with the agenda and regulatory plan requirements of Executive Order 12866. Executive Order 12866 also assigns to

OIRA the role of reviewing and coordinating Federal regulatory activity. Agency regulations are required to be reviewed by OIRA under this is Executive Order, and that function is performed in the ROCIS system.

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, OIRA is responsible for reviewing and approving information collections used by Federal agencies to collect information from the public. Using the ROCIS System, agencies submit information collection requests to OIRA for review.

RegInfo.gov is a United States Government website produced by OMB and GSA.

3.0 PURPOSES

The purpose of this RFI is to have contractors to provide responses to the following questions:

Can you provide a two person team with experience in reading aloud and proofreading on-site during the period of March – July 2013 and Aug – Dec

2013?

Are you familiar with the Government Printing Office (GPO) Styleguide?

Are you familiar with the Federal Register Thesaurus of Indexing Terms?

Are you familiar with the Regulatory Information Service Center, Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs Consolidated Information System

(ROCIS) system?

Can you provide a data entry person during the period of March – July 2013 and Aug – Dec 2013?

4.0 FORMAT for RESPONSE

Please limit your response to the questions to no more than one page for each question. The total number of pages should not exceed 5 pages. If more space is needed it can be taken from questions with less than one page answers twelve (12) months after contract expiration.

5.0 Questions Regarding this Request For Information

All questions shall be submitted via- email to the Contracting Officer, Jean Wright, at jean.wright@gsa.gov no later than 12:00noon Monday, March 11, 2012. No questions will be accepted by telephone.

6.0 SUBMISSION for RESPONSE

The submission date for the RFI is Wednesday, March 13, 2013 by12noon.est.time. Submission should be submitted via email to Jean Wright, Contracting Officer at jean.wright@gsa.gov using Microsoft Word or PDF attachments.

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