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B -- REVISING THE CORE SURVEY TO BE A NATIONAL PROBALBILITY SAMPLE SURVEY SOL RFP-98-R-0025 DUE 071798 POC Alice Mihill, Contract Specialist, 202-708-8373 The U.S. Department of Education intends to negotiate with The Core Institute, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 210 Kensnar Hall, Carbondale, IL 62901-6802, on a sole-source basis to administer the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey as a national probability sample. The Core Institute is uniquely qualified to perform this requirement. The Core Institute owns the rights to Core Alcohol and Drug Surveys which has been administered on college campuses since 1998 and are tested, valid, and reliable student use instruments. No other organization can give the Department of Education the rights to modify and administer the Core Survey instruments. The Core surveys are designed specifically to measure alcohol and other drug use in the higher education community. The Core surveys are unique monitoring illicit drug use, drinking, policy enforcement, point of last drink, and student perception of drinking norms which research has shown influences behavior. See Note(s): 22. (0163)

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