US to Infuse Technology and Equipment in Schools -- but Not Where You May Think
While Schools Across US Struggle with Budgets, Federal Government Funds Foreign Education Ministries
That's correct. The Middle Eastern nation of Jordan .
According to documents that this writer located through a routine search of the Federal Business Opportunities database, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is reviewing bids from contractors to supply the Jordan Ministry of Education with extra technological and logistical tools to carry out its educational mission. In addition to providing tens of thousands of desks, chairs, curtains, shelves, gym wall-pads and lockers for students, the project also will equip school administrators with new office furniture.
The Jordan Schools Construction and Rehabilitation Project, as the USAID initiative formally is known, additionally will offer a classroom-electronics bonanza for the Jordanian people. According to the official Request for Proposals (RFP), this segment of the project entails: 1,004 student computers, 302 teacher computers, 152 student laptops, 553 teacher laptops, 131 interactive white boards with projectors, and 276 microscopes-not to mention dozens of stoves, refrigerators, hot plates and cleaning machines.
USAID tentatively plans to award contracts by April 15, the document says. The agency expects to have the equipment "delivered and installed," it says, by June 15 to the following facilities: Saed Bin Abi Wakas Basic Boys School, Hay Aj-Janobi Basic Boys School, Madaba Basic Co. School, and Jabal Tareq Basic Boys School . July 1 is the slated delivery and installation date for Ezz Ad-Dien Qassam Basic Co. School, Um Qsir Basic Boys School, Sahab Basic Boys School, Shajarat Ad Dur Basic Co. School, Abdel Muneam Reyadh Basic Boys School, Dahiet Ameer Hassan Basic Co. School, Al Qadesiah Sec. Girls School, and Al Qadesiah Sec. Co. School. The Safeiah Basic Co. School is the final school scheduled to receive the equipment, with a final delivery and installation date of August 10.
USAID did not disclose the estimated value of the project.
FedBizOpps.gov, "Furniture and Equipment for 13 Schools in Jordan" (Solicitation Number: Tender1US-2011), retrieved March 25, 2011
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