sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunNews: SunFed Protest, Sun Foundation Grants SunFLASH Vol 61 #17 January 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.17 SunNews: SunFed Protest, Sun Foundation Grants (2 articles , 175 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts 61.17.A SunFed Files Protest with GAO SunFed, originally awarded the NSA HPW2 contract, filed a formal protest with the Government Accounting Office (GAO) challenging the rebid of the procurement. (30 lines) 61.17.B Corporate Grants The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., has renewed funding for a successful program that provides electronic assembly job training to low-income, limited-English-speaking immigrants and refugees in the Fremont/Newark area. Other grants were awarded too. (99 lines) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Details ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 61.17.A Subject: SunFed Files Protest with GAO If you have questions regarding this announcement, please contact John Leahy at (703) 204-4818. SUN FEDERAL FILES AGENCY PROTEST WITH THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE Company Challenges "Round Two" of the NSA-HPW2 Workstation Procurement VIENNA, Virg. -- January 12, 1994 -- On Jan. 7, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., the original awardee of the National Security Agency (NSA) HPW2 (High Performance Workstation) contract, filed a formal protest with the Government Accounting Office (GAO) challenging the rebid of the procurement. It is Sun Federal's contention that the Maryland Procurement Office (MPO) has violated Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) by substantially changing the requirements of the original solicitation. The company is asking the GAO to direct the MPO to cancel this solicitation and issue a new specification based on current requirements. Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., is the leading vendor of open client-server computing solutions to the government. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Milpitas, Calif. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 61.17.B Subject: Corporate Grants Sun Microsystems Foundation Funds Program That Provides Electronic Assembly Training To Immigrants Nonprofit Groups Receive $250,000 for Community Development MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif - January 19, 1994 - The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., has renewed funding for a successful program that provides electronic assembly job training to low-income, limited-English-speaking immigrants and refugees in the Fremont/Newark area. In its fourth year of support for Catholic Charities of the East Bay, the foundation has awarded it $42,500. The funds will help support a three-month training program in which trainees will take such courses as Introduction to Basic Electronics, Test Instruments, AC Electronics, Hardware and Soldering. The program trains 40 low-income refugees and immigrants not on public assistance, a population for which publicly subsidized job training is not available. Over the course of the four years that the foundation has supported this program, the curriculum has been revised to include higher technical skills in response to the demands of the current job market. "Through this electronics assembly training, we are able to target a population that can truly benefit from learning technical skills. And because we also offer English instruction, our students really have done well in terms of job placements," said Barbara Racek of Catholic Charities of the East Bay. The foundation also announced that it has made $207,500 in community development grants to six other organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Merrimack Valley north of Boston, the two regions in which Sun Microsystems has its largest operations. These grants bring the total value of the grants made today to $250,000. Total contributions from both Sun and the foundation now exceed $3.5 million since the grants program was established in April 1990. Foundation grants focus on four specific community development areas: education, job training, leadership development and business enterprise development. Foundation Grants to San Francisco, Boston Nonprofit Organizations In addition to the grant to Catholic Charities of the East Bay, the foundation has donated $127,500 to community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Sun's headquarters is locateda. The recipients are: * California Conservation Corps (CCC) ($35,000), Santa Clara, Calif., for a program that provides job advancement skills for positions within the CCC for 120 low-income young adults; * East Palo Alto Youth Development Center ($50,000), East Palo Alto, Calif., to continue support for "Hispanic Mentor Advocates," a program that motivates Hispanic students to stay in school and go to college; * San Jose City College ($30,000), San Jose, Calif., for "Students Undertaking Career Control and Economic Self-Sufficiency (SUCCESS)," to increase the job placement rate of economically and educationally disadvantaged students completing one of 23 vocational training programs at San Jose City College; * Viola Blythe Community Service Center ($12,500), Newark, Calif., continues funding for the "Camino Nuevo (A New Road) Project," which works with promising Hispanic students to make high school graduation and a college education a reality. In the greater Merrimack Valley north of Boston, Massachusetts, the foundation awarded $80,000 to: * Community Action, Inc. ($42,092), Haverhill, Mass., to continue funding for the fourth year for the "Higher Education Resource Center (HERC)," which helps minority and welfare families with outreach programs and resources to help students pursue higher education; * Working Capital ($37,908), Lawrence, Mass., to continue funding for a business enterprise development program that supports the growth of low-income and minority entrepreneurs by extending business credit through peer lending groups. Organizations interested in receiving grants from the foundation submit proposals that are screened by a team of Sun employees. This team includes both management and non-management staff. Recommendations for funding are then submitted to the foundation for consideration. Currently, the foundation awards grants primarily to organizations in the areas where Sun has its major facilities: the south San Francisco Bay Area, the Merrimack Valley north of Boston and the United Kingdom. The Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization, was formed in December 1990 by Sun Microsystems as a vehicle to share the company's success with - and support the economic development of - the communities where Sun employees live and work worldwide. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 60.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. 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