99 -- FPI Commercial Services Partnership

Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) announces a partnership with Allied Healthcare Service, LTD (ALLIED) of Merion, OH to transcribe voice recordings of health care professionals into electronic documents. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, ALLIED will provide the training assistance needed to teach inmate workers how to perform medical transcription services and to manage the day-to-day flow of work obtained from customers of ALLIED. FPI shall provide supervision and general oversight of the inmates as they provide medical transcription services to customers of ALLIED. In the conduct of this work, procedures implemented will preclude inmates from having access to personal information about individuals. These services would have been contracted outside of the United States. As such, this is within the operating criteria as defined in public notices regarding FPI's authority to perform commercial market services. These public notices were posted in the on-line edition of the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) on December 22, 1998, and February 22, 1999. These notices also appeared in the December 24, 1998 and February 24, 1999 printed editions of the CBD. Interested Parties have the right to raise questions at any time with FPI's Board of Directors. Any correspondence should be addressed to: Chief Administrative Officer, Research, Activation and Corporate Support, Federal Prison Industries, 320 First Street, NW, Washington, DC 20534.