SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Early Childhood Initiative-Good Start/Grow Smart
- Notice Date
- 7/3/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-03YSS
- Response Due
- 8/2/2002
- Archive Date
- 8/3/2002
- Point of Contact
- Don Hadrick, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-443-3459, Fax 301-443-3849, - Margaret Kelly, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-443-4988, Fax 301-443-3849,
- E-Mail Address
-
dhadrick@psc.gov, mkelly@psc.gov
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families/Administration on Children, Youth and Families/Head Start Bureau, is seeking capability statements from organization/s with core capability to design and deliver educational training and model coaching for Head Start early language and literacy specialists who coach and mentor teachers of children ages 3 to 5 working in Head Start classrooms and centers. This work is in keeping with the President's Early Childhood Initiative - Good Start, Grow Smart. This White House publication makes clear several priority areas for the Head Start Program. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/earlychildhood/toc.html The training designed and delivered under this work will build upon Head Start's previous and current early language and literacy training through effective coaching and mentoring of Head Start education staff. The influence of this design upon those who coach and mentor is national in scope with state-by-state impact, as well as for the District of Columbia, American Indian programs, Native Alaskan programs, Migrant Head Start programs and others in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Trust Territories. The new organization/s are expected to partner with the Head Start Bureau, Regional Offices, and other organizations that are part of the national training and technical assistance network in order to reach approximately 2,700 Early Literacy Specialists and education managers working in local programs that have increasingly complex cultural and linguistic compositions. In turn, the work of the coaches and mentors will influence and support approximately 50,000 Head Start teachers in skill development and curriculum implementation. Coaching and mentoring shall include, but not be limited to, building effective skills and practices necessary to help children reach Head Start outcomes in: alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, book knowledge, early writing, and other domains of early childhood curricula such as mathematics, in ways that are keeping with the Head Start Program Performance Standards, the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework, and related regulations. Coaching and mentoring support and training services designed and delivered under this procurement will lay additional groundwork for future efforts designed to implement other initiatives and priorities for Head Start programs nationwide. The anticipated period of performance for this contract is undetermined. Interested Small Business organizations should submit two (2) copies of their capability statement. See Numbered Note 25. No facsimile. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND DOES NOT COMMIT THE GOVERNMENT TO AWARD A CONTRACT NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. BASED ON CAPABILITY STATEMENTS RECEIVED FROM THIS SOURCES SOUGHT, THIS ACQUISITION MAY BE SOLICITED AS A 100% SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE.
- Record
- SN00110627-W 20020705/020704052241 (fbodaily.com)
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