SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Operating the National Veterans'' Training Institute
- Notice Date
- 3/26/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Procurement Services Center, N5416 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20210-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20210-0001
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-TN-03-13
- Archive Date
- 4/25/2003
- Point of Contact
- Julie Lawrence, Contract Negotiator, Phone (202) 693-4570, Fax (202) 693-4579, - Angel Perez, Chief, Branch of Contract Negotiations/ADP, Phone (202) 693-4570, Fax (202) 693-4579,
- E-Mail Address
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lawrence-julie@dol.gov, perez-angel@dol.gov
- Description
- The Veterans? Employment and Training Service of the United States Department of Labor is seeking a contractor with demonstrated experience in curriculum management to operate it?s National Veterans? Training Institute (NVTI), which is mandated to provide training and serve as a technical resource to the several thousand veterans? employment and training service providers in National and State workforce agencies across the country. In the past several years, the Congress has appropriated approximately $2 million annually to operate the NVTI. Sufficient funds are expected to be appropriated again this year to be able to provide training to approximately 1,350 veterans service providers at a central/residential location, and to an additional 400 veterans service providers through long distance learning training, and/or off-site training. Central/residential training and off-site training will be 28-classroom hour type courses, with an average of 24 trainees per class. The contractor must develop comprehensive curriculum for approximately three new training courses per year, and provide and conduct existing training course curriculum in a variety of subjects specific to and related to veterans employment and training. Contractor must have the accountability and ability to provide formal university/college accreditation for training courses taken by the veterans? employment and training service providers. The contractor must provide and maintain a technical resource center (much of it electronic) for continuing education and to keep veterans? employment and training service providers informed of new developments. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. All interested parties who believe they meet this requirement are invited to submit in writing, within 15 days of this publication of this notice (April 10, 2003), information describing their ability to provide these services. Vendor?s interested in performing this project must submit a Statement of Qualifications/Capabilities Statement which identifies the vendor?s experience in the performance of services the same or similar to the one to be performed. THE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS MUST BE PROVIDED IN TRIPLICATE, AND TRANSMITTED UNDER A COVER LETTER. The cover letter must cite the number of this sources sought (RFI T.N. 03-13), and it must state whether the respondent is a large, small or 8(a) business concern. The NAICS code assigned to this requirement is 611430 with a size standard of $6,000,000.00. Respondents that are small business concerns must also state whether they are small disadvantaged businesses and/or small woman-owned businesses. The closing date for the receipt of responses is April 10, 2003. Please submit all responses to Julie Lawrence at the U.S. Department of Labor, Procurement Services Center, Room N-5416, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20210. The Government reserves the right to compete any acquisition resulting from this survey among small businesses or to make award to an 8(a) firm, based on the responses received. This synopsis is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to pay for the information requested, issue a solicitation, or award a contract. No technical or solicitation documents exist at this time. All firms/organizations that submit responses will be included in the distribution of any subsequent solicitation.
- Record
- SN00288179-W 20030328/030326213322 (fbodaily.com)
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