SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- DIRECT LOAN ENROLLMENT PROCESS
- Notice Date
- 11/10/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Federal Student Aid, Acquisitions and Contracts Performance, Union Center Plaza, RM 101H4 830 First Street, NE, Washington, DC, 20202-5405
- ZIP Code
- 20202-5405
- Solicitation Number
- FSA-NSLDS-11052004
- Response Due
- 11/29/2004
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items/services prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is a small business set-aside. FAR 52.219-6 applies to this RFP. Proposals submitted from other than a small business source will be rejected. The small business standard is revenue less that $18 million. The North America Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this acquisition is 518210. The U.S. Department of Education (ED), Financial Student Aid (FSA) is seeking an offeror who will collect, manage, and submit enrollment data on Direct Loan borrowers. The offeror will electronically transmit enrollment data from more than two thousands higher education schools on approximately 850,000 Direct Loan borrowers weekly to the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS). These transmissions will be prescribed by ED and the offeror must be prepared to receive a periodic list of Direct Loan borrowers from ED. These files contain the enrollment status of students attending Direct Loan schools. The offeror will provide ED a weekly update of enrollment status information resulting from comparisons carried out during the previous seven days. These weekly electronic reports will contain the data elements and be in such format as described in the NSLDS Enrollment Reporting Guide, dated January 2004. This document can be found under www.ifap.ed.gov. These weekly electronic reports shall be delivered to ED's processing center in Meriden, Connecticut by 10:00 a.m. the second day after the end of the seven-day reporting period. This effort includes: - Collecting enrollment data from Direct Loan schools in a timely manner - Manage the schools to ensure that they are providing all DL borrowers enrollment statutes - Ensure at least 90% update of all rosters - Submit school data weekly to NSLDS in a timely manner - Receive and process submittal files from Direct Loan - Receive, process and return corrected error files to NSLDS in timely manner - Provide FSA with a monthly status report - Distinguish students who graduate from students who withdraw from school Performance Measures: The contractor must propose performance standards to be included in the contract. These performance standards will signify successful delivery for Direct Loan Enrollment process. Vendor Transition: The new Direct Loan Enrollment Process vendor shall provide FSA with a transition work/project plan as part of the proposal. The new Direct Loan Enrollment Process vendor will operate in parallel with current contractor as necessary to ensure that all Direct Loan Enrollment Process functions are fully transitioned in accordance with a pre-defined and approved transition work/project plan. Outgoing and incoming vendor(s) must ensure that no business disruption occurs during the transition of responsibilities process. Submission Of Quote: Proposals under this solicitation are due in hard copy (3 copies) by 1:00 p.m. EST on November 29, 2004. All offerors must also submit their offers in ELECTRONIC FORM by 12:00 midnight of the closing day to: Ms. Janet Mata-Hitz Contracts Specialist U.S. Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid 830 1st Street, NE Room 91C1 Washington, DC 20202 All questions or comments should be e-mailed to the Contracting Officer or Contract Specialist on or before November 18, 2004 at 5:00 p.m. EST. No questions will be accepted after that date. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: 1. Technical approach to that demonstrates the ability to process enrollment data for seventy to eighty percent of the nation's total enrollment 2. Price 3. Past Performance (customer satisfaction and relevance) Technical approach is more important than price that is more important than past performance. Past Performance Information: Provide three past performance references, (2-page limit per reference), of efforts completed in the last three years. Each reference must include the following customer information: - Contract Number (Include Task or Delivery numbers as appropriate) - Organization and address - Delivery Date - Original contract delivery date Final Price - Original Contract Price - Name & Phone Number of contracting officer - Name & Phone Number of official monitoring performance - Describe the type of contract (pricing and structure of contract) - Describe the scope of effort - Describe methodology and tools used. - Describe the challenges in the effort and how they were overcome. - Describe why the effort is considered "successful." It is the responsibility of the Offeror to insure that telephone numbers and points of contact for references are current and accurate. Inability to contact references by FSA may figure negatively in any evaluation of past performance. Technical Proposal 1. The Government will evaluate each offeror's understanding of the Statement of Objectives as evidenced by the proposed technical approach. The Government will examine the offeror's proposal approach to performing the services outlined in Section 4., Scope of Work, of the Direct Loan Enrollment Process Statement of Objectives. 2. The Government will evaluate the likelihood of delivering complete, quality services and the associated deliverables to meet FSA's objectives. Price Proposal ? under separate cover Price a two (2) year base period and two (2) one year options. Price proposal must provide a transaction price or similar pricing methodology including supporting price structure breakdown. Include any incentives and penalties for performance that you wish to propose. FAR 52.212-2, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (Oct 2003) is applicable to this order. The following provisions of FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders-Commercial Items March 04 apply to this acquisition: (b)(5), (b)(14), (b)(16), (b)(17), (b)(18), (b)(19), (b)(20), (b)(31). Vendors must include a completed copy of the provisions at FAR 52.212-3 updated through FAC 2001-24, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with their quote.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC
- Record
- SN00706803-W 20041112/041110211740 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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