SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- Educational support services
- Notice Date
- 8/15/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 611710
— Educational Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Bureau of Indian Affairs, Albuquerque Acquisition Office, 1001Indian<br />
- ZIP Code
- 87104
- Solicitation Number
- RMK0E080056
- Response Due
- 8/21/2008
- Archive Date
- 9/21/2008
- Point of Contact
- Freddie Cardenas, education specialist, (505) 554-4010; MichaelPerry,<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial servicesprepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 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 solicitation, RMK0E0090056, is issued as a Request for Quotations (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2001-03. The North American Industry Classification Code is 611710, and the business size maximum is $6.5 million. All contractors conducting business with the federal government must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. Potential contractors may register at www.ccr.gov. DESCRIPTION: The contractor will be required to: (1.) create customized courses that will integrate Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) frameworks, resources and curriculum. Customization will include organizational branding and the creation of folders of additional resources and activities specific to BIE curricula; (2.) create a team of online course facilitators drawn from BIE schools and American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). Deliver training workshops (train the trainer) for 25 BIE Online Course facilitators, including preparations, materials, travel expenses. Provide followup services; (3.) Design and deliver blended professional development workshops for BIE educators and embed face-to-face introductory sessions within online, inquiry-based courses; (4.) Collaborate to establish for-credit options for BIE teachers either through AIHEC or other existing higher educational credit-granting agencies; (5.) Propose that the converted online courses will be hosted and supported by the Bureau of Indian Education. Provide assistance and collaborate with technical staff from BIE; (6.) Create and implement a formative evaluation of this pilot project through online surveys and focus groups; (7.) Collaborate on the creation of an advisory team of BIE educators to provide feedback and guidance to this pilot project; (8.) Attend and present at national and local meetings. Interested contractors are asked to submit price quotations for the following: (1.) Course Adaptation: create customized versions of six existing Teachers Domain online courses; integrate BIE frameworks, resources, and curriculum, One Job at $_____; (2.) Professional Development Activities, One Job at $_____; (3.) Administration, One Job at $______; (4.) Evaluation, One Job at $_______; (5.) Technical consulting and support, One Job at $______. It is anticipated this contract will be awarded with a base year with four one-year options for renewal. Offerors are asked to provide their rates for the base and four option years to provide this service and to respond to the Evaluation Factors delineated below. EVALUATION FACTORS: The Bureau of Indian Affairs will award a contract to the responsible contractor whose offer conforming to this announcement will be most advantageous to the government, price and other factors considered. The following evaluation factors will be used to evaluate offerors responses to the evaluation factors: (1.) Offeror is a nationally recognized producer of media-based resources to support teaching and learning for pre-college and collegiate students and teachers. Focusing on both content and methodology at all grade levels, the offeror will have extensive experience with effective standards-based teaching in classrooms across the country, targeting the subject areas of science, mathematics, reading, social studies, and foreign languages, and addressing such persistent challenges as assessment, learning disabilities, and school reform; (2.) Offeror will be an industry leader in experimenting with new and emerging technologies for educational purposes, specializing in creating original and compelling multimedia solutions for any learning situation, with demonstrated expertise in project management, content organization, navigational and graphic design, video and audio production, and programming for the Web and other interactive media. Offeror must show proven experience in technology and design solutions to present sophisticated concepts that are easy to navigate and comprehend, including different types of interactive environments from DVD-ROMS and text-based discussion forums to online commerce, database-backed dynamic sites, and rich media broadband games and learning environments; (3.) Offeror must display proven ability to create and support a digital library of rich media resources and online training courses that support standards-based teaching and learning, K-12, and features self-contained, originally produced video modules targeted to the topics commonly taught within the K-12 curriculum; (4.) Offeror must display successful experience in designing and delivering online professional development services, including the training of online facilitators and the support of online course delivery. Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than price. Price shall be considered when the offers are judged as offering technically equivalent capabilities or if a price is so high as to diminish the value of an otherwise superior quotation. Contractors are asked to submit two copies of separate price quotations and technical responses to the following address. Quotes will be submitted in writng and signed by an individual with the authority to bind their respective company. Please send your offers to: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Albuquerque Acquisition Office, Pete V. Domenici Office Building, 1001 Indian School Rd., N.W., Suite 347, Albuquerque, NM 87104; Attention: Michael Perry, contracting officer. Responses may be hand-delivered, faxed at (595) 563-3030, or delivered via overnight carrier (e.g. Federal Express, UPS, Inc.) to Mr. Perrys attention at the above address, and will be accepted until 2 p.m., August 15, 2008. Please include your TAX ID Number, CAGE Number (obtain at www.ccr.gov) and DUNS Number when submitting your offer. This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions by reference with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. The provisions at FAR 52.2, Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications apply to this acquisition. Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certification/Commercial Items with their offer. If the offeror does not have a copy of this provision, it may be obtained through www.arnet.gov or by contacting the Contracting Officer to receive a copy. Provision FAR 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions incorporated by reference; FAR 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders Commercial Items; FAR 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government; FAR 52.219-4, Limitations on Subcontracting; FAR 52.222-3, Convict Labor; FAR 52.233-3, Protest After Award; FAR 52.225-16, Sanctioned European Union Country Services; FAR 52.232-6, Payment by Third Party; FAR 52.239-1, Privacy or Security Safeguards; FAR 52.214.64, Preference for Privately-Owned U.S. Flag Commercial Vessels; FAR 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans of the Vietnam Era; FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer Central Contractor Registration; FAR 52.222-46, Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees; FAR 52.243-1, Changes Fixed-Price (Alt I); FAR 52.242-15, Stop Work Order; FAR 52.242-17, Government Delay of Work; Department of Interior Acquisition Regulation (DIAR) 1452.226-70 Indian Preference; DIAR 1452.226-71, Indian Preference Program; DIAR 1452.204-70, Release of Claims; FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services (paragraph one; 15 days), FAR 52.217-9, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (paragraph (a) 15 days in both blank spaces) (Paragraph 48 months); FAR 52.217-3, Evaluation Exclusive of Options; and FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation, are all incorporated by reference herein.
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