SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Analytic Technical Assistance and Development for National Center for Education Evaluation (NCEE) - Draft Performance Work Statement
- Notice Date
- 11/10/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, District of Columbia, 20202
- ZIP Code
- 20202
- Solicitation Number
- ieste120015
- Archive Date
- 12/8/2011
- Point of Contact
- Brenda K. Jefferson, Phone: 202-245-6180, Pamela W. Bone, Phone: 202-245-6181
- E-Mail Address
-
brenda.jefferson@ed.gov, Pamela.Bone@ed.gov
(brenda.jefferson@ed.gov, Pamela.Bone@ed.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Draft Performance Work Statement The U.S. Department of Education is conducting market research from small businesses. This is a small business set aside. A Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) is attached for reference. The purpose of this notice is 1) to inform industry of this procurement, 2) to provide a draft copy of the Performance Work Statement, and 3) to request information. The Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), intends to award a contract to provide technical support and analytic guidance that will strengthen the work of the National Center for Education Evaluation (NCEE) and its contractors, including the ten expected Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs). This will be a 24 month contract with three option years (12 months each). The support required for NCEE and its contractors will include: • Producing an inventory of existing NCEE guidance materials and resource documents and subsequently editing these materials and documents to meet NCEE's current needs, or developing new materials and documents; • Designing and carrying out training focused on: NCEE's expectations for research quality; approaches to conducting research on newly relevant topics or emerging data sources; state-of-the-art and cost-effective research practices; methods for clearly and accurately representing and communicating data; and dissemination of results to educators; • Authoring analytic and methods oriented work that will provide exemplars or "primers" on emerging topics or methods most relevant to NCEE's evaluation division and the RELs, and that will be of value to education researchers generally. A core audience for this support work will be the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs). The primary mission of the 2012-2017 RELs is to help states and districts systematically use data and analysis to answer important issues of policy and practice with the goal of improving student outcomes. Each REL will build research capacity and a knowledge base in states and districts by: • Assisting states, districts, and schools in using their data systems; • Conducting and supporting high quality research and evaluation analyses that focus on a few key topics; and • Helping education policy makers and practitioners incorporate data-based inquiry practices into regular decision-making. In response to this draft PWS, the Department requests small businesses to submit any questions or suggestions they may have regarding the draft PWS. In addition, the Department requests the following information: please suggest your choice of contract type - for the contract overall and/or per task, are you interested in submitting a proposal, do you have an accounting system that is adequate for determining costs applicable to a contract, and how can the Department make this procurement successful? Submit all responses electronically to Brenda.Jefferson@ed.gov.
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- Record
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