SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Career Technical Training and Placement Services in the Following Areas: Rail Passenger, Freight Services, Date Entry, Airline and Highway Services for the Job Corps Program
- Notice Date
- 12/7/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611513
— Apprenticeship Training
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Employment Training Administration, Division of Job Corps Procurement Oversight - Technical &Training Branch, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N-4308, Washington, District of Columbia, 20210, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20210
- Solicitation Number
- DOL121RI20440
- Archive Date
- 1/5/2012
- Point of Contact
- Vera R Montague, Phone: (202) 693-3318, Marissa G. Delacerna, Phone: (202) 693-3661
- E-Mail Address
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montague.vera@dol.gov, delacerna.marissa@dol.gov
(montague.vera@dol.gov, delacerna.marissa@dol.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Labor is searching for a training contractor who has the qualifications and experience to operate comprehensive training and placement services to students in the transportation industry at numerous career technical training facilities throughout the country. Job Corps is a national training program that provides comprehensive academic, residential and career technical training services to more than 60,000 disadvantaged youth each year at 125 Job Corps Centers nationwide. The chosen training provider will be expected to deliver the following contracted services: 1. Operate transportation-related training programs, covering the following areas: Rail Passenger Clerk, Rail Freight Service Worker, Data Entry Clerk, Machinist (rail), Airline Service Worker, Freight Clerk, Mass Transportation/Highway Service Worker, and Information Processing Specialist, at a minimum of 8 sites nationally serving approximately 400 trainees, in accordance with policy and requirements stipulated by the National Office of Job Corps, U.S. Department of Labor. The training program will cover the following key technical training areas: • Safety • City Codes (Rail and Air) • Reservations and Sales • Customer Service • Transportation History • Rail, Track Tools and Basic Equipment • Rail Freight Service • Rail Passenger Service • Rail Machinist and Service • Mass Transit/Highway Service • Mass Transit Zones and Station Codes • Mass Transit Fare Structure • Green Mass Transportation • Mass Transit Fares • Information Processing (Data Entry, Spreadsheets and Word Processing) • Routing • Rail Signals/Switch Controls • Rail Air Breaks • Airline Equipment • Airline Technology • Zones and Station Codes • Construction and Timetables 2. Conduct Career-Technical Training (CTT) at specified Job Corps Centers using Training Achievement Records (TARs) and supporting curricular materials developed by the chosen training provider and approved by the National Office of Job Corps. 3. Place graduates into registered apprenticeship programs or entry-level jobs with career-advancement potential in the transportation industry. 4. Provide active and graduating students with career-transition services that lead to quality job placements. The career-transition services include, but are not limited to, assisting students with job interviews, housing, child care, and transportation to work sites. Entities interested in this contract must have the following minimum qualifications: 1. Know, support, and implement the policies, requirements, structure, and operating procedures of the Job Corps program. 2. Have proven affiliation or strong connections with national unions or industry organizations that have nationwide networks of major employers and businesses in the designated training areas and the broader transportation industry. Such nationwide networks will promote work-based learning and job-placement opportunities for active and graduating students. 3. Have proven ability to develop and update TARs and supporting materials in the aforementioned technical areas and beyond. The TARs and supporting materials must be aligned with the latest apprenticeship-training or industry-skills standards in the various technical areas. The alignment must be verified in writing by accreditation agencies or by major employers. The TARs and supporting materials must also incorporate the latest and relevant green-technology knowledge and practices endorsed by national environmental-standards organizations or by major employers in the transportation industry. 4. Have proven ability to hire and retain experienced instructors who are journeyman-level professionals in the fields they will teach and who possess career technical teaching credentials, as applicable. Additionally, have the staffing capacity to maintain a pipeline of qualified, credentialed instructors that can be available to quickly fill positions as vacancies arise, regardless of location. 5. Have proven capacity to provide additional career-transition services to graduates and graduating students and to coordinate with the placement efforts by Job Corps career-transition personnel. The career-transition services may include assistance with job interviews, temporary housing, child care, buying a car, and transportation to work sites. Responses will be evaluated using all of the following criteria: 1. The interested entity's past history of providing career-technical training programs to economically disadvantaged youth. 2. Level of familiarity with the Job Corps program. 3. Affiliation with registered-apprenticeship programs or employers in the designated training programs and the transportation industry at the national, regional, and local levels. 4. Ability to deliver existing training curricula and develop new or upgrade training curricula that align with the latest apprenticeship training or industry-skills standards, including incorporation of green technologies. 5. Quality of existing instructional staff. No cost proposal is required for the response to this solicitation. All future information about this sources sought, including amendments, if any, will be distributed solely through the General Services Administrations Federal Business Opportunities website at www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure you have the most-up-to-date information about this notice. This Notice is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government to issue a Request for Proposals or award a contract. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses, nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Sources responding to this Sources Sought Notice should submit the minimum information necessary for the government to make a determination that the source is capable of satisfying the requirements. The response must be specific to each of the criteria listed above to demonstrate that the respondent is capable. The submissions shall not exceed 20 pages. All interested parties are invited to submit a capabilities statement to Ms. Vera Montague, Contracting Specialist, Division of Job Corps, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N4308, Washington, DC 20210. Responses are due December 21, 2011, by 2 p.m. EST. Electronic copies of capability statements are preferred and may be e-mailed to montague.vera@dol.gov. Acknowledgment of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of the Government's evaluation of the information received. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition is within the discretion of the Government. Please be advised that telephone inquiries will not be accepted. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. Please Note: All prospective offerors interested in obtaining a contract award with the Government must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. The website for registration is www.ccr.gov. Contracting Office Address: U.S. Department of Labor Office of Contract Management/ETA Room N-4308 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20210-0001 Place of Performance: Nationwide
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,, District of Columbia, 20210, United States
- Zip Code: 20210
- Zip Code: 20210
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