SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Quality Assurance of the National Assessment of Educational Progress - Webinar presentation - DRAFT PWS
- Notice Date
- 10/31/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- 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
- ED-IES-13-Q-0024
- Point of Contact
- Natasha Boyce, Phone: 202-245-6128, Michele E Moore, Phone: 2022456194
- E-Mail Address
-
Natasha.Boyce@ed.gov, Michele.Moore@ed.gov
(Natasha.Boyce@ed.gov, Michele.Moore@ed.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft Performance Work Statement Webinar presentation The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is hosting a Vendor Collaboration Webinar Event to provide pertinent details regarding a new Fiscal Year 2014 procurement: Quality Assurance of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); on behalf of the Departments' Institute for Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The Department's intent is to host a Webinar during which interested parties and potential offerors can obtain key information on the requirement, to allow for a robust understanding of the respective requirement in their entirety, and to obtain valuable feedback from industry. A brief overview of the requirement is provided below. Requirements Overview Solicitation Number ED-IES-13-Q-0024 - Quality Assurance of the National Assessment of Educational Progress; NAICS Code: 541618 (Other Management Consulting Services) Anticipated Acquisition Strategy: GSA MOBIS 874-1 Consulting Services Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price Period of Performance: 12-month Base Period and four 12-month Option Periods that would ultimately result in a 60 month period of performance (if all Option Periods exercised). The purpose of the Quality Assurance of NAEP Processes contract is to provide a formative evaluation of NAEP. The Department is seeking a contractor who will serve as partner to NCES by providing programmatic feedback for the continuous improvement and enhancement of the NAEP program. The Quality Assurance Contractor will assist NCES in identifying any weaknesses or flaws in the critical path of NAEP and will make recommendations for strengthening NAEP processes. The Department expects the contractor to utilize valuable information gained from the NAEP-QA projects over the last 10 years, which includes recommendations from a review of past problems, analyses of NAEP processes, various operational site visits, and many small-scale studies of specific NAEP processes. Specifically, this requirement calls for a review of program methods and analyses to assist with programmatic strategic planning, analysis of NAEP processes, site visits of various NAEP operations and processes, study of NAEP operations and processes, and other general quality assurance activities. The "NCES Vendor Collaboration Webinar Details and Logistics" details regarding this webinar event are the following: Topic: Quality Assurance of the National Assessment of Educational Progress Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Meeting Number: 274 226 677 Meeting Password: naep ------------------------------------------------------- To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://educate.webex.com/educate/j.php?ED=32434458&UID=0&PW=NMjRhZjNmMGVk&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D 2. If requested, enter your name and email address. 3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: naep 4. Click "Join". To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link: https://educate.webex.com/educate/j.php?ED=32434458&UID=0&PW=NMjRhZjNmMGVk&ORT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D ------------------------------------------------------- To join the teleconference only ------------------------------------------------------- Conference Number: 800-369-1973 Participant passcode: 6395788 ------------------------------------------------------- For assistance ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://educate.webex.com/educate/mc 2. On the left navigation bar, click "Support". To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook), click this link: https://educate.webex.com/educate/j.php?ED=32434458&UID=0&ICS=MI&LD=1&RD=2&ST=1&SHA2=N9tWUhja3AVygZdZXeZ2LPlyvykrApGewj2DKjXI9Jo=&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D The playback of UCF (Universal Communications Format) rich media files requires appropriate players. To view this type of rich media files in the meeting, please check whether you have the players installed on your computer by going to https://educate.webex.com/educate/systemdiagnosis.php. Sign up for a free trial of WebEx http://www.webex.com/go/mcemfreetrial http://www.webex.com
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- Record
- SN03225365-W 20131102/131031234255-583998380c8aa95d92ccb4f1682ee42c (fbodaily.com)
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