SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- On-line Training – Various Courses - SF 1449 - Attachment B - Attachment A
- Notice Date
- 6/4/2015
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 611420
— Computer Training
- Contracting Office
- Broadcasting Board of Governors, Director, Office of Contracts, Office of Contracts (CON), 330 C Street, SW, Room 4300, Washington, District of Columbia, 20237, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20237
- Solicitation Number
- BBG50-R-15-0036
- Archive Date
- 7/29/2015
- Point of Contact
- Myria Carpenter, Fax: 2023827870, Herman Shaw, Fax: (202) 382-7870
- E-Mail Address
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mecarpen@bbg.gov, hshaw@bbg.gov
(mecarpen@bbg.gov, hshaw@bbg.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Attachment A Attachment B SF 1449 (i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items 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; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. (ii) Solicitation No. BBG50-R-15-0036 is issued as a Request For Proposal (RFP) for a Firm-Fixed -Price Commercial Item contract that will be awarded using the contracting by negotiation procedures in FAR Part 15. (iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect from the Federal Acquisition Regulations 2005-82, dated May 7, 2015. (iv) This is a full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 611420. (v) The Contractor shall provide the following Contract Line Item (CLIN): Provide broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses that are hosted by the Contractor that can be linked to the BBG’s Learning Management System (LMS), AgLearn. (vi) The BBG’s requirement is for a Contractor to provide a library of broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses to BBG’s 1550 Full-time employees (FTEs). The Contractor will provide BBG with access to all of its online courses through a single website portal. The Contractor’s catalog of courses must include a large number of relevant broadcast and multimedia (audio, video, web, and social media) related courses. The Contractor must allow for agency managing and monitoring of learning activities, while simplifying the end user experience. The Contractor must facilitate ease of student enrollment, provide enrollment and completion data for all courses and participants, and allow connectivity of the library of courses to BBG’s Learning Management System (LMS) in order for BBG Full time employees (FTEs) to select courses related to their Individual Development Plan (IDP). See Attachment B entitled “Statement of Objectives” for more details. (vii) The period of performance is a base period from date of award for 365 days, with an option to extend for four (4) additional one-year periods at the discretion of the Government subject to the availability of funding. The subsequent Option Periods and Continuity of Services clause (if exercised) will follow sequentially for a total contract duration not to exceed sixty-three (63) months. (viii) The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision FAR 52.212-1 Instruction to Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation. Full text of all FAR clauses and provisions are available electronically at the following Internet address: (http://www.arnet.gov/far). Interested offerors who are capable of providing broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses the services should submit a proposal demonstrating their ability and experience in providing the required services. INTERESTED OFFERORS RESPONDING TO THIS SOLICITATION SHALL SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING ITEMS TO THE CONTRACTING OFFICER: (1) a Technical Proposal which addresses the technical factors described below in (ix) and (2) and a Price Proposal in accordance with (ix). The Price Proposal must contain a copy of the attached SF 1449 and Attachment A entitled “Service and Price Schedule” which must be filled out by the interested contractor. The Government plans to award without discussions, but may conduct discussions if it deems it is in the Government’s best interest. (ix) The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation. The Government will award a Commercial Item, Firm-Fixed-Price, contract resulting from this RFP to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the RFP will provide the best value to the Government, based on course catalog offerings, user accessibility, administrator accessibility, experience, past performance and price. The following factors listed in descending order of importance shall be addressed in the technical proposals and shall be used to evaluate proposals: a.) COURSE CATALOG - The Offeror’s course catalog should be available online for review. Potential offerors must provide access for a review of the course content. The Offeror’s provided catalog of courses must include broadcast media appropriate application courses including, but not limited to Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, and Photoshop. There should be courses on Audio Production, Video production as well as photography and videography techniques. The Offeror should also have Information Technology (IT) related on-line courses such as web development, business applications (Excel, Word, SharePoint, Outlook, and Skype for Business) and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, etc.). There should be “how to” courses on the use of mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones, especially as applied to news gathering. There should also be a selection of leadership and management courses. There should be Project Management courses with certifiable Project Management Institute (PMI) credit. The online course offerings must include all widely used versions as well as the latest industry versions of the software. Courses are kept up-to-date and relevant within industries standards and available technology; b.) USER ACCESSIBILITY: Courses need be accessible on computers, tablets, and mobile devices and allow connectivity of the library of courses to the BBG’s LMS. The courses should have the capability of switching back and forth between devices seamlessly, keeping track of where a person left off in a course. This supports BBG’s work from anywhere and telework initiatives. In addition, the courses must be American with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessible; c.) ADMINISTRATOR ACCESSIBILITY: The BBG Administrator shall have access to the student records. Administrator can run reports to measure adoption, achievement, and time spent on the course and track completed courses. Preferably, this will be accomplished by making all data available through BBG’s LMS. Students will also have full access to their records, including all their completed, scheduled, and planned training activities. Student should be able to create and save lists of courses to facilitate IDP and agency recommended competency models; d.) EXPERIENCE - The Offeror shall provide recent examples (with the past three (3) years) demonstrating its experience in providing the services required under this Solicitation to Governmental and/or commercial customers. The Offeror shall have demonstrated experience in regularly being engaged in providing a library of broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses to Governmental and/or commercial customers and e) PAST PERFORMANCE: The Offeror’s Technical proposal shall contain detailed information on past performance and relevant contracts for same and/or similar services with a minimum of three (3) references including contract numbers, points of contact with telephone numbers and email addresses (i.e., the point of contact who can verify performance). The BBG shall evaluate the Offeror’s Past Performance pursuant to FAR 15.305(a)(2). Each Offeror’s Past Performance shall be determined to be favorable or unfavorable. Pursuant to FAR 15.305(a) (2) (iv), in the case of an Offeror without a record of relevant past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available, the Offeror will not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance and e) PRICE: Interested offerors shall provide a Separate Price Proposal showing a price breakdown for the CLIN above. The Contractor must offer a single price for an annual subscription to their entire catalog for access to BBG’s approximately 1,550 employees. There shall be no additional costs for administration, enrolling in courses, or downloading exercise materials. The prices shall be provided in English and United States dollars. The Price Proposal must contain Attachment A entitled “Service and Price Schedule” which must be filled out by the offeror and a signed copy of the SF 1449 which is attached to this notice. Offerors are cautioned that failure to address each of the above evaluation factors may deem their proposal unacceptable. (x) Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items with its offer. Offerors may either submit a paper copy of FAR Clause 52.212-3 or submit this information through the System of Award Management (SAM) at HTTPS://WWW.SAM.GOV/PORTAL/PUBLIC/SAM/. Proposals must also include contractor's DUNS Number, prompt payment terms, and correct remittance address, if different from mailing address. THE SUCCESSFUL OFFEROR MUST BE REGISTERED ONLINE IN THE SAM WEB SITE PRIOR TO CONTRACT AWARD. (xi) The FAR clause 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition with addendum to the clause. The addendum in addition to the language contained in Attachment B is as follows: CONTRACTING OFFICER’S REPRESENTATIVE The Contracting Officer will appoint by letter a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) who will have the responsibility of ensuring that the work performed by the Contractor conforms to the requirements of the contract and such other responsibilities and authorities as may be specified in the letter of authorization or in this contract. It is understood and agreed, in particular, that the COR shall not have the authority to make changes to the scope or terms and conditions of the contract unless and only to the extent that such authority is specified in the letter of authorization or in the contract. THE CONTRACTOR IS HEREBY FOREWARNED THAT, ABSENT THE REQUISITE AUTHORITY OF THE CONTRACTING OFFICER’S REPRESENTATIVE (COR) TO MAKE ANY SUCH CHANGES, IT MAY BE HELD FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CHANGES NOT AUTHORIZED IN ADVANCE, IN WRITING, BY THE CONTRACTING OFFICER; MAY BE DENIED COMPENSATION OR OTHER RELIEF FOR ANY ADDITIONAL WORK PERFORMED THAT IS NOT SO AUTHORIZED; AND MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED, AT NO ADDITIONAL COSTS TO THE GOVERNMENT, TO TAKE ALL CORRECTIVE ACTION NECESSITATED BY REASON OF THE UNAUTHORIZED CHANGES. (End of Clause) CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION The Contractor shall designate below a company official whom the BBG may contact during the period of performance of this contract for prompt contract administration: NAME: TITLE: ADDRESS: E-MAIL: PHONE: FACSIMILE: The Contractor shall also designate below a company official responsible for reviewing performance evaluation entered into the Contractor performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS). NAME: TITLE: ADDRESS: E-MAIL: PHONE: FACSIMILE: INVOICE SUBMISSION (a) The Contractor shall submit an original monthly invoice to the COR via email. The COR will be identified at the time of award. (b) The Contractor’s quarterly invoice shall list: (1) name and address of Contractor, (2) invoice date and invoice number, (3) BBG contract number (e.g., BBG50-C-15-0000) and (4) the number of deliverables submitted and accepted. (c) Pursuant to the Prompt Payment Act, the BBG will pay the invoice within 30 days of either: (1) receipt of the invoice or (2) acceptance of deliverables; whichever is later. Note No. 1: The BBG intends to change its current invoicing procedures to the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) system. The Contractor may be required in the future to register and submit invoices through the IPP system. Any costs associated with complying with the invoice change will be at the Contractor’s expense. Please visit https://www.ipp.gov/ for more information. EXERCISING OF OPTIONS UNDER THIS CONTRACT The Government reserves the right to exercise unilaterally the options in the contract subject to the availability of funding. The parties agree that the Government may partially exercise and fund any options in the contract and may do so multiple times up to the point that the option has been fully exercised and funded. The Contractor, however, will not be entitled to any additional compensation beyond that associated with the amount of the option exercise. In the event that BBG does not give written notice to exercise an option, the contract will expire at the end of the existing period of performance (the Base Period or Option Period) as applicable. Additionally, the parties agree that, in the event the BBG decides not to exercise any options, BBG will have no further obligation to the Contractor under this contract other than to pay for services actually rendered by the Contractor to BBG hereunder. (End of Clause) 52.217-9 OPTION TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT (MAR 2000) (a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within two (2) days of the expiration of the current period of performance ; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 15 days before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension. (b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause. (c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed sixty-three (63) months. (End of Clause) (xii) FAR clause 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation by reference and proposed subsequent contract as well as the following clauses contained within FAR clause 52.212-5: 52.203-6 Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government (Sept 2006) with Alternate I (Oct. 1995); 52.204-10, Reporting Executive compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards (Jul 2013); 52.209-6, Protecting the Government’ Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment (Aug 2013) ; 52.209-9, Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility Matters (Jul 2013); 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns (Oct 2014); 52.219-28 Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation (Jul 2013); 52.222-3 Convict Labor (June 2003); 52.222-19 Child Labor—Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (Jan 2014); 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Feb 1999); 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity (Mar 2007) (E.O. 11246); 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Jul 2014); 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jul 2014); 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans (Jul 2014); 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (Dec 2010);52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons (Mar 2015); 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging while Driving (Aug 2011); 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (June 2008) and 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management (Jul 2013). (xiii) Additional FAR provisions and clauses incorporated by reference and applicable to this solicitation and the proposed subsequent contract are: 52.237-3 Continuity of Services (Jan 1991). There are no other additional contract requirement(s) necessary for this acquisition other than those consistent with customary commercial practices. (xiv) No Defense Priorities and Allocation System (DPAS) rating assigned. (xv) Failure to provide the required services for any of the above CLIN may result in the rejection of your proposal. Questions concerning this solicitation must be submitted in writing and must be received by the Contracting Specialist, Myria Carpenter, no later than 12PM EDST on June15, 2015 via email at proposalquestionMEDC@bbg.gov. Offerors are cautioned not to direct questions concerning this solicitation to anyone but the Contracting Specialist. No questions will be accepted after the established deadline date. Proposals shall be in writing and must be signed by an official who is authorized to bind the organization. Fax or oral proposals will not be accepted. Proposals shall be submitted electronically via email to Myria Carpenter at proposalsubmissionMEDC@bbg.gov. All proposals must be received by 12pm EDST on June 29, 2015. Offerors are reminded to submit two separate attachments – a technical proposal and a separate price proposal. Offerors may send one email with both attachments. ALL ATTACHMENTS MUST BE SENT IN “PDF FORMAT” AND THE TOTAL SIZE OF ALL ATTACHMENTS MUST NOT EXCEED 23MB. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE THE SOLICITATION NUMBER (BBG50-R-15-0036) IN THE SUBJECT LINE. (xvi) Contact: Myria Carpenter, Contract Specialist, Facsimile 202-382-7870, email: mecarpen@bbg.gov. All responsible sources may submit an offer that will be considered by the Agency.
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