SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Advancing Equity in Career and Technical Education
- Notice Date
- 7/6/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 611710
— Educational Support 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-VAE-15-R-0037
- Point of Contact
- Alice K. Mihill, Phone: (202)245-6207, Ryan Battad, Phone: 2022456527
- E-Mail Address
-
alice.mihill@ed.gov, ryan.battad@ed.gov
(alice.mihill@ed.gov, ryan.battad@ed.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Pre-Solicitation Notice is to formally announce the U.S. Department of Education's (Department's) intent to issue Solicitation ED-VAE-15-R-0037 to Advance Equity in Careern and Technical Education (CTE). Solicitation ED-VAE-15-R-0037 will be issued in the near term as a 100% total small business set-aside under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.5 - Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. Responses to Solicitation ED-VAE-15-R-0037 will be required to be submitted in sufficient time to be fully received by the Department no later than 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, July 31, 2015. A description of this procurement is provided below: The Advancing Equity in CTE project will complement the current activities of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and related organizations by proactively investing in activities and programs that will better help the Department identify local, State, and national trends in CTE affecting students from underserved subpopulations. The Office of Career, Technical and Adult Eduction (OCTAE) seeks to advance programs and activities in CTE to serve all students; ensure the needs of underserved student subpopulations are being met; and increase student diversity in CTE programs. In order to achieve the objectives set forth by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, OCTAE plans to use this project to provide the Department with information regarding strategies and promising practices in advancing equity in CTE programs across the nation. OCTAE plans to share the information obtained (via electronic means) from this project with the field via a comprehensive literature review that identifies the causes of inequity that impede access to education, resources and jobs for CTE students. The literature review will provide an evidence base to help inform internal and external stakeholders’ understanding of “equity” and “equity barriers,” which will become the foundation for the development of policies and program proposals, as well as for the identification of policies and practices to be eliminated that currently hinder equity in career, technical and adult education programs and services. Additionally, the Department will develop methods to identify and disseminate practices in equity that have the potential for replication to advance and/or improve access and opportunity for career, technical, and adult education learners. These emerging or promising practices will be made available for public consumption via electronic access. The Department will also develop and disseminate an advancing equity in CTE toolkit that will serve primarily as a resource, particularly for state and local education agencies, academic staff, school administrators and counselors, parents and equity coordinators, to introduce issues of equality that fosters excellence in the development and delivery of programs, services and teaching and learning practices. The toolkit will assist education providers to promote accessible and inclusive learning environments for career, technical, and adult education learners.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ED/OCFO/CPO/ED-VAE-15-R-0037/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03786646-W 20150708/150706234859-5ee182f7dfa086e8be3d58734fdc67da (fbodaily.com)
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