SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- DLI-W Foreign Language Training and Training Support Services IDIQ - Draft PWS
- Notice Date
- 11/30/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611630
— Language Schools
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, MICC, MICC - Fort Eustis (Joint Base Langley-Eustis), Building 705, Washington Blvd, Fort Eustis, Virginia, 23604-5538, United States
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5538
- Solicitation Number
- W911S0-16-D-DLIW
- Archive Date
- 1/1/2016
- Point of Contact
- Curtis M. Arthur, Phone: 7575018153
- E-Mail Address
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curtis.arthur.civ@mail.mil
(curtis.arthur.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft PWS for DLI-W Foreign Language Training and Training Support Services Sources Sought Synopsis Foreign Language Training and Training Support Services IDIQ Sources Sought Synopsis Number W911S0-16-D-DLIW THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. The purpose of this announcement is to gain knowledge of potential qualified small business firms. Responses to this Source Sought will be used by the Government in making appropriate acquisition decisions. The Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) - Fort Eustis intends to procure contract support services for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). The Government anticipates the award of a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) with the ability to issue Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Labor Hour (LH), and T&M task orders. Contract line items will include, FFP, LH (several CLINs), and Cost. DLIFLC provides culturally based foreign language education, training, evaluation and sustainment to enhance the security of the nation here and abroad. As the Defense Department's premier foreign language provider, DLIFLC in Monterey, CA teaches 21 languages annually to over 3,500 students from all four branches of the military service. Additionally, DLI-Washington trains over 900 students annually in 62-65 languages under the Contract Foreign Language Program (CFLTP). DLIFLC's mission is to provide culturally based foreign language education, training, evaluation and sustainment to enhance the security of the nation. Its vision is to deliver the world's best culturally based foreign language education and training in languages encompassing every region of the world - at the point of need. DLIFLC requires language training and training support services beyond those available at its training facility at the Presidio of Monterey, California. The program is conducted in the National Capital Region under the Director, DLI Washington through the CFLTP. The purpose of CFLTP is to provide to the users (Military Services and the Defense Attaché Service) language training with the utmost flexibility. CFLTP also serves as a contingency, rapid-response language training provider for DoD. This training is provided for authorized personnel and their adult family members, as required for effective performance of their duties in connection with programs of the Department of Defense or other Federal agencies. Training under this contract is driven by DoD responsibilities and missions. Requirements are driven by world events and the Government's political-military priorities. It should be anticipated that relatively more training will be required in languages native to large numbers of countries than in those spoken as the official language in relatively fewer countries. The Contractor shall provide foreign language training support services and instruction. Typical student load is 200-400 resident students at any given time and 600-700 in the course of a year, but hundreds more are trained under DLIFLC and DLI Washington Office auspices at the Government's facilities elsewhere in the US. Courses range from familiarization courses of a few weeks to basic courses of 26-64 weeks. As part of this contract, approximately 275 - 300 requirements will be competed annually and awarded as task orders. The Contractor shall provide resident foreign language instruction at the Contractor's facility within the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and walking distance of metro rail transportation or at Government facilities in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area or elsewhere. Training will be provided to individual students or to small groups generally not exceeding five (5) students. Management, oversight, and infrastructure must be sufficient to support at least 30 full-time individual or small-group classes simultaneously. Vendors must have capability for surge or expansion as needed due to increase requirements with possible heavy concentration in one or a small number of languages. The Contractor is expected to provide educated native speakers of the standard variant of the target languages, who possess English capability in the 2-range, a facility with learning technologies, including wide use of Internet sources, and the ability to adapt to students with varying learning styles a requiring different learning strategies. The occasional requirement for development of training materials requires personnel with higher-level skills: English proficiency at or approaching level 3; wide experience with the use of the Internet to locate appropriate authentic materials; and computer literacy sufficient to production of web-delivered learning materials. Curriculum development and delivery of training are to be overseen by Contractor personnel with experience and/or credentials in second language acquisition and the utilization of language skills in the performance of U.S. Government and Department of Defense missions. Formative evaluation and academic counseling are required. The Contractor is expected to locate, acquire and compile into coherent curricula such learning materials, including authentic materials, as are necessary to meet the goals of each student. The Contractor is responsible for providing all necessary classroom facilities, including routine access to video and audio materials as well as Internet sources. These premises shall be located in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Additionally, requirements are expected for Mobile Training Team (MTT) instruction on Government installations in CONUS, with general oversight provided by DLIFLC or other DoD onsite training managers. These requirements vary in length from days to months or longer, in level of training from familiarization to professional proficiency, in languages from commonly-taught to those less-commonly-taught but of high national security priority, and in quantity from a single instructor to dozens. Long-distance support and quality control of the instructor corps and their work remains the Contractor's responsibility during the MTT. Curriculum tailored to the specifics of the mission is generally required and is also the responsibility of the Contractor. The actual level-of-effort (actual number of requirements, classes, students, languages) per fiscal year (FY) is not known at the time of placing the contract and cannot be estimated accurately. Historically, the number of students, languages, and dates of training for each is unknown. In addition to the unpredictability of the required training, there are multiple factors affecting the duration and ability to complete training. Some examples of those factors are changes in the student's mission, changes in DLI-W services which often have to be tailored to address the varying student populations, often requiring one-on-one training or small group training. The one-on-one training and small group training are geared to providing language training to an expected level of proficiency. The trainings will take into consideration the student's previous linguistic knowledge and ability of the student to learn a new language, as well as, refresher training requirements. The language training is often required on short notice, 2 - 6 weeks. The current Multiple Award IDIQ contracts were awarded on 24 March 2011 as full and open completion with a partial set aside to two or more small business vendors with a period of performance for a base year and four one-year options. The Multiple Award IDIQ contracts were non-commercial T&M contracts and the maximum program value was $96M. Basis of award for the base level contracts were tradeoff and the basis of award for the task orders were lowest priced technically acceptable (LPTA) and tradeoff. Six Multiple Award IDIQ contracts were award. The following three contracts were awarded to small businesses: Dictyon, LLC - W911S0-11-D-0040; International Center for Language Studies, Inc. (ICLS) - W911S0-11-D-0041; and JTG, Inc. - W911S0-11-D-0042. The following three contracts were awarded to large businesses: General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT) - W911S0-11-D-0043; International Communications Associates, Inc. (ICA) - W911S0-11-D-0044 and; Language Associates, LLC doing business as Diplomatic Language Services (DLS) - W911S0-11-D-0045. Specifically, MICC intends to gain market knowledge of potential small business sources and their size classifications; HUBZone, 8(a), Small Disadvantage Business, Woman Owned Business, Veteran Owned Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business relative to a requirement that, at this time, will be under the following NAICS Code: 611630 - Language Schools Small Business Size Standard: Not to Exceed $11,000,000.00 gross annual receipts NOTE: If, after reviewing the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS), your firm believes another NAICS code is more appropriate, provide the rationale and justification. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought announcement, a synopsis and/or solicitation announcement may be published at a later time. Capability statements in response to this notice shall include the following information and shall not exceed seven (7) pages: a) Company name, business address, address of your school, CAGE code, and points of contact with telephone numbers and email addresses. b) Business size/classification in regard to NAICS 611630, and acknowledge all applicable socioeconomic category information of the company (i.e., 8(a), HUBZone, Women Owned Small Business, Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, etc.). c) Number of Employees. d) Average annual revenue for the last three (3) years. e) Your company's capability to do this type of work. Documentation of technical expertise, capability, and capacity must be presented in sufficient detail for the Government to determine that your company possesses the necessary functional area expertise and experience to compete for this acquisition. f) Please provide detailed descriptions of similar requirements (tasks, volume, scope, complexity, contract type, contract value, period of performance, and award date): - Was it for full-time or part-time training? - What were the objectives or the desired end-result? - How many students put forth? Class size? Groups or one-on-one? - Tailored training or generic for all? - Which languages? Commonly taught or languages of emerging interest? - What did the contract require concerning instructor qualifications? Does it call for native speakers of the target language? g) Please address what level of expertise and experience provided in language training in all of the following languages from Group A: French, Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese-Mandarin, and Portuguese. h) Please address what level of expertise and experience provided language training in all of the following languages from Group B: Spanish, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, and Dari. i) What instructional materials, including references and authentic materials, either on hand or readily accessible? j) Do you have a system of student feedback/critiques? k) Please provide a description of the facilities used in carrying out the work of the contracts reflected above. Provide the location, capacity, and furnishings of the facility, their suitability for intensive language learning, and ready access to equipment like computers, audio and video support? It is imperative that businesses responding to this sources sought announcement articulate their capabilities clearly and adequately regarding each functional area listed. Industry input is also requested on the DRAFT PWS that is attached. Let us know if DRAFT PWS is clear concise, and free of any ambiguities. The estimated period of performance is a five year ordering period. Responses will only be accepted via e-mail. Telephonic responses will not be honored. Please send your responses to MICC - Fort Eustis by 10:00 AM EDT, Thursday, December 17, 2015. Submissions may be sent to Curtis Arthur II at curtis.arthur.civ@mail.mil. This is NOT a Request for Proposal. IF A SOLICITATION IS ISSUED, IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE. All interested parties shall respond to that solicitation announcement separately from this sources sought announcement. No award will result from this sources sought announcement. No reimbursements will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement. This notice does not constitute any commitment by the Government.
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