SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Electrical, Plumbing, Landscaping, FM and HVAC training programs
- Notice Date
- 12/7/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 624310
— Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Employment Training Administration, Office of Contracts Management, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, N-4649, Washington, District of Columbia, 20210, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20210
- Solicitation Number
- DOL-ETA-17-N-00016
- Archive Date
- 1/5/2017
- Point of Contact
- Dayle White, Phone: 2026933248, Eric F. Vogt, Phone: 2026933771
- E-Mail Address
-
white.dayle@dol.gov, vogt.eric@dol.gov
(white.dayle@dol.gov, vogt.eric@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 construction 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 five construction-related training programs at a minimum of 70 sites nationally, in accordance with policy and requirements stipulated by the National Office of Job Corps, U.S. Department of Labor. Electrical Facilities/Building Maintenance Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Landscaping Plumbing The training program will cover the following key career technical training areas: Safety • Tools • Trade math, vocabulary, applied science, critical thinking • Measurement • Blueprint identification • Environmental Awareness and Green Principles Temporary Work Forms Anchors and Fasteners • Electrical basics • Building/Facilities Maintenance basics HVAC basics Landscaping basics Plumbing Basics •Specialty training in Electrical Fundamentals Specialty training in Building/ Facilities Maintenance Fundamentals Specialty training in HVAC Fundamentals Specialty training in Landscaping Fundamentals Specialty training in Plumbing Fundamentals 2. Conduct Career-Technical Training (CTT) at specified Job Corps Centers nationwide using Training Achievement Records (TARs), applied academic standards and supporting curricular materials developed by the chosen training provider and approved by the National Office of Job Corps. 3. Monitor student progress in attaining short and long term career goals and personal and transitional needs. Work with a career management team (counselor, academic instructor, residential advisor, evening studies coordinator, etc.) to monitor and document goal achievement for each student throughout his/her entire length of stay. 4. Facilitate the placement of a significant number of graduates into registered apprenticeships. Provide all graduates with a clearly defined career pathway within the construction industry that provides opportunities for growth and movement. 5. Provide active and graduating students with career-transition services that will enable them to get and keep a living wage job within the construction industry. 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. Understand, support, and implement the policies, requirements, structure, and operating procedures of the Job Corps program. 2. Have proven affiliation or strong connections with industry organizations that have nationwide networks of major employers and businesses in the five designated construction programs and the broader construction industry. Such nationwide networks will promote work-based learning and job-placement opportunities for active and graduated students. 3. Have proven ability to develop and update TARs, validate applied academic standards and curricular 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. Supporting materials must align with apprenticeship or industry-skill standards. 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 construction industry. 4. Have proven ability to hire and retain experienced instructors who are journeyman-level professionals in the fields in which they provide instruction and who possess career technical teaching credentials in the state where they are hired. 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. Some locations are very rural or remote. 5. Have a proven organizational structure that can manage multiple locations. Responses will be evaluated using all of the following criteria: 1. Teach Career Technical Training Program(s) in an Instructional Setting to Youth, Ages 16 and Older. 2. Familiarity with the Job Corps Mission, Programs and Student Population. 3. Can Demonstrate the Ability to Develop Employers and Registered Apprenticeships for Program Graduates, as defined in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Subtitle C - Job Corps, Sec. 141. (1)(A)(i) and (ii). 4. Ability to deliver effective training curricula, as well as validate applied academic standards and develop new or upgrade training curricula that aligns with the latest apprenticeship training and/or industry-skills standards, including incorporation of green technologies. 5. Ability to Hire, Develop, Maintain and Replace Qualified, Licensed Trade Staff with Teaching Credentials, on a National Basis (to include positions in very rural settings). 6. Ability to Provide Effective and Efficient Contract Administration, Financial Management and Programmatic Oversight of Multiple Locations. No cost proposal is required for the response to this synopsis. All future information about this sources sought, including amendments, if any, will be distributed solely through the General Services Administration's 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, or the Government's use of such information. 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. Dayle White, Contracting Specialist, Division of Job Corps Procurement, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Rm N4643 Washington DC 20210. Responses are due December 21, 2016, by 2 p.m. EST. Electronic copies of capability statements are preferred and may be e-mailed to white.dayle@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.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Various Job Corps centers, United States
- Record
- SN04345799-W 20161209/161207234327-9b90150c6acd7ccd95ad41066ecbc67a (fbodaily.com)
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