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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF AUGUST 21, 2017 FBO #5750
MODIFICATION

R -- Health and Human Services - Administration for Children and Families (HHS/ACF) Office of Child Care (OCC): Child Care Communications Management Center

Notice Date

8/19/2017
 

Notice Type

Modification/Amendment
 

NAICS

541611 — Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Acquisition Management Services, 7700 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, Maryland, 20857, United States
 

ZIP Code

20857
 

Solicitation Number

17-233-SOL-00709
 

Point of Contact

Ryan L. Collins, Phone: 3014924685
 

E-Mail Address

Ryan.Collins@psc.hhs.gov
(Ryan.Collins@psc.hhs.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Competitive 8(a)
 

Description

Reference SBA Requirement Number: 0353/17/1303. Questions are due no later than August 29, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Proposals are due no later than September 18, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Background Statement/Project History Purpose of Contract The purpose of this contract is to provide support for technical assistance to CCDF grantees in order to improve their child care delivery system for low-income families. This contract is for the provision of communications and technological support for technical assistance provided by the OCC. The contract also provides logistical and conference management support for national and regional child care technical assistance activities sponsored by the OCC. The contract also promotes federal leadership and supports partnerships to facilitate the provision of technical assistance furthering accessible, affordable, high quality child care for low income, working families. Background The Office of Child Care (OCC) falls within the Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD), in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACF has responsibility for many programs that support the economic success of families and the well-being of children, including: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Head Start, Child Welfare, Child Support Enforcement, and the Social Services Block Grant. The OCC supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care and education and after-school programs. The OCC is responsible for administering the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) - a program that helps low-income families access child care for children while parents work or participate in education or training. A portion of CCDF also is used to improve the quality of child care. In FY 2017, the OCC awarded over $5 billion in CCDF funds to States, Territories, and Indian Tribes through block grants. Each State, Territory or Tribe appoints a Lead Agency to administer the CCDF funds. These Lead Agencies make decisions about CCDF priorities, policies, and expenditures, including: determining eligibility requirements, setting family co-payment levels, establishing provider payment rates, setting target populations, and prioritizing quality investments. States, Territories and Tribes are required to complete a comprehensive planning process every three years, and to provide information on child care policies to ACF in triennial CCDF Plans. The majority of CCDF monies are used to subsidize the cost of care for low-income families. States have options including contracting with community providers, blending funds with Head Start and public preschool programs to purchase spaces for eligible children, or providing certificates or vouchers that families can use to pay the provider of their choice. In addition, States are required to meet a 7% quality spending requirement and 3% infant and toddler quality spending requirement for FY 2017, further supporting State efforts to improve child care access and quality. ECD has established an Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance System (ECTTAS) to support the work of States, Territories, and Tribes that administer the CCDF, as well as local Head Start programs. In FY 2017, OCC-supported ECTTAS projects include: • The National Center on Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships supports effective implementation of the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, which allows grantees to deliver high quality comprehensive services to low-income infants, toddlers and their families. • The National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness advances best practices for linking health and early childhood education systems. • The National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement supports family well-being, effective family and community engagement, and children's school readiness, including transitions to kindergarten. • The National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning advances best practices in the identification, development, and promotion of the implementation of evidence-based child development, teaching and learning practices that are culturally and linguistically responsive and lead to positive child outcomes. • The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance supports the implementation of rigorous health, safety and licensing standards and promotes best practices that support the infrastructure of an ECE quality improvement framework. • The National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment supports school-age care and summer learning programs by working with state-wide school-age networks and other community partners to expand learning opportunities for school-age children; identifying and promoting family engagement approaches; and coordinating with early childhood and school-age stakeholder groups and other federal programs to maximize effective service delivery models and minimize duplication of efforts. • The National Center on Child Care Subsidy Innovation and Accountability assists grantees in developing child-focused, family-friendly child care subsidy systems that are fair to providers, including implementing new provisions of newly reauthorized Child Care and Development Block Grant, reaching goals related to subsidy eligibility, integrating quality and subsidy, as well as strengthening program integrity, payment rules, rate setting, and other policies and practices that support serving more low-income children in high quality care. • The National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Development assists American Indian and Alaskan Native Tribes and tribal organizations in their efforts to implement and administer Child Care and Development Fund as well as increase the quality, affordability, and availability of child care. • The Child Care State Capacity Building Center (SCBC) supports child care administrators and their key partners to create early childhood systems that are coordinated, collaborative, and comprehensive in their approach to improving child outcomes and school readiness. The Child Care Communications Management Center will work with OCC and the rest of ECTTAS to provide technical assistance to States and Territories as they build and strengthen high quality child care systems throughout the country. Scope and Requirements As part of ECD's ECTTAS, the Child Care Communications Management Center will support technical assistance and informational products to further the goals of CCDF grantees, the Office of Child Care, the Office of Early Childhood Development, and the Administration for Children and Families. The scope of work for this project is: Assistance in coordinating communication with CCDF grantees - The Contractor will work with OCC to maintain databases for relevant contacts. Further, the contractor will coordinate conference calls and webinars as needed to deliver technical assistance to grantees throughout the country. The Contractor will also, as requested by the COR, work with the OCC to develop communications and publications in order to better articulate our message and further our relationships with grantees and other partners. Conference and meeting support - The Contractor will coordinate the logistics for both national and regionally-based technical assistance events in collaboration with OCC staff, the COR, and other ECTTAS partners as appropriate. The coordination will include acquiring meeting space; coordination and payment for travel and lodging costs of supported attendees; distribution of meeting invites, agendas, and any relevant follow-up materials; and audio visual support as needed. The contractor will pay special attention to abiding by all federal rules and regulations related to conferences and meetings. Coordination and consultation with ECTTAS and other OCC partners - The Contractor will be responsible for coordinating with other ECTTAS partners as appropriate for meeting and event planning. General Requirements: a. The Contractor shall involve ECD and OCC staff in the various stages of development and implementation of this technical assistance effort, including updating and gathering information, per established protocols. b. Any effort to contact multiple Lead Agencies in a systematic fashion will be approved in advance by the COR and the Contractor shall work with the COR to have any information collection activities approved by the Office of Management and Budget, if necessary. c. As part of any training, technical assistance, or other presentation funded by the contract, the Contractor shall acknowledge verbally and in writing (on any presentation materials) that the Child Care Communications Management Center is a service of the OCC. All materials produced under this task order, including the project website, should include the OCC icon, HHS logo and names, and dates developed/updated. d. The Contractor shall identify, as they occur, any potential problem areas in accomplishing the tasks and subtasks specified in the Scope of Work and recommend solutions to the COR. e. The Contractor's satisfactory performance will be based on the Contractor's compliance with the project work plan, monthly and quarterly reports, quality and timeliness of products, feedback from CCDF grantees and ECD and OCC staff on technical assistance, and feedback from COR. f. The Government has the right to refuse any subcontractor deviation from the Contractor's proposal. g. The Contractor's staff shall have knowledge of early childhood and school age issues as they relate to CCDF. h. The Contractor will maintain an office in the Washington D.C. area and locate an on-site Technical Assistance Support Coordinator at the Office of Child Care physical office (currently 330 C St., SW, Washington DC) an average of three days per week. The TA Support Coordinator shall serve as an on-site coordinator for technical assistance delivered directly from the ECD CSTTA Division to CCDF grantees, as well manage the logistics and any necessary technology for any technical assistance events or meetings held in federal space in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He or she shall support OCC partnership-building and facilitate communication between OCC and its grantees and stakeholders. i. The Contractor must conduct work under the contract in compliance with applicable Federal regulations (e.g., travel and meeting planning).
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/PSC/DAM/17-233-SOL-00709/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Work will be performed primarily at the contractor’s location (site TBD) and at HHS/ACF/OCC, 330 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20201-0001., Washington, District of Columbia, 20201-0001, United States

Zip Code: 20201-0001
 

Record

SN04637454-W 20170821/170819230044-6f86434efb618b51255438da8aac54b7 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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