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A -- BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT -- TEACHER DEVELOPMENT -- PRESERVICE, INSERVICE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RECRUITMENT (EDUCATION CAREER ACADEMIES) -- MODELS OF EXCELLENCE SOL RFP: ED-98-R-0023 DUE 060998 POC Contact Yolanda Abney, 202-708-6498 or James Rivera, Contract Specialist, 202-708-9784, Joyce Calloway/Contracts Officer Broad Agency Announcement -- -Teacher Development -- Preservice, Inservice Professional Development & Recruitment (education Career Academices) -- Models of Excellence . The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is interested in receiving abstracts for projects that will create or expand highly effective and replicable models of : l) preservice teacher education that are grounded in contextualized teaching and learning strategies; 2) inservice professional development that enhances the skills of teachers to use strategies that integrate academic and vocational education; and 3) high school career academies that focus on education, and more specifically, on teaching as a career option for students. Abstracts for projects submitted under this Announcement shall focus on one of the three following areas: Category 1: Preservice Teacher Education Models of Excellence that prepares teachers to use contextual teaching and learning strategies to improve student learning, and are structured around specfic guiding characteristics.. ED contemplates awarding two to four contracts ranging from $350,000 to $700,000 for 2, 18-month funding periods. Category 2: Inservice Professional Development Models of Excellence that prepare and enhance the skills and practices of inservice teachers to use contextualized teaching and learning strategies, and more specifically, the integration of academic and vocational education. ED contemplates awarding three to five contracts ranging from $720,000 to $1.2 million for the first 18 months and $360,000 to $600,000 for the next 18-month optional phase. Category 3: Recruitment through high school career academies located urban school districts that focus on education, and more specifically on teaching as a career option for students. ED contemplates awarding one to two contracts ranging rom $250,000 to $500,000 per award for 18-months only.. ED expects all three category awards will be 18-months, and only categories 1 and 2 to have an additional optional 18-month period of performance, with a total cost of $5,500,000.00 per 18-months, for all categories. Anticipated opening date: June 09, 1998 and the anticipated closing date: July 10, 1998. Please contact: Ms. Yolanda Abney, Contracts and Purchasing Operations, U.S. Department of Education, GSA Building/ROB-3, 7th and D Streets SW, Room-3616 at Mail Stop #4443, Washington, D. C. 20202. Telephone request shall be made to (202) 708-6498 or E-mail: yolanda_abney@ed.gov. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: DEADLINE TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS (35 DAYS AFTER ISSUE DATE). To be considered, abstracts shall be received by 2:00 P.M., EST, July 09, 1998 at the above address. All abstracts must include the identifier RFP:ED-98-R-0023 and title on all packages. Upon official release, this BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) will be available on the OCFO Web site under the Contracts Information Page. The Web site addresse is http://ocfo.ed.gov/Coninfo/currrfp.htm. For technical questions only for the OCFO Web site, contact Sharon Masciana at (202) 708-7665. There will be no formal RFP or other solicitation regarding this requirement. ED will use a two step submission process to evaluate proposals submitted in response to this announcement. Step 1- Offerors must submit abstracts which shall include proposed theoretical and technical approaches, and a cost summary of their budget. ED will review the abstracts and establish a competitive range. Step 2- After the competitive range is established ED will request full technical, past performance, and cost proposals, which will be performance-based, from those offerors who make the competitive range. In the invitation, ED will specify proposal format and content required by regulation, standards for an offeror-developed Statement of Work, a technical proposal against your Statement of Work, a schedule of deliverables, a cost proposal that provides sufficient detail to allow assessment of cost, evidence of the offeror's capacity to perform the work proposed, details on past performance, and contractor performance information from relevant organizations. A request for proposal does not assure subsequent award. ED reserves the right not to fund a project. Abstracts will be reviewed by government and non-government peers. For technical questions relating to actual BAA document, please submit your comments/ questions via e-mail to James_Rivera@ed.gov; or FAX (if less than 10 pages) to 202/260-0525; or by mail to the attention of James Rivera. (0152)

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