76 -- 76 -- PUBLISHED COPYRIGHTED U.S. HISTORY ASSESSMENT MATERIALS (STANDARDS BASED)

Notice Date

December 17, 2001

Contracting Office

Other Defense Agencies, Department of Defense Education Activity, DoDEA Headquarters Procurement Branch, 4040 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1635

ZIP Code

22203-1635

Solicitation Number

MDA410-02-R-0003

Response Due

January 3, 2002

Point of Contact

Janice Brown, Contract Specialist, Phone (703) 696-3845 xt 1425, Fax (703) 696-4871, Email jbrown@hq.odedodea.edu

Description

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) serves the educational needs of dependents of the military and civilian employees through its DoD Dependents Schools (DoDDS) located abroad, and the Domestic Dependents Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS) located stateside. DoDDS enrolls approximately 78,000 students annually in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 and DDESS enrolls approximately 35,000 students in the same grades. The DoDEA school system offers a typical American education and uses materials and equipment comparable to stateside schools. DoDEA is responsible for purchasing systemwide assessment materials for students in the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Section 1413 of Title XIV, Public Law 95-561, Defense Dependent Education Act) and in the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools (Section 216-4 of Chapter 108 of title 10, United States Code). The procedures for regularly updating assessment materials are defined in the DoDEA Curriculum Development/Assessment Adoption Cycle. In addition, DoDEA has implement a new Community Strategic Plan (CSP) as of the fall of 2001, which identifies various system assessments, and are required to measure progress toward the goals of the CSP. DoDEA requires a "commercial off the shelf" (COTS) assessment for U.S. History. This U.S. History Assessment will be aligned with the DoDEA Performance Standards for that course. It is desirable for the U.S. History assessment to have at least two forms of the assessments, which consist of new equivalent, items each year, or include software that will allow generation of multiple, equivalent forms of the assessment. The U.S. History assessment must allow for local scoring of student work or publisher scoring within 21 days. If publisher scoring is used, DoDEA will also require the contractor to provide a comprehensive system of printed summary and individual student reports, to meet the agency's need for data, as well as an electronic copy (CDROM) of summary and individual student performance data. Offerors will be required to provide three (3) review sets of the published copyrighted US History assessment materials for evaluation, during the solicitation process. The sets of materials must be clearly marked and include a list of items in the review set. Materials for review shall consist of student assessment booklets (multiple forms), administration instructions, sample individual and summary reports, software, and related support materials, if available. Electronic assessments are acceptible. If the assessment submitted for review is in electronic form (CD or web accessible), clearly written complete and detailed instructions for accessing the materials is required. Software submitted for review must be either NT or Windows 98 compatible. DoDEA will conduct a review of all published assessments submitted during the solicitation process, using specific criteria to rate the assessments' suitability for use with students served by the Agency. If the review process clearly identifies all assessments as inadequate and does not meet DoDEA's needs, an evaluation process may not be implemented. If the review process clearly identifies one assessment as superior to meet DoDEA's needs, an evaluation process may be conducted using the selected assessment to identify areas where written or training guidance are needed. If 2-3 assessments are identified as potentially acceptible to meet the needs of the Agency, each of those assessments may be evaluated to gauge student and educator satisfaction with the instruments. The evaluation process is anticipated to begin in spring 2002 and includes approximately 90 students. Following the evaluation process, a determination will be made as to which instrument, if any, meets the needs of DoDEA. At the conclusion of the evaluation process, an awardee(s) may be granted to fully implement the assessments for all students (approximately 7,000) taking the US History course. Implementation may begin in school year 2002-2003. A contract may be awarded to include a base year and three options. The assessment measures what students know and are able to do based on the performance standards. The rating of the proposals in the technical evaluation will be the most important factor in the evaluation. The Government intends to award a contract, based on the awardee(s) of the evaluation process and reserves the right to award multiple awards based on the evaluation process. This procurement will be processed in accordance with FAR Part 12, Subpart 12.6, using simplified acquisition procedures and incorporates provisions and clauses that are in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-27. DoDEA is a federal government agency, tax exempt, an education activity and qualifies for academic/educational pricing. Federal Supply Code (FSC) is B542, Educational Studies & Analysis. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 511130, Book Publishers, with a Size Standard of 500 employees. Note that this notice is for market research purposes only, however, the information gathered from this notice will be used to determine which preference program will be used to process the acquisition (e.g., 8(a) set-aside under the Small Business Administration's program, total small business set-aside, full and open competition). DoDEA anticipates issuance and release of a solicitation on or about January 7, 2002, which will be available via the Internet at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. Potential offerors are responsible for accessing the web site. Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is mandatory (www.ccr2000.com). This notice is for market research purposes only, and not a request for quotation/request for proposal, or an announcement of a solicitation. The Government may request additional quantities of acceptable assessments at no additional cost, during the evaluation process. Interested sources must provide via email, the agency name, point of contact, address, telephone number, fax number, and email address to Janice Brown, DoDEA, HQ Procurement Branch, 4040 N. Fairfax Drive, 4th Floor, Arlington, VA 22203-1635, (703) 696-3844, x1425, email: JBrown@hq.odedodea.edu. Email responses are preferred.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011219/76SOL001.HTM (D-351 SN515371)