Operation of Quentin Burdick Job Corps Center with OA/CTS
This pre-solicitation notice seeks information from potential offerors for the operation of the Quentin Burdick Job Corps Center located in Minot, North Dakota. The U.S. Department of Labor, through its Job Corps Acquisition Services office, intends to award a fixed-price contract for two base years and three option years to provide outreach and admissions services, career technical and academic training programs, residential housing and support services at the Center in accordance with WIOA and Job Corps policy requirements. Offerors must demonstrate capabilities across 14 mandatory factors to be eligible for award, and responses are due by November 2, 2020.
The anticipated NAICS code is 611519 with a size standard of $41.5 million. The procurement has been set aside for total small business and seeks to serve a planned onboard strength of 120 residential male students, 73 residential female students, and 2 each of nonresidential male and female students. Potential awardees must have experience operating similar large residential education programs, maintaining financial management systems, ensuring health and safety compliance, overseeing facilities maintenance, administering education and training programs, providing career transition services, and collaborating with employers on job placement.
1605JW-21-N-00001 None 10/16/20, 8:05 AM Sources Sought - Operations of Albuquerque Job Corps Center
Sources Sought Notice for Request for Information (RFI) Number 1630J4-20-N-00001. The government reserves the right to compete any acquisition resulting from this notice. This sources sought notice is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to pay for the information requested, issue a solicitation, or award a contract. No solicitation document exists at this time. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside is within the discretion of the Government. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL.
The United States Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration is conducting market research for the upcoming procurement requirement for the operation of Albuquerque Job Corps Center. The NAICS Code is 611519, with a size standard of $41.5M. It is anticipated that a fixed price type contract with two base years and three option years will be awarded. The procurement will involve the operation and management of a residential education, training and employment program at Albuquerque Job Corps center located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The procurement will also involve Outreach and Admissions (OA) and Career Transition Services (CTS).
Contractors will be expected to provide all material, services, and necessary personnel to operate this JCC as set forth in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014. WIOA authorizes the Job Corps program.
Contractors are also required to comply with the Job Corps Policy and Requirements Handbook (PRH). The PRH is available at https://eprh.jobcorps.gov/Pages/Home.aspx.
Job Corps is a national residential training and employment program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor to address the multiple barriers to employment faced by at-risk youth, 16-24 years of age, throughout the United States. Job Corps provides educational and career technical skills instruction, and support services. The combination of services provided by Job Corps is intended to prepare youth to pursue further education or training, obtain and hold gainful employment, or satisfy entrance requirements for careers in the Armed Forces. The contractor shall provide:
Program outreach and admissions services;
Educational instruction;
Career technical skills instruction;
Social and employment readiness skills;
Work-based learning opportunities;
Career Transition Services/job placement assistance;
Stakeholder engagement in support of student job placement, including relationships with workforce development systems, employers, and business organizations and entities; and
Operation and management of a government-owned, full-time residential campus/facility, including providing safe and secure living and training environment, health and wellness services, food services, recreational programming, transportation, property maintenance and management, financial management and reporting, staff training and development, and program performance management and recordkeeping.
The planned measure of student utilization for the center or center Onboard Strength (OBS) for the Albuquerque Job Corps Center is 327, consisting of 307 residential and 20 non-residential students. The center is located on 1500 Indian School Road, NW Albuquerque, NM 87104.
The Contractor shall provide OA services in the Northern and Central workforce development areas in the state of New Mexico and shall ensure the arrival of a minimum of 600 students to the Albuquerque Job Corps Center.
The contractor shall also provide Career Transition Services (CTS) for all graduates and former enrollees of the Albuquerque Job Corps center, regardless of where the graduate or former enrollee resides or matriculates, and former enrollees within their eligibility period that separated under the prior operator.
All contractors doing business with the Federal Government shall be registered in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database which is located on the System for Award Management website, SAM.gov. The website for registration is https://www.sam.gov. All active CCR records have migrated to SAM. ALL QUALIFIED SMALL BUSINESSES INCLUDING 8(A) FIRMS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE.
Interested contractors responding to this RFI will be required to indicate their ability to successfully manage and operate a Job Corps Center operation by responding to the capability requirements listed below. The contractor should also indicate the number of students/program participants served for each described contract. If the contractor references a Job Corps contract, the contractor should also provide the referenced center’s On Board Strength at the time that the contractor held the contract. FOR A CONTRACTOR TO BE DEEMED CAPABLE, THE CONTRACTOR MUST BE FOUND CAPABLE IN ALL 15 REQUIREMENTS LISTED BELOW.
Capabilities Requirements
Describe your organizational experience operating a large scale residential education and job training program similar in size and scope to the Job Corps center. Demonstrated experience should encompass key aspects of operating a similar program, including providing food services; medical, dental, and mental health care; facility and property management including facility maintenance and repairs; providing residential management and supervision of at-risk youth; recreational programming; student transportation; oversight and purchase of Government owned property; managing GSA fleet vehicles; and protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Describe how your organization will meet the requirements of WIOA Section 159(a) that requires maintaining a financial management information system that provides accurate, complete, and current disclosures of the costs, and sufficient data for the effective evaluation of activities carried out through the Job Corps program. Describe the internal controls your organization has in place to ensure proper accounting of federal funds consistent with FAR Section 159(a) that requires each operator to maintain funds received in accounts in a manner that ensures timely and accurate reporting as required by the Secretary of Labor.
Describe your ability to comply with all health and safety standards in the residential, food preparation area and dining hall.
Describe your organizational experience procuring, managing and executing facilities repairs/improvements in excess of $600,000 and doing so in a timely manner. Add any experience with timeworn and/or historic buildings and aging infrastructure.
Describe your organizational experience overseeing, managing, and administering educational and technical skill training programs.
Describe your organizational experience implementing effective behavioral management programs and enforcing student code of conduct policies.
Describe what organizational infrastructure exists for providing corporate oversight and support for managing multiple residential educational and/or skills training programs that include one or more of the following: career training, academic instruction, career preparation, work-based learning and transition services, and job placement.
Demonstrate your organization's ability to access financial resources sufficient to satisfy requirements of operating the contract for the first 60 days of operation or the ability to obtain them prior to award.
Describe your organizational experience conducting outreach and admissions services to attract individuals to a program, screen for eligibility, and arrange for admission placement into the program.
Describe your organizational experience working with at-risk and disadvantaged youth and young adults.
Describe your organizational experience providing career counseling, planning and placement services. Describe your experience providing career counseling, planning and placement services should include assessments, counseling, resume development and interviewing techniques; transition support with housing, childcare and transportation during the specified service window; job development and referral services; and follow up placement services.
Describe your organizational experience obtaining, establishing, and/or overseeing post-secondary educational programs and program providers.
Describe your organizational experience collaborating with career skills training provider(s) to identify trade-specific employers to hire center graduates into meaningful careers related to the training completed.
Describe your organizational experience identifying and establishing strategic relationships with industry specific employers, business and business organizations, and workforce development system.
Describe your organization’s experience in providing a safe and secure learning and living environment to include the screening of personnel, visitors and participants for entrance into the facility.
All interested parties are invited to submit in writing, by the closing date indicated below for receipt of responses, a package entitled "Statement of Qualifications / Capabilities Statement (which must include the contractor's indication of their ability to fulfill requirements). The Statement of Qualifications / Capabilities Statement package must be transmitted under a cover letter. The response must be specific to each of the capability requirements listed above. The submittals shall not exceed 15 pages, TOTAL. The capabilities statement package must cite the following information at a minimum:
Response to RFI 1630J4-20-N-00001
Company Name, Address, and a Company Point of Contact;
DUNS Number;
Business Size Standard/Classification, and socio-economic status, if applicable;
NAICS code certifications.
The closing date for the receipt of responses is January 10, 2020 at Noon, Eastern Standard Time. Send your responses to Michael Dibie and Douglas A. Gosselin at the following email address, dibie.michael@dol.gov and Gosselin.douglas.a@dol.gov. PLEASE NOTE: THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL MUST STATE: “Response to Sources Sought Notice Albuquerque Job Corps center”
No questions in connection with this notice will be accepted. Only submit responses to the Qualifications and Capabilities requirements provided above.
1630J4-20-N-00001 Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration
12/30/19, 8:22 AM Operation of Quentin Burdick Job Corps Center with OA/CTS
This pre-solicitation notice is for the operation of the Quentin N. Burdick Job Corps Center located in Minot, North Dakota. The Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration seeks a contractor to operate the Job Corps center, including provision of academic, career technical, and independent living skills training as well as career readiness support for 193 residential and 4 non-residential students. The contractor must also operate residential housing and services for students, provide outreach and admissions services in North Dakota, and ensure the annual arrival of at least 625 students to the center. Career transition services must also be provided to all graduates and former enrollees. Proposals are due by January 15, 2021 and the resultant contract is anticipated as a fixed price award with a two-year base period and three one-year options.
This opportunity is set aside for total small businesses. The primary NAICS code is 611710 and PSC code is U002. The incumbent contractor operates the center. The RFP will include not-to-exceed contract line item numbers for construction, equipment, career technical training, and travel. Due to COVID-19, no in-person pre-proposal conference or site visit will be held, but offerors can visit the center virtually using the link provided.
1605JW-21-N-00001 None 12/29/20, 3:31 PM Operation of Little Rock Job Corps Center
The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration issued solicitation number 1630J4-20-R-00001 seeking proposals to manage and operate the Little Rock Job Corps Center located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Offerors must provide all staffing, supplies, equipment, and services necessary to operate the center and its career technical training and academic programs for at-risk youth. Proposals will be evaluated based on staffing plans, past performance, and pricing, and are due by February 10, 2020. Amendments to the solicitation extended the question deadline and adjusted proposal requirements and wage determinations.
The solicitation is set aside for HUBZone small businesses and covers NAICS code 611710 and PSC code U002. The incumbent contractor is not named. The period of performance is a base period of two years with three one-year options, and services are to be provided from July 2020 through July 2025 at the Little Rock location. The solicitation seeks operation of a 237-person center and does not specify an award value or budget range.
1630J4-20-R-00001 Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration
12/30/19, 8:33 AM