Postsec IDIQ 2025 RFI instructions.pdf

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES

NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION EVALUATION AND REGIONAL

ASSISTANCE

STUDYING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF

POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ACCESS AND SUCCESS STRATEGIES AND

PROGRAMS

CAPABILITY STATEMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Capability Statement Instructions

In response to the attached DRAFT Performance Work Statement (PWS), the Department hereby solicits capability statements from eligible, interested parties. Capability Statements shall be no longer than 3 pages (single-spaced, with a minimum of one-inch margins and 12-point font).

Interested Parties shall provide responses for all content areas noted below. The information requested in the Basic Information Section ONLY does NOT count against the 3-page Capability Statement page limitation.

BASIC INFORMATION

(a) Please state your business/company name and address. Include contact information such as a corporate email address and website URL.

(b) Please state your business size status (i.e., large or small) in the stated NAICS code of 541720. Provide all socioeconomic categories for your company and the corresponding NAICS code, and a statement as to whether NAICS code of 541720 is the most appropriate code.

(c) State whether the requirement should be set-aside for small business (or not), and why (or why not)?

(d) State whether your company believes that the DRAFT PWS contains any unduly restrictive language or content? Why? Please cite specific examples and provide feedback.

(e) State whether the DRAFT PWS content provides opportunities for small business subcontracting (or not). Why (or why not)?

CAPABILITY STATEMENT CONTENT AREAS

The capability statement must describe the collective expertise and experience of your company’s personnel, in each of the following areas:

• Experience and skill in leading, managing, designing, and conducting large-scale education evaluations using a variety of approaches, including random assignment, regression discontinuity, quasi-experimental methods, descriptive outcomes and implementation methods, and innovative data collection methods (e.g., processing and extracting data from documents, or analyzing text-as-data). Interested parties shall provide a minimum of four examples of personnel’s successful past experience in this area. The examples should demonstrate the breadth of experience across the various approaches listed above.

• Experience and skill in authoring well written, policy relevant publications with clear take-home messages for wide audiences. Interested parties shall provide a minimum of two examples of publications authored by personnel that clearly and concisely summarize experimental and implementation findings and present them in a manner such that they can be understood and used by a wide audience.

• Substantive content knowledge relevant to the scope described in the DRAFT PWS, including evaluating postsecondary education access and success policies, strategies and programs. Interested parties shall provide a minimum of three examples showing that personnel have relevant knowledge to effectively study the broad scope of the proposed Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity contract.

In addition, the capability statement shall address the following experience and capacity at the corporate level:

• Experience with projects similar in nature to that described in the DRAFT PWS.

Interested parties shall provide evidence of successful corporate experience with a minimum of two past projects that are similar to that described in the DRAFT PWS, in terms of the evaluation activities to be performed and the anticipated level of effort required.

The deadline for submitting Capability Statements and Basic Information responses is August 22, 2024 by 12:00 noon (ET) via e-mail to the following individuals: Joseph.Gibbs@ed.gov and Jana.Knapp@ed.gov mailto:Joseph.Gibbs@ed.gov mailto:Jana.Knapp@ed.gov