26RFI0008_RFI-DVHS Seat Licenses-v2.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - HE125426RFI0008

SECONDARY SEAT LICENSES FOR CORE AND ELECTIVE COURSES

IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND WORLD LANGUAGES

1.0 Description

1.1 The Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) seeks information on how interested contractors can provide seat licenses for the 29 courses listed in the table below. DoWEA expects to make multiple awards.

The anticipated period of performance is from 01 Mar 27 to 29 Feb 32.

1.2 This request for information (RFI) is issued solely for information and planning and does not constitute a request for quote (RFQ) or a promise to issue an RFQ in the future.

The Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI;

i.e., all costs associated with responding to this RFI are solely the responder’s responsibility.

Not responding to the RFI does not preclude a contractor from responding to a future RFQ/RFP. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the SAM.gov website. Potential responders are responsible to monitor the relevant site for additional information pertaining to this requirement.

2.0 Overview

2.1 Agency: DoWEA, one of only two federally operated school systems, plans, directs, coordinates, and manages prekindergarten through grade 12 educational programs in 160 fully accredited schools that serve over 65,000 children of active-duty military and DoW civilian families. Our curriculum, resources and student achievement scores on standardized assessments compare favorably to those of high-performing US public school systems.

2.2 Background: Our schools are organized into three geographic areas: Americas, Europe, and Pacific. In the Americas, DoWEA operates 50 schools located in seven states, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. In Europe and Middle East, we operate 64 schools located in Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Bahrain, and Italy. In the Pacific, we operate 44 schools located in Korea, Japan (mainland and Okinawa), and Guam.

We also operate one accredited virtual high school with teaching hubs in the Americas, Europe, and Pacific.

2.3 Summary: DoWEA requires seat licenses for the 29 core and elective courses listed below. Notes: Additional courses may be added in the option years. The number of seat licenses may vary from year to year. For example, if a teacher suddenly retires, a course that normally requires 40 seat licenses may jump to 140 seat licenses until a new teacher is hired.

Seat Licenses: Courses & Estimated Enrollment

Courses Enrollment Courses Enrollment Science

AP® Biology 40 US Government 134 Biology 25 Mathematics

Chemistry 23 7th Grade Math 10 Environmental Science 26 8th Grade Math 12

Social Studies Algebra I 20 9th Grade Global Studies 29 Algebra II 33

10th Grade Global Studies 57 Financial Algebra 90 11th Grade US History 67 Geometry 75

AP® Government 30 Precalculus 62 AP® Human Geography 70 Pre-Algebra 12

AP® Psychology 50 Trigonometry 78 AP® US History 30 World Languages

AP® World History 65 Spanish I 60 Art History (New Course) 100 Spanish II 50

Economics 64 Spanish III 50 Sociology 102 Spanish IV 22

Note: Regarding the 7th & 8th Grade Math seat licenses, our instructional designers need to customize them— for internal use only—to meet our need for accelerated courses at those grade levels. If your courses do not allow customization, please do not submit them for consideration.

2.4 DRAFT REQUIREMENTS

Alignment to Standards: The objective is to ensure courses are aligned to the national standards or College Board Curriculum and Exam Description (CED) to ensure that course credits are recognized by public school systems throughout the United States.

Course Design: Each proposed course shall include comprehensive online content, teacher resources, and formative and summative assessments with answer keys and shall be accessible to DoWEA students and teachers within three business days of the initial delivery order. Note: DoWEA will provide the instructor.

The Contractor’s proposed course(s) shall:

1) Possess goals and objectives that are (1) clearly stated, observable, measurable, and achievable, (2) compatible with DoWEA content standards which are aligned to the national standards or for AP® courses, aligned to the College Board standards. See https://www.dodea.edu/education/curriculum and/or https://apcentral.collegeboard.com/home.

2) Are student-centered, allow for differentiation, emphasize college-and-career-readiness skills such as information literacy and global awareness, and apply technology and digital media strategically as an integral component of the curriculum.

3) Provide (1) opportunities for appropriate instructor-student, student-student, and student-content interaction (2) appropriate readability levels, written language, and math requirements, if applicable, for all content-related topics, readings, activities, and assessments.

4) Possess the following:

Course overview, syllabus, and scope and sequence.

Course requirements consistent with each proposed course’s goals and representative of the scope of the course.

Lesson overview, content and activities, assignments, and assessments in each lesson to provide multiple learning opportunities for students to master content.

Content and assignments of sufficient rigor, depth, and breadth to prepare students to master the content and—for the AP® courses—to score well on the AP® exam.

Objectives, content, and assessments that are compatible with the appropriate national standards or are College Board-approved.

All necessary orientation materials, textbooks, workbooks, lab books, or other materials needed for completion of the course. These may be available online or Contractor-provided at no additional cost.

Instructor resources to include such things as assignments, assessments, rubrics, manuals, and answers/explanations to the assessments.

Interactive multi-media elements such as simulations, manipulatives, labs, and writing exercises.

5) Work with DoWEA’s school calendars, including summer school, which vary by school/region.

Note: DoWEA schools in Europe and Pacific—with minor variations—follow the same calendar.

Our schools in the United States follow the school calendar of the county in which they are located with minor variations.

6) Include online curriculum and resources that (1) permit instructors to add activities and assessments to the course to extend learning opportunities and to differentiate when needed, (2) permit the online instructor to modify the course in the following ways re-order and/or un-publish (hide) units, lessons, activities, and assessments and (3) are evaluated regularly and updated periodically to ensure the course is relevant and current with the subject-matter standards and technology advances.

Assessments: Each proposed course shall include formative and summative assessments with answer keys and shall be accessible to DoWEA students and teachers within three business days of the initial delivery order. The formative and summative assessments shall do the following:

https://www.dodea.edu/education/curriculum https://apcentral.collegeboard.com/home

1) Assess students’ mastery of content, using either/both computer-scored and teacher-scored feedback that is appropriate to the assessment objectives.

2) Provide instructional feedback for students and teachers.

3) Enable teachers to adapt assessments to address students’ varying needs.

4) Include answer keys, grading rubrics, and models to support use in the online classroom.

5) Provide adequate methods to ensure academic integrity such as locking down the browser, random listing of test items, or using multiple questions/items to measure content mastery

Software Tools: Ensure the following requirements are met:

1) Content-specific tools and software (1) make maximum use of the capabilities of the online environment,

(2) feature intuitive/user-friendly navigation, and (3) make resources available by alternative means, e.g., central description documents, video, or other digital formats.

2) Content and software delivery incorporates either unique numbering or naming identifiers for content, assignments and assessments or provides a mechanism allowing DoWEA to customize the numbering or naming of curriculum components

Virtual Leaning Environment (VLE): The objective is to ensure each proposed course can operate within DoWEA’s VLE throughout the period of performance.

1) Provide courses designed to operate within DoWEA’s VLE.

2) Deliver curriculum in one or more of the following three formats:

Imported, hosted, and maintained by DoWEA.

Instructional content hosted externally by the Contractor accessible via DoWEA’s Learning

Management System (Schoology) with the assignments and assessments imported, hosted, and maintained in the LMS.

Integration through DoWEA’s LMS to the curriculum hosted by the Contractor.

3) Ensure course content meets the following specifications:

Conforms to 1EdTech Consortium (formerly IMS Global Learning Consortium) standards for content packaging Uses imported content, if required, conforming to 1EdTech content packaging specifications.

Contains code that does not disable LMS features when content is used.

Requires Single Sign-On (SSO)—not multiple—authentications to access content via our LMS.

Incorporates assessments, where applicable, that conform to 1EdTech’s Question and Test

Interoperability (QTI) specifications or provides assessment content in a format that is fully importable into DoWEA's LMS.

Uses content-hosted externally conforming to 1EdTech’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).

4) Disclose any third-party program/software/application required by the proposed solution for every course. Note: Both the Contractor’s and the third-party programs/software/applications shall meet the same technical requirements, such as Single Sign-On, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Level 2, etc.

Virtual Professional Learning (PL): The objective is to apprise DoWEA instructors of the instructional and assessment resources available to them and to enable them to teach each course with fidelity.

1) Provide one hour of virtual PL that contains guidance and resources for course implementation.

2) Provide digital modules and/or synchronous or asynchronous webinars that show teachers how to use course resources/tools and to manage/adjust the VLE to facilitate instruction.

3) Provide one hour of virtual PL on strategies for using online activities and assessments.

4) Provide virtual PL in a form that DoWEA can place on our LMS, i.e., either in the form of digital module(s) and/or recorded and archived webinars.

If the digital module solution is selected, the Contractor shall adhere to Sharable Content Object

Reference Model (SCORM) conformance, per http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/.

If a synchronous webinar solution is utilized, the same information shall be delivered three times during the normal business hours of DoWEA’s regions—Americas, Europe, and Pacific.

Delivery of Digital Resources: Ensure the following:

1) Deliver digital materials with instructions detailing how the resources can be accessed by teachers, students, and above-school-level educators, using DoWEA’s LMS and/or DoWEA’s Single Sign-On rostering platform (ClassLink).

2) Allow DoWEA to download resources as needed. A teacher, e.g., may want to provide a printed worksheet for students or a student with an individual educational program (IEP) may require the textbook in print form. Note: All printed resources will be for internal use only.

3.0 Responses

Interested parties should submit responses to this RFI in Microsoft Word, PDF, or a compatible electronic format. The information requested below will be used solely for market research and acquisition planning purposes. Please include the following information:

3.1 Administration & Subcontracting

1) List your company name, DBA name (if applicable), mailing address, and CAGE code.

2) List your business size, as shown on SAM.gov.

3) List your company’s North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.

4) List your designated point of contact’s name, title, phone number, and email address.

5) Describe, if applicable, any subcontracting possibilities. Note: The prime must perform at least 51 percent of the work.

3.2 Availability & Recognition

1) Are the proposed course(s) commercially available, off‑the‑shelf (COTS), and fully accredited high school courses?

2) To what extent your course credits are recognized by schools throughout the United States?

3) Are the proposed non-AP® course(s) aligned to national standards and the proposed AP® course(s) aligned to the CED?

3.3 Course Design & Assessments & VLE

1) How or to what extent do your proposed courses meet the Course Design draft requirements?

2) How or to what extent do your proposed course(s) meet the Assessment draft requirements?

3) Can each proposed course operate within DoWEA’s VLE throughout the period of performance?

3.4 Security & Data Rights

1) To what extent do the proposed course(s) –and any third-party program, software, or applications that they incorporate—meet applicable Federal security requirements, including FedRAMP Level 2.

Note: On a case-by-case basis, DoWEA may honor requests to waive the Level 2 requirement.

2) Do your proposed course(s) comply with applicable Federal accessibility requirements, including Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act?

3) Briefly, how data generated through use of your courseware is managed and protected?

4) Confirm (1) that data developed under this requirement will be the property of for our internal use only and (2) all digital rights for embedded visual or instructional materials can be used by DoWEA internally without copyright restrictions.

3.5 Recommendations & Limitations

1) Provide any recommendations you believe might improve our performance work statement.

2) Please limit responses—not including pricing information—to a maximum of four pages for an introduction/general information and three pages for each proposed course.

3) Proprietary information, if any, should be minimized and be clearly marked. Please segregate the proprietary information. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

3.6 Non-Binding Price Estimate: Please fill out the attached Excel spreadsheet.

4.0 Industry Discussions

The Government may, at its discretion, engage in discussions with selected respondents for the limited purpose of obtaining clarification regarding submitted information, including but not limited to capabilities and pricing estimates. Participation in such discussions is not guaranteed and shall be conducted solely in support of market research activities.

5.0 Questions

Questions submitted after June 11, 2026, 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) are not guaranteed to be answered. Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted by email to Kevin Cruz, Contract Specialist, at kevein.cruz@dodea.edu, and Nicole Freid, Contracting Officer, at nicole.freid@dodea.edu. Verbal questions will not be accepted. Responses to questions, if provided, will be issued via email and will not contain proprietary or classified information.

6.0 RFQ/RFP

This RFI is solely for information/planning and does not constitute an RFQ/RFP. The information herein is subject to change and not binding on the Government. Release of this RFI is not a commitment that DoWEA will issue an RFQ/RFP in the future or that it authorizes costs to be incurred for which reimbursement would be required or sought. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

SUSPENSE

Submit your RFI response no later than Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST). Please email your responses to Kevin Cruz, Contract Specialist, at kevein.cruz@dodea.edu, and Nicole Freid, Contracting Officer, at nicole.freid@dodea.edu.