PWS excerpt for Sources Sought 30 SEP 25.pdf

USA HIRE II PWS Excerpt for the Sources Sought 30 SEP 2025

OPM USA HIRE II

EXCERPT FROM DRAFT PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

30 SEPTEMBR 2025

4.4.1 The contractor shall deliver the online assessment platform to be fully and solely integrated with OPM’s USA Staffing® Talent Acquisition System for real-time, bidirectional transfer of applicant, position and assessment data. The data interconnection shall adhere to the current assessment interconnection framework, described below, and not require any changes to USA Staffing®.

• USA Hire and USA Staffing® share a common data standard covering all data passed between systems

• Standard Assessment Interconnection Framework includes:

Send Applicant. USA Staffing sends the following for qualified/eligible applicants:

1. Applicant Order #

2. Applicant First and Last Name

3. Applicant Email

4. USAJOBS® Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)[1]

5. Vacancy Number

6. Announcement Number

7. Vacancy Series(s)

8. Vacancy Grade(s)

9. Assessment open and close dates

10. Applicant Reasonable Accommodation (RA)Status

11. Applicant Series(s)

12. Applicant Grade(s)

13. Additional vacancy information, as needed

14. Assessment battery ID

Test Applicant

1. If the applicant does not have a complete score for the requested battery, USA Hire will send the unique link to that applicant incorporating those assessments that need to be completed

2. USA Staffing delivers the link to the applicant in the USA Staffing applicant interface

3. If the applicant has the option to reuse scores or take the assessments anew, USA Hire will present that option to the applicant in the platform

Send Applicant Scores

1. If the applicant has an active score for the battery requested, USA Hire sends the score and associated data immediately to USA Staffing

a. Depending on the battery, the score may be a transmuted composite score or component assessment scores that USA Staffing will standardize, combine, and transmute.

2. When the applicant completes an assessment within the battery (or if a score is already stored from previous vacancies), USA Hire sends https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_7583540079773689595__ftn1

USA HIRE II PWS Excerpt for the Sources Sought 30 SEP 2025 the applicant score (and associated information) for each assessment in the battery immediately. USA Hire sends updates as assessments are completed until all assessments in the battery are complete or the battery availability period ends

3. USA Hire sends an applicant status update when the applicant completes all assessments in the battery

4. Where used by an assessment battery (e.g., Executive Assessments), the Contractor shall provide feedback reports to applicants through their original assessment link, after completion of all assessments.

Send Status Updates. When the assessment battery closes, USA Hire may send status updates for each applicant in the vacancy. These include, but are not limited to:

1. Applicant completed all assessments (including date/time)

2. Applicant started battery but did not complete all assessments (including date/time)

3. Applicant accessed battery but did not start any assessment

4. Applicant did not access battery

Update Assessment

1. USA Staffing will send an update to USA Hire when an assessment’s close date is extended. USA Hire will update the assessment period according to action taken in USA Staffing

Assessment Library and Access Management

1. The contractor shall maintain an Assessment Battery Schema Site that is persistently/continuously available for USA Staffing to access for information about all assessment batteries available to USA Staffing customers. This includes, but is not limited to:

a. Battery Number

b. Assessments included in Battery

c. Competencies within each assessment by series and grade

d. Covered Series and Grades

e. Scoring information (means, standard deviations)

f. Whether USA Hire is providing the transmuted score

g. Whether a cut score is applied by USA Hire for the battery

2. USA Staffing will manage how agency customers access batteries within the USA Staffing interface