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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

1155 DEFENSE PENTAGON

WASHINGTON, DC 20301-1155

ACQUISITION DIRECTORATE

SOURCES SOUGHT

A. Purpose: This is a Sources Sought Notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The Department of Defense (DoD), Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), Acquisition Directorate (AD) is seeking firms doing business in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 513210 Computer Software Publishers.

Introduction/Background: Defense Acquisition University (DAU) provides a global learning environment to develop qualified acquisition, requirements and contingency professionals who deliver and sustain effective and affordable warfighting capabilities. DAU and its partner agencies also deliver professional training to its employees and assigned military members. DAU uses the Cornerstone (CSOD) commercial application as its learning environment to deliver training and maintain transcript records. DAU plans to establish a new blanket purchase agreement (BPA) contract vehicle to purchase learning content that can be delivered using the Cornerstone application.

B. Objective: The vendor shall deliver learning content and business processes that satisfy the following requirements:

1. Have an operational integration with the Cornerstone (https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/) commercial application that supports a content subscription. The operational integration signs the user in via Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), maintains the user progress, and returns the user course status to their transcript record in Cornerstone upon the end of their access.

2. Have an automated sync process with Cornerstone to maintain a current content catalog. Provide the average content refresh rate, average number of new courses released each month, and average number of courses retired each month that are incorporated into the monthly catalog update.

3. Have a process to track user-reported issues with delivered content.

4. Have a process to map customer training requirements to vendor content.

5. The content sought with this requirement:

i. Provides professional development for the Department of Defense civilian and military professionals at the mastery level from accredited universities. The five most popular skill areas for our population to develop include acquisition, logistics, program management, project management, and cyber security.

ii. Specific Course Needs:

1) Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

2) Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

3) Advanced Prompt Engineering

4) A Crash Course in Data Science

5) Managing Data Analysis

6) Building a Data Science Team

7) Data Science Methodology

8) Continuous Delivery & DevOps

iii. The content shall include a pathway for a student to prepare for a commercially recognized technical certification.

iv. The content shall be offered as – online courses, hands on lab workspaces.

v. The majority of the content should have an end of course exam.

vi. Note – This content is currently being satisfied by the Coursera Library.

C. Response Requirements:

Responses to this notice must include:

1. Company name, address and phone number

2. Contractor and Government Entity (CAGE) code and SAM.gov Unique Entity ID

3. Primary Point of Contact name, phone and email address

4. Business size for NAICS 513210 Software Publishers

5. All socioeconomic categories as defined in FAR Part 19 (e.g., 8(a), SDB, HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.).

6. A summary description that demonstrates the ability to meet the aforementioned objectives. Respondents should provide complete responses to each objective addressed above.

7. If respondent has a government contract vehicle such as a Federal Supply Schedule or other government-wide use contract that would address the scope of this requirement, please indicate contract number in your response.

8. Indicate if your firm would submit a proposal if a Request for Proposals (RFP) is issued and whether the vendor desires to participate in this requirement as a prime contractor, teaming agreement, subcontractor, or joint venture.

a. If you intend to subcontract, please include the technical area and estimated percentage for subcontracting opportunities and indicate whether your firm would work with a small business.

9. Questions Submission: Interest offerors must submit any questions concerning this Sources Sought Notice no later than 11:00am (EST), Friday, January 24, 2025.

D. Deadline:

The Government requests interested parties to submit a letter of interest and statement of current ability to supply the above service via email with the subject line “DAU University Mastery Content with Hands on Labs” to joshua.j.murray17.civ@mail.mil by 2:00 pm (EST), Friday, January 31, 2025.

E. Disclaimer and Important Notes:

This Sources Sought Notice is for market research purposes only and does not constitute a Request for Proposal/Quotation; and, it is not considered to be a commitment by the Government to award a contract nor will the Government pay for any information provided; no basis for claim against the Government shall arise as a result from a response to this Sources Sought Notice or Government use of any information provided. Failure to submit information in sufficient detail may result in considering a firm as not a viable source and may influence competition and set-aside decisions. Regardless of the information obtained from this Sources Sought Notice, the Government reserves the right to consider any arrangement as deemed appropriate for this requirement. Respondents are advised that the Government be under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted.

No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response to this Sources Sought Notice. The Government reserves the right to use any information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate, including using technical information provided by respondents in any resultant solicitation.

At this time, no solicitation exists; therefore, DO NOT REQUEST A COPY OF THE SOLICITATION and DO NOT SUBMIT OFFERS.

G. Point of Contact:

WHS POC

Contract Specialist: Joshua J. Murray Phone: 571-309-8489 Email: joshua.j.murray17.civ@mail.mil image2.png image1.png