Attachment_B.pdf

Attachment B BBG50-R-15-0036

BBG BROADCASTING AND GENERAL ONLINE COURSES

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

The U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Division of Training and Development is seeking a qualified contractor to provide broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses hosted by the Contractor and can be linked to the agency’s Learning Management

System (LMS), AgLearn.

The BBG’s requirement is to provide a library of broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses to BBG’s 1550 Full-time employees (FTEs). The Contractor will provide

BBG with access to all of its online courses through a single website portal. The Contractor’s catalog of courses must include a large number of relevant broadcast and multimedia (audio, video, web, and social media) related courses. The Contractor must allow for agency managing and monitoring of learning activities, while simplifying the end user experience. The Contractor must facilitate ease of student enrollment, provide enrollment and completion data for all courses and participants, and allow connectivity of the library of courses to the BBG’s Learning Management

System (LMS) in order for BBG Full time employees (FTEs) to select courses related to their

Individual Development Plan (IDP).

Objective: To provide a diverse library of broadcast, multimedia, general business, and leadership online courses to

1550 Full-time employees (FTEs) with the following requirements:

1. The course catalog must include broadcast media appropriate application courses including, but not limited to Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, and Photoshop. There should be courses on Audio

Production, Video production as well as photography and videography techniques. It should have

IT related courses such as web development, business applications (Excel, Word, SharePoint, Outlook, and Skype for Business), social media (Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, etc.) online courses.

There should be “how to” courses on the use of mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones, especially as applied to news gathering. There should also be a selection of leadership and management courses. There should be Project Management courses with certifiable PMI credit. The online course offerings must include all widely used versions as well as the latest industry versions of the software. Courses are kept up-to-date and relevant within industries standards and available technology. The online course offerings must include all widely used versions as well as the latest industry versions of the software.

2. The Contractor must offer a single price for an annual subscription to their entire catalog. There shall be no additional costs for enrolling in courses or downloading exercise materials.

3. Agency Administrator shall have access to the student records. Administrator can run reports to measure adoption, achievement, and time spent on the course and track completed courses.

3. Unlimited user access to complete courses. Students will have full access to their records, including all their completed, scheduled, and planned training activities.

4. Student should be able to create and save lists of courses to facilitate IDP and agency recommended competency models.

6. Courses should be accessible on computers, tablet, or mobile devices and allow connectivity of the library of courses to the agency’s LMS. They should have the capability of switching back and forth between devices.

8. Courses are kept up-to-date and relevant within industries standards and available technology.

DELIVERABLES

The Contractor shall make their entire library of video/multimedia based courses, support material, related services available via the company web portal to BBG employees. The employees shall access the web portal through personal computers and mobile devices. Course content should integrate with our learning management system (LMS), AgLearn to provide employees with the capability to search the catalog and get information about courses, select courses as part of their

IDP, launch courses, track progress, and access assigned material. All course enrollments, completions and other related data will be tracked and made available to the employees and agency management the company portal and the agency LMS.

TECHNICAL QUALITY

Format: H.264 or MPEG-4 Resolution: 720p HD Frames per second: 30fps Audio: 48Mbps uncompressed or ACC Data Rate: at least 1.5 Mbits/s Streaming and Downloadable

TERM OF THE CONTRACT

The contract for each task will include a base period from date of award for three hundred sixty-five

(365) days. The Contract will include four (4) additional one-year option periods that may be exercised, at BBG’s discretion, subject to the availability of funding.

CONTRACTING OFFICER REPRESENTATIVE

The Contracting Officer will appoint by letter a Contracting Officer Representative (COR), who will have the responsibility of ensuring that the work conforms to the requirements of the contract and such other responsibilities and authorities as may be specified in the letter of authorization or this contract. It is understood and agreed, in particular, that the COR shall not have authority to make changes in the scope or terms and conditions of the contract unless and only to the extent that such authority is specified in the letter of authorization or the contract. THE CONTRACTOR IS

HEREBY FOREWARNED THAT, ABSENT THE REQUISITE AUTHORITY OF THE COR

TO MAKE ANY SUCH CHANGES, IT MAY BE HELD FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY

CHANGES NOT AUTHORIZED IN ADVANCE, IN WRITING, BY THE CONTRACTING

OFFICER, MAY BE DENIED COMPENSATION OR OTHER RELIEF FOR ANY

ADDITIONAL WORK PERFORMED THAT IS NOT SO AUTHORIZED, AND MAY ALSO

BE REQUIRED, AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO THE GOVERNMENT, TO TAKE ALL

CORRECTIVE ACTION NECESSITATED BY REASON OF THE UNAUTHORIZED

ACTIONS.

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

The Contractor shall designate below a company official whom the BBG may contact during the period of performance of this contract for prompt contract administration:

NAME:

TITLE:

ADDRESS:

E-MAIL:

PHONE:

FACSIMILE:

In the event of an emergency or there is an extensive problem that requires higher level managerial attention, please provide the following information for your point of contacts. The Contractor shall designate below a company official whom the BBG may contact during the period of performance of this contract for day to day operational administration:

FACSIMILE: _____________________________________________________

The Contractor shall also designate below a company official responsible for reviewing performance evaluation entered into the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS).

FACSIMILE: _____________________________________________________

INVOICE SUBMISSION

(a) The Contractor shall submit an original monthly invoice to the COR to be identified at contract award.

(b) The Contractor’s monthly invoice shall list: (1) name and address of Contractor, (2) invoice date and invoice number, (3) contract number (e.g., BBG50-C-15-0000) and (4) the number of deliverables submitted and accepted.

(c) Pursuant to the Prompt Payment Act, the BBG will pay the invoice within 30 days of either: (1) receipt of the invoice or (2) acceptance of deliverables; whichever is later.

Note No. 1: The BBG intends to change its current invoicing procedures to the Invoice Processing

Platform (IPP) system. The Contractor may be required in the future to register and submit invoices through the IPP system. Any costs associated with complying with the invoice change will be at the

Contractor’s expense. Please visit https://www.ipp.gov/ for more information.

REGISTRATION

The Contractor shall possess a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and maintain current registration with System for Award Management (SAM) in order to perform government work.