Amendment No. 2 to RFP No. DCSC-26-RFPQ-1 (Establishing a Roster of Pre-Qualified Research Entities for SMD).pdf

District of Columbia Courts

Administrative Services Division Procurement and Contracts Branch

AMENDMENT NO. 2

TO: ALL PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS

AMENDMENT

ISSUE DATE: September 22, 2026

SUBJECT: Request for Pre-Qualification (“RFPQ”) No. DCSC-26-RFPQ-1

Establishing a Roster of Pre-Qualified Research Entities for SMD

PROPOSAL

SUBMISSION

DATE: No later than 1 P.M. EST on September 30, 2026________

Statements of Qualifications must be submitted by Email only.

This Amendment (“Amendment”) No. 2 is issued and hereby published on the Courts’ website and on SAM.gov and is effective as of the date shown above. Except as modified hereby, the RFPQ remains unmodified.

Item No. 1: The Questions & Answers Spreadsheet is hereby issued and attached as Appendix A.

Item No. 2: All Other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

Note: One (1) copy of this Amendment is being sent to only those Offerors who submitted questions. Offerors shall sign below and attach a signed copy of this Amendment to each offer to be submitted to the Courts in response to the subject RFPQ. Offerors shall submit their statements of qualifications or proposals in accordance with the instructions provided in the original RFPQ documents and this Amendment No. 2. This Amendment, together with your statement of qualification, must be received by the District of Columbia Courts no later than the date and time specified for proposal submission. Failure to acknowledge receipt of this Amendment may be cause for rejection of any proposals submitted in response to the subject RFPQ.

Darlene D. Reynolds, CPPB, GWCCM

Procurement and Contracts Branch Manager

& Contracting Officer

Administrative Services Division

District of Columbia Courts

ReynoldsD Typewritten Text Darlene D. Reynolds

This Amendment is acknowledged and is considered a part of the subject RFPQ.

Signature of Authorized Representative Date

Title of Authorized Representative

Name of Firm

Appendix A

Questions & Answers Spreadsheet

RFP No. DCSC-26-RFPQ-1

RFP No. DCSC-26-RFPQ-1

Establishing a Roster of Pre-Qualified Research Entities for SMD

No. OFFEROR QUESTION D.C. COURTS RESPONSE

Offeror form. Can a District-based LLC submit as the Offeror with a single principal investigator, or does the Courts expect a research organization with multiple staff and existing IRB infrastructure?

The District of Columbia Courts (“Courts” or “DCC”) welcomes responses from a single principal investigator.

Key-personnel standard. Section B allows a master’s degree when the person has an extensive record of large-scale independent empirical research. Does applied quantitative work on government and regulated-industry systems (evaluation, statistical modeling, operational research) count toward that standard, or is the

Courts looking specifically for criminal-justice / court-research publications and

IRB experience on this roster?

DCC welcomes responses from individuals with research experience across topic areas.