Sources Sought Notice Education Survey Planning 07152024.pdf

U.S. Census Bureau

Sources Sought Notice-No. DEMO-24-0021

Education Survey Planning

The Education Surveys Team in the Associate Director for Demographic Programs, Survey

Operations (ADDP-SO) is responsible for activities associated with the data collection, processing, dissemination, and analysis of several surveys for the National Center for Education

Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of

Education (ED).

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMTION ONLY. This Sources Sought is issued solely for information and planning purposes - it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the

Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, the USCB is not at this time seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. Respondees are advised that the

U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this Sources Sought; all costs associated with responding to this Sources Sought will be solely at the interested party's expense. Not responding to this Sources Sought does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) website or if the market research results in a

GSA schedule buy it will be announced on GSA's E-Buy website. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this requirement.

The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 41720 -

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Government is interested in identifying all small businesses including Small Disadvantaged Businesses 8(a)s, Service

Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, Hubzone Businesses, and Women-Owned Small

Businesses capable of performing these services.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SCOPE OF WORK:

The Contractor must possess a specific, unique skill set to meet the needs of the Education

Surveys Team and NCES. The Contractor must possess in-depth knowledge about and experience working with the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) and its predecessor, the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), and the follow-up surveys to these surveys - the

Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) and Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS). Knowledge about related NCES school sample surveys including the Private School Survey (PSS), Beginning

Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS), Teaching and Leaming International Survey (TALIS), and

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is also required. This knowledge must include: (1) survey background and general history of the surveys, (2) familiarity with the survey questions/items as well as justification for content changes across cycles, (3) frame creation and sample design employed - including changes to school definitions and sampling methodology across cycles, ( 4) data collection and data processing methodologies employed - including data collection methodology changes across survey cycles, and ( 5) technical aspects of the data

4. Describe your knowledge related to and experience working with sampling frames of schools derived from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and Private School Survey (PSS).

5. Describe your experience working on NCES sample survey data collections and with

NCES sample survey data (e.g., National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), Schools and Staffmg Survey (SASS), Private School Survey (PSS), Beginning Teacher

Longitudinal Study (BTLS), Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), Teaching and Learning

International Survey (TALIS), and National Assessment of Educational Progress

(NAEP)).

6. Describe your experience working with processing ( editing, imputing, and reviewing) and analyzing survey and linked administrative data. Wherever possible, place emphasis on education data.

7. Company Primary Point of Contact Name, Business Title, Email & Telephone Number

8. Provide your NAICS codes associated the company

9. Provide your company's Business Classification/ Socio-Economic Status under NAICS

Code 541990, Office Administrative Services

10. Provide your Socio-economic categories associated with the company

A CAPABILITY STATEMENT DEMONSTRATING THEIR EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND

CAP ABILITIES TO FULFILL THE GOVERNMENTS REQUIREMENT SPECIFIED IN THIS

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE. ALL RESPONDENTS ARE REQUESTED TO IDENTIFY

THEIR FIRM'S SIZE AND TYPE OF BUSINESS.

BROCHURES ALONE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT DOCUMENTATION FOR

DEMONSTRATION OF CAPABILITIES. THE CAPABILITY STATEMENT SHALL BE IN

SUFFICIENT ENOUGH DETAIL, BUT NOT TO EXCEED 15 PAGES, SO THAT THE

GOVERNMENT CAN DETERMINE THE EXPERIENCE AND CAP ABILITY OF YOUR

FIRM TO PROVIDE THE REQUIREMENT SPECIFIED ABOVE.

QUESTIONS will not be entertained.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE, TO TY

SAR CONTRACT SPECIALIST, VIA EMAIL AT PITHY.T.SAR@CENSUS.GOV, NO

LATER THEN MONDAY, JULY 29, 2024 BY 4PM, EST. THE EMAIL SUBJECT LINE

SHOULD BE: SOURCES SOUGHT RESPONSE DEMO-24-0021