Contractor Capability Survey.docx

CONTRACTOR CAPABILITY SURVEY

Defense Finance and Accounting Service IBM Cognos Training Services

Part 1. Business Information

Name of Company:

CAGE:

Address:

Website URL:

Telephone No:

Contact Person:

Title of Contact:

Registered in System for Award Management (SAM)

Woman Owned Small Business

HUBZone Program

Small Disadvantaged Business

8(a) Business Certified

Veteran Owned Small Business

Small Business

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business

Is your company domestically or foreign owned (if foreign, please indicate the country of ownership):

Part 2. Survey Questions

Corporate Experience & Capability

1. Do your course titles for Cognos training match those listed in the PWS (e.g., "IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals")? If not, please provide a cross-reference list of your equivalent course titles.

2. The PWS requires the ability to deliver up to two (2) simultaneous sessions of the same course. Describe your company's capacity to meet this requirement. How many qualified instructors do you have on staff or readily available to teach the Cognos courses listed in the PWS?

3. Describe your company's experience in providing technical training of a similar scope and complexity to other federal government agencies. Please provide up to three examples from the past three years.

4. The PWS requires three different delivery methods: Virtual Only, In-Person Off-Site, and In-Person On-Site. Will your pricing for each course remain the same regardless of the delivery method, or will it be different for each? Please explain.

5. Confirm your ability to provide training within ten (10) business days' notice for CONUS classes and thirty (30) days' notice for OCONUS classes.

Technical Approach

1. The PWS requires a virtual platform that is synchronous, accessible via a standard DFAS workstation, and requires no local software installation. Please list the virtual platforms you use and confirm their ability to operate in such an environment over HTTPS (port 443).

2. Describe your virtual lab environment. Confirm that it is available 24 hours per day for the duration of a course, accessible without local software installation, and allows all participants to save their work.

3. The PWS requires the vendor to be a registered NASBA CPE sponsor. Please provide your NASBA Registry ID number. Confirm that you can provide CPEs for the relevant courses and issue certificates within two weeks of class completion.

4. Describe your process for developing and delivering course materials (e.g., workbooks, guides) for both in-person and virtual formats. Confirm your ability to provide materials in a non-proprietary electronic format and your approach to ensuring all materials are 508 compliant, including support for JAWS software.

5. Confirm that your instructors meet the minimum qualifications of three (3) years of teaching experience and three (3) years of professional experience as an IBM Certified Cognos programmer/developer.

6. Describe your capability and approach to providing vendor-operated training facilities within a 15-mile radius of the specified DFAS locations (Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH; Indianapolis, IN), including all necessary equipment and no-cost parking.

7. Please confirm your company's ability to ensure all personnel meet the security requirements outlined in Section 11.0 of the PWS, including the Tier 1 background investigation and ability to obtain a DoD Common Access Card (CAC).

Additional Information Request

Do you wish to provide any other feedback in regards to the PWS?

Please note any specific or designated disadvantages.

Please include any other information you believe is relevant to this market research.