Digital Credential Institute - Madison College.pdf

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Starting in May 2022, MHCC and the SCC Grant Oregon Consortium began working with the Digital Credentials Institute of Madison College to implement Phase 1 of a pilot project to develop and implement an Employability Skills Digital Badging Framework across 9 community colleges associate with the grant.

Phase 1 began in May 2022 and has continued through March 2023. Phase 1 involved bi-weekly meetings of the consortium college staff/faculty and DCI to develop the badging framework that would be piloted in Phase II of the project. The framework that has been developed over the past year an includes the criteria and rubrics for assessing 18 employability skills badges. Initial badge images have been drafted for the 9 consortium colleges.

Phase II is a two-year pilot of the Employability Skills Framework that was developed. It will involve developing 18 digital badge images templates that will be then developed into 9 sets of the 18-badge template for each of the 9 colleges (total 162 images and templates) to issue the badges. DCI will fully administer the issuing of the digital badges through the Credly badging platform on behalf of the 9 SCC Grant Consortium colleges during the pilot. Data and analytics will be reported each quarter.

The ultimate goal of this pilot is to demonstrate the value of the digital badging and the digital badging framework that the 9 colleges developed. The goal of this is to demonstrate the need for a state-level initiative/project that will require a competitive solicitation of a state-wide badging project for all 17 Oregon community colleges.

Mt. Hood Community College intends to use this vendor as a Sole Source Procurement.

The total estimated contract cost will approximately be $150,000

Any entity wishing to protest this sole source procurement must do so prior to 4:00 PM on March 17th, All written protests must include must be certified mailed and include the following:

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2. A description of the resulting harm to the affected person;

3. The relief requested;

4. Must be signed by an authorized representative, and

5. Must be delivered in person to the address listed below:

Mt. Hood Community College

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