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Scientific Peer Review Support for the Institute of Education Sciences

Solicitation Number ED-IES-17-R-0014

Webinar Agenda Introductions: The U.S. Department of Education’s Acquisition Team

Vendor Collaboration Webinar Protocol

Overview: Scientific Peer Review Support for the Institute of Education Sciences

Closing Remarks and Next Steps

Introductions Veronica L. Price, Sr. Contracting Officer (CO) – OCFO/Contracts and Acquisitions Management (CAM) Thomas Smith, Contract Specialist (CS) – CAM Ellie Pelaez, Contracting Officer’s Representative – Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Anne Ricciuti, Deputy Director for Science – IES Ricky Takai, Senior Research Scientist – IES Lisa Bridges, Education Research Analyst – IES

Motivation To provide integrated support for scientific peer review activities conducted at IES, including the review of applications to discretionary research grant competitions, and external scientific peer review of report manuscripts and unsolicited research grant applications.

Support IES in fulfilling its mission to provide rigorous and relevant evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and share this information broadly.

7 Contract Tasks Kick-off Meeting and Transition Activities Planning Activities for Discretionary Research Grant Competitions and Pre-Review Activities for Report and Unsolicited Research Grant Application Reviews Receipt of Applications for Annual Research Grant Competitions, Report Manuscripts, and Unsolicited Research Grant Applications Post-Receipt, Pre-Meeting, and Panel Assignments for Annual Discretionary Research Grant Competitions Annual Scientific Peer Review Panel Meetings Post-Meeting or Post-Review Tasks, including Preparation of Review Summaries Preparation Tasks for Next Competition Cycle

Period of Performance

(Months 1-12) Option Year 1 All tasks for report and unsolicited research grant peer review within the period; FY2019 research grant peer review activities and preparation for FY2020 research grant peer review activities 12 months (Months 13-24) Option Year 2 All tasks for report and unsolicited research grant peer review within the period; FY2020 research grant peer review activities and preparation for FY2021 research grant peer review activities 12 months (Months 25-36) Option Year 3 All tasks for report and unsolicited research grant peer review within the period; FY2021 research grant peer review activities and preparation for FY2022 research grant peer review activities 12 months (Months 37-48) Option Year 4 All tasks for report and unsolicited research grant peer review within the period; FY2022 research grant peer review activities and preparation for FY2023 research grant peer review activities 12 months (Months 49-60)

Key Expertise, Qualifications IES will require the contractor to have demonstrated corporate experience and skill with a full range of comprehensive research grant and report manuscript scientific peer-review related activities, and to provide a Project Director and other Project Staff who together possess:

Experience with scientific peer review of education-related research grant competitions and of research, statistics, and evaluation reports, at the scope and level of complexity required by IES (annually: 900-1000 applications, 25-30 panels, 300-350 reviewers; 50-100 reports). This includes (but is not limited to) Planning and administering multi-panel grant peer review meetings (20-25 panels at a time), including both in-person and virtual panels, Experience and skill with Grants.gov, and the government-wide Research and Related (R&R) grant application package, and Experience with technical compliance review and processing of research grant applications.

Experience and skill with developing, maintaining, supporting, and managing an on-line peer review system that is fully integrated with a full range of pre-review, review meeting, and post review activities, as well as report manuscript peer review, and that provides secure access for multiple types of users with differing permission levels, as is needed to accommodate the multiple user groups involved with IES research grant and report peer review (including, but not necessarily limited to, IES staff, Contractor staff, scientific peer reviewers, and grant applicants).

IES’s Annual Discretionary Grant Competitions – Historical Information

IES Unsolicited Grant and Report Review Activities – Historical Information

Key Proposal Content Must demonstrate understanding of the purpose and nature of the required scientific peer-review activities, and provide clear and feasible plans for carrying out each required activity, including strategies for staffing to accomplish each required activity in an efficient, timely manner.

Must be attentive to procedures for controlling work performance, assigning responsibilities, promoting communication, resolving problems, coordinating work of sub-contractors and consultants, if any, and ensuring work quality and timeliness.

Closing Remarks & Next Steps All webinar related questions must be submitted to the CS & CO by 2 p.m. (ET) on March 8, 2017

Responses will be posted on www.FBO.gov on March 15, 2017

Capability Statements are due 2:00 p.m. (ET), March 8, 2017

RFP’s anticipated release date: on or about May 1, 2017 image2.png image3.png