Japanese-JA-12-22-16_Redacted.pdf

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN FULL & OPEN COMPETITION

Japanese Curriculum Resources Levels I–IV and AP®

1. Contracting Agency: Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), 4800 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia 22350-1400

2. Nature and Description of Action: DoDEA intends to award a firm, fixed-price requirements contract directly to a woman-owned small business in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.1506 Woman-Owned Small Business Program.

3. Description of the Supplies and Services Required: DoDEA requires Japanese student textbooks, teacher materials, related supporting materials, and virtual professional development for Japanese Levels I-IV courses and an Advanced Placement® (AP®) course.

The AP® course must be aligned to the College Board standards. The Level I-IV courses must be aligned to the following standards:

World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, which may be found at the following URL: www.standards4languages.org.

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, which may be found at the following URL:

https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/ncssfl-actfl-can-do-statements

ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012, which can be found at the following URL:

https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/actfl-proficiency-guidelines-2012

ACTFL Performance Descriptors for Language Learners, which can be found at the following URL: https://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/actfl-performance-descriptors-language-learners

DoDEA World Language Standards & Proficiency Expectations, which may be found at http://www.dodea.edu/Curriculum/foreignLanguage/standards.cfm.

DoDEA College and Career Ready Standards (CCRS) which are based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which may be found at the following URL:

http://www.dodea.edu/collegeCareerReady/.

The estimated cost of this acquisition is in Operating and Maintenance (O&M) funds over a period of performance of one base year plus nine option years. The estimated value for the base year is .

4. Authority: 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(5), as implemented by FAR 6.302-5(b)(7), Sole source awards under the WOSB Program,and 15 U.S.C. 637(m), as implemented by FAR 19.1506, Women- Owned Small Business Program Sole Source Awards.

5. Basis for Authority Cited: Based on extensive market research, DoDEA identified Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc., 25 West Street, Boston, MA 02111, as a woman-owned small business that can provide the requisite instructional resources and virtual professional development. This vendor has performed successfully on previous DoDEA contracts for

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL FOR OTHER THAN FULL & OPEN COMPETITION

Chinese and Japanese curriculum materials. Because the FAR 19.1506 requirements for a sole source WOSB award have been met—the 511130 NAICS code assigned for this acquisition is one which the Small Business Administration (SBA) has determined that WOSB concerns are underrepresented, there are no other WOSB sources, and the anticipated award price, including options will not exceed $4 million—a contract award will be made on a sole source basis to a WOSB.

6. Efforts to Ensure that Offers are Solicited from as Many Potential Sources as is Practicable:

See paragraphs 5 and 8. In addition, this requirement will be synopsized on Federal Business Opportunities.

7. Fair and Reasonable Price. The contracting officer determines that the anticipated cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable.

8. Market Research Conducted: DoDEA subject matter experts monitor new developments for the organization. As addressed just below, based on professional experience and internet research, four companies were identified that sold Japanese instructional materials for secondary level students. Only one of those four companies was a woman-owned small business.

9. Other Supporting Facts to Use Other than Full & Open Competition: N/A

10 List of Sources: The four vendors identified through market research were Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc., a Woman-Owned small business; Cengage / National Geographic Learning, a large business, California Association of Japanese Language Schools, a non-profit business, and Proximity Learning a large business.

12/21/2016