HE125418R0002_-_Attachment_4-Amended_Q&A-_5-7-18.pdf

Question # Question

Regarding subject line SOL, is it possible to receive an extension to the 15 May deadline?

Pearson would like to offer, but the tight deadline will be extremely difficult. Thank you for this consideration.

The discrepancy in your Option 1 and Option 2 Student and Teacher quantities is large.

Can you please provide a better estimate of quantities?

The Student and Teacher quantities indicated in the SOL tables do not seem to be close to the quantities in your Pricing Schedule. Please indicate which quantities are correct.

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(SOW 3.6.3 Face-to-Face (for AQR only) Please clarify if the 3-5 days of F2F training will be at a cost to the government or at a cost to the vendor.

In the RFP Statement of Work you include a Base Year enrollment # but the base year is not included on the price sheet. Where should we put in the number for the base plan?

In the price schedule, we noticed that the Tab is labeled K-5 Literacy and not Upper Level

Math. Is this correct?

Does the Combined Synopsis/Solicitation posted as solicitation number HE125418R0002 on FBO contain requirements similar to a existing contract or will this be a new requirement? If possible, please provide the current contract number.

There isn't curriculum standards posted on https://www.dodea.edu/Curriculum/Mathematics/standards.cfm for AQR. Do you have the standards that you want correlated to CCRSM?

9 For the Webinar, is it 10 slides per curriculum area or 10 slides in total for everything?

There is a date of 10am EST for everything to be received within the RFP but the table later in the document shows 10PM EST. I'm assuming 10am is the correct time?

11 Will there be a day to set up print that is being sent in or will your team handle that?

Answer

Solicitation has been extended with a revised due Date 5/29/2018 at 10

AM. See amendment 01.

The Pricing Schedule has been updated to provide more flexibility. Note that the quantities reported in the first base year should be assumed for each year, but the additional years are left blank to allow for variance in proposals based on how offerors' provide materials. If physical texts are consumable, then DoDEA assumes approximately the same number of consumable books to be purchased annually. However, if texts are hard-cover bound, DoDEA assumes purchasing in the base year, with a small percentage added to each subsequent year for unexpected enrollment, replenishment, and replacement. Similarly, digital access may also vary based on offerors' structure for annual or multi-year access. In whichever case, assume consistent student and teacher quantities annually and adjust for each subsequent year based on DoDEA's need to cover the same need in those years.

Please use the quantities reported in the First Year (2018-2019) -

Column F, Complete Sets rows of the Princing Schedule. As noted above, the quantities are consistent annually by expected enrollment, but need will be determined by offerors' solutions should they be consumable or permanent, or if digital access is annual or multi-year.

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DoDEA assumes it will be a cost to the government. This CLIN should be made available as an option for the government to exercise, though, depending on determined need and availability of travel resources within the agency, the CLIN may or may not be exercised. In the event that it is, the government expects to pay a cost to the vendor host such a session or travel to and be hosted in a DoDEA-determined location.

The number for the base plan should be placed in the base period total column.

The tab was labeled incorrectly and has been corrected to reflect Upper

Level Math.

The Combined Synopsis/Solicitation contains both new requirements and requirements that replace existing (mostly expired) contracts. The

AQR requirement is new. The Financial Algebra requirement is similar to a soon-to-be expiring contract for Financial Literacy, HE1254-12-D-0017.

The other expired contracts similar to those being sought are for

Precalculus HE1254-10-D-0017, Discrete Mathematics HE1254-10-D-

0018, AP Calculus HE1254-10-D-0014, and AP Statistics HE1254-10-D-

0013.

Please see Attachment 5 AQR Standards Draft. It is a draft that may change before the beginning of the school year and influenced by the winning bid, but it will be the version against which offerors will be evaluated.

Please use 10 slides for everything. The idea is that the oral presentation should assist evaluators in their exploration of the materials, so please narrow the focus of the presentation to common features, navigation, etc. If there are explicit unique user features that differ between programs, please review those briefly so evaluators can be aware when switching to evaluate a different curricular set. In addition to the slides, presentations can also include brief interactive walk-throughs of digital suites. These will not count towards the 10 slide limit but must still fall within the 60 minute total time allocation.

Updated, See amendment 1

The government will handle the set up of the prints, offeror shall ensure their hardcopies material are received by the POC on or before the proposal due date.