24Q0025_ATTCH8_Q and A_053124.pdf
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- World Language Performance & Proficiency Assessments Federal contract opportunity
- Solicitation number
- HE125424Q0025
- Issued by
- Department of Defense Education Activity
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This document is a Q&A attachment from Solicitation HE125424Q0025 for a World Language Performance & Proficiency Assessments contract opportunity issued by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).
The key details are: DoDEA requires a comprehensive world language assessment system for all students in Levels I-IV, including American Sign Language (ASL) and 8 other languages. The contractor must provide a web-based tool for formative and summative assessments, with live technical support during testing windows. All contractor personnel accessing DoDEA data must be U.S. citizens. The contract will have a 5-year base period. The Q&A clarifies requirements around assessment activities, delivery methods, data access, and pricing. It also notes that the solicitation has been updated with amended quantity details.
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Attachment 8 - Q&A
Questions and Answers
HE125424Q0025 (World Language)
1. The RFP states (in PWS 3.6.2 and elsewhere) that all contractor personnel with access (or potential) access to DoDEA data in any form shall be US citizens. To confirm, are no US nationals or US permanent residents permitted to have access to DoDEA data, including student Answer data (for rating purposes) and any customer support data provided when seeking customer or technical support?
ANSWER: All contractor personnel with access, or potential access to DoDEA data in any form must be a US citizen or have acquired US citizenship.
2. Max quantities were provided on pages 3 through 9. However, the contract minimum/maximum quantity and contract value indicated on page 9 shows a Maximum Quantity of 6,893 which seems to contradict the preceding pages and the Clin Delivery Task order minimum/maximum quantity on page
10. Could you please provide clarification on the matter?
ANSWER: Stated quantities have been updated. See attached amended solicitation.
3. Regarding PWS 2.3.3 Professional Learning “Provide professional learning a series of synchronous webinars.” Please clarify if the webinars could also be provided asynchronously.
ANSWER: All webinars must be synchronous.
4. Reference PWS section 2.2.3 – Live Tech support. Please confirm that this “Live Support” is only during the testing window (April-June) to assist with testing issues and not to support the use of the formative assessment tool.
ANSWER: Yes, live support is required only during the testing window.
5. The following questions reference PWS section 2.2.4, a “Web-Based Tool":
a) What "tool" is currently being used for this item? Do the teachers have access to this via a yearly license-based use of the "tool"?
ANSWER: Currently teachers do not have access to a tool.
b) Is it expected that this "tool" is the same technology/platform as the annual summative assessment?
ANSWER: Yes.
Attachment 8 - Q&A
c) Is it expected that this “tool” delivers both in-class activities as well as formative assessments?
d) Should this "tool" be priced on a yearly basis for an estimated 450 teachers each year?
ANSWER: The “tool” is a component of the comprehensive assessment system as outlined in
PWS paragraph 2.2 Task 1, Assessment System, and is to be priced in accordance with Atch 1
Pricing Sheet, CLIN # 0010.
e) Will formative ASL content be necessary in this system as well?
f) Is it expected that this system will integrate with the textbooks/curriculum of the various courses?
ANSWER: No, the assessments must align with the standards listed in PWS 1.2.2 and 1.2.3.
6. The following questions reference PWS section 2.2.5.4 - "Formative Assessments”:
a) Are these formative assessments different from the activities outlined in 2.2.4?
ANSWER: No.
b) Is this portal different from the web-based system outlined in 2.2.4?
ANSWER: PWS 2.2.4 lists the requirements for the web-based tool. The portal in PWS 2.2.5.4 allows stakeholders “…to view student assessment submissions and results.”
7. The following questions reference PWS section 2.4.1- “Digital Resources”:
a) Does this mean tutorials and support regarding how to use the Web-Based System for
Assessment Delivery and the Formative Assessment System?
ANSWER: If accessing the system is not intuitive, the vendor should provide instructions in addition to the required access directions/codes.
b) PWS 2.4.2.2 references Instructional Resources. Is there an expectation that the vendor also delivers course content for each course?
ANSWER: No course content should be included.
c) How is this different from the “Web-Based Tool" outlined in 2.2.4?
ANSWER: PWS 2.4.1 refers only to the delivery of or access to the digital resources like the
“Web-Based Tool” described in PWS 2.2.4.
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