IA02 SSN - PWS DRAFT - 6BDE JCLC STEM Camp Columbiana.pdf

This Performance Work Statement (PWS) details a non-personal service contract for the JROTC Cadet Leadership Challenge (JCLC) STEM Camp in Birmingham, Alabama for summer 2025. The contract will provide residential training for 570 cadets across three 4-day cycles from 30 May to 16 June 2025, with 190 cadets and 50 JROTC instructors per cycle. Key objectives include increasing cadets' awareness of STEM academic programs and career fields, enhancing personal leadership skills, inspiring academic excellence, and increasing desire to pursue STEM-related education and careers.

The contractor will be responsible for providing comprehensive services including lodging (three troop lodges accommodating 30-40 cadets each), meals, training facilities, and educational programming. Specific requirements include twelve days of access to facilities such as a swimming pool, challenge ropes course, land navigation course, athletic field, and canoe course. The camp will feature hands-on STEM leadership activities, problem-based learning exercises, team building, site visits, and will utilize at least 9 upper-level college engineering/environmental students as mentors and group coaches. The anticipated NAICS code is 611310 with a size standard of $34.5 million, and the requirement is planned as a small business set-aside.