Learning_Platform_IDIQ_Requirements 8_13_2024.pdf

On-line Learning Platform and Technical Course Library Contract Requirements

Introduction

The Scientist and Engineer (S&E) community, and in particular Software Engineering Groups at OO-ALC, OC- ALC, and WR-ALC (309 SWEG, 76 SWEG, & 402 SWEG), require an On-line Learning Platform and Technical Course Library consisting of a large holistic technical course library, each containing the full genre of educational courses in their respective skillsets – categorized in Programming Languages; Software Development; Web & Database/Creative Development; Information Assurance & Cyber Security; Information Technology, Networks & Networking Services; and Project Management, Business Operations, and Business Tools Functions. Such support is essential to facilitate advanced required skill set competency within multiple projects, required programming languages, and many other competencies required in conducting software development within various workloads throughout each the Air Forces Software Engineering Groups (SWEG).

Product Description

The On-line Learning Platform and Technical Course Library Contract Requires two (2) categorical subscription levels or options for technical on-line training library courses and skill development and Assessment licenses.

Said on-line learning platform subscription levels shall be delineated in the following general categories:

1) Subscripition/License Option A: Complete/Holistic On-line library of TECHNICAL courses as a professional development course library subscription plan to include comprehensive content areas for Programming Languages; Software Development; Web & Database/Creative Development;

Information Assurance & Cyber Security; Information Technology, Networks & Networking Services; and Project Management, Business Operations, and Business Tools Functions.

2) Subscripition/License Option B: Skillsets and Professional Development subscription plan with Advanced Organization Competencies and Data & Analytics Management capability providing greater flexibility to our organization to manage organizational competencies, understand workload skill gaps, and allow for organizational knowledge/skill growth & development planning. License B shall be an all-inclusive option that provides everything in the platform, analytics and skillset development subscription plans. In addition to the License A, License B will provide an Advanced Organization Competencies and Analytics Management subscription plan which will provide advanced features, function, and capability for a more advanced and/or experienced Organization.

Which will provide greater flexibility to organization to manage organizational competencies, understand workload skill gaps, and allow for organizational knowledge/skill growth & development planning.

Specific On-line Learning Platform Overall Requirements

1) A holistic professional development on-line course library Subscription Package/Plan Option: providing access to a vast on-line library of TECHNICAL courses with content in our major areas of operation: 1) Software Development, 2) Information Assurance & Cyber Security, 3) Web and User Interface Design & Development, 4) Networks and Information Technology Services & Support, and 5) Technical Project and Business Operations Management. This comprehensive license package will provide enhanced features, function, and capability for the more advanced and/or experienced learners, providing greater flexibility to the individual and leadership to manage all individuals’ personal knowledge/skill growth & development.

Minimum requirements and features of an on-line learning platform and technical course library in the Basic Subscription Plan to include:

- Extensive Standard Video Course Library in the five genres mentioned prior to build critical technical skills with inclusion of expert-led video courses with coverage of the most in-demand tech skills.

- Current & Cutting-edge Advanced Courses for the more experienced learner/professional to build critical skills & knowledge with expert-led courses in the five genres mentioned prior.

- Learner Guides/Tool that allow content searches on technology topics to quickly find pertinent content and guidance written by experts in industry.

- Learning Checks or quizzes that are concise and targeted knowledge checks the verify knowledge retention of pertinent course content.

- Course Completion Certificates to obtain confirmation that a course has fully been completed and afford submission to our AF Science & Engineering Training and Certification requirements.

- Workshop Activity and Exercise Files available for download to document and store course presentation content and outlines, personal instructor comments, course source code examples, and more to be reference and used off-line.

- Course Content Downloads so employees can learn offline and mobile whenever and wherever they see fit, from prior course downloads to use when on-line access isn’t available.

- Various Interactive Courses in current technical trends and popular industry topics to afford practicing as you learn with hands-on coding challenges, sandboxes, games, etc.

- Dedicated Email and Phone Support for Questions available 24/7 at least through email or chat, and by phone during typical business operating hours.

- License management tools to view and assign available licenses to ensure we’re getting the most out of our plan and licenses.

- Learning Paths to ensure employees learn the right knowledge and skills in the right order for their learning goals with relevant courses and content, with access to applicable skill paths suggested by experts.

- Certification Maps to provide the specific process order to help our professionals prepare accordingly for the majority of the popular industry standard certification tests (CLSSP, CISSL, CompTia, SecPlus, etc.) to pass the relevant certification exams.

- Customizable Learning Paths that allow our professionals to map out and tie together different course sections to make a customized skill development plan that caters to an individual or teams specific learning or skill development goals.

- Skill Assessments that afford measuring skill growth and categorize a learner’s progress and current capability for the various skill development objectives. Assessments should be efficient and targeted activities that comprehensively diagnose current skill levels.

- Job Assessments that provide the capability to see if your employees have the skills they need to succeed in their roles and give them guidance on what to work on to increase/improve capability.

- General Skill Registry Diagnostics that provide general insight into proficiency across our organization typical skillsets (Software Dev., IA, IT, Cybersecurity, etc.), to include a representation of current status and a time lined progress map for growth & development.

- General Job Capability Diagnostics that provides a view of individual capability levels to understand where team members are best capable and prepared to contribute in specific functional roles, efforts and tasks.

- Learning Paths Diagnostics to allow assessment of progress in individual learning paths, verifying completion of courses and content the works towards building skills and capabilities in the learning paths that match up with our identified functional effort objectives.

- Validated Practice Exams for Certifications to assist employees to prepare for successful completion of current popular professional certification exams in industry.

- Course Content Chat Forums to afford enhanced learning within a community of practice opportunity for each course, so employees can engage with practitioners and experts in a community dedicated to each course or content genre.

- Learning Platform Usage Reports to view popular courses and content accessed, number of hours working with specific content and skill development, and ranking of top learnings in the individual course topic/content areas.

- API Administration to see and manage general/typical user data, skills and capabilities status, courses/content accessed, and course completions and ability to produce bulk action reports.

- Content Trend Reports to understand the courses and content topics within our organization that are the most popular and in demand across our practitioners and organization overall.

2) An advanced Organization Competencies and Analytics Management Package/Plan option that at an additional price point, provides advanced features, function, and capability for a more advanced and/or experienced organization, and provide greater flexibility to our organization to manage organizational competencies, understand workload skill gaps, and allow for organizational knowledge/skill growth & development planning.

Additional desired supplemental features of said on-line learning platform and technical course library in an Organization Competencies and Analytics Management Plan in the areas of:

- An All-inclusive Learning Platform and Course Library that in addition to the five genres mentioned prior, provides expert-led courses that add current advancements in knowledge trends, including new ACG content and other industry trend courses to build critical technical skills with coverage of the most in-demand tech skills.

- Cloud Labs to practice cloud skills in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud environments.

- AI Labs to learn the trending practices to fully utilize current AI tools and increase capability of building efficient internal organization AI environments.

- Just-in-time Experiential LABS that allow the learner to experience real world scenarios within multiple domains and improve capability in current popular programing languages/environments

- Structured Internal Q&A Chat Forums to afford utilization of our organization’s own subject matter expertise to share knowledge and answer questions quickly to enhanced learning within our own internal community of practice for the various course or content genres.

- Organizational Learning Objectives Management/Reports to allow leadership to prioritize learning goals to our organizations strategic plan and skill-up in current targeted skill development objectives and monitor improved capabilities progress to fill in capability deficits across our organization.

- Advanced Skill Registry Diagnostics that provide critical insight into specific skillsets proficiency levels across our organization common categorized skillsets (subsets of Software Dev., IA, IT, Cybersecurity, etc.), to include a representation of current skills and skill gaps with detailed organizational skill development progress maps, timelines, and suggested planning capability to fill in critical skill gaps.

- Advanced Job Capability Diagnostics that provides a high-level view and individual and team-level view of individual capability levels throughout the numerous teams of the organization, to understand where team members are best capable and prepared to contribute in specific functional roles, and identify functional position shortages to skill-up and meet the demands of new incoming workloads and planned near future workloads.

- Advanced API Administration to see and manage detailed user data, skills and capabilities status, courses/content accessed, course completions and ability to configure internal systems and run scripts to process bulk actions, normalize data and generate detailed categorical reports.

- Advanced Content Trend Diagnostics to understand popular courses and content trends our organization, perceived skill gaps and functional position shortages, and anticipated skill-up needs to provide action plans to meet specific functional role deficits/demands of incoming and planned near future workloads.

- Advanced Experiential Learning Activities (downloadable) for current technical trends and popular industry subjects that are package in downloadable files to have access to hands-on experiential coding exercises (course slides, instructor insights, source code, etc.), while on-the go (i.e. travel) without access to a network internet.

Baseline Contract Quantities and Option Years

This is intended to be a FIVE year contract as follows:

YEAR ONE:

• Subscripition/License Option A: Quantity- 1,635+

• Subscripition/License Option B: Quantity- 385+

YEAR TWO:

• Subscripition/License Option A: Quantity- 1,660+

• Subscripition/License Option B: Quantity- 390+

YEAR THREE:

• Subscripition/License Option A: Quantity- 1685+

• Subscripition/License Option B: Quantity- 395+

YEAR FOUR:

• Subscripition/License Option A: Quantity- 1710+

• Subscripition/License Option B: Quantity- 400+

YEAR FIVE:

• Subscripition/License Option A: Quantity- 1735+

• Subscripition/License Option B: Quantity- 405+ +