Market Research Questions - TRLECE.pdf

Continuing to Understand the Role of Licensing in Early Care and Education:

General Business Questions:

Please provide the company size status under NAICS 541720 - Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Does your company fall under any socio-economic category under NAICS 541720 (WOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), VOSB, SDVOSB, ect.)?

Please describe your current knowledge and understanding of child care and early education (CCEE) licensing, including approaches to licensing across the US, current issues in CCEE licensing from varying perspectives (e.g. licensing administrators, licensing staff who monitor and support CCEE programs, providers) and experience conducting research about CCEE licensing in the last 5 years.

Please describe your current or previous relationships in the past 5 years or experiences partnering and/or working with the following in the past 5 years:

o State, Territory, and/or Tribal licensing agencies/licensing administrators o Professional associations and working groups for CCEE licensing including regulatory professionals, providers, researchers, etc. (e.g. National Association for Regulatory Administrators, Licensing Expert Panel, Licensing Community of Practice) o Licensing staff who monitor and support CCEE programs o CCEE providers, including license-exempt providers, family child care providers, center-based providers, and Head Start programs; and o Families of young children (birth-age 5), particularly those with low-incomes.

Please describe your experience collecting data in the last 5 years with:

o State, Territory, and/or Tribal licensing administrators o Licensing staff who monitor and support CCEE programs o CCEE providers, including license-exempt providers, family child care providers, center-based providers, and Head Start programs; and o Families of young children (birth-age 5), particularly those with low-incomes.

Please describe your experience in the last 5 years with preparing packages for the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for full and generic information collection requests, as well as registering studies and completing necessary Institutional Review Board requirements.

Please describe your experience in the last 5 years analyzing local, State, Territory, Tribal and/or national licensing administrative data, including experience obtaining data through web-scraping, partnering with licensing agencies or accessing large national datasets, linking to other relevant administrative datasets and cleaning and transforming data into an analyzable dataset.

Please describe your statistical expertise, including experience in the last 5 years with both quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches with different types of constituents (e.g.

families, licensed and license exempt providers, subgroups with small samples that have high disclosure risk), particularly with CCEE licensing data.

Please describe your experience in the last 5 years preparing, designing, and hosting interactive web-based data visualizations and data dashboards, particularly with licensing data.

Please describe your experiences in the last 5 years communicating complex processes and information about state and territory approaches to supporting CCEE licensing for various audiences, including:

o Federal, State, Territory and/or Tribal lead agencies o Researchers o Policy makers o Child care and early education providers; and o Licensing staff who monitor and support CCEE programs.

For these questions we would like to hear about your ability to provide a quote for completing this work.

Is your company interested in providing a proposal for this requirement?

The contract type contemplated for this requirement is Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF). Does your company have an accounting system capable of receiving a cost reimbursable contract?

o Is it approved by any Government agency?

If so, which agency?

What information, details, or items would your company need in a Request for Proposal (RFP) in order to provide a proposal?

What, if any, risks or other factors does your company foresee that may deter your company from submitting a proposal on this requirement?