RFI - Sources Sought - OAA-25-00089 - ARC Employer Database .pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

Reference No. OAA-25-00089

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Office of Workforce Investment (OWI) is requesting information for the Analyst Resource Center Employer Database (Database), which will be used by various agencies and the public workforce. The Database will contain employer information for and be made available for use by all fifty (50) states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin

Islands, Guam, and ETA through an interface operated by the ETA Analyst Resource Center Grantee, which will receive the database securely from Contractor.

The Employer Database shall function as a tool for Users for career exploration, job search, job development, employment support services, labor market research, related public workforce and public economic development system efforts. The Database shall contain the following on all business establishments in the United States: employer names, addresses, contact information, industry identifiers, employment, and other information related to each business establishment. The Database shall be made available through a variety of means and media, such as standalone PC’s, client-server systems, internet/intranet systems, etc. The information in the Database may be displayed, downloaded, printed, used to generate mailing lists, and other activities.

Interested parties shall submit the following information:

• GSA contract number (if applicable)

• 8(a) Status (if applicable)

• Socio-Economic Status (if applicable)

• Business Size

• Unique Entity Identifier number (UEI)

• Cage Code (if applicable)

• Capabilities Statement

• Brief Summary no more than 3 pages of how the interested party will meet the subject requirement.

• Statement of Qualifications

Capabilities Statement and Statement of Qualifications:

Contractor shall provide a capabilities statement. In addition, the contract shall provide a

Statement of Qualifications that shall not exceed 5 pages in total

The Statement of Qualifications and shall address the following:

1. A description of their successful experience in the collection, compilation and delivery of an employer database and the process used by the Contractor to maintain and update the content of the database, including: the frequencies of record updates, e.g., all firms in the database are contacted semi-annually, annually, etc.

2. A description of their ability to deliver electronically to each State, ETA, and the ARC in

Minnesota one copy each of the entire uncompressed Database, in a prescribed record layout

ASCII-delimited format.

3. A description of the ability of the Contractor to provide multiple users/agencies a means to download the entire Database or to selectively download data for one or more states.

4. A description of the ability of the Contractor to provide for three (3) specifically defined levels of

User access to the Database: primary recipient, intermediate User, and client/end User.

Definitions below:

i. The Primary Recipient, usually the state employment security/workforce agency, shall be able to download the entire Database to a PC or server. The Primary Recipient shall have the right to use all or any part of the Database for the identified Uses and Users, in any and all formats, media and means of delivery, including the Internet. This includes the right to incorporate all or any part of the Database into information delivery systems for the identified Uses and Users. Access to the Database provided by the Primary Recipient shall be governed by the access levels specified for intermediate and end Users.

ii. The Intermediate User, a local one-stop career center, public economic development entity or other User, shall be able to search the entire Database and return an unlimited number of records for display in a list or on a map. The Contractor shall identify the number of these records, which shall be 100+, that may be selected at one time for download and/or printing.

iii. The Client/End User, e.g., an individual engaged in job search or career exploration, shall be able to search the entire Database. The Contractor shall identify the number of records, which shall be 25+, that may be returned at one time for display, download and/or printing. Display shall include viewing in a list or on a map.

5. Submit a sample of 50 records that provides the format for all employer data contained in their database, including field names, formats and descriptions (this sample is exempt from the 5-page limitation).

6. Describe your organizational experience managing and ensuring data integrity.

7. Describe your organization’s experience with interacting with Federal Government personnel.

What is your expected communication strategy with the Federal Government?

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL.

All interested parties must submit responses in accordance with all aspects of this Request for

Information/Sources Sought notice cited above.

No questions in connection with this notice will be entertained.

The government reserves the right to compete any acquisition resulting from this notice.

This sources sought notice is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to pay for the information requested, issue a solicitation, or award a contract.

No solicitation document exists at this time. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside is within the discretion of the Government.

A “DRAFT” Statement of Work is attached to provide background and detailed information for this request and is subject to change if the Government determines a requirement exists.

The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice.

Interested parties shall submit the aforementioned information to this sources sought notice electronically

NLT January 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) to the following:

Karen A. Corporal at Corporal.Karen.A@dol.gov; and

NaShaunte Graham at graham.nashaunte.j@dol.gov

Please reference OAA-25-00089 “Response to Sources Sought – Office of Workforce Investment (OWI)

Analyst Resource Center Employer Database.