Amendment_3_Additional_Information.pdf

Attachment 3 Adult Basic Education Curriculum

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Federal Bureau of Prisons Adult Basic Education Curriculum

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Additional Information and Submission Instructions

1.0 General

The Government intends to award a contract to the lowest priced, technically acceptable, and responsible offer. By submission of its offer, the offeror accepts all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, and technical requirements. Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the solicitation and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale.

The Government reserves the right to award without discussions.

Therefore, each initial offer should contain the Offeror’s best terms from a price and technical stand point. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if determined to be in the Government’s best interest by the Source Selection Authority (SSA).

1.1 Number of Contracts to be awarded

The Government intends to select one contractor to provide all of the supplies/services covered herein. However, the Government reserves the right to award multiple contracts, or to make no award on some or all line items.

The resulting contract will be a firm fixed priced contract.

Any charges for shipping or other fees must be included in the price. There will not be a separate CLIN for shipping charges or other fees. Paper offers will not be accepted.

1.2 Rejection of Unrealistic Offers

The Government may reject any offer that is evaluated to be unrealistic in terms of program commitments, including contract terms and conditions or unrealistically high or low in price when compared to Government estimates, such that the offer is

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deemed to reflect an inherent lack of competence or failure to comprehend the complexity and risks of program.

2.0 Evaluation and Evaluation Factors

This acquisition will utilize Lowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection procedures. Failure to meet a requirement may result in an offer being determined unacceptable. Technical tradeoffs will not be made and no additional credit will be given for exceeding acceptability.

The Government will evaluate the factors and sub-factors described below:

Factor 1 – Price Factor 2 - Technical Acceptability Factor 3 – Past Performance

2.1 Evaluation Method

A technical evaluation will be performed on the technical section of the offer with the lowest evaluated price. If the offer is technically acceptable, it will be evaluated for past performance. If the lowest priced offer is not technically acceptable or does not have acceptable past performance, the next lowest priced offer will be evaluated, etc.

2.2 Price

The Offeror’s price proposal will be evaluated based upon the total evaluated price. The total evaluated price will be calculated as the sum of the proposed extended prices for all CLINS including all options. Evaluation of options is not a guarantee that the option will be exercised by the government.

Proposed prices will be evaluated for reasonableness. For a price to be reasonable, it shall represent a price to the Government that a prudent person would pay when consideration is given to prices in the market. Price reasonableness may be established by adequate price competition and/or price analysis techniques.

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The Government may also determine an offer unacceptable should the proposed prices, be materially unbalanced. Unbalanced pricing exists when, despite an acceptable total evaluated price, the price of one or more items is significantly overstated or understated as indicated by the application of price analysis techniques.

2.3 Technical Factors

Technical proposals will be evaluated for acceptability in accordance with the criteria set forth in this section. The Offeror’s technical proposal must convey to the Government that the Offeror is capable, possesses adequate technical expertise and experience, possesses sufficient resources, and is able to plan, organize, and use those resources in a coordinated and timely fashion to meet the needs of the Government.

Each of the following criteria will be rated an acceptable/not acceptable basis:

• textbooks/workbooks mirror the digital content (includes tracking of student progress)

• product is capable for the students to track their progress in digital courseware

• interface and content is appropriate for adult learners

• contains comprehensive subject-based baseline assessments and unit assessments

• contains final comprehensive grade level and subject based assessments (reassess grade level equivalency)

• digital courseware allows for selecting relevant subjects and competence/units for students based on student ability

• digital courseware allows for test question randomization based on student ability

• can deliver staff training and technical support

• Operates on an Isolated Local Area Network/Wide Area

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• supports use of Layer 3 switching, and have the ability across multiple VLANS, Virtual Switchies, VMWare VShield (firewall software)

• stores Student Data on Isolated Local and Centrally Located Virtualized Windows Server 2008 R2 Platforms

• vendor support for the Courseware, to include updates and Patches, will be provided without Need for external access to the Network

• If digital courseware is offered via a remote vendor location, it must provide an isolated and encrypted circuit dedicated to the Bureau of Prisons network requirements

• Must Operate in a VMWare ESXi 4.1 and 5.X Virtualized Environment, utilizing Virtual Windows 2008 R2 File Servers (64 bit only), and Virtual Windows 7 Desktops (32 or 64 bit), communicating via PCoIP Protocols to Zero-Client Devices Operating on a Teradici Chipset

• if courseware is delivered via Web Browser, it meets SSL v 2 Secure Connection Requirements

• courseware user account management is compatible with a Microsoft Domain Environment (Active Directory, LDAP)

• if courseware account management is maintained within the courseware program, multiple group permissions and levels of security are required for students, teachers, and system administrators

• courseware licensing is a site license for the BOP

• courseware has the ability to migrate or export student data and records to other locations utilizing industry standard formats (Comma Delimited (CSV), XML, PDF, XLS, etc.)

• initial digital courseware will be provided on locally isolated individual networks, it has the ability to seamlessly migrate local data to a centralized platform via wide area network and/or a web-based environment

• courseware is compatible with the Agilix Brainhoney system and in a format that can be imported into the system

• has a minimum 5 year history of curriculum development for adult education for a large correctional or school setting (Approximately 600 Teachers and 20,000 students across various states)

• has a successful 5 year history of interactive training (in-person or long distance) ABE/GED teachers to utilize resources is demonstrated

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It is the Offeror’s responsibility to demonstrate compliance with the technical criteria. Compliance should be demonstrated by providing examples, screen shots, specifications, or other appropriate documentation. Stating compliance, without providing supporting evidence, may result in an unacceptable rating.

2.4 Past Performance

The government will evaluate the quality and extent of Offeror’s performance deemed relevant to the requirements of this request for proposal. The government will use information submitted by the Offeror and any other sources of information available to the Government to assess relevant and recent past performance.

Past performance will be evaluated as acceptable, neutral or unacceptable. In the case of an Offeror without a record of relevant and recent past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available, the Offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance.

Therefore, the offer shall be determined to have unknown past performance and rated neutral.

Past performance information shall be obtained from any sources available to the Government to include, but not limited to, PPIRS or other databases, interviews with program personnel, Contracting Officers, commercial clients.

3.0 Submission Instructions

Offerors who fail to furnish or follow any of the instructions may be excluded from consideration.

It is the Offeror’s sole responsibility to ensure their offers are received timely and .pdf files are accessible, legible and do not exceed size limitations.

3.1 Questions

All Questions concerning this solicitation must be emailed to dgrube@bop.gov no later than March 18, 2015. The subject line of the email must state “ABE RFPP0700NAS160861 Offeror Questions.”

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All answers will be posted in writing as an amendment to the solicitation on www.fbo.gov. Questions will not be answered verbally or individually.

3.2 Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-

Commercial Items:

The provision at 52.212-1 is hereby tailored to modify paragraph

(b) “Submission of Offers.”

Offerors may submit proposals for all of the English line items or all of the Spanish line items or both. However, the Government intends to select one contractor to provide all of the supplies/services covered herein. The Government reserves the right to award multiple contracts, or to make no award on some or all line items.

• Proposals shall be organized in 2 sections labeled Business Management and Technical.

• Proposals shall be submitted on 7 CD-ROMs as follow:

- 5 CD-ROMs labeled Technical containing the technical information only.

- 2 CD-ROMs labeled Complete Offer containing both the Business Management and the Technical sections.

- All files shall be in .pdf format.

- Each individual file on the CD-ROMs should not exceed

12mb and be labeled appropriately.

- Paper offers will not be accepted.

• The Technical proposal shall be as follows:

• Pricing shall not be included in the technical proposal.

• Contain documentation that demonstrates compliance with the technical evaluation factors.

• Material shall be organized in the same sequence as section 2.3 Technical Factors, located above.

• The Business Management proposal shall be as follows:

• Completed SF-1449 (blocks 12, 17a, 17b, 23, 24, 30a, 30b and 30c)

• Include DUNS # in Block 17a of the SF-1449

• Completed Schedule of Supplies/Services, located in the RFP

• All Clauses/Provisions requiring completion, including

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FAR 52.212-3 if the SAM registration does not reflect the NAICS code for this solicitation.

• Signed copy of solicitation amendments, if any

• Completed Federal Bureau of Prisons Business

Management Questionnaire

• Completed Subcontracting Plan, if required

• 1 Copy of each completed Client and Bank Notification

Letters. Offeror should send out original letters to recipient.

Proposals on CD-ROM shall be submitted to:

Federal Bureau of Prisons National Acquisitions Section – Room 5005 320 First Street, NW Washington, DC 20534

Attn: Donna Grube, Contracting Officer

Proposals must be received in the contracting office on or before the solicitation deadline specified in Block 8 of the SF- 1449, page 1 of the solicitation.