Online Differentiated Instruction Courses for DoDEA Educators Professional Development

Added: May 26, 2011 1:47 pm

SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES
JUSTIFICATION FOR SOLICITING A SINGLE SOURCE
(ORDER GREATER THAN MICRO-PURCHASE THRESHOLD (CURRENTLY $3,000) BUT LESS THAN SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD (CURRENTLY $150,000)

Based on information provided below, request the Contracting Officer determine that only one source is reasonably available to provide the supplies and/or services described herein.

1. Purchase request number: HE125420112010031

2. Description of supplies and/or services: DoDEA has an existing requirement to provide sustained professional development to all of its educators. To fulfill this requirement DoDEA has identified the need to procure four existing vendor hosted research-based interactive online courses on Differentiated Instruction (DI). Course content required includes broad, cross-curricular topics, content-specific topics or position specific topics. The total estimated number of courses to be procured is 1500 over a 12 month period of performance.
3. Proposed contractor: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) 1703 N Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311-1717

4. Reason the proposed contractor is the only source available: Based on market research to include information obtained from a recent posting on Federal Business Opportunities. ASCD is the only vendor who can meet DoDEA's requirement for four existing fully automated online courses on Differentiated Instruction.

5. Will these same supplies and/or services be needed again? Yes or No.:
DoDEA subject matter experts will continually monitor new developments to search if other/new sources become available that could possibly meet this requirement.

6. Price reasonableness: The courses to be procured are considered a commercial product and are listed as catalog pricing sold to a large group of educational, institutional and the general public. It is anticipated that discounts will be obtained from ASCD's standard catalog pricing.