Professional Development Content - University Mastery
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- JB121120241407
- Agency
-
Washington Headquarters Service
Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 513210 Software Publishers
- Place of performance
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service is seeking a vendor to provide professional development content for civilian and military professionals through the Cornerstone learning management system. The procurement focuses on university-level mastery training in critical skill areas including acquisition, logistics, program management, project management, and cybersecurity. Specific course requirements include technical subjects like Model-Based Systems Engineering, Prompt Engineering, Data Science, and DevOps, with content that supports commercial technical certification pathways. Vendor submissions must demonstrate an ability to integrate with Cornerstone via SAML authentication, maintain user progress tracking, and provide automated content catalog updates. The solicitation requires vendors to have a robust process for tracking user-reported content issues and mapping customer training requirements to their course offerings. Interested vendors must submit responses by 2:00 PM EST on January 31, 2025, with preliminary questions due by 11:00 AM EST on January 24, 2025.
The pre-solicitation notice indicates no specific set-aside categories for this contract opportunity, and the current content is being provided by Coursera Library. While specific award values are not disclosed, the procurement is structured as a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) under the Software Publishers NAICS category 513210. The content must be delivered as online courses with hands-on lab workspaces, with the majority of courses including end-of-course examinations. Vendors are expected to provide detailed information about their technical capabilities, company background, and socioeconomic status when responding. The contract will require monthly content catalog updates, including metrics on content refresh rates, new course releases, and course retirements. Potential vendors can participate as prime contractors, subcontractors, or through joint ventures, with all communications directed to the point of contact, Joshua J. Murray.
Notice text
Objective: The vendor shall deliver learning content and business processes that satisfy the following requirements:
- Have an operational integration with the Cornerstone (https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/) commercial application that supports a content subscription. The operational integration signs the user in via Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), maintains the user progress, and returns the user course status to their transcript record in Cornerstone upon the end of their access.
- Have an automated sync process with Cornerstone to maintain a current content catalog. Provide the average content refresh rate, average number of new courses released each month, and average number of courses retired each month that are incorporated into the monthly catalog update.
- Have a process to track user-reported issues with delivered content.
- Have a process to map customer training requirements to vendor content.
- The content sought with this requirement:
- Provides professional development for the Department of Defense civilian and military professionals at the mastery level from accredited universities. The five most popular skill areas for our population to develop include acquisition, logistics, program management, project management, and cyber security.
- Specific Course Needs:
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
- Advanced Prompt Engineering
- A Crash Course in Data Science
- Managing Data Analysis
- Building a Data Science Team
- Data Science Methodology
- Continuous Delivery & DevOps
- The content shall include a pathway for a student to prepare for a commercially recognized technical certification.
- The content shall be offered as – online courses, hands on lab workspaces.
- The majority of the content should have an end of course exam.
- Note – This content is currently being satisfied by the Coursera Library.
- The content shall include a pathway for a student to prepare for a commercially recognized technical certification.
- Specific Course Needs:
- Provides professional development for the Department of Defense civilian and military professionals at the mastery level from accredited universities. The five most popular skill areas for our population to develop include acquisition, logistics, program management, project management, and cyber security.
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Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| A04 SSN -JB121120241407 - Professional Development Content - University Mastery.docx | DOCX document |
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