Regional Educational Laboratory (REL)

Added: Mar 25, 2016 10:23 am The purpose of this modification to this FBO Notice is to post Amendment 0003 to Solicitation ED-IES-15-R-0016.  Amendment 0003 provides additional clarification to an answer provided in Amendment 0002 and clarifies the Department's policy regarding the size of an offeror's Business Proposal.

The deadline for proposal submission remains unchanged.

Added: Mar 15, 2016 11:37 am This purpose of this modification to this FBO Notice is to post Amendment 0002 to Solicitation ED-IES-15-R-0016.  In Amendment 0002, the Department responds to vendor questions, updates the Instructions to Offerors, and updates the Pricing Matrix.

The proposal response deadline remains unchanged.

Added: Mar 04, 2016 11:57 am This purpose of this modification to this FBO Notice is to post Amendment 0001 to Solicitation ED-IES-15-R-0016.  In Amendment 0001, the Department responds to vendor questions and updates the following documents:

(1) Performance Work Statement
(2) Instructions to Offerors
(3) Small Business Tool
(4) Evaluation Criteria
(5) Pricing Matrix

The attached SF30 contains tracked changes versions of these documents. Clean versions are attached separately.  The Department recognizes that these responses to questions may prompt additional questions.  For this reason, the Department will accept additional questions submitted on or before Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at 1:00PM Eastern Time.  Please do not repeat questions that have already been answered.  The Department will not accept any additional questions submitted beyond  this deadline, and the proposal response deadline remains unchanged.

Please submit any additional questions by the deadline stated above to Jonathan.Bettis@eed.gov with a cc to Heather.Watroba@ed.gov.

Added: Feb 05, 2016 1:01 pm The purpose of this Modification to this FBO Notice is to formally issue Solicitation ED-IES-15-R-0016 for nine of the ten Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) contracts. The Department will compete REL Southwest in FY17.

Offerors must submit all questions to Jonathan E. Bettis (Jonathan.Bettis@ed.gov) with a cc to Heather Watroba (Heather.Watroba@ed.gov) no later than 1 PM Eastern on February 16, 2016. The Department will not accept or respond to questions submitted via mail, facsimile, or telephone. The Department cannot guarantee responses to questions submitted after the stated deadline.

Electronic copies of proposals shall be emailed to Jonathan.Bettis@ed.gov with a cc to Heather.Watroba@ed.gov no later than 1 PM Eastern April 5, 2016. The Department's email servers cannot guarantee delivery of emails larger than 15MB. This size restriction accounts for possible expansion of file size due to certain Microsoft Cloud properties. Offerors must submit PDF versions of the Technical and Business Proposals, and Past Performance Reports. Cost and price data should also be submitted as a Microsoft Excel file (additional information is provided below). If attachments are too large for one individual email then offerors may submit more than one email as long as the email subject line clearly indicates that multiple emails will follow (e.g. "REL XX Proposal: One of Four"). If a subcontractor is not willing to share its proprietary information with the prime contractor, the subcontractor may submit subcontractor packages directly to the contacts listed above by the deadline listed above.

This Solicitation posting consists of a Standard Form 33 Solicitation and eight supplemental attachments. We have included a Microsoft Word copy of the Performance Work Statement in case accessing hyperlinks in the PDF version is difficult.

Added: Jan 15, 2016 11:53 am The U.S. Department of Education (Department) will issue a solicitation from which nine of ten Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) contracts will issue. The Department will solicit proposals for the following REL regions:

Appalachia
Central
Mid-Atlantic
Midwest
Northeast and Islands
Northwest
Pacific
Southeast
West

NOTE: REL Southwest is 11 months off-cycle and will compete later in FY17. A separate presolicitation notice and solicitation document will announce that procurement.

This notice is NOT a request for proposal and is instead a synopsis notice for an anticipated Fiscal Year (FY) 16/17 contractual action. The Department anticipates posting a solicitation to announce an unrestricted full and open Request for Proposals (RFP) to the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website on or about February 1, 2016, but this date may be extended if necessary. The Government intends to award nine hybrid contracts (utilizing both Firm-Fixed Price and Cost Plus Fixed Fee tasks and subtasks) to the responsible offerors whose proposal is most advantageous to the Government after evaluation. Award will occur in time for a performance start date of January 3, 2017 for nine RELs. The awards will use FY17 funds.

Requirement Overview:

Each REL contract will be a multi-year contract, and the Department will incrementally fund the contracts on an annual basis. For additional information regarding the history, scope, and expectations of the REL program please refer to the extensive Request for Information document posted on August 7, 2015, as well as the three addenda posted between September, 2015 and January, 2016. These documents contain detailed explanations of program expectations, vendor questions and responses, and other documents regarding Information Technology, pricing, and other information that will assist with your proposal development.