Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) - Southwest

Added: May 12, 2017 12:16 pm The purpose of this posting is to issue Solicitation No.: ED-IES-17-R-0021 for Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest.  Please see the attached documents for additional information. 

Added: Apr 03, 2017 3:51 pm The U.S. Department of Education (Department) will issue a solicitation from which one Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) contract will issue.  The Department will solicit proposals for the following REL region: Southwest.

This notice is NOT a request for proposals and is instead a synopsis notice for an anticipated Fiscal Year (FY) 17/18 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 April 20, 2017, but this date may be extended if necessary.  The Government intends to award one hybrid contract (utilizing both Firm-Fixed Price and Cost Reimbursement tasks and subtasks) to the responsible offeror whose proposal is most advantageous to the Government after evaluation.  Award will occur in time for a performance start date of December 1, 2017.  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 documents posted for the recently concluded FY16/17 REL competition (ED-IES-15-R-0016 and available on FBO) 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.