Scientific Peer Review Support for the Institute of Education Sciences

*** THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS***

The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is hosting a Vendor Collaboration Webinar Event to provide pertinent details regarding a new Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 procurement: Scientific Peer Review Support on behalf of the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The overarching purpose of the Scientific Peer Review Support procurement is to provide integrated support for the full range of scientific peer review activities conducted at IES, including the review of applications submitted to the annual discretionary research grant competitions and the external scientific peer review of report manuscripts and unsolicited grant applications submitted throughout the year. In addition to the peer review activities, the procurement requires information technology support to maintain, develop and enhance the online application processing, peer review management and applicant notification system providing critical infrastructure known as PRIMO (Peer Review Management Online) developed for IES.

The intent of the Webinar is to allow interested parties and prospective offerors to obtain key information on the requirement, to allow for a robust understanding of the respective requirement in its entirety, to obtain valuable feedback on the Draft Scientific Peer Review Support Performance Work Statement (PWS) from industry, and to provide a platform whereby both large and small businesses may obtain information on other interested parties to support small business subcontracting opportunities, and small business partnering and/or teaming arrangements. Prospective offerors are asked to submit capability statements. However, choosing to not submit a capability statement will not prohibit a prospective offerors' ability to submit proposals if/when the solicitation is released.

Interested parties are asked to R.S.V.P. by sending an email containing their company name, number of people attending the Webinar, socio economic size status in the applicable NAICS code and a key point of contact to Thomas.Smith@ed.gov (cc:Veronica.Price@ed.gov), by March 1, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. (ET).

Attachments to this notice are as follows:

Attachment A - Scientific Peer Review Support Webinar Slides
Attachment B - Draft Scientific Peer Review Support Performance Work Statement
Attachment C - Scientific Peer Review Support Capability Statement Instructions

Relevant details regarding the Scientific Peer Review Support requirement and logistical information for the Vendor Collaboration Webinar Event are provided below:

Period of Performance: The period of performance consists of a 12-month Base Year and four, 12-month Option Years. The period of performance will be 60 months, if all option periods are exercised.

NAICS Code: 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services)

Anticipated Contract Type: Cost Reimbursement

Anticipated Acquisition Strategy: Full and Open Competition

Scientific Peer Review Support Vendor Collaboration Webinar Logistics:

Topic: Vendor Collaboration Webinar for Solicitation #ED-IES-17-R-0014
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Time: 11:30 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
Meeting Number: 744 925 954
Meeting Password: peer
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