Vendor Collaboration Event, Independent Review and Technical and Logistical Support for Regional Educational Laboratories, RFP# ED-IES-17-R-0025 (IESE170019AP)

Independent Review and Technical and Logistical Support for Regional Educational Laboratories

Vendor Webinar & General Information

The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) is hosting a Vendor Webinar Event to provide pertinent details regarding its Fiscal Year 2017 procurement:  Independent Review and Technical and Logistical Support for Regional Educational Laboratories (REL Peer Review Support) on behalf of the Departments' Institute for Education Sciences (IES), National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) division. The Department's intent is to host a Webinar during which interested parties and prospective offerors can obtain key information on the requirement, to allow for a robust understanding of the respective requirement in its entirety, to obtain valuable feedback from industry, and to provide a platform whereby both large and small businesses may obtain the information on other interested parties to support robust small business subcontracting opportunities, partnering and/or teaming arrangements.

Attachments to this notice are as follows: 

Attachment A - Draft Performance Work Statement

Attachment B - Capability Statement Instructions

Attachment C – Webinar PowerPoint Slides

A brief overview of the requirement and logistical information for the Vendor Collaboration Webinar Event is provided below:

Requirements Overview

The Department intends to award a contract in FY 2017 to provide external review of products produced by the ten Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs). The anticipated contract will include the refinement of existing review criteria, creation and ongoing maintenance of a web-based review application in the Institute of Education Science’s (IES) Data Center, and thorough review of REL products prior to release by IES. In addition, the anticipated contract will provide additional support to the REL program in the following ways: maintenance of the Ask-A-REL inventory and of Stakeholder Feedback Survey (SFS) inventory from all ten RELs, quarterly reports to IES on the Ask-a-REL inventory and SFS data, technical and logistical support for biannual REL Directors meetings in Washington, DC, and production of an updated REL brochure and for occasional webinars for the REL contractors.

Period of Performance

The period of performance for the anticipated contract is 60 months, broken out as shown below:

·       Base Period: 24 months

·       Option Year 1: 12 months

·       Option Year 2: 12 months

·       Option Year 3: 12 months

Solicitation Number: ED-IES-17-R-0025 (iese170019ap)

NAICS Code: 541720 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities)

Anticipated Acquisition Strategy: Full and Open Competition

Anticipated Contract Type: Hybrid (Containing Fixed-Price & Cost-Reimbursement Tasks)

REL Peer Review Support Vendor Webinar details are provided below:

WEBINAR REGISTRATION:

All interested parties please register by sending an email contracting their company name, size & socioeconomic standards and number of attendees to the Contract Specialist (barakat.shakir@ed.gov) by 12 noon EST, Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

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Topic: Independent Review and Technical and Logistical Support for Regional Educational Laboratories for NCEE

Pre-Solicitation Webinar
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 747 115 226
Meeting Password: Review2017
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