SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- Professional Development Module
- Notice Date
- 7/14/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 611710
— Educational Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, District of Columbia, 20202
- ZIP Code
- 20202
- Solicitation Number
- ED-08-R-0075
- Point of Contact
- Thurl S. Frazier,, Phone: 202-245-6187, Stephanie Girard,, Phone: 202-245-6088
- E-Mail Address
-
thurl.frazier@ed.gov, Stephanie.Girard@ed.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Education's, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program is a State formula-grant program authorized under Title IV, Part B, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The No Child Left Behind Act converted the 21st CCLC program from discretionary grants, administered directly by Department of Education, to a program in which each State receives an allotment under a formula based on their share of Title I, Part A funds. States must use their allocations to make competitive awards to eligible entities. Grants made under the antecedent program will continue to be managed at the Federal level until they expire. The Secretary may reserve up to one percent of the total appropriation for the 21st CCLC program to carry out an array of national activities, including but not limited to national evaluations and the technical assistance. The objective of the 21st CCLC program is to enable community learning centers to have the ability to plan, implement, or expand after-school learning enrichment opportunities to help students meet State and local standards in core content areas. 21st CCLC programs must primarily serve children who attend schools identified with high-poverty, while also giving priority to serving children in low-performing schools based on State standards. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) intends to establish a contract inclusive of a base period with two option periods that will be used to provide continued technical assistance through a professional development module to help State and local programs throughout the country design and implement research-based, effective afterschool learning opportunities for children primarily in high-poverty, low-performing schools. Under this procurement, the contractor shall design professional development databases and modules using a hybrid of distance learning techniques, train the trainer techniques, and regional study circles to increase the capacity of local 21st CCLC project and program directors to use nationally recognized best practices to improve the academic outcomes of their participating students. These databases and modules will focus on equipping afterschool program staff with the knowledge and background in program and activity design best practices so that program staffs may create curricula and activities that use local academic outcomes and objectives to design hands-on, experiential, and participatory activities that are different from the methodology used to deliver the same content during the school day. All features would be housed on a web-based portal on the website of the contractor that can easily be transported to a new platform at the end of the contract period. Several aspects of this contract require strong collaboration and coordination among distinct entities involved in the model identification and dissemination process. Additionally, the contractor must have access to and be knowledgeable of the information and materials pertaining to after-school programs to ensure that it has the capabilities to be thoroughly familiar with existing literature on effective afterschool content-area curriculum, specifically in the areas of reading, mathematics, and science and professional development. The main deliverable of this contract will be an interactive web portal encompassing several distinct sections. This portal will provide: •A technology-based, user-centric, one-stop infrastructure that includes a virtual gateway for State coordinators and sub-grantees to select academic and learning strategies, classroom instructional materials, staff and instructional training modules, best business practices, and program evaluation tools; •Evaluation strategies and tools that will eliminate duplication, and enhance quality and consistency across the program; •A large and robust online learning and professional development system that will provide increased, consistent, customized, and focused afterschool information and strategies for the entire 21st CCLC community; •A communication tool that includes access to State 21st CCLC activity calendars, message boards, blackboards, meeting-conference webinar access, and other community-driven communication tools; •A virtual gateway for States and sub-grantees to select from a menu of comprehensive, innovative, and creative best practices and professional development training modules that are specific to the needs of the respective State and/or sub-grantee programs. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Any comments on this pre-solicitation notice should be sent to the contacts provided. Furthermore, the release of this notice in no way obligates ED or the US Government to release a RFP or make an award of any type. The Government anticipates that this will be a full and open competition, set-aside for small businesses to be awarded to the offeror who provides the best value; the procedures set forth in FAR Part 15 shall apply. The government anticipates that the resulting contract will be a cost-plus-award-fee. The Government anticipates the period of performance to consist of a base period of 12-months, and two (2) 12-month option periods (if exercised by the Government). The Department anticipates release of the RFP on July 31, 2008 with a closing date of August 31, 2008. The RFP will be released on www.fbo.gov with an anticipated award date of September 27, 2008. All questions and comments must be directed to Thurl Frazier, Contract Specialist at thurl.frazier@ed.gov and cc Stephanie Girard, Contracting Officer at stephanie.girard@ed.gov.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: US Department of Education, Washington, District of Columbia, 20202, United States
- Zip Code: 20202
- Zip Code: 20202
- Record
- SN01613082-W 20080716/080714221753-ed0a586672750759c6742f181b406f3f (fbodaily.com)
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