AWARD
R -- FEDLINK WEB-BASED FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSEWARE
- Notice Date
- 7/12/2010
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Library of Congress, Contracts Services, Fedlink Section, 101 Independence Ave SE, LA-318, Washington, District of Columbia, 20540-9414
- ZIP Code
- 20540-9414
- Solicitation Number
- LCFDL10R8000
- Archive Date
- 7/27/2010
- Point of Contact
- Charles A. Wilson, Phone: 202-707-0444, Deborah B Burroughs, Phone: 202-707-0460
- E-Mail Address
-
chwi@loc.gov, dbur@loc.gov
(chwi@loc.gov, dbur@loc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- LC10G8002
- Award Date
- 7/12/2010
- Awardee
- Transparent Language, Inc., 12 Murphy Drive, Nashua, New Hampshire 03062, United States
- Award Amount
- TBD
- Line Number
- LOTs 1 and 2
- Description
- LOT 1 - Web-based Foreign Language Courseware. The Contractor shall provide a comprehensive and convenient Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Web-based Foreign Language Courseware that is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and from anywhere world-wide via a web browser. The courseware shall be used to develop general foreign language proficiency and provide a solid foundation in the skills of reading, listening, speaking, and understanding of a foreign language and its culture. The type of language courseware should provide general language proficiency covering communications and the social setting for which the language will be used. The courseware should provide multiple levels of learning from the beginner who has never been exposed to learning a foreign language, to refresher sustainment of a language, to intermediate language level learning. The courseware shall provide a logical learning methodology with consistent and logical approaches for progressing through the instruction. Contractor developed courseware shall be self-paced, use interactive text, audio, and visual presentation to support learning and provide participants with appropriate and timely feedback of their progress. The courseware must have the capability to provide limited progress and usage reports. The contractor shall provide a minimum of five (5) of the most common language courses listed below. The courseware shall be structured to allow student progress through levels of learning including: - Memory of words and phrases for understanding and communicating. - Understanding and using sentences in reading and speaking. - Understanding and using oral and written paragraphs on specific topics. - Use of oral language skills for daily communication. The COTS foreign language courseware shall be updated, during the contract period, to incorporate changes in language vocabularies, new learning approaches, and technology enhancements and maintenance including 508 compliant services (See Section H.9.). Most Common Language Courses 1. English7. Japanese 2. French8. Latin 3. Spanish9. Russian 4. German10. Scandinavian Languages 5. Chinese11. Arabic 6. Italian12. Korean The courseware must be compatible with at least Windows XP operating system and Internet Explorer and other common browsers. Contractors must have the capability to update language programs to work with new operating systems and browsers as technical advancements/improvements are released. The Contractor shall identify any additional hardware and software required to fully utilize their product. C.2.2. LOT 2 - Optional Services. Customers may require and Contractors may offer the following services. Contractors must quality under LOT 1 in order to provide services under LOT 2.
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