SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Articulate Software
- Notice Date
- 7/6/2016
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES (USUHS), 4301 JONES BRIDGE ROAD, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4799, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20814-4799
- Solicitation Number
- HU000116Q0149
- Archive Date
- 8/2/2016
- Point of Contact
- Stephen Enokida, Phone: 301-295-1380
- E-Mail Address
-
Stephen.Enokida@usuhs.mil
(Stephen.Enokida@usuhs.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is the Nation's federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war. We provide the Nation with health professionals dedicated to career service in the Department of Defense and the United States Public Health Service and with scientists who serve the common good. We serve the uniformed services and the Nation as an outstanding academic health sciences center with a worldwide perspective for education, research, service, and consultation; we are unique in relating these activities to military medicine, disaster medicine, and military medical readiness. USU is located in Bethesda, MD on the grounds of the Naval Support Activity Bethesda. USU intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Articulate Global Inc., located in New York, New York for software development of academic distribute learning content. This equipment will be procured in accordance with the procedures of FAR Part 12-Commercial Items and FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Sole source determination is made in accordance with: FAR Part 13.106-1 Soliciting Competition (b) Soliciting from a single source (1) For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold, contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available. The mission of USU is to provide the highest quality education programs in the health sciences to those selected individuals who demonstrate dedication to a health profession career in the Uniformed Services. As such, it is essential USU provide the necessary training and equipment required for our students to become successful doctors and nurses and to be able to provide the best care possible for our soldiers and to support our research efforts. The USU is part of an International effort to implement the open source Learning Record Stores to assemble information on student activity to provide meaningful analytics to faculty and students, predict success and early signs of academic jeopardy and monitor student interaction with content. USU under contract with Unicon is helping to fund the development of the Open LRS and Open Dashboard architecture which stores/displays student data for analysis. This system is coming on line summer 2016. USU faculty are developing content that is hosted in Sakai but does not use the Sakai database to record student interactions (e.g. what a student worked on, how a knowledge check was answered, movement through content). To enable this to be tracked in OpenLRS USU also tasked Unicon to develop the appropriate data exchange methods between Articulate (which is used now in the curriculum) and the OpenLRS. Articulate StoryLine is the only content development product on the market today from which we can gather data for recording in OpenLRS and display in OpenDashboard. Articulate Global Inc. is the sole provider of access to their proprietary software Articulate Online. Articulate Global Inc. is the only know source that can provided the requested equipment. This is not a request for quotes and a solicitation package will not be issued. Sources interested in responding to this requirement must be able to provide compelling evidence that they can provide the abovementioned requirement as specified. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contractual action based upon responses received is solely within the discretion of the government. Responses must be received via email (stephen.enokida@usuhs.edu) by 11:00 a.m. EST on July 18, 2016.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 4301 Jones Bridge Rd., Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States
- Zip Code: 20814
- Zip Code: 20814
- Record
- SN04173080-W 20160708/160706235339-0e61442346b559f83afaf59ddb0aa434 (fbodaily.com)
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