SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Student-centered Design Academic Models
- Notice Date
- 10/12/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611310
— Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Employment Training Administration, Office of Contracts Management, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, N-4649, Washington, District of Columbia, 20210, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20210
- Solicitation Number
- DOL-ETA-17-N-00002
- Archive Date
- 11/11/2016
- Point of Contact
- Dayle White, Phone: 2026933248, Eric F. Vogt, Phone: 2026933771
- E-Mail Address
-
white.dayle@dol.gov, vogt.eric@dol.gov
(white.dayle@dol.gov, vogt.eric@dol.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice for Request for Information (RFI) Number DOL-ETA-17-N-00002. The government reserves the right to compete any acquisition resulting from this notice. This sources sought notice is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to pay for the information requested, issue a solicitation, or award a contract. No solicitation document exists at this time. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside is within the discretion of the Government. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The United States Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration is conducting market research for the upcoming procurement requirement for student-centered design academic models. The NAICS Code is 611310, with a size standard of $27.5M. Background The Job Corps program, housed within the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor, provides a holistic career development training approach which integrates the teaching of academic, career technical, employability skills, and social competencies through a combination of classroom and practical learning experiences. The program operates a 24 hour-a-day residential environment to prepare opportunity youth ages 16 to 24 for stable, long-term, self-sustaining jobs. Job Corps is the nation's largest residential educational and career training program for youth ages 16 through 24. Each year the program serves approximately 60,000 young men and women at 125 centers across the country and in Puerto Rico. Established in 1964, Job Corps is currently authorized under Title I-C of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, and is administered by the National Office of Job Corps with oversight of Job Corps centers conducted through its regional offices located in Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; and San Francisco, CA. The primary mission of Job Corps is to provide young adults with the tools necessary to attain meaningful jobs that lead to career growth. Objective In order to better prepare its students to meet the high expectations of the 21st century workplace, Job Corps is restructuring its academic design approach to better align with standards-based education and training. In this construct, academic standards (requirements of what students need to know to be able to better achieve training requirements) are supported by systematic elements such as cohort enrollment, industry foundation courses, and after-hours study. Job Corps academic standards, including applied academic standards, are similar to those developed by state and private educational systems, but unique to Job Corps in that they target exactly what students need to know and be able to achieve academically in order to: • Master rigorous career technical training programs; • Prepare for advanced training; and • Pass industry certification exams/obtain industry recognized certification. Capabilities Job Corps seeks to identify qualified and dedicated institutions of higher education that have implemented experiential learning laboratories; with a focus on standards-based content and instructional delivery for academic, technical, and workforce preparation. This includes programs that support students in applying their knowledge and conceptual understanding to real-world problems or situations utilizing instructor guidance. Job Corps seeks to learn from applicable programs about organizational capacity and experience in the context of operating educational laboratories with a focus on standards-based academic design. Ideally, such programs serve diverse populations of opportunity youth who currently lack paths to success due to social and economic factors, including access to education, work experience, and livable wage jobs. Due to the large and diverse participant pool, the Job Corps program offers a dynamic research cohort from which to garner data on academic design and effectiveness. It is the intent of Job Corps to identify a/an institution(s) of higher education from which to garner data, draw conclusions, examine and restructure programmatic design, and use knowledge gained to advance the educational and academic efficacy of the program. All contractors doing business with the Federal Government shall be registered in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database which is located on the System for Award Management website, SAM.gov. The website for registration is http://sam.gov. All active CCR records have migrated to SAM. ALL QUALIFIED SMALL BUSINESSES INCLUDING 8(A) FIRMS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. Interested contractors responding to this RFI will be required to indicate their ability to successfully design academic models by responding to the capability requirements listed below. FOR A CONTRACTOR TO BE DEEMED CAPABLE, THE CONTRACTOR MUST BE FOUND CAPABLE IN ALL 12 REQUIREMENTS LISTED BELOW. Statement of Qualifications / Capabilities Statement 1. Does your institution currently have an experiential learning laboratory with a focus on standards-based education or similar learning lab program in place? If so, please provide the name of the program, the school/college in which the program resides, and if you are utilizing a behavior management plan to execute this program. 2. Provide the mission of the program; if no mission is available, please describe the focus of the program (who it serves, what it measures, outcomes anticipated). 3. How is the program organized and staffed? Please provide the breakdown of overall project structure, leadership, faculty, staff, student staff, etc. 4. Describe the admission requirements for students in the program. Describe the demographic or population (school, community, region, or any other specific characteristics) from which selection occurs. 5. Describe the average length or term that student staff and participants remain in the program. 6. Do student staffers and/or participants receive certification or credentialing upon successful completion of the program? Describe. 7. Does your program partner with specific community educational/career technical education institutions? Describe your partnerships. 8. Currently, how is this program funded? Please describe all sources of funding, including grants, endowments, awards and the amounts received. 9. What research has been published on the results of data gathered and analyzed through your program? Describe and provide copies or links to articles or published research. 10. What are the student success outcomes and how are they measured? Please provide outcomes from your current program. 11. Describe any current challenges and implementation lessons learned that influence programmatic outcomes. 12. Describe the results received or changes observed in your target demographic attributed to your program. All interested parties are invited to submit in writing, by the closing date indicated below for receipt of responses, a package entitled "Statement of Qualifications / Capabilities Statement" (which must include the contractor's indication of their ability to fulfill requirements). The Statement of Qualifications / Capabilities Statement package must be transmitted under a cover letter. The response must be specific to each of the capability requirements listed above. The submittals shall not exceed 10 pages for each response; including graphs, charts, visuals, and other non-next based response. The capabilities statement package must be transmitted under a cover letter and must cite the following information at a minimum: 1. Response to RFI Number DOL-ETA-17-N-00002 2. Company Name, Address, and Company Point of Contact 3. DUNS Number 4. Business Size Standard/Classification and socio-economic status, if applicable 5. NAICS code certifications The closing date for the receipt of responses is October 27, 2016 at Noon, Eastern Standard Time. Send your responses to Ms. Dayle White at the following email address, white.dayle@dol.gov. PLEASE NOTE: THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL MUST STATE: "Response to Sources Sought Notice DOL-ETA-17-N-00002." No questions in connection with this notice will be accepted. Only submit responses to the Qualifications and Capabilities requirements provided above. The government reserves the right to compete any acquisition resulting from this notice. This sources sought notice is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to pay for the information requested, issue a solicitation, or award a contract. No solicitation document exists at this time. A determination by the Government to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside is within the discretion of the Government. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL.
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