Number: 10309797
Country: United States
Source: Federal Business Opportunities
This synopsis notice is posted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 5.203(a). The U.S. Department of Education (Department) anticipates release of a new Fiscal Year 2018 procurement titled " An Impact Evaluation to Inform the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Incentive Program " on behalf of the Department"s National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE). The Department requires a contract to conduct a two-component study. The first component includes collecting implementation information about the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Fund (TSL) program FY2017 grants. The second component includes an impact evaluation of a core strategy that is common among the funded TSL FY2017 grants. In addition, the contractor shall collect data to provide information for the program’s performance indicators. Please see the Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS), Instructions to Offerors, Evaluation Criteria that is attached to this notice.
The Department"s tracking number for market research activities for this procurement is IESE180050AP.
ANTICIPATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE
The period of performance of the anticipated contract is one 27-month base period and three optional task periods that would result in a 59-month contract in total. The option periods will be exercised at the discretion of the Department.
ANTICIPATED CONTRACT TYPE
The anticipated contract type will be a Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract.
ANTICIPATED ACQUISITION STRATEGY
The Department anticipates releasing the Request for Proposals (RFP) within 30 days. It is also anticipated that the acquisition strategy will be a negotiated, competitive acquisition (open to both small and large businesses) conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15.
**This notice is in reference to a previously posted RFI located at this address: https://www.fbo.gov/index.php?mode=form&id=5fdd791068a7699ef4227f96c25abdab&tab=ntype
This notice is to update the RFP as Final. The due date for proposals remain unchanged.
