U -- Instructor Services at the Naval Technical Training Center, Corry Station, Pensacola, FL

The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC) Norfolk, Contracting Department, Philadelphia Office intends to issue a request for proposals (RFP) for Education and Training Services to support the Naval Technical Training Center (NTTC) Corry Station, Pensacola, Florida. Services are required for a twelve-month base period, to commence 1 October 2007, with provisions for four consecutive twelve-month option periods. The contractor shall provide adequate numbers of qualified personnel, supervision, management, equipment, and materials to perform education and training services to support technical training programs of the Center For Surface Combat Systems, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and the Center for Naval Leadership. Services shall include course instruction (Shipboard Gauge Calibration Program Standards Maintenance, Oxygen Equipment Cleaning and Calibration, and Journeyman Instructor Training), course articulation, curriculum maintenance, test and evaluation functions, remedial assistance, reports, award of college credits, and issuance of official college transcripts upon completion of training pipeline, in support of Navy Revolution in Training goals. The purpose of the services is to produce a proficiently training student meeting the performance and course completion standards as determined by the Navy and obtaining college credit and/or industry certifications, where possible, for instruction received. The RFP will include the estimated quantity of work, course operating hours, course length, annual student throughput, class size, classes in progress, course descriptions, ratios of instruction, course-learning objectives, specialized technical certifications, maintenance requirements, whether special course requirements, estimated class convening schedules, and will site mandatory or advisory applicable Government regulations and directives. The contractor or partnered institution shall be a member in good standing with the Servicemembers Opportunity College (SOC) and, consistent with academic standard and SOC principles, shall award college credits to students for courses completed under the prospective contract. The Government intends to award, on a full and open competition basis, a firm-fixed-price service contract, to the eligible, responsible offeror whose offer represents the best value, considering technical and price factors, with technical factors significantly more important than price. When available, the RFP will be posed at the Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO) Web site www.neco.navy.mil. Responses to the RFP are required, in writing, to Anita Spriggs, Contract Specialist, Code 270.1E, FISC Norfolk, Contracting Department, Philadelphia Office, 700 Robbins Avenue, Building 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19111-5083. The North American Industry Classification System Code is 611210, and the applicable size standard is $6 million. Numbered Note 26 applies.