RFI: HHS ACF Office of Head Start (OHS) Training and Technical – Multiple-award

Notice ID DOIDFBO240012

Section 640(a)(1)(C)(i) of the Head Start Act, as amended December 12, 2007, requires that for each fiscal year, not less than 2.5 percent or more than 3 percent of the total Head Start allocation be reserved for Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) activities, designed to improve the quality of services delivered by Head Start programs. Of the total TTA allocation, 25 percent is used to fund TTA contracts that provide services to Head Start grantees.

This requirement is for TTA Network services associated with the deployment of the Head Start grant program. It is the Government’s intent to award twelve (12) contracts, each are covering a distinct US geographical area, using full and open contracting procedures, as prescribed in FAR Part 15. While the Government anticipates ample competition, it reserves the right to award one or more contracts to a single contractor. Each contract will provide grantees within a designated region with high-quality, sustained, and intensive training and technical assistance that, to the maximum extent practicable, improves the capacity of local programs to deliver services that, at a minimum, meet or exceed the priority areas described in section 641(A)(a)(1): “correction of findings identified through the federal monitoring system; school readiness; and, training/professional development needs of staff.” This requirement is a reoccurring need for OHS and is currently being performed under twelve (12) contracts awarded and administered by HHS Program Support Center (PSC).

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