R--RFQ-DC-14-00021 Student Services

This solicitation is being issued pursuant to the personal services contracting authority granted by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriation Resolution for 2003 (P.L. 108-7). A firm-fixed-price purchase order will be issued to the successful student or recent graduate selected for the position. The base period of performance for this purchase order is for a period of twelve months with two 12 month options. This solicitation includes the following four attachments: ATTACHMENT 1 - Statement of Work (SOW) and Associated Attachments ATTACHMENT 2 - Evaluation Factors ATTACHMENT 3 - Student Proposal Form ATTACHMENT 4- Applicable Clauses ? Additional Terms and Conditions of the Order In an effort to clarify the terms student and recent graduate, the definitions of each are provided below. A student is an individual, at least 18 years of age, who is enrolled, in good standing, in a degree program (actively seeking a degree) at a recognized educational institution. A student is not required to carry a full course load, as long as the individual is a bona fide student, not merely someone who signed up for a class in order to work under these contract arrangements. A recent graduate is an individual, at least 18 years of age, who has graduated with a degree from a college or university within the last two years. The Government will make contract award based on evaluation factors other than price which will consider the following: One Year Course Work and/or Work Experience with Java; One Year Course Work and/or Work Experience with Eclipse; Three months Course Work and/or Work Experience with web services; Six months Course Work and/or Work Experience with MySQL; Six months Course Work and/or Work Experience with JSP; Three months Course Work and/or Work Experience with Jersey Framework; Three months Course Work and/or Work Experience with Tomcat; One Year Course Work and/or Work Experience with HTML and CSS; and One Year Course Work and/or Work Experience with JavaScript. Submissions in response to this solicitation must be submitted on or before 4:30 p.m. EST, Tuesday, February 11th , 2014 via e-mail to Contracting Officer Claudia Armstrong at [email protected], and Contract Specialist Dionne Wright at [email protected]. All email submissions must have ?RFQ-DC-14-00021? in the subject line. Late submissions will not be considered eligible for award and incomplete submission may not be considered at the Contracting Officer?s discretion. No telephone inquiries will be accepted in response to this solicitation. Prior to applying for this position, applicants are encouraged to visit the following web page to access information related to this announcement: http://www.epa.gov/oam/srpod/. Please follow the link located under the ?Announcements? header, entitled ?RFQ-DC-14-00021?Student Services Contract? and review all of the attached documents. You are encouraged to visit this webpage periodically to check the status of this announcement and to see whether or not any amendments (changes to the requirement of the posted position) have been issued. Foreign national students are required to fulfill all of the requirements outlined in the eligibility section of this announcement.