Roundtable Government Bids & RFPs

The notice is for a virtual small business roundtable hosted by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) on October 23, 2025. The event is open to small businesses only and focuses on warfighting areas. Responses to attend are due by 8:00:00 AM local time on October 6, 2025. Invitations will be sent out no later than the close of business on October 13, 2025.

This is a contract for providing quality control and validation services for Defense Language Proficiency Tests (DLPT). The contractor will provide language experts for reviewing reading and listening comprehension passages, ensuring accuracy and completeness of English renderings and target language transcriptions. The contract has a base period and four 12-month ordering periods. The contractor is responsible for developing and implementing a quality control system, including a written quality control plan (QCP). Reviewers must have advanced professional proficiency in the target language and English, and expertise in language assessment and testing. The contractor must provide resumes of all reviewers within 14 calendar days of receiving a task order. The government will review and validate the reviewers within 2 days. The contractor must ensure all reviewers are trained in ILR listening and reading skills. The contractor must also provide foreign language service for ILR review up to 10,000 items annually, and QC and corrections for up to 5,000 reading and listening comprehension passages annually. The government will provide an escort to meet contractor employees at the facility, workspace for up to 20 employees, and utilities. The contractor is responsible for safeguarding government equipment and materials. The contractor must submit a certificate of destruction of materials at the end of the performance period. Periodic progress meetings (at least quarterly) will be held to review contractor performance. The contractor must provide a project manager and an alternate. Contractor personnel must have a favorable background investigation to access the NIPRNet. All contractor employees requiring access to Army installations must complete Level I awareness training within 30 calendar days of the performance start date. The contractor must provide each employee with an identification badge. The government will not exercise any supervision or control over contractor employees. Travel expenses must be pre-approved by the government. The contractor must avoid any organizational conflict of interest. The contractor must ensure that all reviewers sign the confidentiality agreement. The contractor will not maintain an inventory of test materials. The contractor will not take pictures of test materials. The contractor will track and record the return or destruction process for all review materials used during the onsite review session. The contractor shall submit monthly invoices for payment, including a detailed listing of each participant paid, acknowledgement of payment by each paid examinee, and the amount paid to each participant.

This is a virtual small business roundtable hosted by USSOCOM on October 7, 2025. The roundtable is open to small businesses only. Responses are due by 8:00:00 AM Eastern Time on September 25, 2025. Invitations will be sent out no later than close of business on September 30, 2025. Late submissions will be accommodated on a space available basis.