The U.S. Army has started soliciting proposals for a potential three-year, $125 million contract to support a program that intends to provide turnkey classroom audio visual technology and sustainment services as part of efforts to maximize soldier training outcomes.
According to a request for proposals published Thursday, Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Eustis in Virginia plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide support services for the Enterprise Classroom Program.
The single-award ECP IDIQ contract will be a competitive 8(a) set-aside program with a one-year base term and two option years.
Updating Army Classrooms to a Digital Learning Environment
According to the performance work statement, ECP intends to upgrade Army residential classrooms to a digital learning environment and sustain existing classrooms in the inventory as part of a push to support approved instructional methodologies associated with resident training and education sources.
The Army will require the contractor to connect all communications and infrastructure to a local or a Department of Defense network or the Global Information Grid and will provide design, analysis, engineering, technology platforms, integration, facility rehabilitation and tech installation of four main classroom configurations.
The vendor may be required to provide a full range of equipment, software and related IT services to help the Army better support the institutional training domain infrastructure throughout the continental U.S.
“The Government has a need to provide turnkey classroom technology digital classrooms and annually sustain 4,000 over the contract’s ordering period subject to available funds,â the PWS reads.
Bids are due Aug. 12.