Performance Work Statement

CONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION (CUI)

SOURCE SELECTION INFORMATION – SEE FAR 2.101 AND 3.104

DEPARTMENT OF WAR EDUCATION ACTIVITY (DoWEA)

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

FOR
K-5 LITERACY: Core, Strategic & Assessment Resources

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background

The Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) is one of only two federally operated school systems. DoWEA plans, directs, coordinates, and manages prekindergarten through grade 12 educational programs in 159 fully accredited schools that serve over 65,000 children of active-duty military and DoW civilian families. Our curriculum, resources and student achievement scores on standardized assessments compare favorably to those of high-performing US public school systems.
DoWEA is overseen by a director located at our headquarters in Alexandria, VA. Our schools are organized into three geographic areas: Americas, Europe, and Pacific. In the Americas, DoWEA operates 50 schools located in seven states, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. In Europe and the Middle East, DoWEA operates 63 schools located in Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Bahrain, and Italy. In the Pacific, DoWEA operates 45 schools located in Korea, Japan (mainland and Okinawa), and Guam. DoWEA also operates one fully accredited virtual high school with teaching hubs in the Americas, Europe, and Pacific. DoWEA schools have many grade configurations. One hundred and one of our 158 brick-and-mortar schools have at least one of the grades PK-5, of which three schools only serve grade 5, one school only serves grades 4-5, and one school only serves grades PK-1. Schools range in size from 14-726 students with nine schools serving under 100 students.
Military-connected students experience high mobility rates across the nation and throughout the world. As a result, DoWEA makes a concerted effort to establish a worldwide systemic education network, mitigating the transitional barriers to military-connected students’ success.
DoWEA has procured K-5 literacy instructional resources since our inception after World War II and currently holds contracts for core instruction, strategic instruction, and literacy resources. The current contract is expiring, and, according to Federal regulations, must be recompeted. The standards, curriculum, and assessment for these resources are aligned with DoWEA Learning Standards Literacy (DLS-L) for grades K-5 and the Science of Reading and Science of Writing. As a reminder, FAR Clause 52.212 4(q) requires the Contractor to comply with all applicable Federal, state,