Contract Application Forms and Instructions

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Evaluation of the Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Self-Directed Labor Exchange Services (RFP-DCS-01-18)       pdf format

The United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration is soliciting proposals to initiate the first phase of a comprehensive, multi-year effort to develop and implement a methodology to identify effective applications, and evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of self-directed labor exchange services.
Issue Date: March 7, 2001
Closing Date: April 20, 2001
Amendment 1      pdf format

Bureau of Apprenticeship/Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employer, and Labor Services Continuous Improvement  (RFP-DCS-01-14)

The Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA), is soliciting proposals to select a contractor to assist in building upon the Workforce Excellence Networks efforts to promote continuous improvement and quality throughout the Workforce Development System. This project would review and evaluate the varied methods of quality and continuous improvement efforts used in apprenticeship throughout the nation and develop, collect, and analyze empirical data that will assist in the development of a continuous improvement strategy. Any continuous improvement strategy developed shall: (1) provide a process for ensuring continuous improvement in individual apprenticeship programs, and (2) identify, define, and benchmark the quality of the overall apprenticeship system.
Issue Date: February 21, 2001
Closing Date: March 28, 2001
Amendment 1       pdf format
Amendment 2       pdf format

Federal Committee on Registered Apprenticeship Marketing  (RFP-DCS-01-16)

The Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA), is soliciting proposals to select a contractor to assist in the design, implementation, and evaluation of an Apprenticeship Marketing Outreach Pilot Project. The purpose of the pilot project is to (1) help identify occupational areas which have the greatest growth potential, have skill shortages, and those industries that would be interested in utilizing the American Registered Apprenticeship model to address their skilled shortage needs; (2) assist the Bureau of Apprenticeship Training/Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employer, and Labor Services and the Federal Committee on Registered Apprenticeship to identify which industries best lend themselves to being able to accommodate apprentices that are dislocated, disabled, and disadvantaged; and (3) identify a consultant-expert on the "employability of persons with disabilities."
Issue Date: February 9, 2001
Closing Date: March 16, 2001
Amendment 1       pdf format
Amendment 2
Amendment 3       pdf format
Bidders' List

Evaluation of the H-1B Demonstration Grant  (RFP-DCS-01-10)

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is soliciting proposals for the conduct of a process evaluation of the H-1B Technical Skill Training Grants. The study will assess the experiences of grantees in training both unemployed and employed workers in acquiring the requisite skills in occupations that are in high demand, particularly in industries such as information technology and health. The contractor will investigate and report to a wide audience the progress that the H-1B grantees are making in successfully training and placing into employment participants in occupational areas which qualify under H-1B provisions. The study's findings will be used by ETA, agency overseers and the wider workforce development system to enhance training and employment efforts in skill shortage areas.
Issue Date: January 31, 2001
Closing Date: March 2, 2001
Amendment 1       pdf format
Amendment 2
Bidders' List

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