Student Tracker Educational Data for the Millennium Cohort Research Program

This is a notice of intent to award a sole-source contract and is not a request for competitive proposals. However, if interested, Government shall consider all responses. Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) intends to solicit a proposal and enter into a contract with National Student Clearinghouse Herndon, VA 20171. The statutory authority for this sole source procurement is 10 U. S. C. 2304(c)(1) per FAR 6.302-1(b). The NAICS code for this requirement is listed above. NHRC requires that all contractors doing business with the Acquisition Office must be registered with System for Award Management (SAM). No award can be made unless the vendor is registered in SAM. For additional information and to register to SAM, please access the following website: https://www.sam.gov/. In order to register with SAM and to be eligible to receive an award from this acquisition office, all offerors must have a DUN & Bradstreet Number. A DUN & Bradstreet Number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet online at https://dnb.com/products/eupdate/requestOptions.html or by phone at (800) 333-0505. Description: The National Student Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse) provides a nationwide, central repository of information on the enrollment status and educational achievements of post-secondary students. Participating educational institutions submit to the Clearinghouse information on the enrollment statuses of all of their students and listings of the alumni to whom they have awarded degrees or certificates. The Clearinghouse provides student information to authorized recipients. The Department of Education has solely awarded a contract to Clearinghouse on the basis that "no other single entity maintains all of the data required for this service on the magnitude that it could fairly and accurately represent most institutions; no other organization has the data contained within Clearinghouse." Type of Request Sample Size Study Query 50,000 Study Query 2 9,872 Study Query 3 59,872 Including one option period.