General Services Administration (GSA):

GSA Schedules

EDC is a preapproved, federally qualified vendor within the General GSA Schedule System. The GSA contract certifies that EDC can meet competition, pricing, small business, and other federal contract requirements for the services specified in each schedule. EDC's expertise in early child development, K-12 education, health promotion, workforce preparation, community development, learning technologies, basic and adult education, institutional reform, and social justice allows us to provide our federal clients with an extensive array of contracted services described by the following GSA schedule titles and Special Item Numbers (SINs):

Management, Organization, and Business Improvement Services (MOBIS)

• 874-1 Consulting Services: Services may include providing expert advice, assistance, guidance or counseling in support of agencies' management, organizational, and business improvement efforts. This may also include studies, analyses and reports documenting any proposed developmental, consultative or implementation efforts. Examples of consultation include but are not limited to: strategic, business and action planning; high performance work; process and productivity improvement; systems alignment; leadership systems; organizational assessments; cycle time; performance measures and indicators; program audits, and evaluations.
• 874-2 Facilitation Services: Includes facilitation and related decision support services to agencies engaging in collaboration efforts, working groups, or integrated product, process, or self-directed teams. Agencies bringing together diverse teams and/or groups with common and divergent interests may require a neutral party to assist them in: the use of problem solving techniques; defining and refining the agenda; debriefing and overall meeting planning; resolving disputes, disagreements, and divergent views; logistical meeting/conference support when performing technical facilitation; convening and leading large and small group briefings and discussions; providing a draft for the permanent record; recording discussion content and focusing decision-making; and preparing draft and final reports for dissemination.
• 874-3 Survey Services: Services shall provide expert consultation, assistance, and deliverables associated with all aspects of surveying within the context of MOBIS. Contractors shall assist with, and/or perform all phases of the survey process to include, but not limited to: planning survey design; sampling, survey development; pretest/pilot surveying; defining and refining the agenda; survey database administration; assessing reliability and validity of data; determining proper survey data collection methodology; administering surveys using various types of data collection methods; and analyses of quantitative and qualitative survey data. Production of reports to include, but not limited to: description and summary of results with associated graphs, charts, and tables; description of data collection and survey administration methods; discussion of sample characteristics and the representative nature of data; analysis of non-response; and briefings of results to include discussion of recommendations and potential follow-up actions.
• 874-4 Training Services: Contractors shall provide off-the-shelf, or customized off-the-shelf training packages under this SIN to meet specific agency needs related to management, organizational and business improvement services, such as, but not limited to: customer service, team building; ISO 9000 and ISO 14000; process improvement, performance measurement; statistical process control; performance problem-solving; business process reengineering; quality management; change management; strategic planning; and benchmarking.
• 874-5 Support Products: Support products are those items used in support of services offered in SINs 1 through 4 and 6. They could include: workbooks, training manuals, slides, videotapes, overhead transparencies, software programs, etc. Any support products offered must be supplied in conjunction with services offered herein.
• 874-7 Program Integration and Project Management: Contractors shall provide services in the management, integration, and programs and projects. These services may include, but are not limited to: program management, program oversight, project management and program integration (team leader)

You can access EDC's GSA schedules at:

http://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/ElibHome

Please search for GS-10F-0406P. Our contract period runs from July 6, 2004 to July 6, 2009.

For more information, contact:

Michael Pelletier (E-mail: mpelletier@edc.org)