FORSCOM Language and Culture Services Description The Mission and Installation Contracting Command - Fort Liberty (MICC - FL) has a requirement for the United States Forces Command (FORSCOM) language and culture program (hereafter “program”) which supports creativity and flexibility to meet the unique instruction needs of commanders requiring language and or culture related capabilities for their personnel. The program-s courses training events do not have rigid Programs of Instruction (POIs) but rather use the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) proficiency level descriptions, as well as current theories and teaching methodologies in the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Adult Continuing Education, as a framework for the development of POIs, lesson plans, activities, etc. These skill descriptor definitions can be found at http: www.govtilr.org, and it is the responsibility of the contractor to familiarize all contract service providers with each of the skill level descriptors found on the ILR website, as well as with current theories and teaching approaches and methodologies in the fields of SLA and Adult Continuing Education. The program-s teaching methodology is eclectic in nature but broadly falls under the umbrella of Communicative Language Teaching, given its primary focus on language and culture within the context of communication and its secondary focus on the structure(s) that inform that communication. At each ILR proficiency level, very specific behaviors are exhibited and expected. Contract service providers will assesses the ILR level of each student in the skills to be taught and then develop and or present appropriate lessons, materials and activities to generate as much uninhibited, spontaneous, and culturally appropriate manipulation of the target language, culture knowledge, and cross-cultural competence amongst the students as possible, in order to prepare the students for duty related work engagements and or the Defense Language Proficiency Test System (DLPTS... DEPT OF DEFENSE | DEPT OF THE ARMY KO CONTRACTING OFFICE 502 EIGHTH STREET, HUNTINGTON , WV 25701-5000, USA Primary Point of Contact: ROBERT KINZEL, robert.d.kinzel@usace.army.mil, Phone Number 3043995341 andrena.s.zamor.civ@army.mil Tender Notice International Competitive Bidding PAN019931 United States of America GT-108887336