The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE), Office of Secondary Education, is seeking requests for qualifications to solicit offers from qualified, experienced, and responsible sound Offerors to provide proficiency assessments for modern and classical languages including American sign language. Proposing vendors must have the proven ability to perform all core services requested in this solicitation, in accordance with Mississippi State Board of Education Policy Chapter 28, Rule 28.8.
It is the intent of the MDE to provide a list of approved assessments for districts to utilize in determining student levels of language proficiency. The approved vendors awarded from this solicitation will provide assessments to determine student level proficiency for awarding local seals of biliteracy.
The assessments should include the language domains (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) that are appropriate for the given language, the modes of communication (interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational) appropriate for the language and adhere to the major levels of proficiency as described by the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
The deadline for receipt of responses is on or before Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, by 2 p.m. CST.
Written questions should be submitted to el-worldlanguages@mdek12.org by Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, by 5 p.m.
RFQ – Mississippi Seal of Biliteracy Proficiency Assessments