RFI for Fellowship Program Administration and Research Support Service - Sources Sought

The government authority in Vicksburg, MS, seeks a vendor to establish, administer, and manage a fellowship program while providing research support services. The buyer requires the vendor to recruit, screen, pay, and manage fellows across multiple categories, including postdoctoral, senior, journeyman, short-term, and summer student experience participants. Additionally, the vendor must handle program-management tasks, quality-management processes, administrative logistics, performance tracking, records, and applicable background-check, access, and training requirements. The work supports technical focus areas aligned with specific task-order requirements over a one-year contract period. The buyer accepts responses from both small businesses and other-than-small businesses, but eligibility requires an onshore USA organization. Performance of the work occurs either onsite or offsite. For this market research opportunity, the buyer seeks proposals to evaluate capabilities, but the text omits specific evaluation criteria, budget figures, and submission deadlines.