Oklahoma Supplier Systems #EV00000988

Oklahoma trade licensing and endorsement examination services

Oklahoma’s Construction Industries Board is seeking a professional testing organization to operate licensing exams for construction trades and administer the National Home Inspector Examination. - Government buyer: Oklahoma Construction Industries Board (CIB), agency 170, through the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES), Central Purchasing. - Requested services: Develop, manage, administer, score, and report licensing and endorsement exams for electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and roofing trades; administer and report results for the National Home Inspector Examination. - Exam coverage: Contractor and journeyman categories include electrical, natural gas, process piping, sheet metal, HVACR, refrigeration, plumbing, limited residential mechanical, and commercial and residential roofing. Contractor exams may include technical-trade and business-and-law sections; journeyman exams assess trade knowledge. The scope lists 27 trade and roofing categories, plus the Home Inspector exam. - Named exam developer: Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors, Inc. develops the National Home Inspector Examination. No testing-services contractor or other OEM is named as the prospective provider. - Capacity and experience: The provider must maintain at least six Oklahoma testing sites—in Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Tulsa, Lawton, Woodward, and McAlester—and demonstrate at least eight years of relevant state licensing testing experience. - Fees and volume: Candidate fees are capped at $200 for combined or separately offered contractor exam sections and $200 per National Home Inspector Examination. The Board cites 5,365 exams administered in a prior year for planning, but future exam volumes are not guaranteed. - Other requirements: Passing scores are 70% for electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and roofing exams. The provider supplies the labor, supervision, equipment, materials, and other resources needed. - Quantity and performance period: One testing-services requirement; exam volumes are variable. A contract term or performance dates are not specified in the available information.

Description

The Construction Industries Board, through OMES Central Purchasing, is seeking a professional testing organization to develop, manage, administer, and report on license and endorsement examinations. The examinations cover contractor and journeyman licenses in plumbing, mechanical, and electrical trades, as well as roofing endorsements; the National Home Inspector Examination is to be administered and reported on only. The contractor must provide the resources needed to deliver the services in accordance with applicable standards, laws, regulations, and state-adopted codes. The resulting contract may be designated for statewide use.

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