# DLPT5 Full Range Test Item Development

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- Solicitation number: W91QF425R0003
- Notice type: Solicitation
- Status: Awarded to Alta Language Services Inc.
- Department: Department of the Army
- Agency: Department of the Army
- Contracting office: W6QM Micc-Fdo FT Eustis (W911S0)
- NAICS: 611710 Educational Support Services
- Product or service code: U008 Training/Curriculum Development
- Place of performance: Monterey, California
- County: Monterey County (FIPS 06053). https://abierto.us/counties/monterey-county-ca-06053
- City: Monterey. https://abierto.us/cities/monterey-ca-0648872
- First posted: February 26, 2025
- Last posted: February 26, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/392e02ee21d145fa8a3fb4c99bee8509/view

## Description

The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) has a need for the creation of test items. DLIFLC has developed a reading and listening test, the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT5), to assess the foreign language proficiency of military and Government linguists. DoD's strategic readiness depends on the results of these tests which would determine linguists’ capability. Therefore, continuous development and maintenance of DLPT5 test content is mission critical.

A Test Item is the task for which an examinee provides a response, and the means for evaluating the response. Test Items are comprised of either Reading or Listening passages in a specific foreign language, each assigned an Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) proficiency rating. For a Multiple-Choice test, the Test Item includes one stem question and four response choices, one of which is the most correct.

For a Constructed Response Test, the Test Item includes one stem, a list of potential ideas for scoring, and a Credit Scheme for scoring the examinee’s response. In all cases, English renderings accompany each Test Item delivered. Currently, there are approximately 450 languages and dialects for which DLIFLC may have a demand for Test Items. ILR ratings range from 0 (No proficiency) to 5 (Native proficiency).

A designation of 0+, 1+, 2+, 3+, or 4+ is assigned when proficiency substantially exceeds one skill level but does not fully meet the criteria for the next level. Thus, the scale totals 11 possible grades. DLIFLC anticipates annual demand for 5000 to 7500 DLPT5 test items that conform to DLPT item development specifications and cover multiple Interagency Language Roundtable language proficiency (ILR) levels from amongst approximately 350 foreign languages and dialects.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Alta Language Services Inc. (UEI NGC3MAHV4MW8)
- Contract: W91QF425F0047 under W91QF425D0002, delivery order
- Obligated: $7,500.00
- Competition: Full and Open Competition
- Link: solicitation number W91QF425R0003 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same sub-agency 2100 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91QF425F0047_9700_W91QF425D0002_9700/

- Recipient: Alta Language Services Inc. (UEI NGC3MAHV4MW8)
- Contract: W91QF425F0055 under W91QF425D0002, delivery order
- Obligated: $406,942.15
- Competition: Full and Open Competition
- Link: solicitation number W91QF425R0003 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same sub-agency 2100 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91QF425F0055_9700_W91QF425D0002_9700/

- Recipient: Alta Language Services Inc. (UEI NGC3MAHV4MW8)
- Contract: W91QF425F0061 under W91QF425D0002, delivery order
- Obligated: $438,481.33
- Competition: Full and Open Competition
- Link: solicitation number W91QF425R0003 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same sub-agency 2100 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91QF425F0061_9700_W91QF425D0002_9700/

- Recipient: Alta Language Services Inc. (UEI NGC3MAHV4MW8)
- Contract: W91QF425F0069 under W91QF425D0002, delivery order
- Obligated: $125,672.70
- Competition: Full and Open Competition
- Link: solicitation number W91QF425R0003 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same sub-agency 2100 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91QF425F0069_9700_W91QF425D0002_9700/

- Recipient: Alta Language Services Inc. (UEI NGC3MAHV4MW8)
- Contract: W91QF425D0002
- Obligated: $0.00
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 2 offers received
- Link: solicitation number W91QF425R0003 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same sub-agency 2100 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_W91QF425D0002_9700/


## Publications

- February 26, 2025: Solicitation, due March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT. Notice 392e02ee21d145fa8a3fb4c99bee8509. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/392e02ee21d145fa8a3fb4c99bee8509/view

## Points of contact

- Edward WojtanIII, edward.w.wojtan2.Civ@army.mil
- Jayson Dillard, jayson.l.dillard.civ@army.mil

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