Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification. Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Department has a current Purchase Order with REAL Academy, this is the only Vendor that can continue ongoing work. Additionally, REAL Academy is the only organization offering child welfare simulation (custom or out-of-the-box products), technical assistance to implement simulation, practice-driven training into existing training curriculum, and a Learning Management System assisting to bridge practice gaps and provide CEUs. The Department is currently under contract with the Real Academy and this single source will allow a continuation of the services currently provided that only they can provide. While other vendors create simulations, only REAL Academy offers a train-the-trainer model enabling participants to participate in the creation of simulations for ongoing sustainability. Only REAL Academy has a suite of trade-secret-protected decision-making tools (Behavior Branch™, Good Call Tool™, and Nexus™) to improve critical thinking/reasoning in child welfare practice, all of which are created, researched, validated, and owned by REAL Academy. Furthermore, only REAL Academy has access to certain copyrighted materials based on the research summarized in Toward the Theory of Administrative Tethering: Rethinking Child Welfare Training amid Rationally Bounded Administrative Decision-Making and Collaborative Governance Processes: Marino, Kevin: 9781793642943: Amazon.com: Books) to strengthen the attachment of frontline professionals to policy, law, and practice.