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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JANUARY 24, 2013 FBO #4079
DOCUMENT

U -- Leadership Development Program - Attachment

Notice Date

1/22/2013
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

611430 — Professional and Management Development Training
 

Contracting Office

US Department of Veterans Affairs;Veterans Health Administration;Service Area Office (SAO) East;323 North Shore Drive, Suite 500;Pittsburgh PA 15212-5319
 

ZIP Code

15212-5319
 

Solicitation Number

VA24013I0045
 

Archive Date

3/23/2013
 

Point of Contact

Patrick Groves
 

E-Mail Address

2.3484<br
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

INTRODUCTION This document is a Request for Information (RFI). The government does not presently intend to award a contract but needs to obtain price, delivery, other market information, or capabilities for planning purposes. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the government to form a binding contract. If interested in this opportunity, please respond with a capability statement to patrick.groves@va.gov. Please provide all relevant information, including DUNS number, business-size status, and socioeconomic category (if applicable). PURPOSE The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requires a schedule of custom leadership development programs in the "learning cohort" model for 30 of its senior contracting managers. Learning cohorts engage in learning together over time-multiple sessions over many months with application time in between- and building a social network across organizations. This leadership development programs would ideally be provided by accredited postsecondary educational institutions. The provider must document and certify the hours of organized instruction each attendee receives. Instructors should be full-time, tenured faculty with advanced degrees in business administration; adjunct faculty with significant practical experience; or similarly accomplished leaders in the field of business administration. SCOPE Multiple cohort programs must be held over different time periods. Each cohort program should meet over the same length of time (e.g., 6-12 months), and have the same periodic cohort sessions (e.g., 1-3 days every 4-6 weeks). Attendance will likely spread evenly across each cohort program, but up to 30 attendees may attend any one cohort program at any time. Some flexibility in cohort program length, cohort program frequency, periodic cohort session length, and periodic session frequency is allowed, but each cohort program should follow the same curriculum (to allow cohort program participants to attend "make-up" sessions with other cohorts). All sessions for each cohort program should be held in the same location. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE The period of performance must not exceed five years from the date of award-e.g., ten 6-month cohort programs, or five 12-month cohort programs. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE In order to most easily accommodate the attendees' travel arrangements, the place of performance must be located in a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the Continental United States (CONUS), and within 50 miles of an international airport. BACKGROUND The General Schedule (GS) contracting series' include positions that manage, supervise, perform, or develop policies and procedures for professional work involving the procurement of supplies, services, construction, or research and development using formal advertising or negotiation procedures; the evaluation of contract price proposals; and the administration or termination and close out of contracts. The VA's 30 senior contracting managers manage 2,500 contracting employees in contracting offices in 150 locations across the United States. Each manager manages anywhere between 60 and 140 employees, and may manage employees in more than one location. PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES The VA needs senior contracting managers competent to build a federal corporate culture that drives for results, serves customers, and builds successful teams and coalitions within and outside the organization. The abilities below define these competencies: "the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals; the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment; "the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals; the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts; "the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations; the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks; and "the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Personal and professional attributes are also critical to successful performance in the VA. The fundamental competences below serve as the foundation for each of the abilities above: "treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect; considers and responds appropriately to the needs and feelings of different people in different situations; "makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens effectively; clarifies information as needed; and "assesses and recognizes own strengths and weaknesses; pursues self-development. Well designed and implemented cohort programs increase opportunities for cross-organizational collaboration towards learning the abilities and competencies above. The learning process should use real organizational issues for leadership training, e.g., bring attention to a strategic organizational challenge (the time between cohort sessions), then reflect on what they've learned as the move the task forward (the cohort sessions themselves). DISCLAIMER This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this RFI that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/66b054be9788f7f651529fdcb88fff7c)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA240-13-I-0045 VA240-13-I-0045.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=590792&FileName=VA240-13-I-0045-002.docx)

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Record

SN02969937-W 20130124/130122234302-66b054be9788f7f651529fdcb88fff7c (fbodaily.com)
 

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