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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF APRIL 18, 2013 FBO #4163
DOCUMENT

R -- Performance Engineering - Attachment

Notice Date

4/16/2013
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

541618 — Other Management Consulting Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veteran Affairs;SAO East;PCAE STL Contracting Officer;11152 South Towne Square;Saint Louis MO 63123
 

ZIP Code

63123
 

Solicitation Number

VA77713I0074
 

Response Due

4/30/2013
 

Archive Date

6/29/2013
 

Point of Contact

ANTHONY BALESTRERI
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

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. INSTRUCTIONS TO VENDORS: This is a sources sought purely for purposes of market research. If you feel you can meet this requirement, please send a capability statement via email to Anthony.Balestreri@va.gov demonstrating your qualifications by 4/30/2013 at 5:00 PM EST. VA PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING The Employee Education Service (EES) faces a long-time deficiency in its organizational ability to utilize analytics throughout the organization so as to manage quality, cost, and time demands among its employees and the VHA customers of EES training products. EES is planning to establish a Performance Analytics Operation that will provide an adaptive set of analytic capabilities that can be fitted to the employee and executive operations through an incremental and testable manner of performance engineering. The goal of the Employee Education Service (EES) is to grow its performance capability for developing and delivering efficient and effective means of training Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employees within their professional areas of responsibility. This goal is supported by several performance capability objectives. First, maturing the ability to anticipate, assess, measure, and determine training needs, user requirements, and total demand among groups of VHA employees, and as it can impact EES team resources. Second, organize the training material inventory for enhancing the quality and reusability of the training modalities and materials used by groups of VHA employees. Third, reduce the total cost of EES services through the enhancement of lower cost options in training modalities and travel, and the reuse of products that have demonstrated value to VHA employees. Fourth, support the continuous cycle of VHA managing professional groups' completion of continuing education requirements and other targeted training specializations. Fifth, enhance the accreditation authorization process for rapid support of ad hoc, local training event demands and their reuse in other locales across VHA. Sixth, determine the existing performance in training quality, training time, and training costs and opportunities to improve these areas of performance. Seventh, report continuous status of training product builds and reuse, with accounting of their consumption of team resources and anticipated workflow and provisioning of training products. Eight, analyze continuous trends in training costs, contracting hours, product evaluations, and other determinates of variable management opportunities in improving total training value and benefit. Ninth, test technological opportunities to increase the convenience and effect of training and training management, including alignment with emergent professional, VHA, and VA training requirements. In order for these objectives to sustain support of the EES goal, the associated performance engineering, organizational science, and adaptive technology activities need to be tested against the emergent work engagement and value among EES employees and executives, and their engagement with VHA customers. The EES goal and objectives require PASS performance engineering in order to draw from lessons learned within VA operations, achieve the VA strategic goal, which is to "create and maintain an effective, integrated, Department-wide management capability to make data-driven decisions, allocate resources, and manage results," and be in compliance with the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, P.L. 111-352, which established requirements for U.S. Federal Agencies to coordinate information and performance analytics to fit emerging mission changes and maturing organizational capabilities. The contractor will establish a Performance Analytics Operation (PAO) to support the EES goal and objectives through the application and testing of PASS performance engineering components (see PASS Table below) to EES people (employees and customers) and EES information. PASS performance engineering is a continuous assessment, design, configuration, coaching, testing, analysis, and visualization of people and information factors affecting performance capabilities in employees and customers, based on the integrated application of organizational science, behavioral science, systems science, and computer science. The PAO is a science and technology team that performs performance engineering to increase growth in the performance capability of the organization through analytics and engagements fitted to employee and collegial operations. PASS TablePeople Value ComponentsInformation Value Components MotivationReusable Expertise is engineering archives of discoverable and usable work artifacts and achievements for attribution and employees' use.Emergent Thinking is multi-channel feedback from employees and customers to heighten awareness of performance and its causality. ConcentrationEmployee Productivity is testing the fit of location, schedule, coaching, and technology on employees' work concentration and alignment. Strategic Messages is testing the effects of messaging and visualization on employee behavior and growth of performance leadership. AwarenessPerformance Enculturation is testing digital communications to reinforce employees' affinity with integrated performance goals. Cost Awareness is modeling of business costs to reveal trends, forecasts, and alternative scenarios to disparate teams and organizations. DiscretionCapability Development is the team analysis of structural elements to determine feasible actions for testing improvements.Performance Accountability is fitting multi-source analyses into the speed, depth, and style that adapt to user-specific performance goals.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/VAAAC/VAAAC/VA77713I0074/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA777-13-I-0074 VA777-13-I-0074.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=709430&FileName=VA777-13-I-0074-001.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=709430&FileName=VA777-13-I-0074-001.docx

 

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Record

SN03037492-W 20130418/130416234427-28b7dc86dc236b40f37b99d718150223 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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