SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- National Defense College UAE Program Support
- Notice Date
- 9/25/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Defense Budget and Contracts, 201 12th Street, Suite 203, Arlington, Virginia, 22202-5408
- ZIP Code
- 22202-5408
- Solicitation Number
- HQ0013-14-X-0014
- Archive Date
- 10/24/2014
- Point of Contact
- Woodrow W. Bell, Phone: 7036021464
- E-Mail Address
-
woodrow.bell@dsca.mil
(woodrow.bell@dsca.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Pre-Solicitation Notification For Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies National Defense College United Arab Emirates Program Support Contract 1. General: The contractor shall provide qualified personnel to perform tasks in support of the Department of Defense (DOD) Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies. The NESA Center is currently located at National Defense University, Bldg. 64, 260 5th Avenue, SW, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., 20319. The contractor will perform support services and technical assistance tasks at the NESA offices, National Defense College United Arab Emirates (UAE), and other sites as designated by program needs. The contractor's office can be located in the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area but must have a license to operate and conduct business in the UAE. 2. Background: The NESA Center has been executing a critical academic program with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) National Defense College (NDC) in the UAE and in Washington, DC, since January 2013. This program directly supports the Center's mission to provide an academic environment where strategic issues can be addressed and capacity building increased. The UAE NDC is expanding its academic program, level of accreditation, and student enrollment based on current academic success. 3. Scope: The support requested provides program and administrative, faculty development, curriculum development, technical, and faculty skills. The NESA Center's efforts provide an academic program through use of adjuncts and staff members at the UAE NDC and from Washington, DC, to lecture and provide service support so strategic issues can be addressed, and defense-related decision-making improved and cooperation strengthened between military and civilian leaders. The positions and services are critical to ensuring: proper accreditation support, student to faculty ratio to maintain academic accreditation, and overall coordination and support of an up to doctorate level academic program designed to enhance capability building and nation building associated with national security studies and strategy. The contractor will perform tasks in the design and implementation of events that will enable the NESA Center to conduct its academic programs and other programs that will be developed with the UAE NDC. These tasks are to be performed in Washington, DC, or in the UAE and include but are not limited to: A. Provide 14 or more qualified PH.D degreed professors with track records of academic success focused on various aspects of national security taught at the Master's degree level. B. Provide technical support to include: deputy librarian; institutional effectiveness advisor (accreditation) capable of ensuring ongoing accreditation processing and monitoring; institutional effectiveness advisor (assessment) capable of monitoring student progress and implementing changing academic requirements into the curriculum; education technology advisor; assistant dean of students; and a document controller/editor. C. Provide service support to include: an academic program manager, planning wing advisor, and alumni and outreach advisor. D. The contractor must be capable of processing administrative requirements for life support in the UAE and Washington, DC, to include: provide UAE work visas and family member visas within 90 days of employment offer, health insurance, housing, cost of living allowances, and movement of household goods, personnel and families to and from various locations to the UAE or Washington, DC. The contractor must be capable of conducting recruitment boards to maintain qualified faculty and staff and maintain an available pool of personnel to replace or surge on short notice. The contractor must have arrangements to rapidly process requirements for continuous international travel to support the academic schedule of visiting professors from DC to the UAE, accreditation efforts, and faculty development. E. Provide other logistical requirements as necessary. 4. Approach: The contractor will conduct business in a fashion that is consistent with Federal and DOD regulations and must have a license to conduct business in the UAE. The contractor shall provide technically qualified, experienced, international policy, operations, administrative and technical, logistics and support analysis services to support the detailed planning, organizing, coordinating and execution of numerous conferences, seminars and international programs as well as operation of the ongoing policy and outreach missions as specified. Experience working with senior government and military personnel in Department of Defense, NESA Center, U.S. Embassy Abu Dhabi, and UAE NDC is a must. Experience providing logistical and administrative support to faculty and staff in Washington, DC, and the UAE is a must. The contractor will respond to the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), for policy and program guidance. The contractor shall assign a Project Manager who has had substantive experience in an operational or academic environment to manage personnel and operations in support of this effort. Experience working directly with the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi, the UAE NDC staff, the NESA Center, and the ability to coordinate recruit and sustainment faculty, staff, and logistical support in the UAE is a must. The Project Manager shall possess the highest standards of personal deportment, judgment, demonstrated organizational abilities and outstanding communications skills to manage a program with support requirements in the USA and in the region. The project manager acts as the single point of contact for all activities with the COR for this contract. The Project Manager shall participate in all the critique sessions, in processing reviews, and after action reviews and "hot washes" that are conducted in the preparation for, during or after any event as possible in coordination with the academic program manager. The project manager must have experience working large programs and understand the DoD program management system for fielding equipment or services. The Project Manager must have experience working with a COR and be able to immediately inform the COR of any issues, problems or concerns that pertain to activities with recommend solutions. 5. Objective of This Announcement: The objective of this announcement is market research to gather information about the availability of companies that can perform the services. The information will focus on companies' interest to perform the services; the number of capable companies that can perform the services discussed above; and the socioeconomic classifications of companies that are determined to be capable of performing the services. 6. Pre-Solicitation Information Requirements: Vendors must provide information regarding their ability to support requirements. The vendor must address and provide the following documents no later than 3:00 pm EST 9 October 2014: A) Vendor information: 1) The organization's name, 2) organization's website, 3) name of a point of contact, 4) telephone and email address of point of contact, 5) the organization's Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code, 6) the organization's socioeconomic classification(s) and 7) NAICS code(s) the vendor performs under that are applicable to the required services. 8) This information shall be on 1 page. B) A write up of at least one, but no more than two, past experience where the vendor has provided the same of similar services. In the write up(s) at a minimum include the following information: 1) A description of services performed 2) period of performance 3) customer information (name and point of contact information that includes email and phone address) 4) The write up shall be no more than five (5) pages. C) If the vendor has no past performance to write up, the vendor may submit a write up regarding the relevant experience of personnel the vendor employs that has experience in providing the required services. The five (5) page limit applies. D) This is just market research, so if a vendor cannot submit the information at B or C, do not let it prevent you from responding to this sources sought announcement. E) A copy of a business license to conduct business in the UAE currently and through the potential contract period (Mar 2015 - Feb 2016 and two option years). F) Provide all documents to: William Turner (TurnerW@ndu.edu) National Defense University Bldg. 64, Rm 3124 260 5th Avenue, SW Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., 20319
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