SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Seeking Innovative Business Education Providers to Help Upskill a 140K+ Federal Workforce (FEDS140K)
- Notice Date
- 9/2/2021 10:30:44 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- OAS OFFICE OF INTERNAL ACQUISITION WASHINGTON DC 20405 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20405
- Solicitation Number
- FEDS140K
- Response Due
- 12/16/2021 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2021
- Point of Contact
- Coery Wilson, Dennis Cronyn
- E-Mail Address
-
corey.wilson@gsa.gov, Dennis.cronyn@gsa.gov
(corey.wilson@gsa.gov, Dennis.cronyn@gsa.gov)
- Description
- Background Emerging technology is causing tremendous change within the federal workforce � making many current positions obsolete and creating new roles and processes. The roles created require new skills that are increasingly complex. To succeed, federal employees will need access to continuous learning tools and dynamic training content in a variety of modalities. The goal of this unique RFI is to introduce a pilot initiative sponsored by the Federal CFO Council, OMB, and the GSA in coordination with OPM. Through this pilot initiative we hope to establish a career planning and training portal for our (approximately) 140,000 Financial Management workforce. If successful, this pilot could potentially scale up to serve broader sectors of the Federal workforce. We are looking for innovative professional upskilling, and education, content providers that can provide dynamic and engaging pay-for content that aligns with 54 job competency areas. More details about this initiative can be found in the RFI, the Application Package, and on CFO.gov. Have questions about this initiative? Please see the RFI for details on how/when to submit them through this portal (https://www.menti.com/1scb5un2vw) FEDS140K The Federal CFO Council, which directly manages a 140,000+ interagency workforce, is about to begin a new fed-wide 2+ year technology pilot and is seeking innovative business education providers that can help us continuously modernize, educate, and upskill our Financial Management workforce.� Through this RFI process, we hope to bring attention to this initiative and establish a collaborative, financially rewarding, and flexible teaming relationship with a select group of innovative training/education providers.� In short � we�want to embed web links to YOUR innovative pay-for course/content offerings directly into our approved and online-accessible, workforce career skills guide. When our 140,000+ employees (typically with individual annual training budgets of $1000+) seek direction on how to advance their career and upgrade their skills/knowledge � we want to point them directly to you (as officially Trusted Providers), via our Executive Branch endorsed, online career guide;�so that they can directly purchase what they need.� We�re seeking training and education content that is graduate and undergraduate-level equivalent (i.e., insightful, intelligent, practical, relevant), using various modalities and delivery models � that best meet the needs of our Financial Management workforce. If this effort is successful, the two-year pilot (estimated duration) would be converted into an ongoing initiative and could potentially be expanded to address much larger segments of the Federal workforce.� This is a collaborative effort - which we hope to make as easy and seamless as possible. We want this initiative to also attract modern/innovative educational/training organizations that might not typically consider partnering with the government.� NOTE: To help make this teaming relationship an extremely low-risk proposition, in lieu of a binding service agreement or contract, we will�be using a 2-page non-binding plain language Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In partnering with us, we�ll also make available data and feedback from the pilot effort, give structured access to agency, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB), leadership (helpful in getting feedback/input), and do what we can to help improve the service (hopefully creating a �virtuous cycle� effect). How Will this Work? Interested applicants will have two opportunities to ask questions and propose suggestions. We encourage everyone to take advantage of both opportunities.� We�ll receive all Round 1 questions submitted by October 7th, 2021 to https://www.menti.com/1scb5un2vw After receiving your initial Round 1 questions/suggestions we�ll publicly publish answers, make updates as needed, and post any changes.� You will also have a second opportunity to submit follow-up questions to the same link (https://www.menti.com/1scb5un2vw) by November 4th, 2021. After receiving your Round 2 questions/suggestions we�ll publish answers, make updates as needed and post any changes.� Attend the �Virtual Open House�, tentatively planned for November 18th, 2021, and learn more about this initiative. Monitor sam.gov, and cfo.gov (https://www.cfo.gov/workforce-modernization/application-guidance/), for updates, answers, and copies of presentation materials and more. If interested in applying/responding, submit your information to us in the format requested by December 16th, 2021 (see Application Package guidance posted on sam.gov, and cfo.gov, for more details). If your Information Package is selected for further evaluation, be available for a virtual interview and technology demo around the January timeframe. Scheduling is dependent on how quickly we can review submitted information packages. Note: To keep it manageable for us, and attractive to potential teaming partners, we�re going to LIMIT this partnering opportunity to a small number of innovative providers (approximately 5-7) that can best meet the needs of our 140,000+ workforce.�� What Else Should You Know? Within the information package we�ll ask you to �map� your course content offerings into our Version 1.0 career model. The 1.0 career model is a beta version that we�ll use to go live. Once provider applicants are selected, they are welcome to collaborate with us on building out the career guide and helping us to refine the broader shape of this overall initiative (i.e., more than just what is mentioned in the RFI). We hope that selected training providers can provide a version of a best/lowest price guarantee to our community. This will help drive �traction� to this initiative and foster the �virtuous cycle� effect. Our stakeholder sponsors are the Executive Office of the President / Office of Management and Budget, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Defense, and the CFOs and Deputy CFOs of the 24 CFO Act Agencies. We are also making information available to the Office of Personnel Management and other fed-wide Executive Councils. Questions: See attachments for full submission details, and submit all questions to�the following site: https://www.menti.com/1scb5un2vw� PUBLIC RECORDS AND REQUESTS FOR CONFIDENTIALITY: Any document submitted that contains confidential information must be watermarked� as containing confidential information, and each page upon which confidential information appears must be marked as containing confidential information.� The confidential information must be clearly identifiable to the reader wherever it appears.� COPYRIGHTS By submitting a response, the vendor agrees that the government may copy the response for purposes of facilitation of review or to respond to requests for public records.� The vendor certifies that such copying will not violate any copyrights in the materials submitted. CONTENT OF RESPONSES Responses should be based on the material contained in this RFI and any other relevant information the vendor thinks is appropriate.� Responses will not be returned. COST TO VENDORS The government is not responsible for any costs incurred by a vendor in relation to the preparation of a response to this RFI.
- Web Link
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SAM.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC 20405, USA
- Zip Code: 20405
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20405
- Record
- SN06121526-F 20210904/210902230135 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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