Federal Labor Relations Authority, 607 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20424-0001

U -- TRAINERS SOL FLRA-98-01 DUE 022698 POC Eric Travers, Contract Specialist, (202) 482-6650 The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is conducting a search to assemble a potential bidder's list of individual(s) for the following: The FLRA is an independent agency responsible for directing the labor-management relations program for 1.9 million non-postal Federal employees world wide, approximately 1.1 million of whom are exclusively represented in 2200 bargaining units. The FLRA is charged by statute with providing leadership in establishing policies and guidance related to Federal sector labor-management relations, resolving disputes arising among the parties, and ensuring compliance with the Statute. The Authority's Decisional Component, composed primarily of attorneys and a few labor relations specialist, adjudicates disputes arising under Statute, deciding cases concerning negotiability, appeals concerning unfair labor practices and representation petitiions, and exceptions to grievance arbitration award. During FY-97, FLRA procured and provide extensive training to FLRA supervisory and non-supervisory attoneys and labor relations specialists in the Authority's decisional component, with the result being tools and techniques to improve the quality and productivity of FLRA written legal products. The emphasis was on improving individual managerial and employee performance toward the goal. The focus was on effective and timely presentation of legal issues, analysis and conclusion. For FY-98, the goal remains effective an efficient case production -- involving presentation of legal issues, analysis, and conclusion. However, for the fiscal year, FLRA is experimenting with a team concept for legal writing:inter-office teams working together to produce written legal documents. The FY-98 training effort should focus on providing tools and techniques for sharpening legal anaysis and writing as a member of a team. We are seeking an individual(s) to provide training and facilitate interaction to enable participant (6 to 8 person teams of both junior and senior legal writer, including a team leader and senior legal advisor) to understand and apply techniques for effective collaboration for improved and timely legal writing and wrtten legal products. The training should provide participants with knowledge and tools to perform tasks such as jointly analyzing issues, performing legal research, giving oral presentations to peers, discussing and editing legal drafts, establishing and acheiving team productivity goals, and giving and receiving peer feedback -- both on legal analysis and writing and on team performance and contribution. The participants must understand how to apply quality tools such as checklist and an "agency quality vocabulary" to achieve legal products that are consistent and of high quality -- both in format and structure and in substance. We are seeking an individual with the following experience skills: Specialized Experience: experience in teaching (a) appliction and presentation of law and in critical legal thinking, (b) effective writing, and (c) techniques for collaborative writing and team building. Individual(s) must have been successful in working with diverse professional employees, preferably attorneys -- at different organizational levels and with different skill levels. This is a request for information and market survey only. The Government will use the information obtained from this notice to understand the capabilities of the marketplace. All interested parties should provide, at no cost to the Government, full descriptive literature demonstrating their capabilities to provide the above stated requirement. The closing date for receipt of interested responses is Feburary 26, 1998. Responses should be sent to Eric Travers, Contract Specialist, at the above address, facsimile responses are accepted for 10 pages or less at (202) 482-6659. All interested parties are required to specify whether they are a large or small business. The Government reserves the right to set-aside any following-on solicitation for small business or 8(a) set-aside award. (0035)

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