Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Contracts and Procurement (NAD-30), 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590

R -- TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN ADDITION TO DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING MATERIALS SOL DTNH22-98-R-05166 POC Amy I. Poling, Contract Specialist, (202) 366-9552 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) intends to negotiate with Kinney Associates to provide training and technical assistance and develop training materials in support of a new NHTSA Safe Communities demonstration and evaluation cooperative agreement program. The work requirements involve: 1) working with NHTSA and other partners identified by NHTSA to plan and implement an expanded Safe Communities demonstration and evaluation program integrating the Safe Communities model and continuous quality improvement strategies; 2) in conjunction with NHTSA, conducting an initial two-day learning session in Washington, DC for NHTSA staff and staff from five new demonstration sites for the purpose of providing an overview and preliminary training on the demonstration program, requirements and expectations and continuous quality improvement strategies; 3) in conjunction with NHTSA, conducting two additional two-day learning sessions in Washington, DC for NHTSA staff and staff from the five new demonstration sites for the purpose of providing additional training and technical assistance to the demonstration sites in the program and continuous quality improvement strategies; 4) developing training materials for the five sites to be supplied during the three learning sessions and at other intervals as necessary; and, 5) providing technical assistance (on-site, telephone and e-mail) to NHTSA and the five sites in the areas of continuous quality improvement and community programs. Interested firms must provide a written response that includes detailed information as to professional qualifications and relevant expertise, specifically addressing skills and knowledge in the areas of community programs, continuous quality improvement and the capability to apply this expertise to community motor vehicle injury prevention programs. Expressions of interest without sufficient detail to permit evaluation of capability will not be considered. Oral expressions of interest will not be considered. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals nor is a Request-for-Proposal solicitation document currently available. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive contract action. In the absence of responses from interested firms demonstrating their capability, NHTSA intends to request a proposal from Kinney Associates on a noncompetitive basis for the work described. Responses must be received by the listed procuring office within 15 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. (0078)

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