National Guard Bureau, Office of Army Contracting, NGB-AQ (Army), Suite 8100, Jefferson Plaza #1, 1411 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202-3231

U -- TRAINING SUPPORT SERVICES POC Karen A. Berning, (703)607-1256 E-MAIL: berningk@ngb.ang.af.mil, berningk@ngb.ang.af.mil. The National Guard Bureau/USPFO for Missouri intends to issue a solicitation to provide Training Support Services for the National Guard. These services shall include: Section One: Training Management Services: This includes financial management and funds tracking procedures, including operational plans for the receipt, inspection, maintenance, accountability, storage and issuance of Army equipment, operational plans and procedures for operation facilities at various installations supporting training simulations, equipment fielding, Distributed Learning and Total Army Schools System (TASS). Assist in the planning and logistics of conferences including local, remote, teleconferences, nationwide, and/or global and presentations; operational and readiness reporting for training activities at the installation level, inspection of unit training procedures; operations training libraries; development of operational plans and procedures for operation of contractor training facilities at institutions; development of planning documents, studies, demand analysis of various programs, reports, and/or briefing charts, and production schedules. Section Two: Training Services Support: Provide comprehensive training, training assessment, design, development, delivery and support services that serve to produce individuals with the requisites skills, knowledge and abilities (SKA) to effectively perform critical sections to the desired standards; Perform analysis and define requirements relating to all aspects of the Training Assessment, Design, Development, Delivery and Support (TADDDES) function, in accordance with the Systems Approach to Training (SAT), to include but not limited to the following activities: perform functional and positional analysis, prepare inventory of relevant tasks relating to specific functions or positions; prepare inventory of relevant tasks relating to specific functions or positions; organize and facilitate conduct of task selection boards to validate and prioritize tasks; design life cycle training curricula, match tasks to performance conditions and standards; conduct skill perishability analyses; identify Terminal Learning Objectives (TLO) and outcome measurements, to include development of test materials and hands-on-evaluations; design overarching training curricula and develop specific Programs of Instruction (POI) within the context of a life cycle training management approach. Section Three: Training Automation/Help Desk Support Services: Provide planning, analysis, troubleshooting, integration, acquisition, installation, operations, maintenance, training, documentation, and administration services for training, readiness and operations office automation systems. Maintain a support facility designed to provide assistance and help to users, including personalized assistance, telephone assistance, limited training, etc.; Collect statistics on hardware, software and system problems, security incidents, maintenance service calls; Centralized administration of software licenses, including dynamic allocation. It is anticipated that multiple awards will be made using various contract types (base plus 4 option years) and solicited under full and open competition with some set-asides (if the government determines there is adequate 8A and small businesses sources to meet the requirement). This notice is not a request for proposal, but is a market research announcement to determine if there are potential 8(a) and small business sources for this requirement. The evaluation of responses to this Request for Information (RFI) will be based on the ability of the respondent to satisfy the governments requirement. The government will not reimburse the respondent for any costs associated with information submitted and is under no obligation to award any related contract with this RFI. Interested 8(a) and small business sources are requested to e-mail their interest and qualifications to berningk@ngb.ang.af.mil. Please e-mail response on or before 1 June 1999 and reference Training Support Services as the title of the e-mail. Phone calls will not be accepted. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any subsequent synopsis or RFQ. Posted 05/17/99 (W-SN332304). (0137)

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