United States Park Police, Headquarters, 1100 Ohio Drive, SW, Washington, DC 20024

R -- CONSULTING SERVICES TO DEVELOPE VALID PHYSICAL FITNESS STANDARDS FOR POLICE OFFICERS SOL RFQ-9-0660 DUE 062599 POC Captain Gary VanHorn, Commander Personnel Services; (202) 619-7167 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, Gordon_Smith@nps.gov. The United States Park Police is seeking a consultant (organization), possessing a Ph.D., in psychology and a graduate degree in exercise physiology, to develope valid physical fitness standards for the position of police officer. The consultant must be an expert in the field of standards development and have an extensive history of working with law enforcement agencies. The standards must be validated through a construct/criterion validation process. The consultant must have experience in providing expert testimony in court cases involving law enforcement fitness standards and programming. The consultant must be able to perform the following tasks: (There are a total of nine (9) clearly outlined tasks) only five (5) will appear in this notice. 1. Review pertinent existing data to determine the critical physical performance tasks required of the U.S. Park Police Officers. This must include a review of all existing job definition information, a review of current and past fitness testing, a review of the entire physical fitness program as currently implemented, to include recruit training and incumbent physical fitness programs, and a review of all data concerning health and disability issues and trends within the United States park Police. 2. Conduct a physical job/task analysis of incumbent officers, stratified by age and gender. The incumbent sample of officers should be no less than 50. The JTA must include a sufficient number of essential physical tasks that can be rated by subject-matter-experts with respect to frequency and criticality. 3. Job task simulation test and fitness test definition: Physical job tasks must be narrowed based on the data gathered from the SME's and any focus group interviews conducted. Job sample tests must be defined, resulting in task scenarios with the expected level of performance predetermined with respect to effort, duration, and outcome. The consultant must identify the underlying physiological demands of selected job task tests and define those tests representative of the physiological demands of the job task tests. 4. Physical fitness coordinator training. The consultant must train/prepare a cadre of incumbent officers/individuals to conduct validation testing and provide on-going fitness programming. The training must include at least 10 officers/trainees and should be of sufficient duration to certify the individuals as proficient in the required tasks. The consultant shall provide all training materials and curriculum. 5. Evaluation testing: A sufficient number of incumbent officers must be tested to validate data on the predictability of fitness for task performance. The sample officers should be randomly selected by age and gender. Other tasks will consist of Data analysis; Judgement Process; Completion of a technical report with standards implementation recommendations and finally Project oversight with the ability to provide expert testimony as necessary. For a complete line item defination of all tasks contact Captain VanHorn at (202) 619-7167 or Gordon Smith, Contracting Officer, (202) 619-7052 or Fax your request to (202) 401-2262. Posted 06/01/99 (W-SN337574). (0152)

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