SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Facilitator Training
- Notice Date
- 7/19/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- DHS - Direct Reports, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commanding Officer, USCG National Strike Force Coordination Center, 1461 North Road Street, Highway 17 N, Elizabeth City, NC, 27099
- ZIP Code
- 27099
- Solicitation Number
- 21-04-264ME1997
- Response Due
- 7/30/2004
- Archive Date
- 8/14/2004
- Point of Contact
- Roger Gray, Chief Warrant Officer, Phone 252-331-6000x3003, Fax 252-331-6012,
- E-Mail Address
-
RWGray@NSFCC.uscg.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The USCG National Strike Force Coordination Center Preparedness Department, located in Elizabeth City, NC is charged with planning, executing, and evaluating at least 6 full-scale oil-spill response exercises annually and up to 2 other exercises in any U.S. Coast Guard Mission Area. All exercises are planned with input from a joint design organization consisting of representatives from Federal, State, Local Government, and Private Industry response organizations. The role of the NSFCC Exercise Development Team is to facilitate the meetings of the joint design organizations, obtaining consensus decisions regarding all facets of exercise planning, execution, and evaluation. Joint design organization representation with whom the NSFCC Exercise Development Team routinely interacts include: Senior Federal, State, and Local Government Response Organization Executives (Military O-6, US Civil Service GS-13 equivalents) who are charged with setting overall exercise objectives and planning guidance Junior project managers (Military O-2/O-3, US Civil Service GS 9/11 equivalents) charged with providing detailed contingency response planning information necessary to the development of the overall exercise plan and developing a consensus recommended course of action for approval by senior response executives Lower level staff members of key impacted stakeholder organizations including political, economic, and environmental organizations with interest in the geographic area in which the exercise is conducted. The NSFCC Exercise Development Teams are made up of both Active Duty and Civilian Coast Guard employees having military ranks ranging from E-5 to O-4 and civil service ranks ranging from GS-11 to GS-14. All team members may be called on to facilitate portions of various exercise design meetings and often drive the development of a consensus decision by Senior Executives / Project Managers ?senior? to the rank of the development team member. The Preparedness Department desires 16 to 20 hours of knowledge and performance based training in the following subject areas to assist in improving the meeting facilitation performance of all Exercise Development Team members: Meeting Management Skills to include training in areas such as agenda development, utilization of meeting spaces to enhance joint design team interaction, maintaining meeting timelines, effective note taking, effective task assignment and information sharing techniques Interest based negotiation techniques to assist Exercise Development Team members in developing consensus decisions among response organizations that may have significant differences in desired exercise outcomes. Conflict resolution techniques to enable Exercise Development Team members to handle and positively redirect the occasional ?disruptive? meeting participant. Scope of Work: Training is to be provided for no more than 20 personnel, 18 of whom are assigned to the NSFCC Preparedness Department. Other NSFCC personnel who require facilitation skills to support unit mission requirements will utilize the remaining training spaces. Contractor is to provide all texts, handouts, and other training materials. The NSFCC will provide the training space in the Unit?s Training Room, projectors, screens, white boards, and flip charts with stands. Training is to be provided in a continuous 2 to 2 ? day period in the middle of the workweek to enable contractor personnel to travel and prepare for the training without incurring any weekend work hours. Additional Requirements: In addition to being proficient in providing facilitation skills training, trainers should be knowledgeable in, and have experience, in designing contingency response exercises and facilitating meetings is support of designing contingency response exercises. Proposals should include a course synopsis, curricula outline, and documentation of previous facilitation training delivery and exercise development experience of prospective instructors. Technical POC: Lee Foresman @ (252)331-6000, X:3054
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Strike Force Coordination Center, 1461 North Road Street, Elizabeth City, NC
- Zip Code: 27909
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 27909
- Record
- SN00625865-W 20040721/040719211548 (fbodaily.com)
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