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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 19, 2005 FBO #1181
MODIFICATION

U -- Customized Leadership Training

Notice Date

2/17/2005
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

NAICS

541611 — Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, IRP, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21224
 

ZIP Code

21224
 

Solicitation Number

02-NIDAIRP-2005
 

Response Due

3/4/2005
 

Archive Date

3/19/2005
 

Point of Contact

Lesley Williams, Lead Purchasing Agent, Phone 410-550-1693, Fax 410-550-3146, - Tonya Anderson, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)443-6677, Fax (301)443-7595,
 

E-Mail Address

lw239s@nih.gov, tanders@intra.nida.nih.gov
 

Description

The response date has been extended to March 4, 2005 Questions and Answers Solicitation: 02-NIDAIRP-2005 Title: Customized Leadership Training 1. Anticipated number of training iterations each year ?one 2. Anticipated number of attendees per course?Total = 25-30 3. Will the courses ALL be contained in the Washington DC / Baltimore corridor, or nationally? The course will be held entirely in Rockville or Baltimore, MD 4. Is there a vendor currently providing this type of work for NIDA now? If yes, what is the name of the contractor and are they eligible to bid on this one, too? no 5. How often will class be held? One time 6. What are the class sizes, highest number vs. lowest number? The pilot program will be offered to 7 people. The program roll out will be based on the pilot program and will be offered to an additional 20 people 7. Will delivery equipment be furnished ie. Chalk board etc? Yes unless specialty equipment is required 8. Will there be a need for special equipment for impaired students? Probably not 9. Will you please let me know if this is a new opportunity? If not, will you provide the name of the incumbent? This is a new opportunity 10. Anticipated/estimated # of classes 1 two-day pilot program and 1 two-day roll out program, follow-up one-hour individual phone coaching sessions may be added 11. Anticipated length of contract 1 year 16. One of my questions is about the format. Is there a particular format for submitting this? What is that format? Also, is it acceptable to email the quote? No particular format. All quotes must be submitted via U.S. Postal Service, Hand Delivery or Delivery Service The Solicitation mentions MBTI, but I use a different instrument, DiSC Indra by Inscape Publishing. (In my unbiased opinion it is superior to MBTI.) Is that acceptable, or do you absolutely have to have MBTI? No 17. Is there a separate solicitation document for this procurement? No 18. Is there a separate scope of work? No 19. Can we substitute a more robust instrument for the MBTI and FIRO-B in designing and training the NIDA senior management? If yes, we will submit a proposal. No 20. Can you please tell me what the parameters are for '100% small business set aside'. I need to know if we qualify. Contact the Small Business Administration 21. How many interviews will be allowed for the development of the competency models? Probably 7 or 8 22. Do you use the OPM leadership competency models? No 23. For the three topics that you have requested training (Effective Communications, Conflict Management, Motivation & Coaching for Subordinates), how many hours do you expect each class to be? We are aiming for a course that encompasses all topics and will go for two full days. The distribution of hours for each category of training is dependent upon the specialized needs of the organization (NIDA). It is incumbent upon the contractor to design a training program that meets NIDAs scope of work. 24. Are you currently using assessment instruments on your senior management team? If yes, please advise which ones? No. A survey on customer satisfaction was done a number of years ago. 26. Main differences between old statement of work and the current one? First synopsis/solicitation did not contain statement of work 27. Other question and answers from other contractors/persons All questions submitted by the February 4, 2005 deadline are posted in this notice 28. I assume you are looking for a firm fixed price quote? If not, please let me knowFirm-Fixed Price 29. It appears that the exact number of required classroom training days cannot be determined before the NIDA specific Leadership Competency Model has been developed and agreed to. If that is the case, how would you advice I price the training portion of this proposal without knowing the exact number of training days that will be required? I want to offer a competitively priced proposal. If I am over estimate the time required, my price may not be competitive with another proposal that underestimates the time required. Will you instead accept an 'estimated' number of training days and judge the proposal on a 'per-day' fee basis? 30. ?per-day? fee is acceptable, bearing in mind that a two-day model is preferred. The training shall not exceed two days. This is the maximum time allowed for this training for senior management. 31. My training firm owns a proprietary 360 degree feedback instrument. We offer a 'standard' 70 question 360 feedback instrument which has proved quite useful for the majority of our clients. However, we can also tailor the instrument to specifically model the NIDA Leadership Competency Model, including an entirely new set of instrument questions. Tailoring the 360 to NIDA specific language makes the instrument more expensive. Can I offer two prices for the 360 feedback reports for 27 NIDA managers, one price for the 'standard' instrument and one price for the NIDA specific instrument? 32. Pricing can be developed both ways. However, we want a NIDA specific tool to be used for evaluative purposes. We also want MBTI, FIRO-B, and the 360 degree feedback psychological assessment tools to be used. 33. Has the NIH-NIDA offered a similar customized curriculum for NIDA senior management/executives on Leadership Development within the last 3 years? No 34. If yes, what vendor(s) provided the services? 35. What is the timeline for the deliverables in this solicitation? On or before April 1 , 2005 36. Can you expand on the qualifications and experience that you will require of the selected vendor/consultants for this contract? 37. The contractor must demonstrate extensive competency and skill in providing leadership development training. This can be accomplished by documenting both public and private sector experience in this area as well as consultant academic training in this field of expertise. The primary consultant must hold Ph.D. in organizational psychology. The primary recipients of the NIDA leadership training are physicians and research scientists. The Ph.D. credential makes the trainer more creditable to a scientific audience. As a research organization all of the NIDA staff participating in this training are research scientists. 38. Solicitation Item # 3 states: ? Once the Competency Model has been approved the vendor will design training that will help select group (7) to become effective leaders. ? Are there 7 distinct groups of leaders? If not, please clarify the meaning of 7. 39. 7 is the number of participants in the pilot program. Each person is a senior management official at NIDA. Each person is considered a group leader for his/her area of expertise (i.e. division or branch/section chief ? IRP only). 40. Is it your intention to have the vendor recommend the number and length of trainings? Or is there a set-amount of time for these trainings to be scheduled over the next year? 41. Our intention is to limit this offering to a 1 two-day pilot program (7 participants) followed by a separate two-day roll out program (20 participants). Follow-up one-hour individual phone coaching sessions as needed can be priced per our per participant. 42. Do you expect to use an online 360 degree feedback instrument? Or would you prefer paper based? Online or hard copy is acceptable. 43. Do you want a separate technical and price proposal? No 44. The solicitation states: ??the vendor must furnish as part of their quote all descriptive material necessary for purchasing activity to determine whether the products meet all salient characteristics of this requirement.? Would you please clarify in detail this statement? In addition to the quotation, all vendors must provide detailed information how the company can best meet the Government?s requirement 45. Do you have a specific methodology in mind that you want the vendor to use in developing the competency model? If yes, what is the methodology? NIDA does not have a leadership competency model. One of the goals to be achieved through this procurement is the development of a customized competency model that will be consistent with the current organizational leadership style and values. The competency model will be designed based on current management practices that have been determined to be effective in both the public and private sectors. 46. We would like to use new technology instead of the MBTI and FIRO-B. Can we substitute the Xyting Insight assessment? NO 47. Do you want us to follow all the requirements in the original solicitation plus the ones in the Amendment, or do you want us only to follow those in the Amendment (FAR 12.6 and FAR 13)? FAR 13 only 48. What are the business objectives that NIDA seeks to accomplish through the RFP? to develop a pilot training program in leadership development for 7 senior nida managers. to teach these staff members how to more effective managers and leaders in a diverse knowledge based organization. 49. Does NIDA intend to use the products derived from the RFP for performance management or other Human Capital actions? NO 50. Please clarify information on the initial 7 participants 51. Are the 7 participants pre-selected? Yes 52. What are their rough titles and organizational rank? Division Directors, Branch/Section Chiefs -- IRP 53. The proposal refers to a second wave of 20 leaders- What are their rough titles and organizational rank? same 54. What percentage of NIDA leadership does this group represent? Information is not available 55. How many levels of leadership exist at NIDA? How many levels of leadership will be involved in this project? Corporate, Middle and Line 56. Should our RFP response quote fees for 7 participants? Or for the pilot group of 7, and the 57. group of 20 participants? The quote should be set up for 7 pilot participants and roll out for 20 participants 58. Is NIDA looking for a specific leadership training event, or an ongoing leadership curriculum? Not ongoing ? specific training targeted toward leadership (i.e. managing people). Most of the NIDA senior management are Ph.D.s and/or M.D.s neither of whom have specific training in leading organizations. 59. If NIDA prefers a specific leadership training event, how many days will be allocated? 2 days 60. Is budget information available to share in order to help us determine project scope? No 61. Have competency models of any type (core, functional, leadership) ever been developed orapplied at NIDA? If so, what applications of the model were employed? NO ? competency models should be developed as a result of this procurement. 62. Has NIDA leadership and/or staff every implemented a 360 assessment? If yes, what 360 was used and was that experience(s) successful? NO 63. Does NIDA currently offer any type of leadership development programs for the 27 participants in this RFP? If so, please describe. NO 64. There are many competency modeling methodologies. Does NIDA anticipate seeking acomprehensive customized approach that starts from scratch? Yes Or does NIDA seek to 65. customize or build on an existing competency model, such as the OPM model? If it?s appropriate and fits our organizational style and culture then fine. 66. Will the 360 assessment process and training program be rolled out to all NIDA leadershiplevels? No To all NIDA staff? NO 67. How long has NIDA allocated for the pilot development process? 2 days 68. Does NIDA prefer a seminar approach? Or an Action Learning approach? Either 69. If NIDA prefers a seminar approach, how often is it anticipated that this training be offered? Either training model is fine as long as it does not exceed 2 days 70. Depending on the size of the target population does NIDA have interest in a Train-the-Trainer and Licensing option? NO 71. In the absence of a specific length, did you want to receive recommendations from the contractor in the proposal? NO If so, would it be correct to assume that this would be finalized after the Leadership Competency Model is approved? 72. In Amendment 01, There are Items 1, 3 and 4. Item 2 is missing. Please advise. 2 is not missing. Item 2 is They will share this model with the Project Office and provide a plan as to how they will communicate the model to the NIDA Leadership. 73. You mention that "Contractor must have extensive experience with organizational assessment, 360 degree feedback, psychological assessment and executive coaching." Can you please explain further what you mean, with examples, of organizational assessment and psychological assessment? The primary consultant should have a Ph.D. in organizational psychology or other related field of expertise at this academic level. Would you consider the MBTI a psychological assessment for instance and the FIRO-B an organizational assessment? Yes 74. You refer to "NIDA senior management." Is this group of 27 (7 core, larger group of 20) all members of the senior executive service? They are GS-15 and Title 42 = to SES. If not, what is the grade level range? 75. Can you provide the background of the NIDA senior management team? This information will be gathered through the program development phase of the project. For example, are they leaders who have come up through the ranks within NIDA or within NIH? Are they external hires from the private sector or transfers from other government agencies? All of the above. Are they people with drug counseling backgrounds? Not that I?m aware of. 76. Are vendors allowed/encouraged to partner with other vendors in soliciting bids? If necessary 77. At what levels in NIDA?s organization will the first 7 be? Corporate the second group of 20? Middle Management 78. What other groups does NIDA plan to roll this training out for? none 79. What are the evaluation criteria? Credentials both academic and experiential 80. What kind of technical narrative is required? Discussion of methodology, technique. Including descriptive plan of how the program will be developed. 81. What is the page limit on the technical narrative? Not >than 11 pages for complete response. 82. Will NIDA consider an extension for the due date? No If yes, what will the new due date be? 83. In addition to budget and budget justification, what additional information does NIDA wish to have contractors submit? Resumes 84. Please provide clarification on the following cost items: 85. Fixed labor rates or a total fixed price? Total Fixed Price 86. Should the contractor include the cost of the instruments (MBTI, FIRO-B, 360 ? degree inventories ? be included in the contractor?s budget? Yes 87. What specific hard copy products does NIDA expect the contractor to produce during this project? A training curriculum and competency model. 88. What does NIDA mean when it says it wants the vendor ?to furnish as part of its quote all descriptive material necessary for purchasing activity?? MBTI, FIRO-B, 360 degree inventories. 89. When NIDA refers to ?psychological assessments,? is NIDA referring to MBTI and FIRO-B instruments? YES If no, please provide an example or otherwise clarify the requirement. 90. What kinds of leadership training has NIDA implemented in the past 3-5 years? None 91. What outcomes is NIDA seeking to achieve with this RFP? A consultant to design a customized leadership training model for selected NIDA senior management staff. Mary 92. The above referenced solicitation refers to training utilizing MBTI. Cannew technology be substituted for MBTI? NO 93. Where do I find the statement of work? Amendment to Combined Synopsis/Solicitation 02-NIDAIRP-2005 94. Does the successful vendor have to be awarded under the MOBIS system? No 95. If a training needs assessment exists, will the successful bidder have access to it? No assessment exists 96. What is the employee population of NIDA? 400 97. Regarding the selection of the initial 7 leaders to be included in the training, will the vendor be expected to help select these leaders? NO 98. Are the 360-degree assessments limited to the initial group of 7 participants? no 99. Is this training program part of a larger organizational effort? Only to the extent that if the pilot is successful we will offer the training to an additional 20 managers 100. Would NIDA like to see the overall approach, curriculum content and outline for the training as part of the technical response? YES 101. How many hardcopies of the response should be provided? 3 102. Your RFQ states that the "training should at minimum include feedback from the 360 degree feedback process, MBTI, FIRO-B." Would the vendor be expected to use ALL of these instruments to assess the leaders? yes 103. Will the offeror, upon award, be provided access to position descriptions and other organization documentation to develop NIDA-specific competencies? If needed 104. What type of coaching and/or leadership development have Sr. Leaders at NIDA had in the past? none 105. Will the training need to accommodate shifts other than daytime hours? NO 106. At the first training with 7 select executives, will the MBTI, FIRO, and Executive Coaching be included at that time? If not, when will they be scheduled? yes 107. Will the vendor or in-house staff facilitate training the group of 20? vendor 108. How was it determined that MBTI and FIRO-B are the best solutions for this project? The program is familiar with these tools. The program requested the use of these tools. Was there a pre-conference for this quote that we missed? no 109. Will it be a waste of time If we recommended DiSC and other Profiles for this project? yes 110. Does all one-on-one executive coaching have to be in person? yes 111. Have the 360 degree feedback process, MBTI and FIRO-B tools already been utilized and the contractor is to incorporate the results of these into training or are we to administer these tools? Administer and interpret findings 112. How many coaching sessions of what duration are expected for each participant? one 113. Does the clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions?Commercial Items, apply to this acquisition? No 114. By what time on March 4, 2005 are offers due? 5:00PM local time Can the coaching go on for 1 year? 6 months? 3 months? Is this time period different for 7 and 20? (or should it be?) no should be done right after the training occurs. It shouldn?t take more than several weeks depending upon how the pilot works out.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD, , , , , , , , , ,

Zip Code: 21224

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00753502-W 20050219/050217211725 (fbodaily.com)
 

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