2018_PWS_MQ110_DCM_Team_Leader.docx

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

DCM Spouse/Partner Seminar (MQ110) Team Leader

The Transition Center offers Foreign Service life skills training to foreign affairs agency employees and their eligible family members in the form of various courses and workshops. Approximately three thousand participants attend per year. Classes range in size from 8 to 40 with average class size being 25. Participants come from many U.S. government agencies. Their level of experience in Foreign Service varies from newcomers in the overseas environment to veterans with more than twenty years of service along with their family members and members of household. DCM and Principal Officer Spouse/Partner Seminar (MQ110) is one of the many courses offered by the Transition Center at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for Department of State spouses.

Background DCM / Principal Offer Spouse/Partner Seminar This course provides participants practical information to make informed decisions for personal growth at their next post.

This three day program will contain, but is not limited to, the following topics:

· Expectations and Personal Goals

· Official Residence Expenses

· Official Visitors

· Community Leadership

· Preparing for Departure to Post

· Protocol & Representational Entertaining

The course objectives for the participants are, but not limited, to define personal goals for the upcoming tour, clarify the role the individual is willing to assume as the spouse/partner of the Deputy Chief of Mission or Principal Officer, clarify values as they relate to the use of the participant’s time, identify personal strengths and interests as they apply to the role as a DCM/PO spouse/partner and identify self-management and leadership skills useful to the spouse/partner of the DCM/PO.

Contract Task This course requires the services of a qualified and experienced contractor to present various segments of this class at each of the three (3) sessions for fiscal year 2018.

Contractor will be the team leader and is required to:

· Provide oversight to all other presenters

· Contribute to and distribute classroom materials including the agenda, script, the PowerPoints, handouts and reference information

· Introduce speakers and ensure that the class is on schedule

· Create a welcoming and productive learning environment

· Attend all scheduled classes, remaining in the classroom during all presentations

· Provide information to follow-up questions and concerns

Location and time of work:

All courses are conducted at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Presenters are required to work from 8:30am – 4:30pm. The course is offered Mondays to Wednesdays 9am-4pm.

Period of performance This requirement is for three (3) courses, each three (3) days long offered by the Transition Center at FSI in FY2018. Tentative course dates are:

May 14-16, 2018 June 18-20, 2018 July 30-August 1, 2018 Actual course dates will be verified by the COR.

Performance Metrics

The contractor is expected to have and maintain current knowledge and experience of the Department of State Foreign Service and the overseas roles and responsibilities of Principal Officers, including but not limited to:

· Knowledge and experience of the life of the DCM and spouse/partner;

· Knowledge and experience of the Foreign Service setting and demographic composition of the US missions overseas with employees hired locally as well as from foreign and civil service;

· Understanding of and familiarity with the Dept of State culture;

· Knowledge, experience and understanding of principal officer diplomatic lifestyle to be able to discuss and explain the roles and responsibilities of the most senior diplomats;

· Training and/or public speaking experience in classroom, or seminar setting exemplifying education principles (i.e., incorporating audience participation and experiences); and

· Firsthand experience of hosting and attending principal officer events.

Each presenter is evaluated by participants in the course who receive a standardized electronic survey, created by the Transition Center’s Training Division staff in keeping with FSI training and evaluation standards. Survey data and comments are shared with each presenter two to three weeks after each presentation. Surveys and one reminder message is sent to the entire class via email. At the end of the period of performance, the data collected via surveys over the period of performance is used in making decisions regarding future employment and direction of the course. Presenters are required to:

· Meet submission deadlines for course materials

· Continually update content and provide the most relevant information to the audience.

· Implement adult learning principles by using a variety of learning styles;

· Maintain average overall ratings of 5 out of 6 from participants in courses; and

· Refrain from promoting one’s business services and references to participants becoming clients of presenters’ firms.

Government Provided Property

· Classroom facilities at 4000 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia or other area sites to be specified;

· Audio-visual equipment available at FSI;

· All necessary course materials within the budget and funding availability.

The U.S. Government will not provide

· Sick or annual leave;

· Parking facilities – presenter has to pay parking fee;

· Secretarial support in the Transition Center suite;

· Cost reimbursable expenses beyond the direct labor cost of this purchase order;

· Retirement plan, health benefits, or life insurance benefits;

· Responsibility for the loss of any personal property belonging to the contractor which he/she may have brought to the work place.

This document is a draft PWS intended use as part of a Request for Information (RFI)/ Sources Sought( SS) notice. It has been developed by the Government for market research purposes only. Nothing in this document can be construed to bind the Government in any way. A formal solicitation for this requirement may/ may not follow.