DCAA Handshake Follow-on PD.docx

DEFENSE CONTRACT AUDIT AGENCY

HANDSHAKE FOLLOW-ON

PURCHASE DESCRIPTION

I. INTRODUCTION

A. BACKGROUND

The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) must support the promotion and development of collaborative recruitment strategies to attract, recruit, and hire qualified, diverse candidates with mission critical skills to meet the agency’s critical workforce needs now and in the future. Recruitment of auditors has been challenging in an environment where demand exceeds supply coupled with external private industry and government competitors.

B. OBJECTIVE

DCAA requires an internet-accessible university platform capability that bridges the recruiting gap for students and employers by allowing communication between students and recruiter in a “one stop shop” environment. DCAA’s outreach and recruitment team must be able to post and promote recruitment events, company information, and job announcements in one place, while students must be able to view announcements and interact with DCAA recruiters in one place. The university platform website must also recommend jobs and events to students based on student profiles and academic transcripts.

II. REQUIREMENTS

Unless otherwise specified, all references to days are considered business days.

The contractor must provide a talent engagement suite (TES) that enables the ability to proactively search and message a large network of students and young alumni. The suite must provide the ability to create robust searches based on academics, job type, representation, and performance criteria; message the potential candidates at scale; and invite potential candidates to apply for jobs and/or attend fairs and events. The suite must enable the ability to drive a diverse, data-driven recruitment process and directly influence highly qualified candidates to work for DCAA.

As part of the TES, the contractor must provide premium recruiter licenses to send large scale outreach campaigns to attract potential candidates to jobs, on-campus events, and virtual connections with recruiters.

The contractor must provide a virtual event management module to enable the planning, execution, and analysis of comprehensive virtual event strategies for all early talent levels and at historically black colleges/universities (HBCUs) and other minority serving institutes to drive awareness of DCAA opportunities.

The contractor must provide federal expert assist, a customized program management solution to assist the DCAA outreach and recruitment team to design and execute an effective recruitment strategy and advising on best practices and strategies to maximizing usage and results.

DCAA requires the following products:

BASE YEAR

Recruiter Sourcer Licenses: 12 Months

OPTION YEAR ONE

Recruiter Sourcer Licenses: 12 Months

OPTION YEAR TWO

Recruiter Sourcer Licenses: 12 Months

OPTION YEAR THREE

Recruiter Sourcer Licenses: 12 Months

OPTION YEAR FOUR

Recruiter Sourcer Licenses: 12 Months

A. SUPPORT SERVICES

The contractor must provide:

· Dedicated account advisor support

· User management (establish roles and permissions)

· Account maintenance (including branding and applicant tracking system)

· Quarterly business reviews tracking results and value

· Monthly, quarterly, and annual analytic reports with key metrics and results

· Campaign response and student engagement tracking by source

B. PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS

The contractor must continuously provide the ability to:

· Post jobs across the entire platform’s network of schools (1,500+ colleges)

· Set applicant preferences (recruiting criteria)

· View, manage, and message applicants

· Post multi-division jobs

· Perform premium search filters

· Send proactive student messaging

· Utilize auto-text variable (First Name, School, Major)

· See all prior engagement with a student

· Post and manage events

· Conduct virtual event promotion, registration, and measurement

· Conduct campus event promotion, registration and follow-up

· Conduct event check in

· Reach students via school and organizational affiliations

· Conduct employer page

· Conduct unlimited video content

· Conduct viewer-customized content including employee spotlight

C. OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

The solution must provide:

· Virus and malware protection

· Usage reporting to DCAA

· 24x7x365 helpdesk

The solution must be structured such that agency-appointed representatives can use the tool within their respective agency with separate branding, testing, questions, and configuration based on each agency’s specific requirements.

The solution must include capability to ensure that each user/agency only has access to its own applicant records. For example, DFAS and DLA cannot have access to DCAA’s contact information and records.

D. TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

The contractor must provide refresher instruction upon request.

The contractor must complete and document refresher training, which includes acceptable rules of behavior and the consequences when the rules are not followed.

E. PAYMENTS FOR UNAUTHORIZED WORK

No payments will be made for any unauthorized supplies or services or for any unauthorized changes to the work specified herein. This includes any services performed by the contractor of their own volition or at the request of an individual other than a duly appointed KO. Only a duly appointed KO is authorized to change the specifications, terms, and conditions under this effort.

F. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The period of performance will be for one base year with four option years estimated as follows:

Base year: August 1, 2024 – July 31, 2025 Option year one: August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2026 Option year two: August 1, 2026 – July 31, 2027 Option year three: August 1, 2027 – July 31, 2028 Option year four: August 1, 2028 – July 31, 2029