Summary_of_Services.docx

Summary of Services

Background: Each year, senior officers from each Service are selected to spend a year in Corporate America at leading edge businesses, i.e. Corporate Sponsors, to observe, participate in, and learn corporate best practices in such areas as, business processes and organizations, utilization of information technology, long-range planning, innovation, and change management that could be implemented to transform DoD. SDCFP Fellows form a cadre of future Service leaders sensitized to the organizational and operational opportunities made possible by the revolutionary changes in information and other technologies. Each incoming group of new Corporate Fellows requires pre-assignment training to educate them on the fundamentals of contemporary business, and the different trends and factors that drive strategic business planning. This training should also examine transformations occurring in the corporate sector for their potential relevance to defense operations, restructuring and planning. Because the SDCFP is a unique program, where military officers with no prior experience in the civilian corporate environment are assigned to train in corporate assignments, a customized curriculum is required.

Objectives:

a. Enable new Corporate Fellows to grasp the basics of business practices and fully prepare them for their assignments in corporate America.

b. Enable new Corporate Fellows to grasp the applicability of business practices to Department of Defense (DoD) operations.

c. Provide academic and advisory support throughout the year on both the business world and related issues at their corporate assignment

d. Provide academic and advisory support for research papers Corporate Fellows are required to submit.

Scope: The contractor will prepare and facilitate a customized seven-day Graduate Business School Executive Education equivalent seminar. During the remainder of the period of performance, participating graduate business school faculty will be available to answer Corporate Fellows’ questions and provide advice on business world issues, both in general and related to their corporate assignments. Also during the remainder of the period of performance, contractor personnel will attend one or more Corporate Fellows group training sessions at individual Corporate Sponsors to ensure training relevancy.

Place of Performance: Training seminar will be performed during the month of July at an educational institution or training facility within the National Capitol Region (NCR) proposed by the Contractor and approved by the SDCFP Director. The facility must be sized to accommodate no less than 24 Corporate Fellows and the SDCFP Director. The type of training and availability of space will determine which location to host the training seminar. Additional performance of the tasks in this PWS may be accomplished at the Contractor location or at the location of a Corporate Sponsor. This will occur on a case-by-case basis and the training locations may change during the performance of this contract. Except in emergency situations, both the Government and the contractor will make an effort to provide at least seven (7) calendar day notices for training location changes Special Qualifications: Officers are specifically selected for SDCFP training as future Service leaders with proven Flag/General Officer potential. To ensure necessary quality and value, Contractor must have prior experience providing relevant and similar Graduate Business School Executive Education to active duty senior military officers.

Key Personnel: The total number of graduate business school faculty participating in the seminar will be no less than five, drawn from an accredited Graduate Business School faculty. Specific names of these faculty members will be provided to the Contracting Officer Representative, along with the proposed training agenda. The Key Positions listed below are considered essential to the work being performed under this contract. Before removing, replacing, or diverting any of the listed or specified personnel or facilities, the Contractor shall (1) notify the Contracting Officer reasonably in advance and (2) submit justification (including proposed substitutions) in sufficient detail to permit evaluation of the impact on this contract. The Contractor shall make no diversion without the Contracting Officer's written consent; provided that the Contracting Officer may ratify in writing the proposed change, and that ratification shall constitute the Contracting Officer's consent required by this document.

a. Professor

b. Assistant Professor

c. Professor Emeritus

d. Senior Researcher/Case Writer

Contractor Travel: Contractor personnel will attend no less than one Corporate Fellows group training session at an individual Corporate Sponsor. This training may be in the NCR, one of the 48 States in the Continental United States (CONUS), or in Europe. Which and how many training sessions are attended will be at the Contractor’s discretion.

Specific Tasks Include:

1. Basic Services: The contractor shall provide services for Graduate Business School level education and post-training support.

2. Performance Requirements: the following specifies the Performance Objectives and Performance Elements for the contract.

3. Analytical Inputs: the contractor shall successfully conduct a survey of former and current Corporate Fellows to identify key skills and concepts that would be relevant and helpful to new Fellows, to better prepare them for their corporate assignments and to assist them in becoming fully engaged at entry and comfortable in a full variety of business settings needed to execute the requirements specified herein. The contractor shall present findings to SDCFP Director and shall seek to ensure customer satisfaction and professional and ethical behavior of all contractor personnel.

4. Curriculum Design: the contractor shall design a customized curriculum that addresses the specific learning needs of the new Corporate Fellows and is approved by the COR. The curriculum should feature intensive learning modules, case studies and simulations, and technical notes to supplement and enhance the key concepts. Many of the cases and technical notes should be written specifically for the recipient Fellows. Learning modules must include, but not be limited to, the core areas of marketing, finance, strategy, organizational effectiveness, and internal/external communication. They should offer the tools and perspectives needed by the new Corporate Fellows to understand the key forces that are of concern to various functional areas of business, increase their agility in moving comfortably and effectively into their new situations and create additional value for their companies. In addition, each Corporate Fellow will receive instruction on, and conduct a thorough industry analysis of his or her corporate assignment, including an analysis of industry competitors.

5. Graduate Business School Executive Education Seminar Training: the contractor will facilitate and conduct a seven-day Graduate Business School Executive Education level seminar with four or more experienced Graduate Business School professors and one senior research assistant each day, as defined in para 1.6.11. Total number of Graduate Business School faculty participating in the seminar will be no less than five, drawn from an accredited Graduate Business School faculty. The curriculum will be customized for the new Corporate Fellows and their specific corporate assignments. Course content will be designed to address the significant issues the Fellows will face on their corporate assignments. The contractor will provide seminar classrooms, access to library research facilities, computers, case studies, reading materials, presentation materials, and two meals per day.

6. Executive Coaching: the contractor shall provide assistance to the Corporate Fellows during their transition and throughout their corporate assignments is essential for them to become fully engaged at entry, and comfortable in the business setting. The educational effectiveness of the program must not be limited to the classroom days that the participants share with the instructors. Instructors must be available to the Corporate Fellows throughout the entire period of performance should they have questions, or require additional information and materials.