NCI_Radical_Collaboration_Training_SOW_(06-01-15).pdf

NCI Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training

(06-01-2015)

1.0 Delivery Order

This Statement of Work (SOW) is for severable professional services to provide customized Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research, informatics, and information technology (IT) staff and managers. Staff to receive training will consist of National Cancer Institute (NCI), other NIH Institute and Center (IC), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Division and Office employees and contractors.

2.0 Purpose

The NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) has undergone several changes in leadership in the past year and as a result has a renewed focus on excellent service as its number one priority. CBIIT leadership has identified Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking as embodying the organizational and culture changes it wishes to develop in the organization.

The purpose of the program is to facilitate the creation of a financially and emotionally strong organizational culture providing customer focused high-performance informatics and information technology services to support the NCI and other NIH Offices, Divisions, and Centers including the NIH Office of the Director. This training will help all staff put forth their best efforts to achieve a shared vision and purpose; are rewarded with meaningful work; and are led through compassionate management, dignity, and respect. Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training has been previously presented to other NCI Divisions and its use within CBIIT will ensure continuity and conformance with other NCI organizations.

3.0 Background

CBIIT provides information technology infrastructure, computing, and biomedical informatics support and integration capabilities to the cancer research community and the NCI. CBIIT also serves as a focal point for cancer research informatics planning worldwide. The Center works with research organizations, biomedical informatics groups and standards bodies to facilitate the identification and adoption of information exchange standards, thus connecting research information sources wherever they may reside. Additionally, CBIIT acquires, manages and operates the collection of hardware, hardware maintenance contracts, software, network, labor and structures required for conducting the administrative and scientific activities of the NCI.

Key components to help transform CBIIT into a customer-focused, service organization that supports the CBIIT mission include mission and functional realignments, a formal, professionally led organizational change management program, and emphasis on shared responsibilities and authorities to ensure a cross-functional, high-performance, team approach to providing customer based services and solutions to the NCI and the cancer research community.

In addition CBIIT and NCI informatics staff actively participate in collaborative efforts with other NCI Divisions, Offices, and Centers (DOCs), NIH ICs, and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Divisions and Offices to develop automated tools, databases, and systems to support research projects, objectives, and missions. An immediate need exists to provide this same Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training to project staff from NIH Office of the Associate Director of Data Science, the NCI, and multiple other NIH ICs involved NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge program.

4.0 Objectives

The objectives of this solicitation are to acquire healthcare, scientific, and research oriented Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training to assist NIH and NCI staff to instill significant personal and culture change in a fast-moving, rapidly changing research environment. Staff must be able to cope with continuous, and in some cases, stressful change and competition for resources. Upon the completion of the training NIH staff shall have the knowledge and ability to:

Develop awareness of and personal methods to control defensiveness;

Develop awareness of and methods to ensure collaboration in relationships and the workplace;

Develop awareness of and methods to ensure effective listening and commitment to open, honest, and truthful information exchange;

Develop awareness of and methods to ensure acceptance of accountability and responsibility;

Develop awareness of and methods to ensure awareness of personal performance and of coworkers and stakeholders including intentions, concerns, and motivation;

Develop awareness of and methods to ensure positive, cooperative, and collaborative problem solving and issue resolution; and

Develop awareness of and methods to ensure achievement and continuation of a collaborative organization and work environment.

5.0 Scope

The Contractor shall provide Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training workshops customized to include specific components, case studies, and exercises targeted to the scientific and research informatics and information technology environments for NIH staff and managers.

6.0 Training Requirement

CBIIT has an immediate requirement for Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training as a key component of ongoing reorganization, organizational and culture changes, and implementation of a customer focused services delivery model. Additionally, NIH staff receiving this training will use the knowledge, skills, and tools presented in planned, high-priority, programs and projects involving multiple NCI DOCs, NIH ICs, and the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science.

Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking is a methodology for building high-trust relationships at work. It focuses on both the technical and the emotional competencies that are essential for success in the workplace. These skills include the cultivation of a cooperative mindset enabling mutually supportive, empathetic relationships. It incorporates the latest thinking from neuroscience, evolutionary neurobiology, positive psychology and interpersonal neurobiology to create transformational learning opportunities

6.1 Initial Requirement

A series of two Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training workshops will be conducted to train students with the most immediate programmatic need. Each workshop shall train 24 students.

Training will be conducted in government furnished locations provided with normal conference room equipment. Locations for workshop presentation shall be on the NIH Campus or in nearby Bethesda, Maryland areas.

Workshop training shall be customized and include training materials, case studies, exercises, and breakout sessions customized for the scientific, informatics, and research communities and applicable to the NIH and NCI environment.

Each workshop shall consist of student instruction, associated training and student materials, and instructor travel and per diem. Each of the two workshops shall be provided to 24 students with a total of 48 students receiving training when both are completed.

An end of workshop report outlining an impression on course acceptance, overall student success in achieving learning objectives, lessons learned, issues encountered, and suggestions for improvement is highly desirable.

6.2 Optional Requirement

Assuming that the initial training is proven to be successful and beneficial to planned programs and projects, up to three (3) additional optional workshops shall be presented.

Requirements for these optional workshops shall be the same as described in Section 6.1 above unless course content and materials are updated after coordination and agreement with the NCI Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), to improve materials, incorporate lessons learned, and/or increase student success in meeting learning objectives.

7.0 Deliverables/Delivery Schedule

The Contractor shall deliver two Radical Collaboration and Green Zone Thinking Training workshops, each for 24 students including classroom and including student materials, and instructor travel and per diem, on a schedule to be mutually agreed upon by the government and the Contractor. The first two, customized workshops shall be presented in NIH facilities in the Bethesda/Rockville, MD area in mid September 2015.

8.0 Delivery Order Type

This Delivery Order is Requirements type reference Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

16.503.

9.0 Place of Performance

The tasks described herein shall be performed at both NIH Government provided facilities on the NIH Campus or nearby Bethesda, Maryland area.

10.0 Period of Performance

The period of performance of this Delivery Order shall be for a 12-month Base Period of (date of award) September 30, 2015 through September 29, 2016, with one (1) successive 12-month Option Periods.