People Readiness RFI.docx

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Technology Acquisition Center (TAC) is seeking information concerning the availability of capable contractors to provide high quality, effective, and efficient professional development and training services for the Office of People Science’s (OPS), People Readiness (PR). This acquisition seeks to provide support to PR including establishing processes and providing support for the following: PR program review and evaluation, development of milestones, resource allocation, and continual monitoring of milestone progress. These tasks also include quality assurance and technical review data and status collection for PR Work Role Skills Based Competency sustainment and development, and additional work role and dashboard development.

The Contractor shall support and maintain existing work role competency’s so that levels, steps, and background/skillsets development will be uniform across VA business units. The Contractor shall provide further refinement and on-going maintenance of the work role competency initiatives required to ensure that the program is responsive to internal or external changes or stimuli, and to allow new stakeholders to receive the same outreach, communications, and benefits regarding the competency models. Additionally, the Contractor shall develop new work role competencies and workforce dashboards.

This is a Request For Information (RFI) only and is limited to ten pages (excluding Performance Work Statement (PWS) if your response includes PWS recommended changes). Do not submit a proposal or quote. There is no obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services described in this RFI. Your response to this RFI will be treated only as information for the Government to consider. You will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs that you incur in responding to this RFI. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated or received for this effort. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this RFI.

If interested, please provide the following:

1. A capabilities statement that addresses the questions below and draft PWS. If additional information is required by VA to determine a contractor’s capability to provide the full requirement and the economic feasibility of the information provided, additional information may be requested at a later date. Technical questions may be submitted as part of your response. A draft version of the requirement is below. Please direct all responses to Kyle Maccia, kyle.maccia@va.gov and Debra Clayton, debra.clayton2@va.gov .

2. Please address the following questions in your RFI response:

a. To meet the requirements set forth in the PWS

b. Please provide the labor categories that you think will be required to perform the work described in the PWS. Also include the labor category descriptions and estimated number of daily, monthly, and/or annual hours for each labor category. Note: Contract type for this effort has yet to be determined.

3. Any Contract Vehicle of which you are a part that can be used to acquire your solution as well as the company business size and status for each vehicle as designated by the NAICS 541519, Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals, and the U.S. Small Business Administration (i.e., Large Business, Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women-Owned Small Business, Hub Zone Small Business, etc.) Provide the contract number and title of the contract vehicle (e.g., MAS, Alliant 2, VETS2)

4. If your company is a small business, please confirm that in the solution provided, your company will be performing at least 50% of the work in accordance with the set aside regulations.