QA #2 - BPM057811 - Public Health Leadership Training.pdf

Section III.A states that all activities are anticipated to occur between August 2026 and January 2026. Please confirm whether the intended completion date is January 2027. The intended date is January 2027.

Does MDH require the bidder organization itself to possess all four categories of experience for the entire 10-year period, or may the bidder also document relevant experience held by proposed key personnel? Specifically, may we include more than five years of public-health governance and leadership experience held by our organizational leader, who served as a Maryland State Board Member and Officer for the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists under MDH?

The bidder must meet the minimum qualifications and provide documentation of meeting minimum qualifications in the Bid.

The minimum qualifications are below:

●Ten years of experience providing training and technical assistance to state governmental public health agency leadership

● Ten years of experience designing and facilitating leadership development and change management training programs for leaders in governmental public health related organizations (must be governmental public health department and/or governmental agency directly related to health)

● Ten years of experience providing organizational development, capacity-building, and technical assistance services to governmental public health agencies (must be governemental public health department and/or governmental agency directly related to health)

● Ten years of experience supporting state and local governmental public health organizations in addressing complex organizational challenges, strategic initiatives, workforce development efforts, and systems-level change.

May we count the full period of its corporate performance for the FDA toward the minimum qualifications when our firm initially performed the work as the prime contractor and subsequently performed the work as a subcontractor?

Yes, this type of experience may be used to meet minimum qualifications to which it applies.

The minimum qualifications are below:

●Ten years of experience providing training and technical assistance to state governmental public health agency leadership

● Ten years of experience designing and facilitating leadership development and change management training programs for leaders in governmental public health related organizations (must be governmental public health department and/or governmental agency directly related to health)

● Ten years of experience providing organizational development, capacity-building, and technical assistance services to governmental public health agencies (must be governemental public health department and/or governmental agency directly related to health)

● Ten years of experience supporting state and local governmental public health organizations in addressing complex organizational challenges, strategic initiatives, workforce development efforts, and systems-level change.

Are federal governmental health agencies acceptable for the first minimum qualification, which specifically references “state governmental public health agency leadership”? Our firm has more than 10 years of experience providing training, instructional design, course development, facilitation, project management, and related support to the FDA and five years of experience providing services to HHS.

No, bidders must meet all of the minimum qualifications.

The minimum qualifications are below:

●Ten years of experience providing training and technical assistance to state governmental public health agency leadership

● Ten years of experience designing and facilitating leadership development and change management training programs for leaders in governmental public health related organizations (must be governmental public health department and/or governmental agency directly related to health)

● Ten years of experience providing organizational development, capacity-building, and technical assistance services to governmental public health agencies (must be governemental public health department and/or governmental agency directly related to health)

● Ten years of experience supporting state and local governmental public health organizations in addressing complex organizational challenges, strategic initiatives, workforce development efforts, and systems-level change.

For each minimum qualification, must the bidder demonstrate 10 continuous chronological years, or may separate qualifying engagements be combined to establish 10 cumulative years? For example, may we combine our experience with FDA, HHS, and health offices served under city and county government contracts? The bidder must meet the minimum qualifications and provide documentation of meeting minimum qualifications in the Bid.

When qualifying engagements overlap, may the overlapping engagements be presented collectively as evidence of continuous organizational capability, or can each engagement be counted separately toward the cumulative experience requirement?

The bidder must meet the minimum qualifications and provide documentation of meeting minimum qualifications in the Bid.

For citywide or countywide leadership and management training contracts covering multiple public offices, may services delivered to health departments, health offices, or governmental health personnel be counted as qualifying governmental public-health experience? Yes What is the anticipated date for the in-person workshop within the August 2026–January 2027 performance period? MDH is flexible on the date of the in-person training and should take into consideration participant preference and availability.

May the minimum qualifications in Section II.C be satisfied through the combined experience of the bidder and named subcontractor or proposed project personnel, or must the prime bidder independently demonstrate all four ten-year experience requirements? The bidder must meet the minimum qualifications and provide documentation of meeting minimum qualifications in the Bid.

Section III states that project activities are anticipated to occur between August 2026 and January 2026. Should the concluding date read January 2027? Yes, the concluding date should read January 2027.