RFI-CIGIE Employee Engagement and Innovation Vendor Days.pdf

Request for Information: CIGIE-25-R-001

CIGIE Vendor Day – Employee Engagement, Change Management, Transformational, Strategic, and Innovative Thinking and/or Behavioral Training Services Vendors CIGIE Employee Engagement and Innovation Committee, Business Supplier Diversity Working Group

Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency CIGIE Employee Engagement and Innovation Committee

RFI CONTRACTING OFFICER: RFI RELEASED: NOVEMBER 18, 2025

ROBERT JOHN, III RFI CLOSED: JANUARY 7, 2025

OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.VENDOR.DAY@SSA.GOV VIRTUAL VENDOR DAYS: 2/27/25 & 3/6/25

mailto:OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.Vendor.Day@ssa.gov

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Employee Engagement, Change Management, Transformational, Strategic, and Innovative Thinking and/or Behavioral Training Services Vendors

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REQUEST FOR INFORMATION # CIGIE-25-R-001: CIGIE Vendor Day – Employee Engagement, Change Management, Transformational, Strategic, and Innovative Thinking and/or Behavioral Training Services Vendors

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes – it does not constitute a Request for Quotes (RFQ) or Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue a solicitation or an award in the future. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), Employee Engagement and Innovation Committee (EEIC) is seeking available sources that are interested in and capable of, providing the requirements described in the RFI. This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes (market research) and does not constitute a solicitation or a promise of a solicitation issuance in the future. This RFI does not commit the Government, CIGIE, the CIGIE EEIC or individual Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) to contract for any services or to accept any unsolicited quotes or proposals. All costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party’s expense and will not be reimbursed by CIGIE or any other members of the CIGIE community. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future, potential RFQ or RFP.

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1.0 Overview of the Document

What is an RFI?

A Request for Information (RFI) is a market research tool that is used in order to obtain information such as the capabilities available within an industry, gauge the industry’s interest in participating in potential future procurements, and other information for planning purposes.

RFIs are not the same as a request for a formal quote or proposal for a specific procurement.

Why are you using an RFI?

It is a key part of the planning stage inside of the federal government acquisition process.

It is to solicit input from industry on the Government’s potential requirements and strategy and to gauge the industry’s capabilities and interest on the subject.

How should I respond?

Follow the format that was identified in the specific RFI. Carefully read and include all of the items requested to ensure a complete submission.

Make sure you clearly identify your business’ size and level of interest on the subject.

Consider detailing relative experiences you and your team may have as it relates to the topic.

Some of the key areas review include:

Description of the Requirement – In Section 2.0 Overview of Employee Engagement, Change Management, Transformational, Strategic, and Innovative Thinking and/or Behavioral Training Services Vendors

What to Include in Your Response – In Section 4.0 Submission Contents

Who is the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE)?

CIGIE is an independent federal entity established within the executive branch under the authority of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. CIGIE’s membership includes more than 70 statutorily created OIGs with the mission to address the integrity, economy, and effectiveness challenges that transcend individual government agencies and to increase professionalism among federal Office of Inspector General (OIG) staff.

https://www.ignet.gov/

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In this connection, the CIGIE EEIC looks to affirm, advance, and augment CIGIE’s commitment to creating and supporting a workplace that is focused on belonging, equity, innovation, and accessibility, throughout the IG community. Through this mission, the CIGIE EEIC helps ensure that the IG community’s work is comprehensive, its workforce is engaged, highly skilled, and well-trained, and its work is accessible to the diverse public it serves. The CIGIE EEIC also provides a forum for OIGs to share efforts with the goals of driving organizational success and innovation through an engaged and connected workforce.

1.1 Overview of the RFI

The CIGIE EEIC is releasing this RFI to obtain responses from all interested parties, including from small and disadvantaged vendors in particular, on specific employee engagement, change management, transformational, strategic, and innovative thinking and/or behavioral training services that they are capable of providing to federal OIGs.

Specifically, this RFI is to assist the CIGIE EEIC in obtaining information on employee engagement, change management, transformational, strategic, and innovative thinking and/or behavioral training services for:

1- assisting OIGs and OIG senior leadership in managing their offices and conducting their oversight missions; and

2- raising awareness regarding the importance of employee engagement, change management, transformational, strategic, and innovative thinking and/or behavior among OIG employees to increase engagement and overall productivity.

The CIGIE EEIC plans to hold two Vendor Day events on February 27, 2025, and March 6, 2025, to cover this scope of potential employee engagement, change management, transformational, strategic, and innovative thinking and/or behavioral training services. Please do not respond to this RFI with products or services concerning other topic areas. Any items that are submitted outside of the scope will be disregarded and will not be considered without any further communications.

All vendors are encouraged to respond to this RFI if they meet the requirements. Additionally, vendors that meet the requirements of small, disadvantaged businesses, as defined by the Small Business Administration or which have other small business socioeconomic statuses including https://www.ignet.gov/content/employee-engagement-and-innovation-committee-0

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HUBZone, woman owned, and/or service-disabled veteran owned businesses, are asked to identify those requirements in their response.

2.0 Overview of Employee Engagement, Change Management, Transformational, Strategic, and Innovative Thinking and/or Behavioral Training Services Requirements

The purpose of this RFI is to obtain responses and industry information to inform the CIGIE EEIC on the status of capabilities and tools in the Employee Engagement and Innovation areas to assist OIG organizations in increasing awareness and knowledge of these principles.

Relevant topics and areas include, but are not limited to, the following –

1. Organizing employee engagement activities,

2. Team building,

3. Teaching teams how to think differently,

4. Teaching teams how to think innovatively,

5. Emotional intelligence,

6. Working with difficult people,

7. Coping with difficult people,

8. Teaching how to come up with diverse ideas and perspectives,

9. Teaching how to explore different methods,

10. Teaching teams how to think transformationally, strategically, and critically,

11. Adapting to change management,

12. Creating change management.

3.0 Responses

Responses to this RFI will assist OIGs in identifying quality solutions to allow them to better meet their oversight missions and organizational effectiveness. At a minimum, responses to this RFI must include a description of the services available (which can be titled their ‘Capability Statement’). The description should include specifics regarding how the services can be used by OIGs and OIG management to accomplish the goals of raising awareness and/or improving their operations as it relates to Employee Engagement and Innovation in the federal workforce.

Responses to this RFI should also include relative experience by giving examples of how the services were previously used or are being used to support government agencies including oversight agencies.

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To reiterate, responses to this RFI are open to all vendors who meet the RFI requirements. Vendors should clearly identify if they meet the criteria of small-disadvantaged businesses as defined by the Small Business Administration or are vendors that meet other small business socioeconomic statuses including HUBZone, women-owned, service-disabled veteran owned businesses.

The CIGIE Employee Engagement and Innovation Committee will compile all the responses into a directory or repository that will be available to all CIGIE OIG members for research and reference when individual requirements arise. This resource will be strictly for internal use by CIGIE and its member OIGs. By submitting a response to this RFI, you are consenting to be included in the referenced directory or repository.

Respondents may be chosen to provide a brief presentation at one of the two CIGIE Employee Engagement and Innovation Vendor Days if their submission has been identified as meeting all requirements of the RFI. All respondents who provide relevant responses are not guaranteed a presentation opportunity at either Vendor Day but are guaranteed to be included in the referenced directory. The exact number of presentation slots (and associated time allotted for each presentation) will be determined based on the number of compliant responses received in response to this RFI.

4.0 Submission Contents

In order to streamline responses and provide the most equitable consideration for inclusion in the Vendor Day presentations and the vendor reference directory, responses are required to be in the following format and include the follow items.

• The submission shall be provided in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format.

• Submissions shall be Section 508 compliant.

• The responses will be considered AS IS – including any grammatical or spelling issues.

The Government will not make any edits to correct items after they have been submitted.

• The RFI response should contain two sections – Business Information and Capability

Statement.

• If your company includes a cover page in addition to the Business Information and

Capability Statement, it DOES NOT count towards the stated page limits.

• Graphics and charts are not required - if they are provided in the respondent’s submission, they will be counted towards the page limit.

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The Business Information must not exceed one page and should include the following:

- Vendor name, address, one point of contact with phone number and e-mail address

- Business type – identify subcategory SDB, HUBZone, Woman owned, service-disabled veteran owned

- CAGE, UEI, NAICS codes if entity has such numbers assigned

- Any effective, current federal governmentwide contracts, the period of performance, and the sponsoring agency

The Capability Statement must not exceed five pages and should include the following:

Capabilities Overview and Past Performance - Please address training credentials and accreditations specifically related to the following subjects: Employee Engagement, Change Management, Transformational, Strategic, and Innovative Thinking and/or Behavioral Training Services. Relevant only to these specific subjects, please address;

training techniques utilized (small groups or large groups); whether training is offered virtually or in person; whether you have experience in assessment tools and if so, specify which ones; and whether you have experience with training federal or state government organizations or law enforcement professionals. Please also include whether your company has experience or credentials in developing and delivering training content.

5. Submission Requirements

Responses to this RFI must be submitted to OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.Vendor.Day@ssa.govby NLT 5pm EST January 7, 2025. All such submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

There is no requirement of follow-up correspondence from the Government in response to this

RFI.

The CIGIE EEIC will compile all the responses into a single PDF document that will become a reference directory for CIGIE and CIGIE member research. This material will be strictly for internal use by CIGIE and its member organizations only and will not be published on a public facing website. The document will be used for market research purposes.

By submitting an RFI response, you are consenting to be included in the reference directory.

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Respondents who provide a response to this RFI are not guaranteed a presentation slot at the referenced CIGIE Vendor Days.

However, all respondents who provide a response to this RFI that meet the listed requirements are guaranteed to be included in the vendor reference directory that will be provided to the various CIGIE member organizations.

6. Vendor Days

Respondents meeting the requirements of this RFI may be contacted and invited to provide a brief presentation at one of the two Vendor Day events. These events will be held virtually on February 27, 2025, and March 6, 2025.

The events will be held virtually utilizing a virtual audio and video conferencing platform. All responses submitted to the RFI are not guaranteed a presentation spot. The number of presentations will be limited due to schedule limitations and will be selected by the government based on submission time and RFI response. Vendors who are selected will be notified by no later than January 24, 2025, by a CIGIE EEIC designee.

Selected respondents will present their capabilities and services related to the requirements of this RFI. Presentations will be limited to PowerPoints. Additional details about the Vendor Days will be made available in the future. Presentations will be due by 5 PM EST on February 14, 2025, for those vendors presenting in February and on February 21, 2025, for those vendors presenting in March. If a vendor does not meet the deadlines, they will forfeit their place and may be removed from the event lineup.

The PowerPoints that are selected for the presentation will be made available to CIGIE and its member OIGs in PDF format. The PDF will be made available in the same format and method as the Vendor Reference Directory.

Members of industry in addition to Government personnel will be present at the Vendor Day event and will be able to see presentations. Members of industry WILL NOT be given access to the Vendor Reference Directory and WILL NOT be able to see written RFI submissions.

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If a member of the industry is interested in securing an audience link to the events, please contact the OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.Vendor.Day@ssa.govby 5 PM EST on February 21, 2025.

7. Vendor Reference Directory

The CIGIE EEIC appreciates the effort that companies put into RFI responses. There is an anticipation of a high-volume of responses.

The CIGIE EEIC will create a single reference directory of ALL responses that meet the RFI requirements. This directory will be considered a government market research reference tool that will be available to CIGIE and its member OIGs.

The vendor reference directory will not be made available to the public.

8. Terms and Conditions, Disclaimers, and Notices

The following clauses and cautions are incorporated into this RFI –

• FAR 52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997) The Government does not intend to award a contract based on this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Although "proposal" and "offeror" are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal.

This solicitation is issued for the purpose of gathering information on employee engagement, change management, transformational, strategic, and innovating thinking and/or behavioral training services to be used by the OIG community.

• By submitting an RFI response, you are consenting to be included in the Vendor Reference Directory. This directory will be made available to all CIGIE member organizations. The directory will NOT be published on a public facing website.

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• All respondents who provide a response to the RFI that meet the RFI requirements are guaranteed to be included in the vendor reference directory that will be available to CIGIE and its member OIGs.

• CIGIE EEIC representatives may or may not choose to meet with potential respondents.

Such discussions would only be intended to get further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements.

• CIGIE EEIC representatives may or may not contact respondents for Vendor Day presentation slots.

• All respondents who provide a response to the required specifications identified in the RFI are NOT guaranteed a presentation slot at either of the two referenced CIGIE Vendor Days.

• An OIG office may use the Vendor Reference Directory for market research in future procurement planning. Federal employees are subject to the non-disclosure requirements of a criminal statute, the Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1905. The contents of a submission will not be made available to the general public. The Federal Government may seek the advice of qualified non-Federal personnel in limited circumstance however they will be subject to the non-disclosure requirements identified above. The Federal Government also may use non-Federal personnel to conduct routine, nondiscretionary administrative activities as contractor support. The respondents, by submitting their response, consent to CIGIE EEIC providing their response to non-Federal parties in the identified context. Non-Federal parties given access to responses will be subject to an appropriate obligation of confidentiality prior to being given the access.

• Proprietary, Confidential, or otherwise Sensitive Information:

Because information received in response to this RFI may be used to structure future programs and funding opportunity announcements or otherwise be made available to the public, respondents are strongly advised to NOT include any information in their responses that might be considered business sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise confidential. The Federal Government does not guarantee confidentiality of the information received.

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Although the CIGIE EEIC asks that no confidential business information be submitted, it is CIGIE EEIC practice to protect the provided information and make it available on a need-to-know basis only to CIGIE and CIGIE member organization personnel and contractors who will be using this information on behalf of such entities. However, CIGIE EEIC will have no liability whatsoever for disclosure of such information that is provided.

If a respondent chooses to disregard the RFI’s advisory to NOT submit business sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information, they should make effort to make their content clearly and conspicuously marked.

Responses containing confidential, proprietary, or privileged information must be conspicuously marked as described below. Failure to comply with these marking requirements may result in the disclosure of the unmarked information under the Freedom of Information Act or otherwise.

The Federal Government is not liable for the disclosure or use of unmarked information and may use or disclose such information for any purpose.

• If your response contains confidential, proprietary, or privileged information, you must include a cover sheet with your response marked as follows identifying the specific pages containing the confidential, proprietary, or privileged information:

Notice of Restriction on Disclosure and Use of Data:

“Pages [list applicable pages by number] of this response may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information that is exempt from public disclosure. Such information may be used or disclosed only for the purposes described in this RFI [list the RFI response name]. The Federal Government may use or disclose any information that is not appropriately marked or otherwise restricted, regardless of source.”

In addition, (1) the header and footer of every page that contains confidential, proprietary, or privileged information must be marked as follows: “Contains Confidential, Proprietary or Privileged Information Exempt from Public Disclosure” and (2) every line and paragraph containing proprietary, privileged or trade secret information must be clearly marked with double brackets or highlighting.

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8.0 Questions

Questions regarding this RFI shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.Vendor.Day@ssa.gov by NLT 5pm EST January 2, 2025. We will only answer emailed questions with the subject “CIGIE EEIC – CIGIE Vendor Days.” We will not accept questions submitted verbally or by phone. Questions should not contain proprietary or sensitive information.

If an individual in the OIG community or industry is interested in participating as an audience member, they must contact OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.Vendor.Day@ssa.gov for registration information.

9.0 Summary

This is an RFI for market research purposes only. The purpose is to identify sources that can provide employee engagement, change management, transformational, strategic, and innovative thinking and/or behavioral training services to CIGIE and its member OIGs. Neither CIGIE or individual OIGs have made a commitment to procure any of the services discussed in this RFI.

This RFI cannot be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur costs for which reimbursement is sought. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

Responses are at the expense of the vendor.

CIGIE Vendor Days will be held virtually on February 27, 2025, and March 6, 2025. If an individual in the OIG community is interested in participating as an audience member, they must OIG.CIGIE.EEIC.Vendor.Day@ssa.gov for registration information.

Summary of Key Dates Questions on RFI Due 1/2/2025 (5pm EST) RFI Response Due Date 1/7/2025 (5pm EST) Vendor Day Selections 1/24/2025 Vendor Day 1 Presentations Due (if selected) 2/14/2025 Vendor Day 2 Presentations Due (if selected) 2/21/2025 Virtual Vendor Day 1 2/27/2025 Virtual Vendor Day 2 3/6/2025