SOW_Non_Traditional_career_curricula.pdf

FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS (BOP)

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) FOR

Non-traditional Career Training for Women

1.0 Introduction and Purpose

1.1 Introduction

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ). It consists of 122 institutions throughout the United States, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico, 6 regional offices, a Central Office (headquarters), 2 staff training centers, and 26 Residential Reentry Management offices.

The BOP is responsible for the custody and care of approximately 153,000 adult Federal offenders. Approximately 84 percent of these inmates are confined in BOP-operated facilities, while the balance is confined in secure privately managed or community-based facilities and local jails.

The Reentry Services Division (RSD) is the BOP’s “face of reentry” and provides the following services: National Reentry Affairs, Chaplaincy Services, Education Services, Women and Special Populations, Psychology Services, and Residential Reentry Management. The Women and Special Populations Branch (WASPB) identifies, tracks, and provides services to the transgender population, consistent with maintaining security and good order in the Bureau of Prisons. WASPB further ensures the provision of evidence-based services to meet the needs of federally incarcerated transgender persons and other vulnerable populations.

Female inmates are often faced with unique issues while incarcerated. Female pathways to crime indicate that gender matters. Women in prison have needs that are quite different from men’s, resulting in part from women’s disproportionate victimization from sexual or physical abuse and in part from their responsibility as primary caregivers for children. Women offenders are also more likely than men to have become addicted to drugs, to have mental illnesses, and to have been unemployed before incarceration. All of these factors, in addition to the fact that females are often the primary caretakers of young children at the time of their arrest, pose additional challenges in reentry for females. The BOP shall ensure female inmates have access to program and services that meet their needs as appropriate, and facilitate the successful reintegration of inmates into their communities upon release.

1.2 Purpose

The BOP recognizes that female offenders have lower rates of vocational experience than men, but are often offered programs are in female-dominated, gender traditional fields such as culinary programs, word processing, and customer service representatives. A different approach to vocational information presentation and vocational training emphasis for female offender reentry efforts is therefore sought.

The First Step Act of 2018 (FSA), signed into law in December 2018 tasked the BOP to further develop and implement evidence-based and recidivism reduction programs, productive activities, and procedures designed to ensure comprehensive reentry preparation beginning on day one of incarceration. The BOP intends to implement a Non-Traditional Career Training for Women prison project providing educational information, job readiness, and pathways to career credentialing. The program shall incorporate a holistic and strength based model incorporated into all facets of the project components.

The following BOP Program Statement, which is available electronically at http://www.bop.gov is applicable to this contact.

Program Statement 5200.02, CN-1 Female Offender Manual

The goal of this solicitation is to develop a Life Skills and Non-Traditional Career Exploration and Education Training program for women in prison. The program shall consist of a gender responsive, trauma informed, holistic, and strength based curricula. The curricula and associated materials shall be deliverable to the BOP on or before September 30, 2022.

Participants in the Non-Traditional Career Exploration and Education Training program shall also be enrolled in a vocational training program as well, with the two supporting each other.

2.0 Scope of Work

The scope of work for this contract shall include a full participant curricula and all associated workbooks or journals, handouts, companion videos, and facilitator’s guides for a Life Skills and Non-Traditional Career Training for Women program.

The curricula shall consist of 24 topics areas. These are:

1. Self-management

2. Self-acceptance and confidence

3. Personal resilience

4. Empathy as a life skill

5. Personal responsibility https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/S.%203649%20-%20First%20Step%20Act%20Section-by-Section.pdf http://www.bop.gov/

6. Cultural understandings

7. Basic Kitchen organization and management

8. Basic Home and car maintenance

9. Basic family organization and management skills

10. Critical thinking

11. Problem solving

12. Goal setting

13. Attitudes for living

14. Life enthusiasm

15. Communication skills

16. Workplace professionalism

17. Conflict management

18. Time Management in the workplace

19. Professional Networking

20. Women in today’s workplace

21. Workplace technology

22. Responsible use of the digital world

23. Non-traditional careers and certifications

24. My career interests

These 24 topic areas shall be arranged into eight general life and career themes. The contractor shall work with the BOP Contract Officer Representative (COR) and Project Manager to title each of the eight themes. Each of the eight themes shall be shall be stand-alone products, not requiring a pre-requisite for participation, yet complimentary in content to the other parts of the Life Skills and Non-Traditional Career Training for Women program.

Each topic area shall have an approximate 132 seconds of Life Takes Skills accompanying shorts on DVD. The Life Takes Skills shorts shall each be approximately 33 seconds and present factual information about women in the workplace. Two shorts in each topic area shall present information in non-traditional career areas for women.

All inmate workbooks, journals, handouts, and DVDs shall be available in English and Spanish.

Each topic area should be designed for a staff facilitator to meet weekly for approximately 90 minutes and have 24 approximate content pages.

The facilitator shall be a BOP staff member with at least 24 hours of college level social science education and the program shall be designed with an expectation of this level of education.

The contractor shall provide the BOP with a PDF and physical program consisting of no less than:

• Participant workbooks or journals

• Facilitator Guides

• Interactive Videos

• Handouts

• Activities

The contractor shall provide directly to each identified BOP facility the physical products, consisting of no less than:

• 500 English language Participant workbooks or journals with

500 copies of any program handouts/activities in English.

• 100 Spanish language Participant workbooks or journals with

500 copies of any program handouts/activities in Spanish

• 10 Facilitator Guides

• 10 copies of DVD companion Videos

Facilities Housing Female Offenders Receiving Products

Minimum Security FPC Alderson Glen Ray Road Alderson, WV 24910 304-445-3300

FCI Aliceville 11070 Highway 14 Aliceville, AL 35442 205-373-5000

Federal Prison Camp Bryan 1100 Ursuline Ave Bryan, TX 77803 979-823-1879

FCI Greenville

100 U.S. HWY 40 &

4th Street Greenville, IL 6224 618-664-6200

Federal Medical Center 3301 Leestown Road Lexington, KY 40511 859-255-6812

FCI Marianna 3625 FCI Road Marianna, FL 32446 850-526-2313

Federal Correctional Institution Pekin Illinois 2600 South 2nd Street Pekin, IL 61554 309-346-8588

Federal Correctional Institution 37900 N. 45th Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85086 623-465-9757

FCC Victorville 13777 Air Expressway Blvd Victorville, CA 9239 760-246-2400

Low Security FCI Aliceville 11070 Highway 14 Aliceville, AL 3544 205-373-5000

FCI Dublin 5701 8th Street Camp Parks Dublin, CA 94568 925-833-7500

Federal Correctional Institution 33 1/2 Pembroke Station Route 37 Danbury, CT 06811

203-743-6471 Secure Female Facility - Hazelton Sky View Drive Bruceton Mills, WV 26525 304-379-5500

FCI Tallahassee 501 Capital Circle N.E.

Tallahassee, FL 3230 850-878-2173

Federal Correctional Institution 1000 University Drive, SW Waseca, MN 56093- 507-835-8972

Administrative Facilities MDC Brooklyn 80 29th Street Brooklyn, NY 11232 718-840-4200

Federal Medical Center Carswell "J"- Street Building 3000 Fort Worth, TX 76127

MDC Guaynabo 28 Street #652 Guaynabo, PR 00965- 787-749-4480

3.0. POST AWARD CONFERENCE

The contractor shall attend a Post Award Conference with the Contracting Officer and the COR no later than 15 business days after the date of award. The purpose of the Post Award Conference, which shall be chaired by the Contracting Officer and/or Contracting Officer Representative, is to discuss technical and contracting objectives of this contract and review the contractor's draft project plan. The Post Award Conference shall be held at the Government’s facility, located at 400 First Street, NW, Washington DC 20534, or via teleconference.

3.1 PROJECT PLAN

The contractor shall provide a draft project plan with product development projected timeline at the Post Award Conference for Government review and comment. The contractor shall provide a final project development timeline plan to the COR no later than 30 business days after the Post Award Conference. The COR shall review the final project development timeline plan prior to acceptance and provide the contractor with an e-mail that provides documented reasons for non-acceptance. If the final project development timeline plan is acceptable, the COR shall send an e-mail to the contractor notifying it that the final plan has been accepted.

3.2 PROGRESS REPORTS

Project Manager shall provide a monthly progress report to the COR via electronic mail. This report shall include a summary of all contractor work performed, all direct costs by line item, an assessment of technical progress, schedule status, any travel conducted and any contractor concerns or recommendations for the previous reporting period.

4.0 DELIVERABLES

The contractor shall consider items in BOLD as having mandatory due dates. Items in italics are deliverables or events that shall be reviewed and/or approved by the COR prior to proceeding to next deliverable or event in this SOW.

ITEM SOW

REFERENCE DELIVERABLE / EVENT DUE BY

DISTRIBUTION

1 3.0 Post Award Conference

15 business Days post award

CO, COR,

Project Manager

2 3.1 Final project development timeline plan

30 business Days post award

COR, BOP

Manager

3 3.1

Product Development per the accepted project development timeline.

Within one year of post award meeting

COR, BOP

Manager

5.0 Invoices and Payment Schedules

The contractor shall provide itemized invoice for services rendered on a quarterly basis as verified by the COR. Payments shall be made to the contract for work completed in the prior month in reference to contract schedule of deliverables.

Itemized invoices shall include: the specific deliverable accomplished; the hours associated with the tasks as associated with the project team member; and a description of the work performed with sufficient detail for the COR to review.

The contractor shall submit invoices and deliverables via e-mail to the Bureau of Prisons Central Office Business Office and the Contracting Officer Representative (COR).

Final payment during the base period shall be made to the

Contractor after the contract schedule of deliverables have been received by the Bureau and no issues identified.

6.0 Program Evaluation

The contractor shall identify the project components and key requirements stated in the Introduction and Objective section (Section 2.0) of this SOW.

The contractor shall work with the COR to ensure all components needed for the programs is completed by September 30, 2022.

7.0 Period of Performance

The period of performance shall be for one (1) Base Period of date of award through September 30, 2022 for program development.

The BOP anticipates the overall engagement of this contract to begin before the end of Fiscal Year 2022. Upon the award of contract, the Contracting Officer shall host a mandatory kick-off meeting (SOW 3.0) for initial introductions for involved parties. This meeting may be held by video conference or teleconference.

8.0 Place of Performance

The work shall be performed at the contractor’s facility.

Development meetings and collaboration with BOP project manager and staff shall occur at the contractor’s business location or via teleconference.

9.0 Security and Clearance Requirements

All required contractor personnel shall have personnel security clearances commensurate with the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12) for the highest level of information processed by the system(s) they use. The provisions of Department of Justice Order DOJ 1700.01, “Contractor Security Requirements”, Federal Bureau of Prisons Information Security Program Statement 1237.16 and the Federal Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Management Manual 3000.03 shall be followed to determine appropriate security clearance levels.

Contractor security clearances, including the submission of security clearance forms, etc., shall be coordinated with the Technical Point of Contact (TPOC) prior to contract employee arrival at the BOP institution. As determined by the TPOC and/or Human Resource Security Specialist, clearances may require one or all of the following:

• National Crime Information Center (NCIC) check

• DOJ-99 (name check)

• FD-258 (fingerprint check)

• Law Enforcement Agency checks

• Vouchering of Employers over past five years

• Resume/Personal Qualifications

• OPM-329-A (Authority for Release of Information)

• NACI check (if applicable)

• Urinalysis Test (for detection of marijuana and other drug usage)

Note: If it is determined that a urinalysis test is required, it shall be administered at the closest BOP site. If a test is positive for drug usage, the assigned individual(s) shall be excluded from performance of work for this requirement, and subject to the same security requirements, the Contractor shall provide acceptable replacement staff.

The contractor shall employ effective safeguards and security controls to ensure that information associated with the work is protected from loss, damage, computer viruses, or other destructive incidents. The safeguards employed should ensure that materials and services are secured in a manner that prevents tampering, sabotage, or other means of deliberate alteration. This provision applies to all BOP information resources while under the control of the Contractor. As referenced in the BOP Policy Statement 1237.13, Information Security Programs, the Contractor, while controlling BOP information assets, shall implement necessary safeguards, including administrative, physical, and personnel controls as outlined in said policy.

DOJ 2640.2F: The Department of Justice does not permit the use of Non-U.S. citizens in the performance of this contract or commitment for any position involves access to or development of any DOJ IT systems. By signing the contract document or beginning performance, the Contractor agrees to this restriction.

10.0 Project Management and Coordination

The BOP shall appoint a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for this project. The COR is responsible for: receiving all deliverables; inspecting and accepting the services provided for this requirement in accordance with the terms and conditions of this contract; providing direction to the Contractor which clarifies the contract effort; fills in details or otherwise serves to accomplish the contractual scope of work; evaluates performance; and certifies all invoices/vouchers for acceptance of the services furnished for payment prior to forwarding the original invoice to the payment office and a copy to the contracting officer.

The COR does not have the authority to alter the Contractor's obligations under the contract action, direct changes that fall within the change clause, and/or modify any of the expressed terms, conditions, specifications, or costs of this agreement.

If, as a result of technical discussions, it is desirable to alter/change the contractual obligations or requirements, the Contracting Officer shall issue such changes in writing under signature.

The contractor shall provide a Project Manager. The Project Manager shall lead the overall execution of the activities in this SOW, including providing oversight of any tasks required by the SOW. The Project Manager shall serve as the primary liaison between the Government and the Contractor. Additionally, the Project Manager shall ensure that:

• All contractor staff understands and work toward SOW requirements

• Tasks are staffed by appropriate, highly qualified personnel

• All project management issues are communicated to and coordinated with the COR

Status shall be reported per direction in SOW 3.2. Document format should be Microsoft Office 2007 (or later) unless otherwise indicated. In addition, in the event of a consultation meeting with the project manager or COR during the course of the contract, the contractor shall:

• Arrange for the attendance, either in person or by conference call, of appropriate Contractor personnel to address project issues

• Record minutes including, but not limited to, action items and responsible parties

• Provide meeting minutes within three (3) working days of the conclusion of the meeting