Ethics and Leadership Training

Added: Sep 13, 2008 2:09 pm This is a pre-solicitation notice. We anticipate posting the solicitation on or about September 16, 2008 with a due date/time of 3 p.m. EDT on September 23, 2008.



Please note that the successful offeror must provide a sampling of 1 or 2 articles published in academic or professional journals as part of its proposal. Proposals lacking this will be rejected without further consideration.



The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) seeks a contractor with extensive experience teaching leadership and ethics to senior level officials in government to create an individualized ethics and leadership program for PBGC. The contractor must work with designated OGC staff to develop an Ethics and Leadership Training Program for the PBGC. In the first phase, the contractor will develop a program for senior level managers. The program should be designed to be taught incrementally over the course of FY09 so as to keep ethics and leadership in the daily lexicon of the corporate environment. A second phase of the program, to be developed after the senior level training is underway, will focus attention on non-senior level managers. For this program, the contractor will work with OGC staff to develop appropriate materials, but the primary responsibility for facilitation of the training sessions will reside with the OGC staff attorneys.



PBGC, an independent federal agency, protects the retirement incomes of 44.1 million American workers in 30,330 private-sector defined benefit pension plans. PBGCs Strategic Plan FY 2008 - 2013 (Corporate Strategic Plan) incorporates ethics as an integral part of the Agencys strategic priorities. The guiding principle for the Strategic Plan, is that PBGC is a performance-based organization that values professionalism, integrity, [and] high ethical standards . . . . In order to maintain the guiding principle, Agency officials identified strategic priorities to address the challenges of the next five years. Two of those priorities are to: conduct business with professionalism and integrity and meet the highest ethical standards. The outcome objective for these priorities is to develop a workforce trained to meet the highest ethical standards in order to ensure that decisions are informed by public and not private interests. To accomplish these objectives, the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is developing an Ethics and Leadership Training Program that will be presented in phases to managers of the Corporation.