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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 05, 2008 FBO #2231
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- This Pre solicitation notice is to breakout the Recruiting and Retention Integrator part out of W9133L08R0009. The Integrator part will be awarded under solicitation W9133L08R0010.

Notice Date

1/3/2008
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
 

Contracting Office

National Guard Bureau, Contracting Support, ATTN: NGB-AQC, 1411 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202-3231
 

ZIP Code

22202-3231
 

Solicitation Number

W9133L08R0010
 

Response Due

1/25/2008
 

Archive Date

3/25/2008
 

Point of Contact

tglasgow, 703-607-1267
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to National Guard Bureau, Contracting Support
(theresa.glasgow@us.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

8a Competitive
 

Description

Integration Contract. Procurement for Integration Contractor shall be set aside for competition among 8(a) vendors. Minimum Guaranteed Funding Amount: The contractor shall receive a minimum of $25,000 over the life of the contract. Maximum Contrac t Amount: The total maximum contract amount is $33 million in task orders over the life of the contract. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES (INTERGRATION) C-1 GENERAL C-1.1 Background The National Guard Bureaus Army Strength Maintenance Divisions (N GB-ASM) mission is to provide policies, programs, procedures, and guidance to the states and territories to meet their end-strength objectives in accordance with the Strength Maintenance Philosophy. Specifically, to recruit quality soldiers, conduct attrit ion management designed to reduce first-term soldier losses and training pipeline losses, and ensure retention and extension of quality soldiers before the expiration of their term-of-service. The Strength Maintenance Philosophy builds a partnership for strength readiness between unit leaders and the recruiting and retention force. Working together, they can develop programs and incentives to meet each units strength objectives. There are three strength maintenance tenets: ? RecruitingRecruiting Qua lity (Non-Prior and Prior Service) Soldiers, ? RetentionRetaining Soldiers who reach their Expiration Term of Service (ETS, and ? Attrition ManagementReducing Losses While Still Under Contractual Military Obligation. As part of these activities, the Army National Guard also has a related objective, which is to capture and improve access to performance data and program data. The interaction of the NGB Army Strength Maintenance processes of Recruiting, Retention, and Attrition Management are sho wn in the following diagram. This diagram indicates the flow of combat-ready soldiers within the National Guard. It indicates how the processes of recruiting, retention, and attrition affect the end-strength objective. The Army National Guard has multiple related yearly objectives that it uses to while managing these processes to achieve the congressionally mandated end-strength objective. To support these three tenets, the NGB-ASM requires contractor support services to continue, improve, and expand cur rent efforts and to create and develop innovative Recruitment and Retention programs. These must be achieved while demonstrating improved outcomes consistent with the National Guards three tenets of Recruitment, Retention, and Managing Attrition and respo nding to ARNGs foremost goal: to attain and maintain congressionally authorized end-strength. C-1.2 Purpose The Recruiting and Retention contract period of performance expires in February of 2007. However, various task orders from that contrac t have periods of performance that stretch out in to the middle of calendar 2007. In addition, other separate contracts that NGB-ASM intends to absorb into the new Recruitment and Retention contract have periods of performance that also spread across 2007. NGB-ASM has determined that using two types of contractsone a single award contract with an integration contractor and one a multiple award IDIQ contract with five contractorsare the most effective way to achieve NGB-ASM goals. The integration contr actor will institute a permanent organization staffed with full time subject matter experts, specialists, and managers. The IDIQ services contractors will develop and implement a comprehensive set of programs that helps ASM meet their objectives. Each cont ractor will be able to team with outside subcontractors and vendors to round out the full complement of skills required by this solicitation. Consistent with performance-based contracting practices, NGB-ASM will define the work in terms of objectives ra ther than specific tasks. As a result, it is then becomes the Offerors responsibility to propose how the stated objectives would be achieved and to define the metrics to measure performance. Offerors may propose for the integration contractor role or the IDIQ services contractor role, but not both. C-2. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES The objective of this solicitation is to acquire contractor services to conceive , develop, implement, and integrate recruitment and retention programs for the National Guard Bureau Army Strength Maintenance (NGB-ASM). Specific NGB-ASM objectives for the integration contractor are discussed below. C-2.1 Integration Contractor 1. Select an integration contractor with demonstrated successful past performance a. Developing and implementing recruitment and retention programs b. Possessing a record of accomplishment of working effectively with a Government agency implementing new programs and transitioning existing programs to achieve Government goals c. Working and coordinating effectively with the NGB, the public, the Advertising contract holder who is responsible for National Guard branding and message themes, and other cont ractors to achieve Government goals. 2. Select an integration contractor that has no conflict of interest with other IDIQ service contractors and controls access to and protects sensitive IDIQ service contractors data. 3. Select an integration cont ractor that is capable of conducting integration and oversight functions effectively. a. Implementing an R&R Program Management Office with a dedicated Program Manager and staff with effective skill mix. b. Integrating, monitoring, and determining e ffectiveness of NGB-ASM recruiting and retention programs and campaigns. c. Tracking and calculating IDIQ services contractor task performance metrics. d. Ensuring a consistent application of NGB-ASM branding and message themes as determined via the Advertising contract. e. Supporting the Governments fair and unbiased evaluation of IDIQ services contractor proposals. f. Performing state of the practice market analysis and obtaining informed, effective, timely, and reliable results to support strategic decision making. 4. Select a contractor to who can cost-effectively implement a performance metrics database by a. Ensuring capture of pertinent demographic, survey, statistical, cost, task metrics data, and other data to measure both IDI Q services contractors and R&R Program performance b. Designing to maintain data to the necessary level of detail to support metrics, analysis, and reporting from the Guard Units, States, and regions up to the national level. c. Ensuring all data are reliable, accurate, secure. d. Ensuring database design controls access by Government and contractor personnel and facilitates regular and ad hoc reporting requests, supporting Congressional and other inquiries. 5. Select a contractor to who can cos t-effectively implement a program document archive database by a. Ensuring R&R program document archiving is comprehensive: includes proposals, evaluations, market and statistical analyses, recommendations, decisions and deliverables b. Ensuring docu ment archive database cross-references to the performance metrics database are accurate c. Ensuring documents archived are accurate and accessible by Government and contractor personnel d. Ensuring database design controls access by Government and co ntractor personnel and facilitates regular and ad hoc reporting requests, supporting Congressional and other inquiries. 6. Select an integration contractor capable of performing unbiased data collection, analysis, and reporting by a. Producing infor med, meaningful, and accurate market and statistical analysis leading to creative, substantiated, actionable results, and recommendations for future recruiting and retention campaigns decision making b. Relying upon the visual display of quantitative an d statistical information to communicate complex ideas clearly and efficiency.
 

Place of Performance

Address: National Guard Bureau, Contracting Support ATTN: NGB-AQC, 1411 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington VA

Zip Code: 22202-3231

Country: US
 

Record

SN01478627-W 20080105/080103223840 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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