SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Work Force Modeling - SOW
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541612
— Human Resources Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of State, Office of Acquisitions, Acquisition Management, 1735 N. Lynn St., Arlington, Virginia, 22209, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22209
- Solicitation Number
- 19aqmm18n0038
- Archive Date
- 3/24/2018
- Point of Contact
- Peter James Allen,
- E-Mail Address
-
allenpj@state.gov
(allenpj@state.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PURPOSE/ BACKGROUND The purpose of this Statement of Work (SOW) is to convey the mission of the Department of State (DoS), Bureau of Human Resources in order to obtain an experienced and qualified Contractor to provide specialized technical, analytical, and mathematical modeling services with Federal workforce planning experience. Commencing in March 2000 the Bureau of Human Resources (HR) began the process of gathering and integrating data of the Department’s total work force composition used for its current and out year force planning. Over the intervening years, HR has enhanced its ability to do workforce planning by developing workforce studies,analytical methodologies, processes, and simulation models that allow resource management analysts to: · Produce all documents, interfaces and reports to manage all aspects of the Department’s human resource planning system utilizing the Enterprise Architecture for Resource Planning system (EARP). · Compute overseas staffing and readiness requirements for Foreign Service officers utilizing an Overseas Staffing Model (OSM). · Calculate domestic staffing requirements for Foreign Service, Civil Service, contractor, and part-time, intermittent & temporary employees utilizing a Domestic Staffing Model (DSM). · Analyze Foreign Service promotion opportunities by simulating career flows, attrition, and ensuing personnel inventories that result from Foreign Service HR policies utilizing a Foreign Service Promotion Model (FSM). · Conduct detailed workforce studies and personnel surveys to document HR policy options and address workforce issues. Some of the workforce models and studies were developed “in-house”, while others have been developed through contract support to the Bureau of Human Resources, Office of Resource Management and Analysis (HR/RMA). HR/RMA has a need for continued, follow-on, support to maintain these workforce planning models and methodologies to meet the requirements of Congressional mandates and to continue to improve the Department's capabilities to do workforce planning. 6.0 SCOPE OF WORK : For duration of this contract the contractor will be required to provide the expertise in the areas of project management, data collection/integration, statistical analysis, mathematical modeling and workforce flow through, to support workforce studies and model development (new development), as needed, to meet Department-wide requirements. This work will be developed, as required, to meet all Presidential and congressionally mandated initiatives, Public Law requirements, all Office of Personnel and Management (OPM), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of State directed initiatives. New development may consist of, but is not limited to, initial data collection or the integration of existing data from all Bureaus within the Department of State as it applies to the overall work force structure and costs. This includes but is not limited to foreign and civil service personnel, contractors, Foreign Service nationals, other agency personnel working for the Department of State as well as associated costs to include those areas previously mentioned. New components of the models may have a direct interface with the existing DSM, OSM, EARP and overall work force flow through models. The contractor will also provide ongoing operational maintenance support that will consist of minor/major enhancements to existing models and any models that are developed within the scope of this task order. Operations and Maintenance will also consist of on-going data collection / integration from all Department sources required to update model databases to insure accuracy of statistics and analytical studies produced to comply with ad-hoc reporting requirements. 7.0 GOAL HR/RMA requires specialized technical, analytical, and mathematical modeling services of a contractor with Federal workforce planning experience. The contractor shall work with RMA analysts to identify opportunities for increasing organizational efficiencies and streamlining staff functions and processes, by analyzing workload distribution and staffing data, such as name, grade levels, salary, duty assignment, etc., collected during Domestic Staffing Model (DSM), Enterprise Architecture Resource Planning System (EARP) and Overseas Staffing Model (OSM) and other analytical models and systems. In addition, the contractor will participate in the annual update and maintenance process for the OSM and DSM and other models. The contractor shall document the process, provide all data maintenance and model updates, and recommend opportunities to enhance the analytical and mathematical methodologies incorporated in the models so that staffing estimates closely simulate staffing needs. The contractor will recommend opportunities for integration between the OSM, EARP and DSM. The contractor shall also provide maintenance, upgrade, technical, mathematical, and analytical support for the RMA Foreign Service Promotion Planning “Flow-Through” system to improve the Department’s capability to perform Civil Service workforce planning. The contractor will provide analytical support and expert knowledge in the development of workforce planning studies such as competency analysis, organizational and structure planning and other aspects of technical workforce planning. 8.0 TASKS The following lists the tasks required to complete the Statement of Work. Task 1 - DSM Organizational Efficiencies and Reallocations Using data collected during the DSM development process, the contractor shall identify opportunities for eliminating redundancies, duplication, and unnecessary organizational layering in the DoS core functions. The contractor shall assist in identifying high level processes, additional data requirements and preparation of data collection instruments for identifying redundancies, duplication, and unnecessary organizational layering and dysfunctional organization development. Task 2 – Workforce Studies The contractor will participate as expert consultants in the development of Department-wide studies of the competencies and staffing requirements for major occupational groups in the Department’s workforce. The contractor will conduct independent studies under the direction of senior HR managers and systems analysts to analyze flow through, recruitment, and all major aspects of the HR program(s) for development and maintenance of key workforce skill groups in both the Civil Service and Foreign Service. Task 3 - OSM Update The contractor shall participate in the OSM update process to document the process/methodologies and provide all data maintenance and model updates. The contractor shall recommend opportunities to enhance the analytical methodologies incorporated in the OSM including recommendations and feasibility of integrating the DSM and OSM into a common database structure where appropriate. Task 4 - Foreign Service Promotion Model Maintenance The contractor shall provide maintenance, upgrade, technical, and analytical support for the RMA Foreign Service Promotion Model. The contractor will work closely with RMA analysts to identify necessary enhancements and maintenance updates to the model and associated data. Task 5 - EARP The contractor shall provide maintenance, upgrade, technical, and analytical support for the RMA EARP resource planning and information system. The contractor will work closely with RMA analysts to identify necessary enhancements and maintenance updates to the operating software and associated data
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 2401 E St NW, SA-1, Washington, District of Columbia, 20522, United States
- Zip Code: 20522
- Zip Code: 20522
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