Health Care Financing Administration 7500 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21244-1850

U -- TRAINING ON STRATEGIES TO PREVENT AND TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES SEXUAL HARASSMENT SOL HCFA POC Susan E. Crizer, Contracting Officer, (410) 786-5167. Health Care Financing Adminstration (HCFA) intend to procure training on strategies to prevent and heighten awareness of what constitutes sexual harassment in accordance with Simplified Acquistions Procedures on a 100% small business set-aside basis. There will be at least two instructors. Preferenceis for a man and a woman for each training session, with a lead instructor for each session. There will be (2) three hour sessions per day. Each session will be composed of no more than 25 employees. The total number expected to be trained is approximately 3,800, including managers and supervisors. The contractor shall submit two (2) proposals; 1) to train 3,800 employees; 2) to train 2,600 employees plus additinal sessions. The employees to receive training includes employees from central office, 7500 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD. 21244, Washington, D.C., 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C., 20201, and nine of HCFAs' regional offices located in Region I-Boston, Massachusetts, Region II-New York, N.Y.,Region IV-Atlanta, Georgia, Region V-Chicago, Illinois, Region VI-Dallas, Texas, Region VII-Kansas City, Kansas, Region VIII-Denver, Colorado, Region IX-San Francisco, California, Region X-Seattle, Washington. The first training session will be a pilot for a group of 25 selected employees. The contractor shall provide training to two (2) regional offices in FY 1997. The Project Officer will provide the contractor with a list of the two regional offices to receive training in 1997. The contractor shall train approximately 450 managers and supervisors apart from the rest of the employees. The focus of the training will be on the responsibilities of the supervior/manager and how to address and prevent sexually harassing activities in the work place. The Project Officer will provide the contractor with lists of names of employees, including a list of employees who are managers/supervisors. The contractor shall provide training that is largely interactive with some lecture. The instructors are expected to promote discussions of the issues, provide pertinent training materials, handouts, vignettes that show real life examples of problems encountered in dealing with incidents of sexual harassment, show relevant and interesting videos to generate questions and discussions. Lesson plans, handouts, and visual aids will become HCFA property. The contractor will require all trainees to sign their names on a sheet of paper to indicate their presence at the training session and provide and collect training evaluation forms. The contractor shall provide a list of the attendees and of the absentees and evaluation forms to the Project Officer within 5 days of the date of the training session. The contractor will conduct "train the trainer" classes for four (4) designated HCFA employees. These employees will observe and assist the trainers during the training, assist in the preparation of the training plan, assist in fielding questions from the employees and be allowed to conduct limited training on a part of the training curriculum. The contractor shall verbally critique the performance and provide feedback to the student trainer at the end of each session, in private. Period of performance will begin within 15 days of contract award and will continue through June 30, 1998. The contractor will hold make up sessions for central office employees who were not able to attend training when it was originally scheduled. The Agency will provide training facilities at single site and Washington, D.C., and comparable facilities in the regions. Physical facilities will be coordinated by the Project Officer. All travel by the instructors will be in accordance with provisions of the Standard Government Travel Regulations. The Government will make award to the responsible offeror(s) whose offer conforms to the Request For Quotation (RFQ) and is most advantageous to the Government, technical and price considered. As the proposals become more equal in technical merit, the evaluated price will become more important. The Government reserves the right, however, to make award to the offeror who provides reasonable expectation of superior technical performance, regardless of the offeror's price relative to other offerors' price. Your evaluation of the technical factors will be based on information in your proposal that offers the greatest value to the Government. This must include, but not be limited to 1) experience in regard to training federal agencies and/or the private sector; 2) trainers resumes; 3) references of proposed instructors, 4) examples of training materials; 5) evaluation of courses conducted by the proposed instructors. Your response to each technical factor must document specific competencies. Failure to respond to the specific technical factors will preclude determining your technical capability. Failure to submit all of the above requirements will result in a rejection of your RFQ. Please keep additional material in your proposal to a minimum. Telephone requests will not be accepted. Facsimile requests will be accepted on 420-786-9088. For technical questions contact Maria Rodriguez on (410) 786-5112. (0127)

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