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U -- WEB-BASED EDUCATIONAL SELF-ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT SOL 1666137-003 DUE 113099 POC Jim Holland, 703-824-4430, between 16-30 Oct 99, 0800-1600 Eastern time E-MAIL: Click here to contact program manager via e-mail., jim_holland@sra.com. Pre-Solicitation Notice for Web-Based Educational Self-Assessment Instrument SRA International, serving as agent for The Virtual Military Health Institute (VMHI), Fort Sam Houston, Texas expects to release a request for proposal for the development of a web-based educational self-assessment instrument on/about 1 November 1999. The resulting instrument will facilitate VMHI and Joint Medical Executive Skills Development Program (JMESDP) goals and initiatives by allowing individual officers to evaluate their preparation for command-level positions. The VMHI, in conjunction with the Joint Medical Executive Skills Development Group (JMESDG), defined 40 executive-level competencies published in the program's Core Curriculum, 2nd Edition. The Core Curriculum will be provided to potential bidders. Military officers' career plans may include positions of military treatment facility (MTF) commander, TRICARE lead agent, or senior member of a lead agent staff. The self-assessment instrument will be used to determine strengths/weaknesses in the preparation required for these command-level positions. SRA International requests that the solicitation be conducted via electronic media to the maximum extent feasible. Anticipated requirements of the instrument include: sixty-to-ninety minutes in length, and appropriate to the experience level of officers in the grade of O-4 thru O-6. It must be executable on the Internet using secure procedures. It must manage contingent responses (responses that shape the content and number of subsequent questions). Non-personal, non-privacy act data will be consolidated anonymously and made available to VMHI for publication of a program-wide summary of educational needs. Immediate knowledge of results of the self-assessment will be available on-line to the officer. Data must be provided regarding reliability and validity of the instrument. The sub-contractor is allowed to propose use of an existing instrument and will be required to provide data to support this recommendation. The Period of Performance (POP) for the project is expected to be six months or less, with final delivery during the DoD fiscal year 00 (ending September 2000). The work site for the project will be the subcontractor's facility. However, during the POP at least two interim process reviews will be conducted at Fort Sam Houston (San Antonio, Texas) and the final delivery is to be made in San Antonio, at the VMHI offices. SRA International, as the prime contractor, expects to award this work under a firm fixed price (ffp) subcontract. Selection of one sub-contractor will be based on the submitted proposal responsiveness to the overall requirement, project cost, and previous work history in developing assessment instruments. Additional criteria may be specified in the solicitation. Special attention will be paid to the offeror's demonstrated ability to develop educational assessment instruments and expertise in Web-based technologies. Questions should be emailed to jim_holland@sra.com or directed to Jim Holland, SRAInternational, (703) 824-4430, between the hours of 0800 and 1600 Eastern time. Interested bidders wishing to receive the solicitation and core curriculum reference document should send an email titled "Request for Self-Assessment Instrument Solicitation" to Mr. Holland at the above address during the period 16-30 October. Copies of the solicitation and reference document will be provided in MS Word 97 format. Posted 10/14/99 (W-SN391702). (0287)

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