United States - Acquisition Professional Develop Program

Description

Added: Jul 09, 2019 2:06 pm

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is issuing a Request for Information (RFI), seeking to redevelop the Career Lateral Employees (CLE) and information on the estimated costs of developing this curriculum, as well as identifying various costs associated with delivering this training to the CLE, for the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP). Career Lateral Development Program for Contract Specialists/ Contracting Officers (CS/CO) at the trainee levels of GS-07 through GS-12, who are employees here at the IRS. This ongoing Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP), shall be the official program to formally train Contract Specialists at the IRS. Treasury/IRS in support of the Office of Procurement, is seeking information on how a contractor would approach designing and developing an APDP and the curriculum. In support of the IRS, Procurement is seeking information on how to create a comprehensive training and development curriculum, to include the criteria for the mandatory contracting coursework, other beneficial contract training, procurement systems training, to include professional and soft skills development. The program would consist of 3-4 years of classroom, on the job training and development, along with rotating the trainees to various divisions of procurement for training in various areas of procurement.
CLE Professionals shall be hired, trained and developed in increments of 10-12 individuals. The APDPshall consist of the following components:
Year One (1): Simplified Acquisitions/ FAC-C Level One Training: consisting of contacting foundations (FAR Part 13, which include micro purchases, actions within the guidelines of Simplified Acquisitions Threshold, (SAT), with close supervision to include: FAR, DTAR, Regulations, policies, contract types, market research, acquisition planning, contract writing and documentation and short in-house rotational assignments within the IRS Procurement office.
Year 2: Complex Level Acquisition/FAC-C Level Two Training: More complex procurement actions (i.e. over SAT threshold, FAR Part 15, Negotiations to include Cost and Price Analysis, Source selection process, contract negotiations to include short in-house rotational assignments within the IRS various Procurement offices.
Year 3 and 4: Advanced Acquisitions/FAC-C Level Three Training: Extended in-house rotational assignments with in the IRS various Procurement sections Office of Information Technology Acquisitions (OITA Divisions); Varying in dollar value and complexity of Procurement actions processed, and achievement of skill leading to graduation from the APDP program with a Certificate of completion.
THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. this RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes-it does not constitute a request for proposal (RFP) or a promise of issuance of an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the Government to any contract for any supply or service whatsoever. The IRS/Training Institute for Acquisition (TIA), is NOT seeking proposals. Respondees are advised that the US Government shall not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI. All costs associated with the responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future Request for Proposal (RFP), if any is used. If a solicitation is released, it shall be synopsized in the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOps) website. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor this site for additional information pertaining to this request.
Estimated Performance Period: Base year, with four, one (1) year renewable options. Each option shall run 12 consecutive months in length, for a total period of 60 months.
Limitations: Availability of Funds, Identification of Overall Costs
Security Requirements: IRS Pre-screening Process as outlines in the Internal Review Manual:
10.2.1-Physical security, 10.8.1-Policy and Guidance, 10.8.2 IT Security Roles and Responsibilities, and 10.23.2-Contractor Investigations.
Requested Information: The purpose of this RFI is to seek input from the industry on how to train and develop outstanding Acquisition Professionals, specifically:
1) Effective Curricula for the two (2) year training for the well-rounded Acquisition Professional
2) Best Practices in program format-coursework vs. case-studies vs rotational assignments
The IRS also requests information on the estimated costs of:
1) Developing/designing this training curriculum
2) Delivering this curriculum to the Acquisition Professional in groups of 10-12 trainees simultaneously
Responses:
Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with a White Paper.
White Papers in Microsoft Word for Office 3665 ProPlus compatible format are due no later than July 23, 2019 at 12:00pm, EST. Responses shall be limited to ten (10) pages for Section 2 and submitted via email only to the: Tracy.holland@irs.gov , Contract Specialist. Proprietary information, if any, should be minimized and MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED. To aid the Government, please segregate proprietary information. Please be advised that all submissions shall become the property of the Government and will not be returned. If any respondee does not currently have a Non-disclosure agreements (NDA's) that would permit the IRS support contractors listed below to review and evaluate white papers submitted in response to this RFI, the respondee is request to signa NDA with these IRS support contractors for this purpose. A sample NDA will be posted at: http://thegreen.treas.gov/POLICIES/Pages/default.asps (click on Treasury Orders & Directives, then TD P 15-71, Department of Treasury Security Manual).
Section 1 of the White paper shall provide administrative information, and shall include the following as a minimum:
Company Name, Mailing Address, overnight delivery address (if different from mailing address), telephone number, fax number, and e-mail to include designated point of contact.
Recommended contracting strategy.
Provide one copy of executed non-disclosure agreements (NDA's) with the contractors supporting IRS in technical evaluations or a statement that the respondee shall not allow the Government to release it's proprietary data to the Government support contractors. In the absence of either of the foregoing, the Government shall assume that the repondee does NOT agree to the release of its submission to Government support contractors.
Identification of business type (large, small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), HUBZone, woman owned small business, very small, veteran owned small, service disabled veteran owned small) based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code: 611430, Professional and Management Development Training. "Small Business concern" means a concern, including it affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on Government contracts, and qualified as small business under the criteria and size standards in 13 CFR part 121. Respondees are cautioned, this is a general description only. Additional standards and conditions shall apply. Please refer to Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR) part 19 for additional detailed information on Small Business Size Standards. The FAR is available at: http://www.arnet.gov
Industry Discussions: The IRS representatives may or may not choose to meet with potential offerors. Such discussions would only be intended to get further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, especially any development and certification risks.
Questions: Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by email to the attention of the Contract Specialist, email address. Verbal question shall NOT be accepted. Questions shall be answered by pasting the question and responses on FedBizOps website. No questions shall contain any proprietary or classified information. The Government does not guarantee any questions received by July 19, 2019, !2:00pm, EST, shall be answered.
Summary: THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY to identify sources that car capable of providing Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) design and delivery services. The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is NOT binding on the Government. IRS has not made a commitment to procure any of the items discussed, or released of this RFI should NOT be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur costs for which reimbursement would be required and/or sought. All submissions become Government property and will NOT be returned.

Opportunity closing date

23 July 2019

Value of contract

to be confirmed