GSA HCaTS Industry Day for Transition Assistance Program (TAP)

TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INDUSTRY DAY: Please note: This notice only applies to General Service Administration (GSA) Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) Prime and subcontractor contract holders. Please do not respond if you are not an HcaTS Prime/ potential Subcontractor vendor. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Strategic Acquisition Center - Frederick (SAC-F) is seeking General Service Administration (GSA) Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) Prime and subcontractor contract holders for a virtual Industry Day for the VA Transition Assistance Program (TAP) Contract. Please see the Performance Work Statement (PWS) for the virtual Industry Day. Registration for Industry Day is due no later than 4:30 PM. EST March 26, 2020, to Tara Flores at Tara.Flores@va.gov, Caitlin Savina at Caitlin.Savina@va.gov. There will be allowed one attendee call in per vendor. Upon confirmed registration information to call/log in will be provided to the registered individual. Virtual Industry Day is scheduled for April 07, 2020. There will be two sessions; one for HCaTS Prime vendors from 9:00AM - 10:00AM ET, and one for potential HCaTS subcontractors from 12:00PM - 1:00PM ET. Requirement Background: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Transition and Economic Development (TED) is seeking HcaTS contractor support services at part of VA's support to the military services Transition Assistance Program (TAP). TED requires Contract support with advancing ongoing implementation of VA's current and future efforts in TAP to ensure that service members and their families are provided with the necessary tools and information to facilitate their readiness for civilian life. Every year, approximately 200,000 service members leave military service and return to life as civilians, a process known as military to civilian transition. To aid in that transition, Congress has passed various laws which have been intended to prepare eligible service members and their families to face the many challenges of transitioning from active duty back to civilian life. In response, VA, and its interagency partners at the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Labor (DOL), Department of Homeland Security, Department of Education, Office of Personnel and Management, and Small Business Administration have implemented various programs to carry out these requirements and ensure that service members are provided with the tools and information necessary to transition into civilian life. One of these programs is the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), which is an overarching program implemented by each of the military services (U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Coast Guard) in order to provide transition assistance, information, training, counseling, and services to eligible service members in order for them to be career ready upon separation, retirement, or release from active duty, thus enabling them to pursue additional education, seek or return to employment in the public or private sector, start their own business, pursue vocational training, or other activities that meets the need of that service member and their family. Transition assistance, as provided by TAP consists of all related TAP activities, curriculum, resources, and services provided to enable eligible service members to attain the career readiness standards (CRS) established by the respective military services. The criterion for eligibility is for all service members who serve for a period of 180 continuous days or more on active duty, pursuant to 10 United States Code (U.S.C.) - 1142(a)(4)(C), must go through transition assistance. Transition assistance must start no later than 365 days prior to the anticipated date of separation, unless otherwise excused. For anticipated retirements, transition assistance must start no later than 720 days. All eligible service members must participate in TAP, utilizing the services and briefings provided in order to meet CRS that are specific to their post-transition goals. Purpose: The purpose of this contract is to provide TED with TAP onsite support, which includes: conducting VA Benefits and Services briefings; conducting one-on-one benefits engagements; supporting pre-separation counseling and Capstone events; conducting Reserve and National Guard Component support; conducting Military Life Cycle (MLC) Modules; and supporting any requirements included as part of transition assistance instituted by law, regulation, or executive order. As the agency program office responsible for conducting VA's contribution to the interagency TAP, TED requires contract support services to assist in the continuation of existing TAP onsite support and associated program management and training requirements. This work encompasses: program management and administration; onsite support activities at military installations to conduct and report on VA-supported activities; conduct in-person classroom briefings; provide information through generalized and one-on-one settings; and conduct briefer training and evaluation. This support requires the capability for a worldwide program sustainment which can support up to 200,000 transitioning service members across more than 330 installations within the Contiguous United States (CONUS) and Outside the Contiguous United States (OCONUS) annually. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to support TAP operations as defined in this Performance Work Statement (PWS), except for those items specified as Government-furnished property and/or services. Type of Contract: This contract is anticipated to be a Firm-Fixed Price contract. NAICS: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes for this requirement is: 541612, Human Resources Consulting Services, size standard $16.5M.