Resiliency Adaptive Leadership Initiative (RALI)

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE RESILIENCY AND ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (RALI) 1. Introduction The Air Mobility Command is conducting market research to determine qualified, experienced, and interested potential sources. Part of the market research is to publish on FedBizOpps a Request for Information (RFI) seeking market information on businesses capable of providing the services, as described in the tasks below. The information requested by this RFI will be used within the Air Force to facilitate decision-making and will not be disclosed outside the agency. Firms choosing to respond to this RFI are cautioned that THIS SYNOPSIS/RFI IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. This RFI is a market research tool used to determine the adequacy of eligible business sources prior to determining the acquisition strategy and issuance of a request for proposal. The Government is not obligated to and shall not pay for any information received from any sources responding to this synopsis and will not provide any feedback or carry on discussions with non-federal government activities regarding the information you provided in response to this RFI. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S. Government to form a binding contract. 2. Background/Scope The United States Air Force (AF) Air Mobility Command's (AMC) priority is to develop a comprehensive fitness model with a component designed to increase proactive coping, self-management and leadership skills to enhance individual resilience. Cultivating these skills in our Airmen will ensure that AMC maintain a cadre of balanced, healthy, self-confident Airmen whose physical, mental, spiritual and social fitness and resiliency enable them to effectively manage, and even experience personal and professional growth in response to stressors associated with military service, including a high operational tempo, deployments, recurrent change and the requirement to maintain high personal and professional standards of conduct. Military members face all of these challenges in addition to family, home and community responsibilities and stressors, which may be exacerbated by the rigors of military life. The current effort is intended to support and train individual Airmen in small groups to increase resilience across Air Mobility Command. Goals include: - Supporting positive coping with challenge and adversity - Reducing negative outcomes - Accomplishing the Air Force global mission AMC is seeking a program that could train Airmen in skills, attitudes and behaviors to promote individual resilience in conjunction with leadership skills to increase organizational resilience is the objective. Specifically, AMC would like targeted intensive, skills based, small group, experiential resilience training for Airmen, supervisors, middle managers, senior leaders and spouses to be provided by full time professional Resilience Trainers at our 12 AMC installations. The goal is to train 100% of our active duty and DOD civilian employees and a substantial proportion of military spouses. The intervention should be a state of the art, evidence based multimodal educational experience that can be customized to the needs of our target population, manualized for standardized implementation and deployed to Air Force bases within months. Outcomes related to current negative outcomes would be targeted, including: suicide events, alcohol related misconduct, disciplinary actions and family maltreatment. Standardized measures of resilience and related constructs would be employed to assess change in self-reported attitudes, skills and behaviors. Qualitative reports/personal accounts and participant satisfaction surveys would also be employed in assessing the overall value of the program 3. Required Tasks Development and Preparation Activities - The contractor shall develop training manuals, multimedia tools and detailed curricula with specific learning/development objectives for Airmen, supervisors, mid-level leadership, senior leaders and spouses and will submit to the COTR for review and approval prior to initiation of training. Deliverable: Training Manuals/Multimedia Training Materials/ Detailed Curricula - Upon approval of training materials, the contractor will brief the AMC CAIB/IDS and provide the appropriate level training to a group of 25-50 senior staff at AMC/HQ in preparation for initiation of training MAJCOM -wide. - In conjunction with the training above, the contractor shall conduct a 1-day working group with AMC IDS/CAIB members to review and make final revisions to training procedures/materials at the direction of the COTR and AMC IDS/CAIB membership. Deliverable: Training Manuals/Multimedia Training Materials/ Detailed Curricula (Final, revised per COTR guidance) - Within 21 days after the working group, the contractor will conduct a video teleconference (VTC) with all AMC installation-level POCs to present/ review procedures and provide a detailed implementation plan approved by the COTR with specific guidance on responsibilities, procedures and timelines as well as an overview of training goals and productivity targets by quarter. Deliverable: Detailed implementation plan Implementation and Conduct of Training - The contractor shall have fully trained full time contractors in place at the following AF bases (Charleston, Dover, Fairchild, Grand Forks, Mc Chord, McGuire, McConnell, Mac Dill, Pope, Scott and Travis). - The contractor shall assign Resiliency Trainers with the requisite education and experience to ensure their credibility in training and interacting with all levels of leadership within the USAF. Clarity in presentation, small group facilitation skills and comfort with abstract concepts are required. Master's degree level facilitators are recommended preferably with concentration in social sciences, business/leadership/development. - The contractor shall ensure that Resiliency Trainers schedule, arrange and facilitate training a minimum of 15 days per month (or 75% of hours worked). - The contractor shall conduct routine pre/post training assessments and 6 & 12 month follow up assessments and will report productivity and outcome data on a weekly basis to the contractor. Resiliency trainers will function with a high degree of autonomy in performing routine tasks and shall be fully trained by the contractor prior to arrival at their assigned bases. - The contractor shall ensure that each resiliency trainer recruits and trains collateral duty trainers drawn from the installation active duty force, training a minimum of 2 per quarter, per trainer and certifying those who are fully trained to facilitate all levels of training independently. A cumulative roster of certified trainers and those pursuing certification will be included in reported productivity data. Productivity and Effectiveness Tracking and Reporting Requirements - The contractor shall ensure that the assigned Resiliency Trainers meet productivity goals IAW the detailed implementation plan and with the expectation of training all AD members and civilians in their target populations within 24 months - The contractor shall provide the COTR with a monthly/cumulative productivity report detailing progress toward goals for all target strata at each installation. This report shall include the total number of AD and civilians trained as a raw number and as a percentage of the identified group. Reports will be due by the 15th of the following month and may be transmitted electronically. Deliverable: Monthly/Cumulative Productivity Reports - The contractor shall provide detailed effectiveness reports quarterly with pre/post data and follow up assessments of program participants by installation and strata. The reports shall provide descriptive statistics and pre/post and follow-up results on standardized qualitative measures with analysis of clinical and statistical significance and effect size in terms of standard deviation. Data on qualitative/quantitative measures of participant satisfaction and perceived change in attitudes/functioning will be aggregated, analyzed and reported. This quarterly/cumulative result report shall be provided quarterly to the COTR and will be briefed to the AMC CAIB by the contractor at approximately 8, 16 and 24 months during the period of work contingent upon the scheduling of the CAIB. Reports will be due 21 days after the end of the respective Qtr. Deliverable: Quarterly/Cumulative Outcome/Effectiveness Data Reports - A final report consolidating all productivity and outcome data for all installations shall be provided to the COTR within 45 days of completion of work as specified above. This report shall include final productivity (as percentage trained) and outcome data by installation and strata and aggregate (AMC) outcome and productivity) data by percent trained) by strata and overall. The report shall also include synopsis of lessons learned in the course of the intervention in terms of logistical challenges and constraints and elements of the program that were deemed most or least relevant or effective in reaching program goals. The final report shall include a list of AMC personnel, by installation, which are fully trained and certified to facilitate continued resiliency training. Deliverable: Final Comprehensive Report Administrative Management - The contractor shall assign a project officer, upon acceptance of the contract, who will serve as the contractor POC for coordinating with the COTR to ensure effective communication and unity of effort and to resolve issues of concern to the contractor or government. - The contractor shall host a formal monthly teleconferences with the COTR and installation-level POCs and will maintain availability for telephonic contact with the COTR weekly or more frequently during critical time periods, i.e., during project launch. - The contractor shall ensure that Resiliency Trainers are in-place throughout the designated contract period. Unless approved in writing by the on-site supervisor, absences in excess of 10 working days will require backfill by a substitute trainer or replacement at the discretion of the contractor. - The contractor shall address any concerns related to Resiliency Trainer competence, productivity and conduct and will remove a Resiliency Trainer within 10 days upon the written request of the government. 4. Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)/Government Furnished Information (GFI)/Government Furnished Access (GFA) - Workspace at a government facility - Standard workstation office equipment (office work area, telephone, computer, software, base network access, etc.) - E-mail accounts on the AMC Office Information System (OIS); includes the issuing of Common Access Cards (CACs) - Restricted area badges if required by AF directives - Telephone service with DSN and commercial access Government will pay for all official commercial long distance calls made in the performance of this contract - Unescorted access to designated buildings on each AMC AFB to contractor personnel assigned to this contract - The contractor copies of or access to all required directives, publications, and documents as available. If the contractor requires additional copies of such documents, government shall provide the contractor access to government reproduction facilities to produce these copies. - Necessary, available, and reasonable access to functional personnel and facilities. Government will coordinate and provide the required facilities for joint meeting sessions between functional personnel from other sites and contractor personnel. - Technical guidance and clarification in support of this task. However, contractor personnel are expected to utilize available reference material and not rely solely on the technical point of contact. Documents produced or owned by the government, including systems documentation, standards, specifications, or guidelines governing development of deliverables, manuals, to the extent that they are available, will be provided to contractor on request. 5. Requested Information Information requested: 1. Name, mailing address, overnight delivery address (if different from mailing address), phone number, fax number, and e-mail of designated point of contact. 2. Company information (include CAGE Code and DUNS) 3. Anticipated Teaming Arrangements (if applicable) 4. Typical Contract terms and conditions for this type of work 5. Identify Major Risks: general information to identify any major risks anticipated and/or associated with this type of effort 6. White Paper describing the company or academia's material solution 7. Performance Information in terms of contract references (similar to this requirement) to include the following: a. Contract number b. Contract type c. Total contract value d. Performance as a prime or subcontractor e. Brief description of the effort f. Period of performance g. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code h. Small Business Size Standard (if applicable) 8. Optional - provide recommendation for alternate NAICS code, if the one provided is too restrictive or not restrictive enough as to business size and industry category 9. Optional - Non-binding Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) 6. Responses Responses shall be written using Microsoft Word and limited to 30 pages; e-mail to Ms. Tricia Keene, Contract Specialist, tricia.keene@us.af.mil AND Ms. Tiffany Rogers, Contracting Officer, tiffany.rogers.2@us.af.mil. 7. Industry Discussions Air Force 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. 8. Questions Questions regarding this notice shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to Mr. Leonard Johnson, Contract Specialist, brittany.rohrer@us.af.mil AND Mrs. Pamela Bragg, Contracting Officer, pamela.bragg@us.af.mil. Verbal rquestions will NOT be accepted. Questions will be answered by posting answers as an attachment entitled Questions and Answers to this notice; accordingly, questions shall NOT contain proprietary or classified information. The Government does not guarantee that questions received after July 15, 2010 12:00 PM CDT will be answered. 9. Summary THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY to identify sources that can provide RESILIENCY AND ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (RALI) SERVICES. The information provided in the RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. The Air Force has not made a commitment to procure any of the items discussed, and release of this RFI should not be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur cost for which reimbursement would be required or sought. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.