Sources Sought-Marriage, Family, and Relationship Retreats

SYNOPSIS REQUEST FORM - SOURCES SOUGHT Market Survey DATE: 8 July 2015 Contracting Officer APPROVAL: __________________________ Type Synopsis Requested: P - Procurement (Circle Alpha) A - Notice of Award R - SOURCES SOUGHT M - Modification - Type Mod: (Circle Alpha) P - Procurement A - Award R - Sources Sought N - Special Notice Supply or Services Classification Code NAICS: 624190 / SIZE: $11 Million Subject of Synopsis: Marriage, Family, and Relationship Retreats IFB/RFP Number: Response Date or Bid Opening Date: 07/08/2015 MO/DY/YR Contact Points: (Contract Person(s), Title, Phone Number(s)) James McFarland III, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR, +1 (555) 000-0000 Clyde D. Shreve, CONTRACTING OFFICER, +1 (555) 000-0000 Contract Award Number: N/A Contract Award Dollar Amount: N/A Contract Line Item Number(s): N/A Contract Award Date: N/A Contractor: N/A ? NOTICE: Sources Sought SOLICITATION #: N/A POSTING DATE: 08 JUL 2015 RESPONSE DATE: 20 JUL 2015 1:00 p.m. CST NAICS Code: 624190 Other Individual and Family Services SB Size Standard: $11 Million This announcement constitutes a Sources Sought Synopsis (market survey). The Government anticipates the following requirement as a Sole Source Set-Aside for Live the Life Ministries; however, Offerors interested in this requirement shall communicate their ability to provide the requirements below. This is not a request for quote (RFQ) or a request for proposal (RFP). This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. The Government will not pay for any cost incurred in responding to this announcement. Any information submitted by respondents to this Sources Sought synopsis shall be voluntary. This Sources Sought Notice is for Market Research purposes only. The information submitted in response to the Sources Sought Notice will not be utilized to determine vendor standing in any future/potential Request for Quote/Request for Proposal, nor will it be utilized to determine if a vendor is qualified to submit a Request for Quote/Request for Proposal for any future/potential requirement. The notice and the information received shall not be used to determine how well respondents can perform a requirement, which can only be evaluated in response to a solicitation. Vendors will not receive formal notification or feedback on any information submitted in this Sources Sought request. All future/proposed submissions/solicitations requirements solicited on a Government Point of Entry will be evaluated independent of any information submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice. No vendor will be provided information on solicitations issued on a Government Point of Entry based on this Sources Sought request. This Sources Sought Notice is relative to the NAICS code 624190. The Small Business size standard for this NAICS code is $11 Million. Large and Small Businesses are invited to answer this market survey to determine market capabilities. Hurlburt Field, FL, is conducting market research to determine the existence of potential sources to provide Marriage, Family, and Relationship Retreats. The potential requirement will consist of the contractor providing: PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Provide courses and curriculum available through Live the Life Ministries for approximately 1746 participants. Prospective Offerors shall communicate their capability to provide the required courses, curriculum and the additional scope requirements as listed below: -Negotiate with hotels in Northwest Florida (within 50 miles of Hurlburt Field, FL) to secure hotel rooms/adequate lodging for each retreat at reasonable rates outlined in the budget -Negotiate catering for all events to ensure good quality food at a reasonable price -6 - "Adventures in Marriage" weekend retreats for married couples for up to 480 individuals - includes 2 nights lodging, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, and 1 lunch -4 - "Family Wellness" weekend Retreats for families for up to 480 family members - includes 2 nights lodging, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, and 1 lunch -4 - "Relationships 101" Weekend retreats for up to 200 singles - includes 2 nights lodging (2 singles per room), 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, and 1 lunch -2 - "Father and Son Champions" Retreats for 18 participants - includes lodging, meals, whitewater rafting, and transportation to North Carolina. -6 - "Date Nights" for up to 420 married and dating individuals. All Date Nights include dinner. for all participants, along with fun and creative date experiences (Date Night Game Show, photo scavenger hunt, red carpet movie night, Couple Hide and Seek, and others) -Childcare contract services for approximately 150 children to support the above events -Marketing flyers and materials for each event -Online registration for each program offered exclusively to Hurlburt Air Force Base personnel and their families at tiny_mce_marker.00 registration cost. Hurlburt Field Chapel Office will be responsible for filling/providing participants for all courses/programs. A more detailed description of each program and curricula provided is below. ADVENTURES IN MARRIAGE WEEKEND RETREAT FOR MARRIED COUPLES Adventures in Marriage combines core relationship principles with the latest research to provide specific, practical, attainable skills for a successful marriage. Couples will learn how to create the marriage they have always wanted with the spouse they already have! Other benefits include: -Express and accept anger without destroying love -Fight in such a way that couples resolve issues and feel closer to their spouse -Acknowledge and enjoy one another's differences rather than seeing them as a problem -Recognize when one's communication style is more of a problem than the actual problem couples are facing -Develop the ability to feel genuine empathy for one's partner instead of secret resentment -Express oneself clearly so that thoughts and feelings can be recognized and understood without causing a spouse to feel defensive, resentful, manipulated or inadequate -Avoid the mind reading that so often leads to misunderstanding between couples, and learn to avoid assumptions -Understand what went wrong in previous relationships or what is going wrong now RELATIONSHIPS 101 WEEKEND RETREAT The Relationships 101 weekend retreat teaches singles the basic skills for healthy relationships. This highly interactive program teaches singles, dating couples and engaged couples of all ages how to build healthy relationships by balancing the head and the heart. In addition to helping singles avoid falling for the wrong person, Relationships 101 helps dating/engaged individuals pace their relationship and know what exactly to look for in a healthy committed relationship. Other benefits of this program include: -Learn fundamental communication and conflict resolution skills needed for a healthy relationship -Discover how different personality types and different perspectives impact a marriage -Understand the major areas that predict what a person will be like in a marriage and the powerful bonding forces that must be kept in balance as a relationship grows -Describes the core dynamics that create attachment and the crucial areas that need to be explored in dating and premarital relationships -Avoid the common mistake in new relationships of assuming that how a person acts now is how he or she will act over the course of a long-term relationship -Learn the subtle yet powerful predictors to learn what a person will be like in a marriage FAMILY WELLNESS WEEKEND RETREAT Family Wellness retreats gives families the skills, support, and practice they need to build on their existing healthy patterns and add new ways of living and working together. All members from children through extended family and support systems are invited to attend the retreat. Because all family members contribute to the health and the working of a family, skills and concepts are taught allowing each family member to understand and use them. In order for families to thrive, they need new tools and support systems to handle the complex challenges they face every day. Family Wellness is designed for parents who want to get back in charge of their children and their lives, and includes the basic "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" offered through 6 core lessons: 1. Parents in Healthy Families 2. Children in Healthy Families 3. Adult Relationships - Couples in Healthy Families 4. As Children Grow - Change in Healthy Families 5. Solving Family Problems 6. Sex, Drugs, and You-Passing on Your Values to Your Children Each session is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions, which are demonstrated and then practiced with the participants. The program is a proven model for teaching skills, enhancing healthy family interactions, and investing family members in each other and their unique community. Other benefits of the program include: -Gives parents skills and support for managing their children -Provides a supportive program for family members to acquire skills for managing their lives and building health in their families. -Prevention and intervention in the areas of domestic violence, drug, alcohol, and child abuse -Excellent for Stepfamilies, troubled youth, -Teaches family preservation and conflict resolution skills to youth and families -Effective Prevention: Stops problems before they start -Packaged and easily implemented program for targeted populations including the military -Focus on management of children and stronger couple's relationships -Meets legal and program requirements for court ordered abuse cases (spousal, child, and drug/alcohol abuse) -Coaching of family members in their own real-life "stuck" places or problem areas. -Dramatic Role-Play of real family situations, problems, and ways of working through problems. -Drama captures the attention and interest of most participants because it approaches their various learning modalities-visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, through its portrayal of real life. DATE NIGHTS Date Nights are a fun, creative, non-threatening way for couples to invest in their relationships by creating regular date night activities together. Date Nights enhance our most valuable relationships. FATHER SON CHAMPIONS WEEKEND RETREAT The Father/Son Champions retreat works with fathers to help them teach their sons how to become men and guides them through instruction, experience, and example. We respond forcefully to a culture that sends confusing messages to young men, and provide a clear, reliable, and achievable roadmap to manhood. This program is highly relational, and highly experiential, because we believe that is how young men learn best. The program content includes the Roadmap to Manhood and the 6 stages of becoming a man. Held as a 5 day, 4 night weekend retreat in the mountains of North Carolina, provide plenty of outdoor activities including hiking, adventure experiences, whitewater rafting, and sliding off waterfalls. NOTE: Please submit electronic response indicating capability to supply the aforementioned item(s) via line card or published description (no more than 3 pages) as well as POC (name, telephone # and email address) along with contractor's CAGE, DUNS, and the physical location of your facility to the individuals listed within this notice. This request may not directly lead to a Request for Quotation/Proposal. Deadline for submission is 1:00 p.m. CST, 20 JUL 2015. Required Information: Any interested party who can offer all of the above may submit a written reply of not more than 3 pages, addressing each of the above items and defining their capability to provide ALL of the minimum requirements listed above. Response deadline: 1:00 p.m. CST, 20 JUL 2015 Where to send responses: Electronically: 1 SOCONS/LGCA ATTN: SrA James McFarland III E-mail: contact@example.gov 350 Tully St., Building 90339 Phone: +1 (555) 000-0000 Hurlburt Field, FL 32544 1SOCONS/LGCA E-mail: contact@example.gov ATTN: Mr. Clyde Shreve Phone: +1 (555) 000-0000 350 Tully St., Building 90339 Hurlburt Field, FL 32544 Other information: When and if released, the solicitation will be posted to the Federal Business Opportunities web site (www.fbo.gov).