SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- Enforcement, Investigations, & Analysis Officers Training
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 611210
— Junior Colleges
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Acquisitions and Agreements Section, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail drop 5230, Beltsville, MD, 20705, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- FSIS-02-B-07
- Response Due
- 11/30/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/1/2006
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking sources capable of providing the agency with Enforcement, Investigations, and Analysis Officers (EIAO) Training. The EIAO will support in-plant inspection personnel in verifying Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems adequacy; facilitate industry innovation; outbreak prevention and containment; apply risk analysis; improve compliance through effective communication with industry; and address unique problems that require a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach. The contractor will be responsible for a training curriculum, faculty to present the curriculum, coordination with FSIS for an integrated training package, provide facilities for training the students, and provide lodging for the students. It is anticipated that two classes will be offered each year and each class will last four weeks. Approximately half of the class time instruction will be developed and presented by FSIS. The other half will be the responsibility of the contractor. Contractor must be able to offer 3 college credit hours of instruction. The contractor is to provide a curriculum that contains the following: Food Microbiology; Design of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures; Epidemiological Investigative Techniques; Auditing; Finding and Applying Scientific Information; Statistics; Collecting/Handling Evidence; Behavioral analysis; Public Speaking; Computer Applications; Report Writing; Interviewing Skills; Dealing with Difficult People; Ethics, Integrity and Professionalism; Cultural Diversity and Working in a Multi-cultural Society; and Use of Digital Photography. A contractor offering only CEU or CPE credits for the curriculum listed above is not acceptable. Contractor must offer university college credit hours. If you are a source capable of providing college credit training for the above curriculum, please respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis with your company?s information, containing your qualifications. Respondents are asked to idenify their business size in their response to this sources sought synopsis. The NAICS Code associated with this notice is 611210 and the size standard is $6.5M. This notice is not a request for proposals and the Government does not intend to pay for information submitted. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the information they provide. No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, the information will be used in FSIS's assessment of capable sources. Responses should be submitted by November 30, 2006. Fax responses are not permitted. Questions concerning this announcement may be submitted via email only, no telephone inquires will be honored. All responses may be submitted by e-mail to Kathy.Richardson@fsis.usda.gov or by mail to Kathy Richardson at USDA, FSIS, ASD, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Maildrop 5230, Beltsville, MD 20705-5230. The information is due by 3:00 p.m. local time on November 30, 2006.
- Place of Performance
- Address: United States
- Zip Code: 20705
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20705
- Record
- SN01184654-W 20061123/061121220111 (fbodaily.com)
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