SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- POWER AND PRIVILEGE
- Notice Date
- 8/13/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.I, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNG09AP35Z
- Response Due
- 8/28/2009
- Archive Date
- 8/13/2010
- Point of Contact
- Patricia` C Jefferson, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-286-5041, Fax 301-286-0247, Email Patricia.C.Jefferson@nasa.gov - James M Debelius, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-5491, Fax 301-286-0247, Email James.M.Debelius@nasa.gov<br />
- E-Mail Address
-
Patricia` C Jefferson
(Patricia.C.Jefferson@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- NASA/GSFC intends to purchase the items from S.L. Robbins and associates on a solesource basis. The primary objective of the work to be performed is to examine issues ofpower, privilege, diversity, and inclusion and race and how they affect everyone,regardless of color, at Goddard. The workshop will enable participants to be more awareof and skillful at managing discrepancies related to race, power, privilege, diversity,and inclusion as they carry out their functional supervisory and leadership duties acrossthe Center. It will also increase their capacity to recognize and discuss dynamics ofrace, power, privilege, diversity, and inclusion within their functional organizationsand thus create opportunities for improving understanding, problem solving,decision-making, and teamwork.S.L. Robbins & Associates has successfully developed and previously delivered Race, Powerand Privilege workshop modules for other Goddard organizations. The workshop's designand facilitation effectively enabled participants, regardless of race, to examine anddiscuss the systemic nature of racial privilege and its impact on themselves and atGoddard. Several Goddard organizations, members of the Centers Management council andindividuals attended the previous S.L. Robbins and Associates workshop. As determined bySpecial Assistant for Diversity and directorate management it has been determined thatthat all non-supervisory Civil Servant employees need to receive the same training inorder for the center to fully accomplish the goals of its future planning initiative.The previously delivered workshop required has been modified in order to highlightGoddard specific context, but the foundations of the workshop remain in their entirety. S.L. Robbins & Associates has extensive, unique experience in working with theorganizational cultures at GSFC. They have proven skills and expertise in creating thenecessary transformative experience in this culture for bringing the issue of racism froma cognitive, conceptual and analytical level to an effective, operational andsolution-oriented level. S.L. Robbins & Associates is uniquely qualified to conduct atraining workshop similar to the one found to be so effective in the Goddard culturepreviously and to apply it to the specific needs of OHCM, EEO and the Special Assistantfor Diversity.For this workshop to enable OHCM to remain a leading voice in theCenters conversations about race, power, privilege, diversity and inclusion and tofulfill its obligations to the Centers diversity strategy, S.L. Robbins is the onlyresponsible source.No other potential source that possesses the experience, skills, and knowledge necessaryto successfully meet the Office of Human Capital Management (OHCM) requirements for thisworkshop are known to exist. The information provided in the workshop is copyrightedmaterial.The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is the Services Acquisition Reform Act of 2003 (41 U.S.C. 428a), as implemented in Federal AcquisitionRegulation (FAR) 13.501 (a)(1)(ii).Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform theeffort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 3:00 p.m. EST time onAugust 28, 2009. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for thepurpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the government not to complete this proposed effort on a full andopen competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within thediscretion of the government.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note "B".Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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