SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Senior Executive Seminar - Performance Work Statement
- Notice Date
- 8/14/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, Office of Acquisitions, FSI/EX/GSACQ, 4000 Arlington Boulevard, Room F-2129, SA-42, Arlington, Virginia, 22204, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22204
- Solicitation Number
- SFSIAQ12SS0005
- Archive Date
- 9/4/2012
- Point of Contact
- Erin E Williams, Phone: 7033027735
- E-Mail Address
-
williamsee3@state.gov
(williamsee3@state.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- SETS Performance Work Statement This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT to conduct market research for a Small Business Set-Aside, Fixed Price Contract for the US Department of State, Foreign Service Institute. This announcement is to identify potential interested firms capable of delivering an instructional seminar for the Leadership and Management School within the Foreign Service Institute. The Senior Executive Threshold Seminar prepares newly promoted Senior Executive Service and Foreign Service Officers in the foreign affairs community for the challenges they will face leading across agency and national boundaries. The culmination of the mandatory leadership training continuum, SETS focuses on the specific skills necessary for successful performance at the most senior levels of government. Audience: Newly promoted Senior Foreign Service Counselors (FE-OC) and Senior Executive Service (SES) Officers. Four slots will be held for equivalent officers from other foreign affairs agencies. Length: 10 days Participants learn to: • Refine executive-level interpersonal skills; • Increase abilities to build interdisciplinary teams and collaborative relationships across organizational and political boundaries; • Understand the challenges and expectations of people at the top of their organizations; • Develop strategies for successful inter-agency and multilateral approaches to domestic and international problems Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Competencies Addressed: Conflict Management Creativity and Innovation Decisiveness Developing others External Awareness Influencing/Negotiating Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Oral Communication Partnering Problem Solving Strategic Thinking Team Building Vision Foreign Service (FS) Precepts Addressed: Active Listening Critical Thinking Decision Making and Judgment Oral Communication Persuasion and Negotiation Professional Standards Team Building Workplace Perceptiveness How to effectively pursue US Government interests in a foreign environment Long - term strategic planning in an international environment in the years 2030 and beyond particularly in the areas of population, resource management and climate change, technological innovation and diffusion, the development and dissemination of information and knowledge, economics, the nature and mode of security and the challenge of governance. Contractors should base presentation of bi partisan research, use of foreign policy participants and provide web resources for class participants who can access studies. Some quick thoughts on the requirements for a strategic thinking presentation for SETS: • The presentation should identify trends that will shape the world in the next 10-20 years. • The presentation should be research-based. • The presentation should be tailored to leaders in the foreign affairs arena. • The presentation should incorporate and reflect the thinking of well-known leaders in foreign affairs (e.g., former Secretaries of State, National Security Advisors, etc.) • The presentation cannot be partisan. • The contractor must offer a website that provides additional information about the ideas presented in during the session. • Experience offering this presentation to senior US Government officials is highly desirable. Please note this is not a Request for Proposal or Quote and the Government is seeking information for market research purposes only. A capabilities statement, including the required information listed below, will suffice. Responses should include the following: 1. Company Name, Address, Point of Contact, Phone number and e-mail address 2. Business size determination, qualifying Small Business Status, DUNS number 3. Demonstration of the company's RELEVANT experience within the past five years, listing the projects completed. Please provide a BRIEF description of the work performed 4. Please provide an estimated amount (not an official quote) to complete the tasks described above. Please provide your responses by 3:00 p.m. (EST) on August 20, 2012 by email to williamsee3@state.gov with "SETS Sources Sought" on the Subject Line.
- Web Link
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/State/FSI/GSACQ/SFSIAQ12SS0005/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 4000 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia, 22204, United States
- Zip Code: 22204
- Zip Code: 22204
- Record
- SN02839174-W 20120816/120815001018-138f960660c49ef45e538e972ac9d585 (fbodaily.com)
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