SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Motorcycle Safety Program Management Course Conversion - Sources Sought Notice (DTNH2217RQ00325)
- Notice Date
- 2/22/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTNH2217RQ00325
- Point of Contact
- Vincent Lynch, Phone: 202-366-9568
- E-Mail Address
-
vincent.lynch@dot.gov
(vincent.lynch@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice. Action Code: S Classification Code: U008 Solicitation: DTNH2217RQ00325 Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ NAICS Code: 611430, Professional and Management Development Training, $11.0M Point of Contract: Vincent Lynch, Contracting Officer, ph(202) 366-9568 Title: Motorcycle Safety Program Management Course Conversion Description(s): The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein to develop a complete blended Motorcycle Safety Program Management course curriculum that can be administered by a third party trainer. NHTSA welcomes all qualified certified Small Business concerns with the appropriate NAICS Code and past experience to submit their Corporate Capability Statements that demonstrate their ability to successfully accomplish the goals of the proposed project as listed below. In addition to soliciting on the open market, the government may decide to later limit its competition to those qualified GSA MOBIS Schedule holding contractors listed under SIN 874-1, Integrated Consulting Services, 874-4, Training Services: Instructor Led Training, Web Based Training and Education Courses, Course Development and Test Administration, Learning Management, Internships, and/or 874-7, Integrated Business Program Support Services. NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses to this notice or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made; and no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted by NHTSA. NHTSA may; however later on issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this notice. BACKGROUND: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency develops, promotes, and implements effective educational, engineering, and enforcement programs with the goal of ending vehicle crash tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. The Safety Countermeasures Division conducts extensive research, data collection and analysis activities to provide the scientific basis needed to support the Agency's motor vehicle and traffic safety goals. For years NHTSA has relied on the Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) to help develop and deliver training courses to state highway safety office personnel. These courses have been instrumental in providing support to states in areas regarding Program Management, Financial Management, Data Analysis, to name a few. The TSI Motorcycle Safety Program Management Course is a 6-hour blended moderated online course offered over two days. As NHTSA prepares to update the course curriculum, there are several needs that have been identified that warrant the support of an instructional design firm. The evolution of "blended learning" has become much more sophisticated in recent years - it is no longer an e-learn format with a classroom. The existing course curriculum was essentially a platform to display PowerPoint decks. NHTSA has begun the process of identifying additional and updated content objectives, but the agency requires support in how to more effectively deliver that content. With the broad mixed-ability audience that NHTSA hopes to attract to this course (ABATE members, traffic engineers, public health officials, etc.), there is a need for activities embedded into the course to maintain engagement, as well as a variable proficiency objective for each identified audience target. Additionally, NHTSA requires the support to facilitate development of additional products that will augment the classroom time (i.e. pre-coursework, homework in between the two classroom sessions, customized quizzes, scenario development, and experiential learning development). Action mapping is an industry-wide visual approach to e-learning, which focuses on performance, not information - so what learners need to do, not what they need to know. Action mapping uses activities, which mirror what learners need to do to reach the business goal. The activities put the learner in the work situation, and ask them to make decisions like the ones they would in real life. NHTSA requires assistance in identifying and developing those objectives in a much more measurable way than what has previously been prepared. Additionally, not all student segments will need identical proficiencies (i.e., ABATE member vs highway safety office staff), and the action mapping process should account for these identified differences, and allow for modular performance testing. With the volume of information that needs to be conveyed, there is a legitimate concern for learner fatigue. We have somewhat technical information that builds off of each other. If the student misses one of the concepts, the comprehension for the successive concepts will remain low. NHTSA needs support on how to best break up the information into interactive and moderated, and the split between audible and visual. There also needs to be an element of storytelling - numerous studies show that storytelling ranks as one of the highest methods for conceptual recall among students. NHTSA needs assistance with development of complementary learning framework for this curriculum. There exists a need to have considerable thought into how the content narrative flows. The information developed currently is a series of content slides stuck together, jumping from idea to idea: this slide makes this point; this slide makes that point. In other words: an information dump. Support is needed on how to stitch the concepts together, and a formal process for developing scenarios (which students often find more valuable than information presentations) One goal is to get away from a mere information dump, which will require spreading out the delivery of the course, with a balance of e-learning and virtual classroom. The current format of 3 hours on back-to-back days may not be the best. Allowing time for independent study or e-learn during a several day break in between the moderated modules may better suit NHTSA's needs, particularly as it pertains to Data Analysis and Problem Identification. In industry-speak, this is called "flipping the classroom". OBJECTIVE: The objective is to provide to develop a complete blended Motorcycle Safety Program Management course curriculum that can be administered by a third party. The instructional design team will work with SMEs to meet the identified needs mentioned above, including improved curriculum modules relating to Problem Identification, Countermeasure Selection, Data Analysis, and Program Evaluation. Capabilities: The corporate capability statement must address the capabilities necessary to accomplish the scope outlined above as well as the additional tasks and characteristics given below: The Corp. Capability Statement should address their experience in conducting and providing training for a Motorcycle Safety Program Management Course that will satisfy varying degrees of data analysis, and varying needs to develop the skills of motorcycle students and stakeholders. Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement: Any interested qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns should submit their Corporate Capability Statement, which demonstrates the firm's ability and past experience in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above to the identified NHTSA point of contact listed herein. Any proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to certify the type and size of their business organization is in-line with the requirements of this Sources Sought Notice, and must be received no later than 10 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, District of Columbia, 20590, United States
- Zip Code: 20590
- Zip Code: 20590
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