SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Career Building for Women in Science
- Notice Date
- 3/3/2020 10:49:04 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- NIH NCI ROCKVILLE MD 20852 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- 75N91020R00019
- Response Due
- 3/13/2020 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 03/28/2020
- Point of Contact
- David Romley, Phone: 2402767822
- E-Mail Address
-
David.Romley@nih.gov
(David.Romley@nih.gov)
- Description
- This Small Business Sources Sought Notice (SBSS) is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The purpose of this Sources Sought Notice is to identify qualified Small Business concerns including 8(a), HUBZone or Service-Disabled Veteran-owned businesses that are interested in and capable of performing the work described herein. The NCI does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses received nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. This requirement is assigned North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 611430 with a size standard of $11,000,000. As a result of this Sources Sought Notice, the NCI may issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ). THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.� However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against NCI shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought Notice or the NCI�s use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement. The Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research (SRK) program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is made possible by a generous bequest to the Foundation for NIH.� This is an ongoing yearly program with participants competitively selected annually from the current pool of female NCI postdoctoral fellows from within the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) intramural research settings, including basic, clinical, epidemiological, and prevention sciences.� The SRK program targets highly qualified postdoctoral fellows to provide additional mentoring opportunities, and classes or workshops designed to strengthen leadership skills over a one-year period. The �Career Building for Women in Science� course is a core element of the SRK program at the NCI.� The course must be structured to provide individualized and long-term exposure to methodologies shown to improve management and relationship-building skills, to network with each other, and to enhance confidence through mentorship so as to remain in scientific research. The professional skills taught during the course should be specific to the career development needs of female postdoctoral trainees. Thus, the personalized life coaching experience offered by the contractor should be tailored to the women at the NCI. The course should teach and reinforce confidence-building tools and leadership skills necessary to compete in the scientific marketplace, to retain them in the scientific community, and to help transition them to independent research careers.� Prepare, edit, and revise course materials for the SRK program; conduct two one-day workshops and bi-weekly chats to reinforce the coursework; travel to site to conduct both workshops; and individualized emails and calls will be the cornerstone of the program.� The course will take place at the NCI Bethesda and Shady Grove campuses. Contractor shall have at least ten years of experience in professional life coaching, which is distinct from lectures or other forms of instruction in that it leverages personalized, on-the-spot feedback. Contractor shall be able to offer a unique educational background in science and engineering by holding a Ph.D. in a science field.� This would enable the contractor to understand scientists and deliver instruction that directly addresses needs unique to that community by personally relating to the program participants� graduate and post-graduate training experiences by �speaking their language.� Contractor shall offer a combination of different instruction formats that have been tailored to the women postdoctoral fellows at NCI:� workshops, personalized coaching, group support calls, structured assignments, and strong community-building through a social network to hold fellows accountable to themselves and to each other for completing all the assignments.� Completion of tasks is ascertained by participants and program manager in attendance. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE Base Period:������� ������� September 19, 2020 to September 18, 2021 Option Period One: ��� September 19, 2021 to September 18, 2022 Option Period Two:��� September 19, 2022 to September 18, 2023 Option Period Three:� September 19, 2023 to September 18, 2024 Option Period Four:��� September 19, 2024 to September 18, 2025 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Rockville, MD, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN05578758-F 20200305/200304221140 (samdaily.us)
- Source
-
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