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NASA Leadership Development Program
Vendor's Questions and Customer Response - 80NSSC27944226Q

Questions:
1. RFQ Section 5. Section 5 provides for award to the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quote, but it does not describe the technical content required. Please identify what NASA will evaluate (e.g., approach by module, facilitator and coach qualifications, past performance) and any page limits. May offerors include a sample session plan and sample participant materials? A defined list will let NASA compare quotes on the same basis. Alignment with the SOW. 2. SOW, Scope of Work and Performance Period. The SOW specifies six monthly

full-day sessions and a half-day capstone over seven months. Would NASA consider an alternate format that achieves the desired result in a more efficient schedule/agenda? For example: three two-day sessions over three to four months, with coaching between sessions – or – three one-day sessions with the appropriate agenda. This would concentrate supervisors’ time away from their teams into fewer blocks and allow skills to be practiced over consecutive days. No, in person sessions are preferred.
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If NASA is open to this, may offerors submit an alternate quote under FAR 52.212-1(e) alongside a quote that follows the current schedule?

3. SOW, Scope of Work. The SOW requires two coaching sessions per participant

“during the six month duration,” plus check-ins between sessions. To fit supervisors’ schedules, may coaching and check-ins be held by phone or video? Two individual coaching sessions per participant. Anytime in the 6 month period – ideally between sessions 2 and 4. The sessions can be virtual.

4. SOW, Modules 1 and 2. The SOW calls for a validated strengths

assessment, such as the VIA Character Strengths Assessment, and a multirater assessment, such as the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI).
Please confirm that equivalent validated instruments meet the requirement if they measure the competencies described in each module. We would prefer the assessments listed. However, are open to equivalent assessments that meet the intent for assessing strengths and emotional intelligence.

NASA Leadership Development Program
Vendor's Questions and Customer Response - 80NSSC27944226Q

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Where an instrument requires a certified practitioner, may the offeror engage one to administer it and deliver feedback? Yes.
How many raters per participant does NASA anticipate, and who will identify them? There is no cap on raters. The participants will identify their raters.