Request for Information (RFI) Office of Government Contracting Services (GCS) for the Professional Development Training Program (PDTP) 2021

This notice is hereby amended to provide the responses to advance questions received by the deadline. The Government also provides an extension to the response date as identified below. Organizations that replied to this RFI before today's amendment (3/8/2021) are invited to submit revised submissions. Full RFI responses due: prior to Midnight ET March 15, 2021 THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION IS FOR MARKET RESEARCH AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY – NO AWARD WILL BE MADE FROM THIS REQUEST Section I – Background The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) maintains >300 Acquisition Workforce Professionals (AWP) who plan for and maintain Federal Acquisition Certifications (FAC) in: Contracting (FAC-C), Contracting Officers Representative (FAC-COR) and Program/Project Management FAC-P/PM). Each FAC program maintains unique training requirements for both New/Initial and Re-certification established by the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) with HHS-specific requirements established at the agency level. To support ACF’s continued and expanded use of FAC programs its seeking information from qualified training vendors who can provide a catalog of training courses for use by ACF Federal employees. Section II – Training Areas of Interest (TAOI’s) Please review Appendix 1 – ACF Training Areas of Interest (TAOI) List for a complete list of all ACF desired training courses. All respondents are to used the provided ACF TAOI Response Form in Microsoft (MS) Excel (attached to this notice) when submitting a response to this RFI. Please review Section V – RFI Response Instructions for more details. Please review the full request for information attached. Please note the following key information for this RFI: ACF is committed to promoting dialogue and industry engagement through collaboration and sharing of knowledge and information. As part of this dialogue, we encourage potential respondents to submit advance questions prior to your formal response. Please email all advance questions to [email protected] and with the following text in the Email Subject Line as follows: Advance Questions for ACF RFI PDTP 2021 Any advance questions email submitted without the above Subject Line text in the email subject line will not be reviewed nor its questions responded to. Also do not submit any confidential or proprietary information with advanced questions. All advance questions must be submitted in writing prior to Midnight ET February 26, 2021 . No questions will be accepted via telephone, fax, or by physical mail. A complete list of all submitted questions and the Governments responses will be posted to Beta.Sam.gov via an Amended Notice prior to Midnight ET March 5, 2021 . Full RFI responses due: prior to Midnight ET March 12, 2021