NOAA RFI: Integrated Management Consulting Services

Notice ID NA-AJ5700-23-00284

The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (OCAO) is a major staff office within NOAA with management functions in four major programmatic areas: (1) administrative programs, (2) facilities programs; (3) safety and security programs; and (4) assets. OCAO is chiefly responsible for NOAA-wide technical, programmatic guidance, and staff support to NOAA in the areas of Logistics Operations, Facilities Operations, Personal Property Management, Real Property Management, and Directives and Administrative Programs.

This requirement is for expertise capabilities in planning and implementing broad organizational change, including stakeholder engagement and change management, to support the line and staff offices of NOAA. Contractors shall provide expert advice and assistance in support of NOAA’s mission-oriented business functions. The following are examples of the types of integrated consulting services the Contractors may be expected to perform under this requirement. These examples are not all-inclusive or restrictive in nature and do not constitute relief from exercising professional judgment in the performance of the integrated consulting services.

a. Management or strategy consulting, including research, change management, communication plans, evaluations, studies, analyses, scenarios/simulations, reports, business policy and regulation development assistance, strategy formulation on issues related to organization, operations, and business technology;

b. Facilitation and related decision support services;

c. Survey services, using a variety of methodologies, including survey planning, design, and development; survey administration; data validation and analysis; reporting, and stakeholder briefings;

d. Executive level consulting, including providing expertise in addressing and implementing executive orders, strategic orders, and developing of business processes for new and existing organizational units; and/or

e. Planning consulting, including climate planning, equity planning, succession planning, staff planning, such as full-time employee versus contractor.