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Solicitation for a Cooperative
Agreement—Development of a Core
Correctional Practices Curriculum
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AGENCY:
National Institute of
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ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative
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15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’),
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The National Institute of
Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals
from organizations, groups, or
individuals to enter into a cooperative
agreement for a nine-month project
period for the development of a
competency-based and performancedriven curriculum that will provide
corrections professionals with the
knowledge and skills to facilitate
effective changes in individual
offender’s behavior. The curriculum
SUMMARY:
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will be on two levels: (1) Training line
staff who work with offenders under
correctional supervision and (2) training
those who train line staff who work
with offenders.
DATES: Applications must be received
by 4 p.m. EST on Monday, April 9,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Applicants are encouraged
to submit their proposals electronically
via https://www.grants.gov. Mailed
applications must be sent to: Director,
National Institute of Corrections, 320
First Street NW., Room 5002,
Washington, DC 20534. If submitted in
hard copy, there must be an original and
three unbound copies of the full
proposal. The original should have the
applicant’s signature in blue ink.
Applicants are encouraged to use
Federal Express, UPS, or similar service
to ensure delivery by the due date.
Faxed applications will not be
accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
copy of this announcement can be
downloaded from the NIC Web site at
www.nicic.gov. All technical or
programmatic questions concerning this
announcement should be directed to
Bernie Iszler, Correctional Program
Specialist, National Institute of
Corrections. She can be reached by
calling 303–338–6618 or by email at
biszler@bop.gov. All questions, answers,
and additional information related to
this solicitation will be linked to its
announcement on the NIC Web site at
https://nicic.gov/cooperativeagreements
during the time this solicitation remains
open.
Related Solicitation: NIC is issuing
two separate, but closely related
solicitations in March 2012: This one
and a second one titled ‘‘Curriculum
Development for MET, ECCP, and ICMS
Training Project’’. Two separate awards
will be made through these two
solicitations. Applicants may submit
proposals under both of these
solicitations, but the two awards will be
made independently of one another and
each project will be managed separately.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
For many years, NIC has been
committed to promoting risk reduction
through the use of evidence-based
policies and practices. More
specifically, for corrections line staff,
NIC has developed and supported
Thinking for a Change, a synthesized
cognitive behavioral offender group
intervention (see https://nicic.gov/
Library/025057); created several
iterations of training on interpersonal
communications skills (see https://
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nicic.gov/Training/NICWBT18 and
https://nicic.gov/Library/020035); and
supported the dissemination of
information on motivational
interviewing (see https://nicic.gov/
MotivationalInterviewing).
In addition, recent work in training
probation officers on how to combine
the risk-need-responsivity model of
offender rehabilitation with ‘‘techniques
of influence’’ (structured skills,
intervention techniques, and behaviors)
has resulted in positive outcomes for
individual interventions with offenders
(see https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/res/
cor/rep/_fl/2010-01-rnr-eng.pdf).
Several curricula for individual
offender interventions have been
developed that use combinations of
cognitive-behavioral techniques,
motivational interviewing, cognitive
restructuring, relationship building, and
role clarification. These include the
Strategic Training Initiative in
Community Supervision (STICS) by
Public Safety Canada; Effective Practices
in Community Supervision (EPICS) by
the University of Cincinnati Corrections
Institute; Strategic Techniques Aimed at
Reducing Rearrest (STARR) by the
Administrative Office of the United
States Courts, Office of Probation and
Pretrial Services; Effective Practices in
Correctional Settings II (EPICS II) by
Christopher T. Lowenkamp, Charles R.
Robinson, & Melanie S. Lowenkamp;
and Working with Involuntary Clients
by Chris Trotter. Because each of these
intervention tools have been created for
frontline corrections staff to use in
affecting offender change, NIC sees the
current environment as a moment of
opportunity to create a curriculum for
an individual intervention strategy that
uses adult learning research (see NIC
ITIP Toolkit https://nicic.gov/Library/
024773) and leverages a blend of
delivery platforms (synchronous,
asynchronous, and classroom) to teach
corrections professionals how to train,
implement, and coach frontline staff in
effective core correctional practices.
Scope of Work: Tasks to be performed
under this cooperative agreement
include the following:
(1) The creation of two curricula: one
that will be training for staff and a
second one that will be training for
trainers. Both curricula will have two
levels. The level 1 curriculum will be
for case managers, probation officers,
parole officers, and other corrections
staff who have case management time
with offenders. The level 2 curriculum
will be for corrections officers, line staff,
and others who interact with offenders
regularly but do not have case
management duties. In effect, level 2
will be for corrections staff who directly
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supervise offenders. The curriculum
will be based on the Effective Practices
in Correctional Settings II (EPICS–II) by
Christopher T. Lowenkamp, Charles R.
Robinson, & Melanie S. Lowenkamp and
Strategic Techniques Aimed at
Reducing Rearrest (STARR) by the
Administrative Office of the US Courts,
Office of Probation and Pretrial Services
(permission has been obtained for use of
the curricula), and ‘‘Interpersonal
Communications in the Correctional
Setting: IPC’’ by the National Institute of
Corrections (NIC accession #020035).
The curriculum developed by the
awardee should allow for the use of
blended elements, including classroom
or individual instruction, e-courses, and
virtual instructor-led training as well as
coaching/feedback. A blended process
could include the following elements:
(A) Agency and facilitator/trainer/coach
readiness survey: virtual instructor-led
training (VILT), and a WebEx. (B)
Orientation: VILT, expectations, outline,
and an agency plan (practices,
recordings, job coaching, job aids). (C)
Background information: e-course,
theory, history, and research (adult
learning and evidence-based practices).
(D) Model-skill steps: recorded sessions,
Participant workbook, and a blog/forum
discussion. (E) Guided practice with
scenarios: VILT and a question guide.
(F) Demos/tryouts: instructor-led
training where size of groups could
vary, and coaching of agency trainers/
coaches.
(2) The creation of a Core Correctional
Practices Training for Trainers
curriculum.
(3) The delivery of the CCP training
and CCP training for trainers to a pilot
site to be identified by NIC, evaluation
of the pilot training, and revisions to
curricula after pilot site delivery.
(4) Participation in organizational
planning meetings with NIC staff and
subject matter experts. Awardee
expenses for these meetings are limited
to the awardee’s own project team’s
costs of travel, lodging and meals,
incidental expenses, and compensation.
Awardees should plan on at least one 2day meeting to take place at the NIC
National Corrections Academy in
Aurora, Colorado. Participation in other
planning and coordination meetings
will take place as necessary throughout
the life of the project through
teleconferences and WebEx meetings.
(5) The delivery of a full report on the
project together with all the materials
developed during the project and in a
design and format appropriate for public
dissemination. A draft of these materials
must be submitted prior to the end of
the project and follow NIC’s
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requirements for documents or other
media.
Specific Requirements: Documents or
other media that are produced under
this award must follow these guidelines:
Prior to the preparation of the final draft
of any document or other media, the
awardee must consult with NIC’s writer/
editor concerning the acceptable formats
for manuscript submissions and the
technical specifications for electronic
media. For all awards in which a
document will be a deliverable, the
awardee must follow the guidelines
listed herein, as well as follow the
Guidelines for Preparing and Submitting
Manuscripts for Publication as found in
the ‘‘General Guidelines for Cooperative
Agreements,’’ which can be found on
our Web site at www.nicic.gov/
cooperativeagreements.
All final documents and other media
submitted for posting on the NIC Web
site must meet the federal government’s
requirement for accessibility (508 PDF
or HTML file). The awardee must
provide descriptive text interpreting all
graphics, photos, graphs, and/or
multimedia to be included with or
distributed alongside the materials and
must provide transcripts for all
applicable audio/visual works.
Application Requirements:
Applications should be concisely
written, typed double spaced and
reference the project by the ‘‘NIC
Opportunity Number’’ and title in this
announcement. The package must
include a cover letter that identifies the
audit agency responsible for the
applicant’s financial accounts as well as
the audit period or fiscal year that the
applicant operates under (e.g., July 1
through June 30); a program narrative
not to exceed 30 pages in response to
the statement of work; and a budget
narrative explaining projected costs.
Applicants may submit a description of
the project team’s qualifications and
expertise relevant to the project but
should not attach lengthy resumes.
Large attachments to the proposal
describing the organization are
discouraged.
The following forms must also be
included: OMB Standard Form 424,
Application for Federal Assistance;
OMB Standard Form 424A, Budget
information—Non-Construction
Programs; OMB Standard Form 424B,
Assurances—Non-Construction
Programs (these forms are available at
https://www.grants.gov) and DOJ/NIC
Certification Regarding Lobbying;
Debarment, Suspension and Other
Responsibility Matters; and the DrugFree Workplace Requirements available
at https://nicic.gov/Downloads/General/
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required forms with the application
package will result in disqualification of
the application from consideration.
Authority: Public Law 93–415
Funds Available: NIC is seeking the
applicant’s best ideas regarding
accomplishment of the scope of work
and the related costs for achieving the
goals of this solicitation. Funding is set
at $64,000.00. Funds may be used only
for the activities that are linked to the
desired outcome of the project.
Eligibility of Applicants: An eligible
applicant is any public or private
agency, educational institution,
organization, individual, or team with
expertise in the described areas.
Review Considerations
Applications received under this
announcement will be subject to the
NIC review process. Proposals that fail
to provide sufficient information to have
them evaluated under the criteria below
may be judged non-responsive and
disqualified. The criteria for the
evaluation of each application will be as
follows:
Progammatic (40%)
Are all of the five project tasks
adequately discussed? Is there a clear
statement of how each task will be
accomplished, including major subtasks, the strategies to be employed,
required staffing, and other required
resources? Are there any innovative
approaches, techniques, or design
aspects proposed that will enhance the
project?
Organizational (35%)
Does the proposed project staff
possess the skills, knowledge, and
expertise necessary to complete the
tasks listed under the scope of work?
Does the applicant organization, group,
or individual have the organizational
capacity to achieve all five project tasks?
Are the proposed project management
and staffing plans realistic and
sufficient to complete the project within
the project time frame?
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Project Management/Administration
(25%)
Does the applicant identify reasonable
objectives, milestones, and measures to
track progress? If the applicant proposes
consultants and/or partnerships, is there
a reasonable justification for their
inclusion in the project and a clear
structure to ensure effective
coordination? Is the proposed budget
realistic, does it provide a sufficient cost
detail/narrative, and does it represent
good value relative to the anticipated
results?
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Note: NIC will NOT award a cooperative
agreement to an applicant who does not have
a Dun and Bradstreet Database Universal
Number (DUNS) and is not registered in the
Central Contractor Registry (CCR).
A DUNS number can be received at
no cost by calling the dedicated toll-free
DUNS number request line at 1–800–
333–0505 (if you are a sole proprietor,
you would dial 1–866–705–5711 and
select option 1).
Registration in the CRR can be done
online at the CCR Web site: https://
www.bpn.gov/ccr. A CCR Handbook and
worksheet can also be reviewed at the
Web site.
Number of Awards: One.
NIC Opportunity Number: 12AC05.
This number should appear as a
reference line in the cover letter, where
indicated on Standard Form 424, and
outside of the envelope in which the
application is sent.
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Number: 16.601.
Executive Order 12372: This project is
not subject to the provisions of
Executive Order 12372.
Morris L. Thigpen,
Director, National Institute of Corrections.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
National Institute of Corrections
Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement--Development of a Core
Correctional Practices Curriculum
AGENCY: National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice.
ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting
proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a
cooperative agreement for a nine-month project period for the
development of a competency-based and performance-driven curriculum
that will provide corrections professionals with the knowledge and
skills to facilitate effective changes in individual offender's
behavior. The curriculum will be on two levels: (1) Training line staff
who work with offenders under correctional supervision and (2) training
those who train line staff who work with offenders.
DATES: Applications must be received by 4 p.m. EST on Monday, April 9,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Applicants are encouraged to submit their proposals
electronically via https://www.grants.gov. Mailed applications must be
sent to: Director, National Institute of Corrections, 320 First Street
NW., Room 5002, Washington, DC 20534. If submitted in hard copy, there
must be an original and three unbound copies of the full proposal. The
original should have the applicant's signature in blue ink. Applicants
are encouraged to use Federal Express, UPS, or similar service to
ensure delivery by the due date.
Faxed applications will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of this announcement can be
downloaded from the NIC Web site at www.nicic.gov. All technical or
programmatic questions concerning this announcement should be directed
to Bernie Iszler, Correctional Program Specialist, National Institute
of Corrections. She can be reached by calling 303-338-6618 or by email
at biszler@bop.gov. All questions, answers, and additional information
related to this solicitation will be linked to its announcement on the
NIC Web site at https://nicic.gov/cooperativeagreements during the time
this solicitation remains open.
Related Solicitation: NIC is issuing two separate, but closely
related solicitations in March 2012: This one and a second one titled
``Curriculum Development for MET, ECCP, and ICMS Training Project''.
Two separate awards will be made through these two solicitations.
Applicants may submit proposals under both of these solicitations, but
the two awards will be made independently of one another and each
project will be managed separately.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
For many years, NIC has been committed to promoting risk reduction
through the use of evidence-based policies and practices. More
specifically, for corrections line staff, NIC has developed and
supported Thinking for a Change, a synthesized cognitive behavioral
offender group intervention (see https://nicic.gov/Library/025057);
created several iterations of training on interpersonal communications
skills (see https://
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nicic.gov/Training/NICWBT18 and https://nicic.gov/Library/020035); and
supported the dissemination of information on motivational interviewing
(see https://nicic.gov/MotivationalInterviewing).
In addition, recent work in training probation officers on how to
combine the risk-need-responsivity model of offender rehabilitation
with ``techniques of influence'' (structured skills, intervention
techniques, and behaviors) has resulted in positive outcomes for
individual interventions with offenders (see https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/res/cor/rep/_fl/2010-01-rnr-eng.pdf).
Several curricula for individual offender interventions have been
developed that use combinations of cognitive-behavioral techniques,
motivational interviewing, cognitive restructuring, relationship
building, and role clarification. These include the Strategic Training
Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS) by Public Safety Canada;
Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS) by the University
of Cincinnati Corrections Institute; Strategic Techniques Aimed at
Reducing Rearrest (STARR) by the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts, Office of Probation and Pretrial Services; Effective
Practices in Correctional Settings II (EPICS II) by Christopher T.
Lowenkamp, Charles R. Robinson, & Melanie S. Lowenkamp; and Working
with Involuntary Clients by Chris Trotter. Because each of these
intervention tools have been created for frontline corrections staff to
use in affecting offender change, NIC sees the current environment as a
moment of opportunity to create a curriculum for an individual
intervention strategy that uses adult learning research (see NIC ITIP
Toolkit https://nicic.gov/Library/024773) and leverages a blend of
delivery platforms (synchronous, asynchronous, and classroom) to teach
corrections professionals how to train, implement, and coach frontline
staff in effective core correctional practices.
Scope of Work: Tasks to be performed under this cooperative
agreement include the following:
(1) The creation of two curricula: one that will be training for
staff and a second one that will be training for trainers. Both
curricula will have two levels. The level 1 curriculum will be for case
managers, probation officers, parole officers, and other corrections
staff who have case management time with offenders. The level 2
curriculum will be for corrections officers, line staff, and others who
interact with offenders regularly but do not have case management
duties. In effect, level 2 will be for corrections staff who directly
supervise offenders. The curriculum will be based on the Effective
Practices in Correctional Settings II (EPICS-II) by Christopher T.
Lowenkamp, Charles R. Robinson, & Melanie S. Lowenkamp and Strategic
Techniques Aimed at Reducing Rearrest (STARR) by the Administrative
Office of the US Courts, Office of Probation and Pretrial Services
(permission has been obtained for use of the curricula), and
``Interpersonal Communications in the Correctional Setting: IPC'' by
the National Institute of Corrections (NIC accession 020035).
The curriculum developed by the awardee should allow for the use of
blended elements, including classroom or individual instruction, e-
courses, and virtual instructor-led training as well as coaching/
feedback. A blended process could include the following elements: (A)
Agency and facilitator/trainer/coach readiness survey: virtual
instructor-led training (VILT), and a WebEx. (B) Orientation: VILT,
expectations, outline, and an agency plan (practices, recordings, job
coaching, job aids). (C) Background information: e-course, theory,
history, and research (adult learning and evidence-based practices).
(D) Model-skill steps: recorded sessions, Participant workbook, and a
blog/forum discussion. (E) Guided practice with scenarios: VILT and a
question guide. (F) Demos/tryouts: instructor-led training where size
of groups could vary, and coaching of agency trainers/coaches.
(2) The creation of a Core Correctional Practices Training for
Trainers curriculum.
(3) The delivery of the CCP training and CCP training for trainers
to a pilot site to be identified by NIC, evaluation of the pilot
training, and revisions to curricula after pilot site delivery.
(4) Participation in organizational planning meetings with NIC
staff and subject matter experts. Awardee expenses for these meetings
are limited to the awardee's own project team's costs of travel,
lodging and meals, incidental expenses, and compensation. Awardees
should plan on at least one 2-day meeting to take place at the NIC
National Corrections Academy in Aurora, Colorado. Participation in
other planning and coordination meetings will take place as necessary
throughout the life of the project through teleconferences and WebEx
meetings.
(5) The delivery of a full report on the project together with all
the materials developed during the project and in a design and format
appropriate for public dissemination. A draft of these materials must
be submitted prior to the end of the project and follow NIC's
requirements for documents or other media.
Specific Requirements: Documents or other media that are produced
under this award must follow these guidelines: Prior to the preparation
of the final draft of any document or other media, the awardee must
consult with NIC's writer/editor concerning the acceptable formats for
manuscript submissions and the technical specifications for electronic
media. For all awards in which a document will be a deliverable, the
awardee must follow the guidelines listed herein, as well as follow the
Guidelines for Preparing and Submitting Manuscripts for Publication as
found in the ``General Guidelines for Cooperative Agreements,'' which
can be found on our Web site at www.nicic.gov/cooperativeagreements.
All final documents and other media submitted for posting on the
NIC Web site must meet the federal government's requirement for
accessibility (508 PDF or HTML file). The awardee must provide
descriptive text interpreting all graphics, photos, graphs, and/or
multimedia to be included with or distributed alongside the materials
and must provide transcripts for all applicable audio/visual works.
Application Requirements: Applications should be concisely written,
typed double spaced and reference the project by the ``NIC Opportunity
Number'' and title in this announcement. The package must include a
cover letter that identifies the audit agency responsible for the
applicant's financial accounts as well as the audit period or fiscal
year that the applicant operates under (e.g., July 1 through June 30);
a program narrative not to exceed 30 pages in response to the statement
of work; and a budget narrative explaining projected costs. Applicants
may submit a description of the project team's qualifications and
expertise relevant to the project but should not attach lengthy
resumes. Large attachments to the proposal describing the organization
are discouraged.
The following forms must also be included: OMB Standard Form 424,
Application for Federal Assistance; OMB Standard Form 424A, Budget
information--Non-Construction Programs; OMB Standard Form 424B,
Assurances--Non-Construction Programs (these forms are available at
https://www.grants.gov) and DOJ/NIC Certification Regarding Lobbying;
Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and the Drug-
Free Workplace Requirements available at https://nicic.gov/Downloads/General/certif-frm.pdf. Failure to supply all
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required forms with the application package will result in
disqualification of the application from consideration.
Authority: Public Law 93-415
Funds Available: NIC is seeking the applicant's best ideas
regarding accomplishment of the scope of work and the related costs for
achieving the goals of this solicitation. Funding is set at $64,000.00.
Funds may be used only for the activities that are linked to the
desired outcome of the project.
Eligibility of Applicants: An eligible applicant is any public or
private agency, educational institution, organization, individual, or
team with expertise in the described areas.
Review Considerations
Applications received under this announcement will be subject to
the NIC review process. Proposals that fail to provide sufficient
information to have them evaluated under the criteria below may be
judged non-responsive and disqualified. The criteria for the evaluation
of each application will be as follows:
Progammatic (40%)
Are all of the five project tasks adequately discussed? Is there a
clear statement of how each task will be accomplished, including major
sub-tasks, the strategies to be employed, required staffing, and other
required resources? Are there any innovative approaches, techniques, or
design aspects proposed that will enhance the project?
Organizational (35%)
Does the proposed project staff possess the skills, knowledge, and
expertise necessary to complete the tasks listed under the scope of
work? Does the applicant organization, group, or individual have the
organizational capacity to achieve all five project tasks? Are the
proposed project management and staffing plans realistic and sufficient
to complete the project within the project time frame?
Project Management/Administration (25%)
Does the applicant identify reasonable objectives, milestones, and
measures to track progress? If the applicant proposes consultants and/
or partnerships, is there a reasonable justification for their
inclusion in the project and a clear structure to ensure effective
coordination? Is the proposed budget realistic, does it provide a
sufficient cost detail/narrative, and does it represent good value
relative to the anticipated results?
Note: NIC will NOT award a cooperative agreement to an
applicant who does not have a Dun and Bradstreet Database Universal
Number (DUNS) and is not registered in the Central Contractor
Registry (CCR).
A DUNS number can be received at no cost by calling the dedicated
toll-free DUNS number request line at 1-800-333-0505 (if you are a sole
proprietor, you would dial 1-866-705-5711 and select option 1).
Registration in the CRR can be done online at the CCR Web site:
https://www.bpn.gov/ccr. A CCR Handbook and worksheet can also be
reviewed at the Web site.
Number of Awards: One.
NIC Opportunity Number: 12AC05. This number should appear as a
reference line in the cover letter, where indicated on Standard Form
424, and outside of the envelope in which the application is sent.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 16.601.
Executive Order 12372: This project is not subject to the
provisions of Executive Order 12372.
Morris L. Thigpen,
Director, National Institute of Corrections.
[FR Doc. 2012-7016 Filed 3-22-12; 8:45 am]
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