REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) INTRODUCTION The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) is actively pursuing the opportunities available through the current eGov initiatives as outlined in the President's Management Agenda. The Recruitment One-Stop (ROS) initiative requires linkage to all assessment systems in order to fully integrate the job applicants resume, job announcement posting, and quality assessment questionnaire. Additionally, the Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) has the continuing mandate to provide the most highly qualified and diverse candidates to all hiring managers within DOC. It is for these reasons that OHRM must ensure its use of the most cost-effective and efficient hiring practices available. The vendor shall provide the necessary system solutions to accomplish all of the requirements. BACKGROUND DOC plans to dramatically improve its current hiring process in several ways. Primary among these is to demonstrate an increased caliber and diversity of applicants who are made available to the hiring managers for selection. DOC also has the objective to expedite the steps from identification of the need to fill a vacant position through the acceptance of a job offer by the best-qualified applicant. PURPOSE The purpose of this request for information (RFI) is to gather information to assist the DOC in formulating its requirements and identify businesses that have the ability to fulfill all of the DOC automated hiring requirements. DESCRIPTION OF INFORMATION REQUESTED All vendors are invited to submit a capability statement related to automated hiring services. The capabilities must leverage and partner with our professional human resources staff to address each step within the entire functional array of the hiring process for all positions with the DOC. This includes: 1. Identifying potential hiring challenges and providing proactive solutions; 2. Utilizing full integration with all features of OPM?s Recruitment One-Stop 3. Drawing the most highly qualified applicants to DOC positions from a diverse population; 4. Providing a complete battery of applicant assessment tools which provide for multiple levels of review and screening; 5. Providing help desk support, documentation, and training for HR staff in proven best practices for candidate attraction, assessment, & selection, and in the appropriate use of hiring automation; 6. Providing for all hiring options available under the Senior Executive, Merit Assignment, and Delegated Examining programs within DOC; 7. Demonstrating full and verifiable compliance with the IT security requirements for a Moderate Impact System, as described in NIST SP 800-53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems. DISCLAIMER This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Responses to this RFI will not be returned. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this request. HOW TO RESPOND Please submit your response to this RFI via email toTom Kreider (Technical Support) at
[email protected], phone (202) 482-0537 and Biba Inoussa (Contracting Officer) at
[email protected], by Wednesday September 20, 2006 at 12:00 P.M. noon EST.