Sources Sought Notice for Operation and Management Training for the AAIHS/OEHE

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Background The Albuquerque Area Indian Health Service (IHS) is seeking to identify businesses capable of providing hands-on water, wastewater, and solid waste operations and management training. This initiative aligns with the agency's mission to enhance environmental health and engineering services for Indian Health Service facilities. The contract aims to fulfill operational training needs through the development and delivery of specialized training courses. Work Details The contractor will be responsible for developing and delivering training courses that include: 1. Course design requests for on-demand, web-facilitated, and/or face-to-face offerings. 2. Drafting training course documentation and materials within 90 days of BPA call execution, including course objectives, agenda, instruction methods, teaching strategies, knowledge transfer assessments, learning materials, and instructor biographies. 3. Providing government-owned trainings that may require minor modifications with COR approval. Courses include but are not limited to: Pumps for operators, Lift station operations, Basic electrical controls, Advanced electrical controls, Construction inspection, Water distribution, Disinfection workshops, Wastewater inspection and compliance, Wastewater collections pumping and lagoons, Managing utility asset plans. 4. Developing new training courses as needed to meet emerging tribal utility operational needs. 5. Providing spiral-bound training manuals for attendees that include agendas, instructor bios, presentation slides, exercises, and reference materials. Manuals must be shipped if they exceed 2 inches in thickness. 6. Completing pre-course review forms two weeks prior to each class delivery. Period of Performance The geographic location(s) the contract will be performed (if provided) Place of Performance Training may occur anywhere in the continental United States and Alaska. Bidder Requirements Bidders must qualify as an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) or meet other small business classifications such as HUBZone or SDVOSB. They must provide a capability statement demonstrating relevant experience in delivering similar training services. Incumbent Analysis (see Incumbents section for more detail) This opportunity appears to have a confirmed incumbent based on prior award 75H70726A00002, awarded to Rural Community Assistance Corporation for O&M training for the Indian Health Service (IHS) Environmental Health Support Center (EHSC) with a period of performance from 11/20/25 to 02/28/27. The prior work involved developing and delivering hands-on water, wastewater, and related utility operations training tailored to tribal operational needs, including similar course topics (e.g., pumps, lift station operations, electrical controls, water distribution, and wastewater management) and deliverables such as spiral-bound manuals and pre-course review forms. The current sources sought is for operation and management training for IHS Office of Environmental Health and Engineering (OEHE), which appears to be a continuation or closely related scope within the same training function.