Leverage curated activities with professional facilitators to move you towards your desired outcomes.
I've learned more in 1.5 days than 2 weeks with other research efforts.
- dod service member & workshop attendee
Rise8 Workshops provide you with professional facilitators and proven activities to reinvigorate your processes and help you accelerate success to deliver outcomes in production. You and your teams can expect the following outcomes:
Identification of your most critical problem
Ability to earn stakeholder buy-in for the long run
Action plan for vision implementation
The best solution to tackle your most critical problem
Collaboration & communication improvement
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Strategy alignment within and outside of your team
Workshop Summary
WORKSHOP 101
Systematic Problem Solving
- Create an action plan for your team's problems
- Dive deep beyond symptoms
- Address challenges across people, process, or technology
WORKSHOP 102
Scoping or Mini Discovery & Framing
- Define priorities for product innovation or modernization
- Create a product roadmap
- Align stakeholders and teams
WORKSHOP 103
Vision & Strategy Accelerator
- Set a north star and outline strategic objectives
- Map the landscape, identify obstacles or bottlenecks
- Develop a path to efficiently achieve outcomes
WORKSHOP 101 - 1 DAY
Systematic Problem Solving
Not sure where to start? Create an action plan for your team’s biggest problems! Dive deep beyond the symptoms to address significant challenges across people, process, or technology within the organization or the products and services it delivers.
WORKSHOP 102 - 1 DAY
Mini Discovery & Framing
Not sure where to start? Create an action plan for your team’s biggest problems! Dive deep beyond the symptoms to address significant challenges across people, process, or technology within the organization or the products and services it delivers.
WORKSHOP 103 - 2 DAYS
Vision & Strategy Accelerator
Set a north star for your organization, outline strategic objectives, map the landscape, identify potential obstacles or bottlenecks, and outline a path to efficiently achieve outcomes.
FYI, that was the most productive problem scoping call I’ve been to, ever. Your process was excellent!
- CEO & WORKSHOP ATTENDEE
FAQs
WHAT ORGANIZATIONS CAN USE SDO?
All U.S. Federal Government Agencies and organizations are permitted to use SDO.
What can be purchased under SDO?
SDO’s contract line item numbers (CLINs) permit Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Labor, Commercial Off the Shelf Software (COTS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), hardware, and Travel. These contract level CLINs may be combined in any combination necessary to achieve the PWS requirements and task order deliverables.
What is the contract duration of SDO?
SDO was awarded as a base plus four (4) contract. The current last date of the last option period is June 6, 2028. Task Orders issued under SDO on or prior to June 6, 2028 may have an option period at the Task Order level that can extend to Government Fiscal Year 2030.
What is the SDO contract ceiling?
The SDO IDIQ has a $100,000,000.00 ceiling with no limitation on individual Task Orders.
Can I use O&M Money with this IDIQ?
SDO was designed to support the full lifecycle of program requirements. Federal organizations may use RDTE (research and development), Procurement (new capital expenditures), and O&M (sustainment) budget dollars to support Task Orders on SDO.
Can I issue option periods to my Task Order?
Yes, organizations may specify the initial base period of performance to the term commensurate with the PWS requirements, and include a single or multiple option periods to be exercised at the Government’s discretion.
Can I add project specific supplemental terms and conditions?
Yes. All Task Orders issued under SDO inherit the Contract level terms and conditions flow downs. Additional terms and conditions may be applied at the task order level, and must be mutually acceptable by Rise8.
If our local contracting shop is new to SBIR-based acquisitions, where can I get assistance?
AFWERX will provide an SDO Ordering Guide upon approval of your proposed PWS scope and issuance of the delegation of contract authority. The AFWERX Acquisition team can answer questions on the general SBIR Phase III procurement process under SDO.
Does my organization need to establish a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or transfer funds to AFWERX?
No. Your organization does not need to establish an MOU, Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA), or complete documentation to MIPR or transfer funding to AFWERX.
Does AFWERX charge my organization a fee to use SDO?
No. AFWERX does not charge a fee to U.S. Government organizations to use SDO.
Will AFWERX issue and manage the Task Order for my program?
No. AFWERX administers the SDO contract, reviews, and approves potential PWS actions that are permissible within scope, but does not issue the Task Order for your organization. This is a decentralized contract vehicle which means your local contracting shop will issue the Task Order, conduct any modifications, and eventually close out the Task Order.
Do I need to conduct market research?
No, per FAR 10.001(b)(2): “Agencies shall conduct market research appropriate to the circumstances before soliciting offers for acquisitions with an estimated value in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold... However, market research is not required where the procurement is conducted under a sole-source authorization or a statutory exemption.” The SDO IDIQ falls under a sole-source authorization.
Do I need to provide sole source justification or fair opportunity assessments?
No, per FAR 6.302-5(b)(2): “Contracts awarded under the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-219) are exempt from full and open competition requirements.”
Does my organization need SBIR authority to use SDO?
No, SBIR authority is only required for Phase I and Phase II SBIR-funded contracts. Any agency or organization can use a Phase III because it is considered a continuation into production and commercialization of previously funded research from Phases I and II.
Can Rise8 provide personnel with security clearances?
Yes, organizations may specify the initial base period of performance to the term commensurate with the PWS requirements, and include a single or multiple option periods to be exercised at the Government’s discretion.
