Deadline Date:
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Requirement: Development and Production of NCI Academy Course Control Documents (CCD)
Location:
Off-Site
Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE NTE: 12,510 EUR
2025 OPTION NTE: 80,190 EUR, 2026-2027 OPTION
Period of Performance:
2025 BASE: 14 July 2025
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET
Introduction:
- The NATO Communications and Information Academy (NCI Academy), located in Oeiras, Portugal, currently delivers NATO technical and operational training on a variety of hardware and software systems. All NATO approved and selected courses must have Course Control Documents (CCDs) as defined in the Bi-SC Education and Individual Training Directive (E&ITD) 75-7, dated 20 March 2025. The CCDs are NATO’s mechanism to ensure responsiveness to NATO E&IT requirements.
- The NCI Academy is looking to outsource the development and production of some CCDs for existing NCI Academy courses, and the maintenance updates of some existing CCDs.The intent is to obtain the services of subject matter experts who can develop and update CCDs.The Contractor shall make available personnel capable of providing the services specified in this Statement of Work (SoW).
- The Contractor shall provide services in a multinational military/civilian staff environment and typically interact with different training experts and Section Heads to accomplish their tasks. Given the need for the contrctor’s personnel to handle classified documentation, there is a
requirement for a valid NATO SECRET Security Clearance as from contract start.
Under the scope of work, the Contractor shall take the lead and work together with the NCI Academy Training Sections to develop or update, aligned with NATO regulations, the following documents for each designated course:
- List of Task Statements, incl. Performance/Task Statement Tracking Matrix
- Course Control Document I – Control Form;
- Course Control Document II – Course Proposal;
- Course Control Document III – Programme of Classes
Tasking:
- The Contractor shall be responsible for developing and/or updating NATO Course Control Documents as specified in paragraph 4 of this Statement of Work (SOW).
- The Contractor shall adhere to the estimated deliverables and deadlines in paragraph 4 of this Annex. The Deliverables shall only be deemed delivered by the Contractor once approved by the Section/Branch Heads and the Quality Assurance Group (QAG) as appropriate.
- The Contractor shall comply with the NCI Academy’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) when conducting work.(07.01.10 and 07.01.28),
- The Courses CCDs covered under this agreement are the in the following areas:
- C4ISR Technology (0101)
- DCOI Level 1 Support Course (9065)
- FAS Overview Course (9045)
- AirC2IS courses
- JADOCS courses
- JTS courses
- TOPFAS courses
- NNMS courses
- LOGFAS courses
- MCCIS7 courses
- NCOP courses
- INTEL-FS courses
- Core GIS courses
- JOCwatch courses
- NAMIS courses
- All the documentation delivered under this statement of work shall be based on NCI Agency templates or templates agreed with training section head.
- All training material shall be stored in the provided NCI Agency tools.
- All the deliverables of this project will be considered NATO UNCLASSIFIED.
- The contractor shall provide services under NCI Agency AAS framework contract for the NCI Academy in Oeiras, Portugal. He or she will provide services under the direction and guidance of the FS section head or their designated representative.
- The NCI Academy will provide the service contractor with access to the Academy learning environment and business tools as required.
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
The contractor should have the following qualifications:
- A Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science/Software Engineering/ Mathematics/ Electronics or related discipline at a nationallyrecognized/certified University, with 5 years post related experience, OR: a loweracademic qualification combined with the demonstration of particular abilities orexperience of relevance to this work, with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience.
- Substantial related experience within Quality Management / Instructional Systems Design / Change Management in an individual training and education environment
- Demonstrable experience with NATO Global Programming and the NATO systems approach to training (as described in Bi-SC Directive 75-007)
- Proven ability and results in developing and producing Course Control Documentation
- Recent experience in requirements analysis, designing courses and related Course Control Documentation
- Effective and excellent professional English language spoken and writing skills
- Experience in Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of NATO Education and Training Directives
- Ability to work in an International environment comprising both military and civilian
elements
- Experience working at a NATO Education and Training Facility or at ACT JFD E&T
- Prince2 Foundation
- Knowledge of the NCI Academy and NCIA
- Knowledge of NATO Quality Assurance Standards
- Experience working in NATO
- Experience in NATO C4ISR
- Experience with NATO C2 and Functional Services (FAS) applications.
- Level 3 English language skills according to NATO STANAG 6001: Listening (3);
Speaking (2); Reading (3); and Writing (2) or according to Common European
Framework of Reference for Language level B2-C1/Upper Intermediate-Advanced
level