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MOBIS: Schedule 874 Information
 
GSA's Schedule 874, known as Management, Organizational, and Business Improvement Services (MOBIS), enables Government agencies to obtain professional services that support improving performance, quality, timeliness, and efficiency in their organizations. Because these requirements can be dynamic or evolutionary, MOBIS facilitates a quick response to emerging developments. Schedule 874 provides multiple award schedule (MAS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts with durations of five years plus three separate five-year option periods.

Jacobs Facilities and specialists from our Advance Planning Group provide services under these Special Item Numbers (SIN): SIN 874-1 Consulting Services; SIN 874-2 Facilitation Services; SIN 874-3 Survey Services; and SIN 874-7 Program Integration and Project Management Services.

Jacobs Advance Planning Group's mission is to link physical assets with business strategies for our clients based on objective analysis, business acumen, and industry knowledge. We help our clients envision their future by leveraging our people, tools, and techniques at all scales, with expertise in facility planning, business strategy, planning and urban design, and extensive experience with federal government.

Our comprehensive analyses, facilitation and management services support problem definition and client decision-making early in facility delivery for successful solutions which effectively utilize resources, optimize capital and operating costs, support innovation, and facilitate change.

SIN 874-1 Consulting Services:

  • Strategic, business, and action planning

    • Visioning, scope definition

    • Scorecard and strategic mapping

    • Performance metric/measures

    • Asset management system design and implementation

    • Situation analysis and needs assessment

    • Long-range strategy development

    • Project planning

    • Sprint starts for project management/construction management

    • Systems alignment

    • Cycle time and capacity studies

    • High performance work

    • Leadership systems

    • Customer analysis

    • Business process reengineering, productivity improvement

    • Organizational assessments

    • "Lean Office" analysis

    • Capital budget planning

    • Process modeling

    • Action planning

    • Financial and real estate analysis

    • Statistical analysis

    • Quality management and quality assurance

    • Risk assessment

    • Financial strategy

    • Ownership/procurement strategy

    • Cost-benefit analysis


  • Facilities planning

    • Long range planning

    • Master planning

    • Site and building assessment

    • Prospectus development studies (PDS)

    • Density and adjacency studies

    • Occupancy planning

    • Block and Stack development

    • Implementation planning

    • Feasibility analysis

    • Portfolio planning and analysis

    • Planning charrettes


  • Space requirements development

    • Integration of business strategies with facilities planning, site planning, and urban design

    • Facilities programming

    • Problem seeking

    • Programming charrettes

    • Survey design, administration, analysis

    • Program of requirements (POR)

    • Facility and occupancy mapping

    • Macro level program verification

    • Design guidelines for site, buildings, interiors, and furnishing


  • Green/sustainable design analysis

    • Principles, policies and guidelines

    • Program development

    • LEED assessments and audits


  • Portfolio analysis, planning, and asset evaluation

    • Facilities inventory and assessment

    • Real property selection studies

    • Scenario analysis

    • Site development feasibility studies

    • Asset evaluation and management systems

    • Retention/disposal studies

    • Long range real property strategy

    • Capital budget planning

    • Ownership/procurement strategy


  • Planning and urban design consulting

    • Comprehensive master planning

    • Land use planning

    • Public involvement strategies/ visioning

    • Development capacity and suitability analysis

    • Highest and best use planning

    • Zoning review, rezoning recommendations and development approval process

    • Re-zoning and development approval process

    • Transportation planning support

    • Visual impact studies, analysis, and simulation

    • Streetscape planning and design

    • Pedestrian network planning and design

    • Community planning and design

    • Park, recreation, open space, and greenway planning

    • Corporate campus planning and design

    • University and college campus planning and design

    • Urban revitalization planning

    • Geographic Information Systems analysis and mapping

    • 3-D visual simulation and animation analysis

    • Site development cost analysis

    • Site selection studies

    • Design guidelines

    • Implementation strategies


  • Facilities operations improvement consulting

    • Performance measures and indicators

    • Program audits and evaluations

    • Benchmarking and best practices

    • Occupancy cost and space tracking

    • Building, site and location assessment

    • Acquisition and disposal strategies

    • Lease consolidation analysis

    • Development and adaptive reuse assessment

    • Move management planning

    • Exit strategy studies and simulation

    • Outsourcing and privatization

    • Solicitation development and review

    • Facilities management strategies


  • Workplace strategies

    • Integrated organizational, work process, technology, facility, and economic assessment

    • Facilities benchmarking and best practices analysis

    • Workplace performance evaluation and improvement recommendations

    • Visioning workshops, scorecard analysis, strategic mapping, user surveys, statistical analysis

    • Focus group interviews, behavioral observations, occupancy surveys

    • Physical conditions assessment

    • GIS analysis of office and work locations, employee travel patterns, and service areas

    • Wayfinding and signage assessment

    • Environment behavior research on productivity, collaboration, stress, job satisfaction

    • Scenario development

    • Alternative workplace design and management strategies: hotelling, telework, satellite office, free-address

    • Post-occupancy evaluation; pre- and post-change comparisons

    • Implementation strategies and transition planning

    • Change management, training, and strategic communication


  • Strategic communications and change management

    • Communications programs and materials

    • Design and facilitation of change management programs

    • Training systems

    • Graphic simulation, modeling

    • Identity , branding


  • Multi-media product development


  • SIN 874-2 Facilitation Services:
    Facilitation is a core methodology in Jacobs Facilities' projects. Specialists in Jacobs Advance Planning help our clients set goals, identify problems, explore viable options and alternatives, and develop appropriate plans for action. We use a variety of tools and methods for discussion, data gathering, analysis, scenario development, and evaluation of alternatives. This includes interactive wall displays to record and organize discussion ideas and issues and multidisciplinary charrette work sessions with stakeholders to develop solutions, resolve problems, and build consensus for implementation. Our services include:

    • Visioning and goal setting

    • Project mobilization, scope definition, and work plan development

    • Focus group facilitation

    • Public involvement strategies including public participation facilitation

    • Problem seeking methodology to establish goals, analyze facts, test concepts, determine needs, and state the problem and report results

    • Real time recording of discussion content and display

    • Facilitation graphics

    • Scenario modeling

    • Charrette work sessions and design facilitation

    • Process analysis

    • Team building and coaching

    • Problem solving and dispute resolution

    • Consensus building

    • Leadership development

    • Focusing decision-making

    • Planning meetings and providing logistical support

    • Discussion records and reports

    • Communication and buy-in strategies

    • Web-based media to facilitate client and user input and information dissemination

    • 3-D modeling and environmental simulations

    • Building Information Modeling


    SIN 874-3 Survey Services:
    Specialists in Jacobs Advance Planning Group provide expert survey design, administration, analysis, and database administration services to collect, organize, and analyze data from single facilities to national portfolios. Some examples of the uses and types of surveys we do include:

    • Physical space utilization surveys

    • Space inventories and tracking

    • Furniture and equipment surveys

    • Program requirements surveys

    • Real estate portfolio surveys

    • Historical preservation/restoration surveys

    • Facility condition assessment (level 1 and level 2)

    • Workplace performance surveys

    • Pre- and post-occupancy evaluation surveys

    • Customer service and user satisfaction surveys

    • LEED analyses

    • Tenancy surveys and databases

    • Rentable Area Management studies

    • Move management surveys

    • Benchmarking surveys

    • Public involvement, review process surveys

    Our survey services are comprehensive, including:
    • Planning research projects

    • Scenario modeling tools

    • Defining issues and data needed, quantitative and qualitative

    • Selecting survey methods, with cost and schedule implications

    • Designing survey content, graphics, user interface, administration, and data capture

    • Designing server-based, web-based, paper survey tools

    • Sampling and statistical analysis

    • Pretest and pilot surveying

    • Assessing data reliability and validity

    • Reporting results of the research

    • Preparing findings and recommendations

    • Refining survey tools for future use

    • Building and managing large databases, tools for analysis queries, and reports


    SIN 874-7 Program Integration and Project Management Services:
    Jacobs Facilities provides services for program management, integration, and project management to serve our clients' needs for cost effective, timely, and streamlined delivery on complex projects and teams. These services include:

    Program Management Planning
    • Defining program requirements, evaluation criteria, roles and responsibilities

    • Visioning, approach, scope, schedule, and sequence of activities

    • Performance metrics/measures

    • Contractor management

    • Procurement strategies

    • Coordination, monitoring, and reporting

    • Stakeholder Identification

    • Facilitation, consensus-building

    • Staff augmentation and support

    • Implementation planning

    • Capital budget planning and support

    Program Integration and Team Leadership
    • Organizational Planning (define required skills)

    • Staff development and training

    • Communications Planning

    Program Oversight

    Program Controls
    • Scheduling

    • Cost Reporting

    • Safety

    • Quality

    • Change control (across scope, schedule, and budget)

    Risk Management
    • Risk identification

    • Risk response planning

    • Risk monitoring and control

    Implementation Management