# Arbinger Outward Mindset Leadership and Culture Development Training

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/n3904026f1024

- Solicitation number: N3904026F1024
- Notice type: Award notice
- Status: Awarded to The Arbinger Company for $4,527,729.30
- Department: Department of the Navy
- Agency: Department of the Navy
- Contracting office: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard GF (N39040)
- NAICS: 611430 Professional and Management Development Training
- Product or service code: U008 Training/Curriculum Development
- Set-aside: Total small business set-aside
- Place of performance: Kittery, Maine
- County: York County (FIPS 23031). https://abierto.us/counties/york-county-me-23031
- City: Kittery. https://abierto.us/cities/kittery-me-2337235
- First posted: September 15, 2026
- Last posted: September 15, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f72cf4b27c92473b931e0884ab126378/view

## Description

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) has awarded a sole-source task order under General Services Administration (GSA) Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) Small Business Pool 1 Contract 47QREB19D0011 to The Arbinger Company. This requirement provides specialized organizational culture transformation, leadership development, executive coaching, and proprietary curriculum instruction utilizing the "Outward Mindset" framework. The contract structure includes a 12-month base period and four (4) 12-month option periods, encompassing:

1. Executive and senior leader development workshops (DIOM / OL);

2. Workforce-wide cultural alignment sessions (OP);

3. Strategic alignment work sessions and executive advisory support;

4. A comprehensive Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program to build an organic cadre of 170 certified internal government facilitators, progressively reducing contractor facilitation over time. This task order was awarded without providing fair opportunity pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 3406(c) and FAR 16.507-6(b)(2): "Only one awardee is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services ordered are unique or highly specialized."

The Arbinger Company is the sole creator, copyright holder, and intellectual property owner of the Outward Mindset methodology, diagnostic assessments, and associated certification materials. No other vendor is authorized to license, instruct, or certify government facilitators in this proprietary framework.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: The Arbinger Company (UEI XDJYKQ4BVTJ3)
- Contract: 47QREB19D0011
- Obligated: $0.00
- Competition: Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources, 49 offers received
- Link: award number 47QREB19D0011 equals the contract number; awarding office not confirmed (medium confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_47QREB19D0011_4732/


## Publications

- September 15, 2026: Award notice. Notice f72cf4b27c92473b931e0884ab126378. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f72cf4b27c92473b931e0884ab126378/view

## Points of contact

- LISA FIELDING, lisa.a.fielding.civ@us.navy.mil

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