SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Contract Monitoriing - Injury Prevention - SOW Draft
- Notice Date
- 4/15/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, Division of Acquisition Policy, 801 Thompson, TMP 605, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- IHS-RFI-11-TIPCAP
- Archive Date
- 5/7/2011
- Point of Contact
- Irisneia Merscher, Phone: 3014435774
- E-Mail Address
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iris.merscher@ihs.gov
(iris.merscher@ihs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft of SOW. Introduction This is a Request for Information (RFI). This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain knowledge and information for project planning purposes. i. Obtain feedback on the performance work statement from potential sources vendors who can provide the Indian Health Service (IHS), Division of Environmental Health Services (DEHS), an outside monitoring for 33 Tribal Injury Prevention Cooperative Agreement Program (TIPCAP) distributed within 10 IHS locations. These Cooperative Agreements are for community-base Injury Prevention Programs and do not address occupational injuries. The vendor responses must demonstrate their expertise in ALL of the areas of monitoring and providing grantees with training and technical assistance with their tasks with the Injury Prevention Program. The vendor's responses shall be in sufficient detail to allow the Government to assess the standard approaches to provide these services more efficiently. Background The mission of the IHS, in partnership with American Indian and Alaska Native people, is to raise their physical, mental, social and spiritual health to the highest level; to ensure that comprehensive culturally acceptable personal and public health services are available and accessible to all American Indian and Alaska Native people; and to uphold the Federal Government's obligation to promote healthy American Indian and Alaska Native people, communities and cultures and to honor and protect the inherent sovereign rights of Tribes. The Indian Health Service (IHS) has cooperative agreements with 33 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal organizations to operate Tribal Injury Prevention programs. The terms of the cooperative agreements require that the IHS provide oversight, technical assistance, and training to the grantees in addition to providing program funding. IHS contracts for expert services to supplement and support the IHS professional staff members who monitor the Tribal Injury Prevention Programs. Purpose, Objectives, and Project Requirements See attached Draft Performance Work Statement. Suggestions or comments to the draft PWS should be submitted with this RFI. Anticipated Period of Performance Base Year: 08/01/2011 to 7/31/2012 Option Year 1: 08/01/2012 to 7/31/2013 Option Year 2: 08/01/2013 to 7/31/2014 Option Year 3: 08/01/2014 to 7/31/2015 Option Year 4: 08/01/2015 to 3/31/2016 Capability Statement: In addition to providing feedback on the draft statement of work please provide a capability statement with your response that includes: i. name and address of the firm, Dun and Bradstreet identification number, point of contact: name, title, phone, fax and e-mail, identification of whether your company is a small or large business and whether you have any Small Business Administration identification of socioeconomic programs such as 8(a), woman owned, veteran owned, etc. ii. Information regarding respondents': (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training; (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information. iii. Information regarding vendor's previous contracts with the federal government for services related to Injury Prevention. Contractors must describe their knowledge, if any, with the Injury Control Research Centers (ICRCS). All capability statements sent in response to this Notice must be submitted electronically (via email) Iris Merscher, Contract Specialist, at iris.merscher@ihs.gov in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), within 5 business days of the date of this announcement. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. Disclaimer and Important Notes This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed. Information provided will be used to assess tradeoffs and alternatives available for the potential requirement and may lead to the development of a solicitation. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. Any solicitation resulting from the analysis of information obtained will be announced to the public in Federal Business Opportunities in accordance with the FAR Part 5. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
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