SOURCES SOUGHT
Q -- Corporate Membership To Provide Aeromedical Evacuation and
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 621910
— Ambulance Services
- Contracting Office
- ACC - Rock Island (ACC-RI), ATTN: AMSAS-AC, Rock Island, IL 61299-6500
- ZIP Code
- 61299-6500
- Solicitation Number
- W52P1J12R0119
- Response Due
- 4/11/2012
- Archive Date
- 6/10/2012
- Point of Contact
- Mary Beth Ford, 309-782-2723
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC - Rock Island (ACC-RI)
(marybeth.b.ford.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This synopsis is a Sources Sought Notice being used to conduct market research. The U.S. government is seeking vendors with the capability to provide corporate membership in an organization which provides members aeromedical evacuation and emergent hospitalization treatment and services to Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian employees while operating on the African Continent. The Government requests that interested parties respond to this notice by providing company capabilities of meeting the requirements set forth in this Sources Sought. Capability statements shall include the following: company name, point of contact, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, brief description of company and its capabilities to include experience areas, history, duns number, cage code, tax id number, as well as size category and socioeconomic status. This requirement includes but is not limited to providing all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform aeromedical evacuation and emergent treatment to DoD Civilians. The company shall be able to provide both air and ground medical evacuation off and within the African continent, as well as a guarantee of payment to host nation medical facilities at the time services are required with assurance that such a guarantee of payment will be accepted by a majority of host nation medical facilities. The work to be performed will be initiated at any place on the African Continent to include Nation Islands. Termination of the air medical evacuation may occur within the European and/or North American Continents. The termination of all air medical evacuations will be determined based on clinical criteria and assessment. The company is responsible for conducting business 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. The company must at all times maintain an adequate workforce for the uninterrupted performance of all tasks defined. The company shall keep in mind that the stability and continuity of the workforce are essential. All interactions with the company shall be in English. The company, in conjunction with the Validating Flight Surgeon (VFS) at the Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center (TPMRC), must coordinate prior to and during any Aero-medical Evacuation the location and receiving physician capabilities for any one or combination of any of the following: Level two (LII - Forward Resuscitative Capability): advanced emergency medical treatment to include resuscitative care, surgery, stabilization, examination/evaluation to determine priority of continued movement/evacuation to the next level of care. Generally, most if not all requests should be for an urgent patient or casualty. An acceptable time based on an urgent patient/casualty for the company to arrive and attend to the sick /injured patient/casualty shall not exceed 120 minutes. The time begins upon receipt of a medical evacuation request either from the individual or his/her designated attendee, TPMRC or a US Embassy. Level three (LIII - Theater Hospitalization Capability): essential care and health service support capabilities to either return the patient to duty and/or stabilization to ensure the patient can tolerate evacuation to a definitive care facility outside the theater. It includes modular hospital configurations required to support the theater (emergency medical services, surgical services, trauma care, primary care, dental services, preventive medicine, and combat and operational stress control, blood banking services, hospitalization for general classes of patients, laboratory and pharmacy services, reconditioning and rehabilitative services radiology, medical logistics and other medical specialty capabilities as required) Level four (LIV - Definitive Capability (Military Medical Treatment Facilities)) consists of a full range or acute, convalescent, restorative, and rehabilitative care. These facilities are normally referred to as military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) and are outside the theater of operations. They are often the first to provide definitive surgical management outside the combat zone. Level IV care is provided at DoD's Regional Medical Facilities/Centers such as the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) located in Germany. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its various implementing regulations require monitoring and limit the ways in which patients' confidential information is accessed, utilized, stored, transmitted, and disposed. It must be managed in accordance with Department of Defense Regulation 8580.02R, "DOD Health Information Security Regulation." HIPAA protected information must be protected in accordance with those provisions. The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers employed by the company offering corporate membership performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the company offering corporate membership who, in turn is responsible to the Government. No solicitation will be issued at this time. Participation in this effort is strictly voluntary with no cost or obligation to be incurred by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government will in no way be bound to this information if any solicitation is issued as a result of this Sources Sought. Notice to Contractors: All contractors who provide goods or services to the Department of Defense (DOD) must be registered in the Central Contractor's Register (CCR). To register in the CCR go to http://www.ccr.gov/. If you should have any questions, concerns and/or comments please contact Mary Beth Ford at Marybeth.b.ford.civ@mail.mil. If you decide to provide the information requested above in response to this Sources Sought it shall be provided by email to Mary Beth Ford at Marybeth.b.ford.civ@mail.mil and must be received by April 11, 2012 1600 CDT.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC - Rock Island (ACC-RI) ATTN: AMSAS-AC, Rock Island IL
- Zip Code: 61299-6500
- Zip Code: 61299-6500
- Record
- SN02707108-W 20120329/120327235922-f1ac225e588434c1e41dd978e51bd8ed (fbodaily.com)
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