SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Education and Training Services
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Acquisitions and Agreements Section, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail drop 5230, Beltsville, MD, 20705
- ZIP Code
- 20705
- Solicitation Number
- FSIS-37-B-03
- Response Due
- 8/22/2003
- Archive Date
- 11/7/2003
- Point of Contact
- Karen Chapman, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-504-3992, Fax 301-504-4276,
- E-Mail Address
-
karen.chapman@fsis.usda.gov
- Description
- This serves as a sources sought notice and market survey to locate qualified small businesses capable of performing education and training services for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). FSIS requires contractual support services to develop training and education courses covering scientific, public health, management and regulatory topics that are tailored to the needs of FSIS. The training and education services would fall into the following general categories: 1) Develop public health education and training programs that are linked to widely accepted public health credentials; 2) Develop courses covering Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) technical and regulatory approaches; 3) Develop courses targeted to meet the needs of all occupational groups within the Agency; and 4) When requested, provide subject matter experts to deliver classroom courses to the FSIS workforce. The classroom courses must be tailored to meet the needs of FSIS and focused on public health curriculum. In most cases, they must be available to the Agency?s geographically dispersed workforce at or near the worksite. Small businesses having the capabilities necessary to provide the described services are invited to submit appropriate documentation which will demonstrate that it has the ability to perform this service. This information will allow the Government to determine whether small business concerns can satisfy the Government's requirement and whether the procurement should be set-aside for small businesses. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 611430, Professional and Management Development Training, and the small business size standard is $6 million in average annual receipts. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a solicitation. The Government is not requesting technical/management proposals and no contract will be awarded as a result of this sources sought notice. Your responses will be used solely for market research purposes of the Government. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this synopsis and submittals will not be returned to the sender. A draft RFP will be released on or about August 1 for industry comment. All comments must be received by the same date and time indicated for the sources sought response. If a final solicitation is later released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any synopsis or solicitation. Interested small businesses are requested to submit a package delineating qualifications, capabilities, and experience for meeting the range of services described herein. Include information on your company?s managerial and technical resources to be able to meet the requirements. Companies must sufficiently demonstrate that they have the capability to perform this service and must provide detailed experience and qualifications in all previous work pertinent to this effort. Responses should also include the following: name and address of firm; size of business; number of years in business; and list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement, and point of contact with address and phone number). Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses may be submitted by e-mail to Karen.chapman@fsis.usda.gov; or by mail to Karen G. Chapman at USDA, FSIS, ASD, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Maildrop 5230, Beltsville, MD 20705-5230; or by fax at 301-504-4276. The information requested is due by 4:00 p.m. local time on August 22, 2003.
- Record
- SN00388290-W 20030802/030731213417 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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