SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- CLOSING OUT EXPIRED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
- Notice Date
- 4/22/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-CLOSEOUTFY04
- Response Due
- 4/30/2004
- Archive Date
- 5/1/2004
- Point of Contact
- Bettie Hartley, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-443-7848, Fax 301-443-2761,
- E-Mail Address
-
bhartley@psc.gov
- Description
- This is a Nationwide (all 50 states including Alaska and Hawaii) sources sought notice to determine the availability of potential small businesses (e.g., 8(a), veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women-owned small business) that can provide assistance in closing out expired Federal Government Contracts, Task Orders, Delivery Orders and Simplified Acquisitions throughout the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) including all regional offices and Operating Divisions (OPDIV?s). The DHHS has ten (10) regions as follows: Region I - serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Region II - serving New York , New Jersey, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. Region III - serving Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and District of Columbia. Region IV - serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Region V - serving Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Region VI - serving Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Region VII - serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Region VIII - serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Region IX - serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and American Samoa and Region X - serving Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The following OPDIVS are located throughout the regions listed above. Administration for Children and Families (ACF); Administration on Aging (AoA); Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); Indian Health Service (IHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); Program Support Center (PSC) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Offices that have closeout activity are mainly within the Washington, DC area, but are also located throughout the United States. As the principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing critical and essential human services, the HHS has embarked on a major initiative in support of HHS Secretary Thompson?s goals and the President?s Management Agenda in a ?one? Department wide challenge. This overall involves bringing together diverse activities which will result in coordinated systems for managing programs. Directing a concerted effort to standardize various components within the department is essential in achieving the ?one? Department goal. Specifically for this sources sought, we intend to achieve standardization in the acquisition arena within each OPDIV is of particular interest which entails consistent approaches to various acquisition policies and procedures. This standardization provides for a unified front across the department and also allows for increased efficiency and reduced overhead. In an effort to initiate some of these processes, senior management officials and other representatives from each OPDIV of HHS met and collectively designed a set of proposed actions for acquisition consolidation. More specifically, the focus of this sources sought is on the ?closeout function? within the acquisition cycle. The closeout function, while required as part of contract administration, is often an overlooked activity because considerable time and resources are devoted to awarding contracts, rather than closing them out. Thus a backlog of expired contracts can easily develop as a result of the resource distribution devoted to the award phase and other administrative activities. The Department currently has approximately 29,000 files that need to be properly closed out. They include Firm Fixed Price, Cost Reimbursement, Cost Reimbursement /Task Order, Fixed-Price/Task Order, Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Time-Material/Task Orders, Simplified Acquisition, Delivery Order (FSS/IDIQ), Fixed-Price SBIR Phase 1. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code is 541661 with a size standard of $6m. This is not an invitation for bid, request for proposal or other solicitation and in no way obligates the Government to award a contract. Interested parties having the capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements may submit capability statements via email to bhartley@psc.gov. Your capability statements should not exceed five (5) pages in length. CAPABILITY STATEMENTS MUST DEMONSTRATE EXPERIENCE IN CLOSING OUT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, TASK ORDERS, DELIVERY ORDERS AND SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITIONS. All capability statements MUST provide supporting documentation along with the following: 1) company name, 2) address, 3) point of contact, 4) phone/fax/email, 5) NAICS Codes, 6) business size and status (e.g., small business, 8(a), veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and women owned small business) 7) provide a listing of services your company provides related to the Federal Contract Close Out experience; 8) list previous Government experience addressing your successes and contract information. Lastly, indicate whether or not your firm has a Federal Supply Schedule for these services along with providing the Federal Supply Schedule number. Responses are requested not later than April 30. Capability statements will not be accepted after the due date.
- Record
- SN00570880-W 20040424/040422211729 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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