SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION MEETING FACILITATION
- Notice Date
- 8/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other 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-05M000232
- Response Due
- 9/2/2005
- Archive Date
- 9/17/2005
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, Division of Service and Systems Improvement, Community Support Programs Branch, through the Program Support Center plans to award 12 month sole source simplified, Fixed Price acquisition to Donna Aligata, Gold Cottage Industries, 135 West Road, Marlborugh, CT 06447. The purpose of the acquisition is to support facilitation of three Regional Transformation Meetings over the coming year. The planned locations and dates of the meeting: Los Angeles, CA, September 22-23, 2005; New Orleans, LA, November 14-15, 2005; Boston, MA, Date TBD between January and June 2006. The tasks to be performed are to 1) Serve as an advisor to the planning group for the New Orleans and Boston meetings. As the Planning Advisor, you will participate on planning group conference calls; travel to Washington, DC for a planning meeting; review and advise on the meeting agenda, meeting materials, and logistic arrangements; provide facilitator feedback to the planning group both on-site and during planning group phone calls and meetings. 2) Serve as the coordinator for the facilitation activities at all three meetings. As Facilitation Coordinator, you will select and hire the facilitators, develop the facilitation tools, train the facilitators, and and coordinate facilitator activities both in advance of the meeting and on-site, for the New Orleans and Boston meetings; pay the travel, hotel, and per diem costs for 4 facilitators for each of the 3 meetings (estimated at 3 days per facilitator per meeting); pay the travel, hotel, and per diem costs of on-site technical resource personnel for each of the 3 meetings (estimated at 4 people for 2 days per meeting); pay for rental of LCDs needed by facilitators/technical resource personnel for work with the State teams (estimated at 4 per day for 2 days per meeting) for all 3 meetings. 3) Serve as the Moderator for the New Orleans and Boston meetings. As the Moderator, you will present the following sections of the meeting agenda overviews of the agenda and the day; Introductions of Faculty, Resource Personnel, and State teams ; Report Outs and Setting the Goals for State team sessions; Exchange of Ideas Among State Team Members the least disruption to the planning process. THE PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION ACTION IS FOR SUPPLIES OR SERVICES FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO SOLICIT AND NEGOTIATE WITH ONLY ONE SOURCE. THIS ACQUISITION IS BEING POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAR 5.201(b) (1). IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAR 19.502-2(a), THE CONTRACTING OFFICER HAS DETERMINED THAT THERE IS NOT A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF OBTAINING OFFERS FROM TWO OR MORE RESPONSIBLE SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS THAT ARE COMPETITIVE IN TERMS OF MARKET PRICE, QUALITY AND DELIVERY; INTERESTED PERSONS MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT PROPOSALS WITHIN 10 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE NOTICE. A DETERMINATION BY THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO COMPETE THIS PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITIONS BASED UPON RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE IS SOLELY WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE GOVERNMENT. INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL NORMALLY BE CONSIDERED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER TO CONDUCT A COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE.
- Record
- SN00875923-W 20050824/050822211846 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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