SOLICITATION NOTICE
T -- Typesetting and Electronic Preparation
- Notice Date
- 10/20/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541430
— Graphic Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-713-6-923801
- Response Due
- 11/4/2005
- Point of Contact
- Phillip Harrell, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-8635 , Fax 410-786-9643, - Susan Crizer, Contracting Officer, Phone 410-786-5167, Fax 410-786-9643,
- E-Mail Address
-
phillip.harrell@cms.hhs.gov, SCrizer@cms.hhs.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services. Quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Requirement number 713-6-923801 is issued as a Request for Quotations. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has a requirement for a contractor to provide technical document preparation and computer formatting and electronic preparation services for (4) issues of the Health Care Financing Review: Winter 2005-2006, Volume 27, Number 2; Spring 2006, Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2006, Volume 27, Number 4; and Fall 2006, Volume 27, Number 4, and Fall 2006, Volume 28, Number 1. The period of performance is approximately December 15, 2005 through December 14, 2006. The Statement of Work and Deliverables are attached. The contractor must be able to provide a combination of technical, graphic, and artistic capabilities necessary to produce layout material for a scientific econometric journal similar to the Review. This output shall include electronic, camera copy, Adobe portable document format (PDF) files, and Adobe Illustrator graphics. The contractor must be capable of preparing and maintaining Quark Express style sheets numbering approximately 50, which allow the rapid formatting of covers, spine, title pages, unique feature logos, by-lines, disclaimers, text, data tables, charts, footnotes, technical notes, table notes, custom legends suitable for black and white output, sources, references, reprint requests, etc. In addition, the contractor must be capable of preparing custom-drawn, one of a kind graphics and also scientific formulae using Greek, algebraic, calculus, and statistical character sets. This is a firm fixed price procurement using simplified acquisition procedures. This procurement is set aside for small business concerns. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 541430. A firm is a small business for the purpose of this requirement if its size standard is $6.0 million. Responses may be sent electronically in MS Word format to phillip.harrell@cms.hhs.gov or in paper no later than 3:00pm on November 4, 2005 to Phillip Harrell, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, 7500 Security Blvd, C2-21-15, Baltimore, MD 21244. Responses shall be no more than 10 pages and shall include the following: 1) Contractors capabilities overview; 2) Past performance information (relevant experience to perform the required services); and 3) Price of the deliverables. All responses will be evaluated on a best value basis using the following evaluation criteria: 1) Technical and Management Approach – the likelihood of effectively meeting requirements; 2) Past performance – the relevance and quality of prior performance; and 3) Price – the amount, realism and consistency of the evaluated price. Interested contractors are hereby advised that contractors shall be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR). Please register with the CCR at the following website: http://www.ccr.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (20-OCT-2005). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 22-NOV-2005, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/HCFA/AGG/Reference-Number-713-6-923801/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 7500 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD
- Zip Code: 21244
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 21244
- Record
- SN00936706-F 20051124/051122213242 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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