SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Specialized Personnel Services
- Notice Date
- 2/3/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Administrative Services Division/Contracting, 100 North 6TH Street Butler Square 5TH Floor, Minneapolis, MN, 55403
- ZIP Code
- 55403
- Solicitation Number
- 016-M-APHIS-06
- Response Due
- 3/31/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) has a requirement for contractor?s to carry out a wide variety of activities related to plant and animal health in a multitude of countries throughout the world to support PPQ?s mission to protect the agriculture and natural resources of the United States. APHIS requires the services of contractor?s to provide personnel for consultation, technical expertise assistance, and analytical services to support the agency?s programs including but not limited to domestic and international plant and animal health programs and biotechnology regulatory services. The contracted personnel services work will fall under three broad technical/analytical areas including risk assessments and regulatory analysis; pre-clearance inspections; and pest risk analysis and mitigation activities. Contractor personnel with experience and knowledge of US Federal plant pest quarantine programs and programs of foreign national plant protection counterparts on plant pest issues; risk identification, pathway analysis, and risk mitigation methods of plant pests; US Federal agricultural quarantine inspection methodologies and procedures and pre-clearance programs; risk and biological assessments; international standards and the Biosafety Protocol; the Plant Protection Act, The Animal Welfare Act, and the Animal Health Protection Act are highly desirable. There is a high likelihood that former USDA employees with unique skills in these areas may be interested in pursuing employment /subcontracting opportunities. If a vendor is interested in submitting an offer for this acquisition, and would like to have names of personnel capable of performing these services contact your company, please submit your contact information to our agency which includes your company name, contact person, phone number and address. We will publish your contact information for those personnel as an amendment to this synopsis. We request that you provide your contact information by release of the solicitation. A firm fixed price indefinite delivery indefinite quantity non-commercial services contract is anticipated for these services. The contract will include a one year base period and four 1-year unilateral options to extend the effective period. The solicitation, 016-M-APHIS-06, will be released on or about February 24, 2006 and will be a 100% small business set-aside, therefore, all responsible small businesses may submit an offer. The NAICS code is 541990 with a size standard of 6.5 million dollars. After release, one may download a copy of the solicitation at this site. NOTIFICATIONS WILL NOT BE SENT TO OFFERER?S REGARDING THE ISSUANCE OF THE SOLICITATION NOR ANY OF ITS AMENDMENTS. IT IS THE OFFERER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CHECK THIS WEB SITE PERIODICALLY FOR UPDATES. Proposals shall be submitted to the contracting activity by the date and time indicated in the invitation for proposal which is anticipated to be on or about March 31, 2006. All proposals shall have the solicitation number placed on the front of the proposal envelope.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Various countries throughout the world.
- Record
- SN00979668-W 20060205/060203211750 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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