SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Speech Pathology Services
- Notice Date
- 2/12/2008
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 621340
— Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists
- Contracting Office
- VA Salt Lake City Health Care System;A&MMS (04A);500 Foothill Blvd;Salt Lake City, Utah 84148
- ZIP Code
- 84148
- Solicitation Number
- VA-259-08-RP-0082
- Response Due
- 3/14/2008
- Archive Date
- 5/13/2008
- Point of Contact
- Elaine Davis Contract Specialist 801-584-1245
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Contract Specialist
(Elaine.Davis@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Provide Clinical Fellow speech pathologist services for evaluation and treatment of speech, language, cognitive disorders and evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders under the supervision of a licensed Speech Pathologist. Supervision will be at least 25% of direct patient contact. Patients requiring these services are primarily on or referred by the Rehabilitation Medicine, Geriatrics and Neurology wards, however they may be found throughout the Medical Center. Contract Speech Pathologists will be required to provide the following scope of work: review medical charts, request medical records and/or information from other installations and/or private institutions, interview veterans families and/or significant others for history information relevant to speech-language and swallowing disorders, counsel veterans, family and significant others regarding evaluation, treatment, prognosis, etc., attend team treatment/planning meetings on wards, provide written documentation of evaluation and treatment provided to patients, provide supervision of students from affiliated universities once CCC-SP is achieved and adjunct faculty status is awarded by the University. Contract Speech Pathologists will be required to have knowledge of and skills in administering the following tests at a minimum: Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, Aphasia Language Performance Scale, Communicative Abilities in Daily Living, Western Aphasia Battery, Apraxia Token Test, Revised Token Test, RIC Evaluation of Communication Problems in Right Hemisphere Dysfunction, Functional Communication Profile, Boston Assessment of Severe Aphasia Mini Inventory of Right Brian Injury, Brief Test of Head Injury, Frenchay Dysarthria, Assessment, Boston Naming Test, Assessment of Cognitive Abilities, Ross Information Processing Assessment, Revised Edinburgh Functional Communication Profile, New England Pantomime Tests, Aphasia Diagnostic Tests, Dysarthria Profiles, Mini Mental State Examination, Blom-Singer Insufflation Test, Ross Test of Higher Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia, Dysarthria Examination & Battery FIM. The Contract Speech Pathologists will be required to have knowledge of skills in the use of the following equipment at the minimum: Telecommunications devices, Artificial Larynx Devices, & TEP Valves. The Contractor is required to respond within two working days of the request for coverage. He/she will provide approximately 20 hrs per week and see an average of 4 patients per day. The contractor must be eligible for a Clinical Fellowship Year (per ASHA) Completion of Clinical Fellowship Year requirements and is awarded Certificate of Clinical Competence within 14 months. The contract will utilize simplified acquisition procedures in accordance with Commercial Items Part 12 and in accordance with Part 15, Contracting with Negotiation. The contract will be a base year from date of award through March 31, 2009 with 4 one-year options to extend the term of the contract. The issue date is O/A February 27, 2008. BOD is O/A March 14, 2008. The contract will be an IDIQ contract. All requests must be in writing or by Fax to the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System Attn: Elaine P. Davie, Fax: 801-584-1245 or e-mail to elaine.davis@va.gov Reference VA-259-08-RP-0082- NAICS Code 621340 6 Million Note #1 See attached document BOS DESCRIPTION SPEECH PATHOLOGY_02.
- Place of Performance
- Address: VA Salt Lake City Health Care System;500 FOothill Blvd;Salt Lake City, Utah
- Zip Code: 84148
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 84148
- Record
- SN01506692-W 20080214/080212224001 (fbodaily.com)
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