SOLICITATION NOTICE
G -- Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors to Provide Direct Services to OWCP Injured Workers
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 624310
— Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room S3522, Washington, District of Columbia, 20210
- ZIP Code
- 20210
- Solicitation Number
- DALLAS09
- Archive Date
- 6/27/2015
- Point of Contact
- Gwendolyn S Skinner,, Phone: 202-693-0975
- E-Mail Address
-
skinner.gwendolyn@dol.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), Branch of Medical Standards and Rehabilitation (BMSR) is soliciting vocational rehabilitation counselors (VRCs) who live in the states of LA, NM, OK, and TX. OWCP intends to certify and contract with individual VRCs in these areas to provide direct vocational rehabilitation services for injured workers covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. OWCP certification involves (1) minimum qualification criteria, (2) rating of educational and experience factors (3) selection of those counselors with the highest ratings, (4) required attendance at a two day training workshop, and (5) a contractual agremeent to follow OWCP Standards. The minimum qualifications for consideration are: (1) a bachelor's degree from an accredited four year college or univesity (transcripts must be provided to validate) and (2) two years vocational rehabilitation COUNSELING experience. Each VRC is required to submit to the OWCP National Office a complete application package, ORIGINAL AND DUPLICATE, consisting of: (1) a narrative statement which provides a complete and detailed description of work experience and educational background, including specific detailing of vocational counseling experience in LABOR MARKET SURVEYS, JOB PLACEMENT, USING TESTING/VOCATIONAL EVALUATION, AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION (PLEASE NOTE THAT POINTS ARE PROVIDED FOR EACH OF THESE FOUR AREAS WHEN APPLICATIONS ARE SCORES, SO BE THOROGUGH AND SPECIFIC), (2) copies of tanscripts supporting the college/university degress obtained, (3) two letters of reference verifying vocational rehabilitation counseling experience (not character references), and (4) a signed cover letter or statement by VRC indicating that the application package demonstates the intent to be available to provide direct services to injured workers covered under OWCP, and including the following statement: "I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all information, statements and documents herein presented are true, correct, complete and made in good faith, under penality of disqualification and prosecution under the law." Applicants with the highest ratings will be selected to attend the required training workshop. The training workshop will take place the week of August 10, 2009. OWCP will provide a memorandum of attendance which the VRC may use to apply for continuing education units. VRCs are not paid or otherwise reimbursed for attending the workshops. Certification extends for a basic one year period, followed by one year options until the next recruitment cycle. Evaluations of counselors's performance will determine whether options are renewed. VRC who receive referrals are evaluations on OWCP's standards of timeliness, quality, and adherence to policy and procedures. Addtiional rating factors are positive outcomes or successful closures. These evaluations will determine whether you continue to receive referrals, and have a bearing on eligibility for future workshops. VRCs selected to provide direct services are compensated at the rate of $75 per hour for professional time, and $37.50 for non-professional (i.e., administative) services. OWCP may develop and test pilot programs to determine the feasilibility of other methods of remuneration. OWCP does not guarantee a minimum number of referals to each VRC. Individual VRCs are hereby asked to forward a complete application package, including all of the required information references above to Julia Tritz, Office of workers' Compensation Programs, 230 S. Dearborn Street, Room 874, Chicago, IL 60604. The deadline for submitted application package, original and duplicate, is June 12, 2009. THE APPLICATION PACKAGE MUST BE POSTMARKED BY THE APPLICABLE DUE DATE OR THE VRC IS DISQUALIFIED. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Record
- SN01802965-W 20090429/090427220417-1bb197c6737053a83fbeb77fb7bd9acc (fbodaily.com)
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