SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty Services (LGY) Construction and Valuation Section (C&V) Appraisal Management Services/Automated Valuation Model(AMS/AVM) Services
- Notice Date
- 4/11/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Center Acquisition Innovation Frederick;Department of Veterans Affairs;8490 Progress Drive, Suite 100;Frederick MD 21701
- ZIP Code
- 21701
- Solicitation Number
- VA79811RP0093
- Response Due
- 5/18/2011
- Archive Date
- 6/17/2011
- Point of Contact
- Roxana Cepeda
- E-Mail Address
-
1-0729<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- U.S DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (VA) APPRAISAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND AUTOMATED VALUATION MODEL (AMS/AVM) SERVICES ACQUISITION. VA RFP: VA798-11-RP-0093 SYNOPSIS DATE: March 21, 2011 YEAR: FY 11 NAICS CLASSIFICATION CODE: TBD CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS: 8490 Progress Drive Frederick, MD 21701 SUBJECT: Appraisal Management Services / Automated Valuation Model (AMS/AVM) Services Acquisition PROPOSED SOLICITATION NUMBER: VA798-11-RP-0093 RELEASE DATE: On or about April 11, 2011 POINT OF CONTACT: Roxana Cepeda, Contract Specialist Phone: 202-461-0729 E-Mail Address: Roxana.Cepeda@va.gov Megan Replogle, Contracting Officer E-Mail Address: megan.replogle@va.gov PLACE OF CONTRACT PERFORMANCE: The U.S. is defined as the 50 States, Territories and possessions, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The service provider must be able to provide all services with the same service level within all geographic locations. SET-ASIDE STATUS: N/A SUMMARY: The Construction and Valuation Section (C&V) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)'s Loan Guaranty Service (LGY) is responsible for the quality of appraisal reports on properties offered as security for VA guaranteed loans. In 2002, VA completed a nationwide initiative that consolidated 46 Regional Offices with loan guaranty operations to nine (9) Regional Loan Centers (RLCs). This allowed some efficiencies, however, as VA moves forward, it is essential that proven technological advances be taken advantage of in order to improve resource management and to continue providing quality benefits to our nation's veterans, in a more cost efficient manner. The purpose of this Solicitation is to support the procurement of Appraisal Management Services (AMS) and Automated Valuation Management (AVM) services to further enhance the appraisal review process, thereby improving the oversight functions of Construction and Valuation Section(C&V). C&V's vision is to provide a phased approach to accomplish a fully integrated, seamless, and user-friendly solution encompassing appraisal requests through the issuance of a VA guaranty. The Contractor shall provide the C&V staff, lenders, and servicers in the United States (U.S.) with services that will improve standardization, performance, and quality of appraisal reviews. This acquisition effort will result in the award of a purchase of service from an independent contractor. Currently, VA employees perform post closing quality reviews on approximately 165,000 randomly sampled appraisal reports annually. Instead of random sampling, VA will begin to target reviews based upon the scored appraisal. Risk-based scoring will enable VA to perform enhanced analysis on those appraisals targeted by the AMS model. The following Veterans Benefits Administration's (VBA) objectives are listed in descending priority: 1.Improve the quality of individual appraisal reports. a.Create quality benchmarks and standardized metrics for appraisals b.Identify global systemic quality issues c.Contribute to the development and refinement of role-specific training curriculum 2.Improve the quality of individual appraiser performance. a.Create quality benchmarks and standardized metrics for individual appraisers b.Identify appraiser-specific quality issues and deficiencies c.Contribute to appraiser-specific remediation plans, including identifying competency gaps requiring training 3.Streamline, standardize, and approve the appraisal review process. a.Continuously enhance available data, product features, integration, process/service design, and usability b.Leverage existing resources to perform more detailed oversight c.Improve the quality and consistency of the appraisal review process d.Reduce the time and cost associated with processing an individual appraisal review 4.Decrease risk to LGY. a.Reduce risk of fraudulent/invalid valuations A proven and previously fielded Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) product is required. This will be a Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The Government intends to make one award as a result of this solicitation. It is anticipated that the awarded contract (ID/IQ) will have a five (5) year period of performance. The solicitation will be issued on or about April 11, 2011 with an anticipated closing date on or about May 18, 2011.
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