SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Budget/Management Support
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Agricultural Research Service - National Capital Region Business Service Center
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 645884
- Archive Date
- 8/7/2013
- Point of Contact
- James D. Mills, Phone: 3015040901
- E-Mail Address
-
james.mills@ars.usda.gov
(james.mills@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS) on behalf of USDA, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Budget Office, intends to award a sole source contract to Sandra Suit. The purpose of this award is to provide a special assistant in the NIFA Budget Office that is uniquely qualified to provide training and guidance to a budget analyst in the preparation of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Survey of Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Non-Profit Institutions, and the Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development (Surveys). Support is needed to provide training and guidance to individuals responsible for the preparation of appropriation hearing questions. In addition support is needed to update the existing Budget Office Operating Manual. Support is needed to research and respond to data calls for historical research, media inquiries, crosscut reports and other data reporting requirements pertaining to NIFA accounts and programs. The NIFA budget is one of the most complicated in the USDA due to the number and complexity of NIFA appropriations, accounts, authorizations, and eligible funding recipients. There are over 60 appropriated NIFA programs. An in-depth knowledge of the six NIFA appropriation accounts made up of annual, multi-year, no-year, endowment, and reimbursable funds is required. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 541611- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services. Authority for this sole source procurement is under 10 U.S.C.2403 (c) (1) as implemented in FAR 6.302-1(b)(1)(i), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be honored. Any firm that believes it can provide the services listed above may submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact. The successful company must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and also the Online Representations and Certification (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. The Point of Contact for this action is Mr. James Mills and any response must be emailed to James.Mills@ars.usda.gov. Verbal responses are not acceptable and will not be considered. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement no later than August 6, 2013
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