SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Evaluations of HUD programs and operations
- Notice Date
- 9/23/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Division of Procurement, Avery 5F, 200 Third Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106-5312, United States
- ZIP Code
- 26106-5312
- Solicitation Number
- SS-HUD-13-0110
- Archive Date
- 10/22/2013
- Point of Contact
- WP/KH, Fax: 304-480-7203
- E-Mail Address
-
psb1@bpd.treas.gov
(psb1@bpd.treas.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Housing and Urban Debelopment's Office of the Inspector General (HUD-OIG), is seeking qualified contractors to assist in supporting and conducting evaluations of HUD programs and operations. The objective of this Sources Sought Notice is to identify potential contractors that provide these services. Responses shall include sufficient evidence that clearly shows the contractor is capable of providing the requested services. Qualified contractors shall provide the following: 1. The name and location of your company, DUNS, contact information, and identify your business size (Small Business, Disadvantaged Business, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, HubZone, Woman-owned, etc.). Please ensure contact information includes the name of the point of contact, email address, and telephone number should the Government have questions regarding individual responses. 2. Provide GSA Schedule contract number and Terms & Conditions if not available electronically on GSA Advantage. 3. A brief capabilities statement (not to exceed 5 one-sided, 8x11", 12-point font pages) that includes: • Company overview and the services provided • Relevant company experience related to the summary of requirements provided below • Summary of customers where relevant services have been provided The following file extensions are not allowable and application materials/data submitted with these extensions cannot be considered:.bat,.cmd,.com,.exe,.pif,.rar,.scr,.vbs,.hta,.cpl, and.zip files. Microsoft Office compatible documents and.pdf files are acceptable. No other information regarding this Request for Information (RFI) will be provided at this time. This notice does not restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. All firms responding to this notice are advised that their response is not an offer that will be considered for contract award. All interested parties will be required to respond to any resultant solicitation separately from their response to this notice. Please note that any subsequent solicitation will not reference this RFI. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. A request for more information, or a copy of the solicitation, will not be considered an affirmative response to this RFI. Telephone responses to, or inquiries about, this RFI will NOT be accepted. Responses to this RFI must be submitted no later than 2:00p.m. ET on October 7, 2013. Responses must be submitted electronically to PSB1@bpd.treas.gov, with the subject line "SS-HUD-13-0110, Attn: WP/KH".   BACKGROUND The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG) is responsible for conducting and supervising audits, investigations, and evaluations relating to the programs and operations of HUD. The OIG examines, evaluates and, where necessary, investigates these operations and activities, recommending ways for the Department to carry out its responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible. The OIG is staffed by auditors, criminal investigators, attorneys and other support staff. While OIG possesses sufficient expertise to conduct its audits and investigations, it is in the process of revamping and creating a new Office of Evaluations. During the initial 2 year period for building and training staff, the OIG wishes to contract for support to conduct evaluations of HUD programs and operations. The OIG seeks to obtain services to conduct a series of program evaluations that include, but not limited to, coverage of the main HUD program areas: • Single Family Mortgage Insurance. HUD has approximately 2,600 mortgage companies approved to underwrite and service HUD insurance on single family homes. Also FHA contracts for the administration of a Real Estate Owned program that takes foreclosed properties and resells them. • Multi-family Mortgage Insurance. FHA currently insures about 13,000 multi-family projects. Monitoring responsibilities include reviews of management, physical condition, and financial reports. • Public and Indian Housing. HUD enters into Contracts with state, local, and tribal housing agencies to administer public housing and other rental assistance programs, most notably the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program. There are about 4,500 various housing agencies across the country. • Housing Rental Assistance. Both Public Housing and Multifamily apartment's owners may participate in a variety of rental assistance programs, the largest of which is the Housing Choice Voucher Program that services nearly 2.1 million families and another 1.2 million under the Section 8 project based assistance program. • Community Planning and Development. HUD provides a variety of grants and loans to state and local governments to achieve the goals of providing by providing principally persons of low and moderate income: Decent housing; suitable living environment; and expanded economic opportunities. The CDBG statutory and regulatory requirements set forth eligible activities and the national objectives that each activity must meet. There are nearly 10,000 grantees in the various programs. • Disaster grants. In various years HUD obtains supplemental funding to provide assistance to states and localities for natural disasters such as the recent destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. • HUD internal management. In addition evaluations could assess various aspects of and operations well as management of internal operations such as information technology, human resources, procurement and contracting, etc. PROGRAM EVALUATION There are several types of evaluations that HUD OIG may select as assignments in these program areas. Program evaluations are an individual systematic study conducted to assess how well a program is working and why. A program evaluation typically examines achievement of program objectives in the context of other aspects of program performance or in the context in which it occurs. Evaluation results may be used to assess a program's effectiveness, identify how to improve performance, or guide resource allocation. While an evaluation can assess an entire program, under this contract, evaluations will typically focus on an activity or initiative within a program. Four main types have been identified by the General Accountability Office in addition to other used by the OIG community: • Process (or Implementation) Evaluation. This form of evaluation assesses the extent to which a program is operating as it was intended. It typically assesses program activities' conformance to statutory and regulatory requirements, program design, and professional standards or customer expectations. • Outcome Evaluation. This form of evaluation assesses the extent to which a program achieves its outcome oriented objectives. It focuses on outputs and outcomes (including unintended effects) to judge program effectiveness but may also assess program process to understand how outcomes are produced. • Impact Evaluation Impact. This evaluation is a form of outcome evaluation that assess the net effect of a program by comparing program outcomes with an estimate of what would have happened in the absence of the program. This evaluation is used when external factors are known to influence the programs outcomes in order to isolate the program's contribution to the achievement of its objectives. • Cost-Benefit and Cost Effectiveness. These analyses compare a program's outputs or outcomes with costs (resources expended) to produce them. • Effective Practices /Lessons Learned. The purpose of this evaluation is to identify programs or processes that are working well and use them as an instructional aid for other locations conducting the same or similar work • Fact Gathering. In some circumstances management may need to rapidly and independently acquire facts of a situation that is of an urgent nature. This evaluation does not necessarily result in any conclusions or recommendations but is only provided as a service to managers who need data (costs, volume of transactions, locational heat maps etc.) to make a decision.
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