SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- Graduate Medical Education Accreditation
- Notice Date
- 12/6/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 611710
— Educational Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center/Office of Purchasing & Contracts, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5480
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5480
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-CCOPC-17-000779
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2016
- Point of Contact
- Daytona Philpotts, Phone: 3014512716
- E-Mail Address
-
daytona.philpotts@nih.gov
(daytona.philpotts@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT, NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. A SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE REQUESTED. The National Institutes of Health, Office of Purchasing and Contracts intends to negotiate a contract on a sole source basis, under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253 ( c ) (1) and FAR 6.302-1(a) (2) (ii) to Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), to provide required training that permits physicians to be certified as medical or surgical specialists by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) services. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 611710 and the size standard is $15.0 millions of dollars. The anticipated period of performance is January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. A Fixed Priced Contract is anticipated. If there are other sources able to supply the required material, they must respond by submitting a capability statement within 10 days of publication of this synopsis. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, all proposals received prior to the closing date of this synopsis will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested concerns capable of providing the same or similar products or services as described in this notice may submit a capability statement outlining their capabilities. No solicitation is available. Information received will be evaluated for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Capability Statements must be received within the time set forth in this synopsis to be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Deliveries should be Hand Carried or sent via other mail or package Delivery Services. NO COLLECT CALLS OR FACSIMILE TRANSMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. RESPONDENTS MAY SUBMIT THEIR CAPABILITY STATEMENTS VIA E-MAIL TO THE POINT OF CONTACT LISTED IN THIS NOTICE OF INTENT SYNOPSIS. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1.) The NIH Clinical Center is the sponsoring institution at the NIH responsible for the administrative support and oversight of graduate medical education programs designed to train physicians, recruited through a competitive nation-wide search process, in a total of 18 nationally recognized medical/surgical specialties. These graduate medical education programs provide prescribed structured, standardized clinical and research training experiences to these physicians that permits their certification as specialists in a recognized medical or surgical field by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a national organization that has established a process for verifying the competence of individual physicians in such recognized medical or surgical specialty fields. However, the prescribed standards and program structure required for the training for physicians in a given medical or surgical specialty field are developed and verified, both for training programs and institutions which sponsor those training programs, through a national process of accreditation established by another organization, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), located in Chicago, Illinois. The ACGME is a private, non-profit organization that accredits approximately 8,700 residency programs in 130 specialties or subspecialties that educate about 109,000 residents nationally. Its mission is to improve health care nationally by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians' education through an exemplary accreditation process. Graduate medical education training programs and those institutions that sponsor medical or surgical training programs in a recognized specialty field, such as the NIH Clinical Center, are expected to be accredited by the ACGME in order to permit training program graduates to be certified by the ABMS. It should be noted that those graduate medical education programs and sponsoring institutions that are not accredited by the ACGME are not recognized as providing the required training that permits physicians to be certified as medical or surgical specialists by the ABMS. Thus, physicians who complete specialty training in non-ACGME accredited programs, with rare exception, are not eligible for certification by the ABMS, and are not considered bona fide medical or surgical specialists by health care delivery organizations, medical schools, and academic medical centers throughout the United States. Finally, many states require completion of an ACGME-accredited training program before granting a license to practice medicine and surgery. Thus, accreditation of both individual graduate medical education programs, and the NIH Clinical Center as a sponsor of graduate medical education on the NIH campus, by the ACGME is essential for the NIH Clinical Center and the NIH to meet its mission of training highly competent (i.e., ABMS certified) and qualified physician-scientists and clinician-investigators in the recognized specialty fields of medicine or surgery. To the maximum extent possible, please submit non-proprietary information. Any proprietary information submitted should be identified as such and will be properly protected from disclosure. Interested Offerors should submit their capability statement not exceeding fifteen (15) pages in length, excluding standard brochures. SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE no later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, December 16, 2016. The capabilities response shall be e-mailed to: daytona.philpotts@nih.gov. All information received in response to this notice that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. Information provided in response to this notice will be used to assess alternatives available for determining how to proceed in the acquisition process. This notice is part of Government Market Research, a continuous process for obtaining the latest information on the commercial status of the industry with respect to their current and near-term abilities. The information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to solicit for or award a competitive contract. The NIH/CC will use the information submitted in response to this notice at its discretion and will not provide comments to any submission; however, the content of any responses to this notice may be reflected in subsequent solicitation. NIH/CC/OPC reserves the right to contact any respondent to this notice for the sole purpose of enhancing NIH/CC/OPC 's understanding of the notice submission. This announcement is Government market research, and may result in revisions in both its requirements and its acquisition strategy based on industry responses. It is emphasized that this is a notice for planning and information purposes only and is not be construed as a commitment by the government to enter into a contractual agreement, nor will the government pay for information solicited. Responses to this Notice of Intent shall be submitted before the closing date and time to the attention of the Contract Specialist listed below. Primary Point of Contact: Daytona Philpotts, Contract Specialist daytona.philpotts@nih.gov Phone: 301 451-2716 Contracting Office Address: 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5480 Place of Contract Performance: NIH Clinical Center, Building 10 10 Center Drive Bethesda, Maryland 20892 United States Responses must be submitted to the Daytona Philpotts within 10 calendar days from the date of this synopsis. Responses shall be limited to 15 pages. All responses must reference Notice Number HHS-NIH-CCOPC-17-000779. Government Official Designated for Receipt of Information Attn: Daytona Philpotts, Contract Specialist E-mail: daytona.philpotts@nih.gov
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
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