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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF APRIL 30, 2017 FBO #5637
DOCUMENT

Q -- Nursing Home Services Lebanon - Attachment

Notice Date

4/28/2017
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

623110 — Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities)
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office 4
 

Solicitation Number

VA24417R0281
 

Response Due

5/11/2017
 

Archive Date

7/10/2017
 

Point of Contact

Herbert Byrns
 

E-Mail Address

822-3740<br
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

Pre-proposal conference agenda and talking points, CNH Services, Lebanon VA244-17-R-0281 Prepared by: Herb Byrns Reference is made to all documents posted to FedBizOpps (FBO) under Request for Proposal (RFP) VA244-17-R-0281. A pre-proposal conference was held for the RFP for Community Nursing Home Services on April 19, 2017 via telephone conference. Leading the conference was Herb Byrns Herbert.byrns@va.gov, who is the Contracting Officer for this procurement. Areas covered during the pre-proposal conference were; Introduction and discussion of Contracting Officer (CO) and Contracting Officer Representative (COR) roles. Discussion of procurement integrity and the use of the FBO Government website www.fbo.gov to post Government business opportunities and information related to those opportunities. Reminder that all questions regarding this procurement should be emailed to the CO. And that there would be no changes to the RFP unless the changes are posted to FBO in the form or a formal RFP Amendment document. Reintroduction of the procurement from a summary level read directly from the pre-solicitation synopsis, ie, The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Network Contracting Office (NCO4), Pittsburgh, PA intends to solicit proposals from contractors in the Pennsylvania Counties listed in the Table below to provide community nursing home services at contractor s facilities under Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs). These requirements are needed IN ADDITION to existing BOAs in the named Counties. Table County State Number of Homes Lebanon PA 2 Lancaster PA 3 Dauphin PA 2 Perry PA 2 York PA 3 Total PA 12 Per the RFP, Section E, the Government intends to award up to 12, 5-year Basic Ordering Agreements (BOA). Proposals are due on May 11, 2017 and should be sent to the CO via email. Hard copies are not required. The RFP shall remain open until June 30, 2017 in the event the requirements by County are not filled. However, it is in the vendors best interest to get proposals in by the May 11, 2017 cutoff. Discussed on cover page of RFP Reminder that all entities have to be registered in the Government s System for Award Management (SAM) prior to receiving a BOA award. Proposals may be submitted and evaluated however an award cannot be made until the SAM record is active. PG25 The CO then proceeded to summarize each section of the RFP including; The Performance Work Statement. Performance work statement becomes part of the contract agreement. Section B.2 PGs6-14 of RFP Schedule of Items and what is included in the rates and the fact that the rates shall be adjusted on an annual basis based on the published Medicare rates from the Federal Register. Medications are a big question under this area and it is covered in this section. Section B.3 pgs 15-18 Pricing and the eight blended Medicare categories. Instructions and an example of how to prepare pricing for submission with the proposal are provided in Attachment 5 to the RFP. Pricing becomes part of the agreement. Attachment 5 can be downloaded from FBO. Section B.4 pg 19 Section C Terms and Conditions. These are standard Government terms for Commercial Contracts and agreements. RFP Pgs 21-42 Section D is the Attachments, 1-5 and they can be downloaded from FBO. Of particular note are attachment 2, the QASP which we use to assess contractor performance and attachment 3 which include requirements for minimum wages to be paid under the agreement. Section E of the RFP was discussed at length especially the areas, 1) describing what to include with proposals when submitted and 2) the evaluation criteria which every proposal will be evaluated against. Instructions page 47, table what to submit with your proposal. Evaluation section e.13 pg 75. E12---per SAM. Section E not part of subsequent contract. Offeror Questions and Government Responses are presented below. Note: the RFP is not changed based on information below. Question: What blocks do we fill out for submission of offer on the Government 1449 form? Response: Fill out blocks 17 and 30. Question: Do we only have to fill out Attachment 4, Pricing as our proposal? Response: No, see Table in Section E.1, Instructions to Offerors in RFP. Question: If we have an existing BOA should we submit a proposal? Response: No Question: Regarding pricing, can we apply different discounts for different categories? Response: Yes, you can apply different discounts, or add-on, percentages by category. Question: If there are multiple Nursing Facilities under one parent should we submit one proposal or would you need multiple proposals? Response: It really depends on how the parent does business. The important thing to remember is that each home shall be evaluated and priced individually. Question: I wanted to know if there is any way to follow who wins the RFP without being part of the bidding process? Response: In accordance with Section E, Instructions to Offerors in the RFP, Individual non-award notifications will not be published. The Contracting Officer will publish an electronically-consolidated notification via a Federal Business Opportunities Award Notice once all sites Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) have been awarded. The award posting notice on the Federal Business Opportunity (FBO) website, (http://www.fbo.gov/), will serve as non-awardees official electronic notification of award. This is the end of conference. Questions regarding anything covered? Feel free to submit questions in writing and we will endeavor to get you rapid responses. Thank you for attending and for your interest in doing business with the Department of Veterans Affairs!
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/PiVAMC646/PiVAMC646/VA24417R0281/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA244-17-R-0281 VA244-17-R-0281_3.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3453643&FileName=VA244-17-R-0281-017.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3453643&FileName=VA244-17-R-0281-017.docx

 

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Record

SN04490306-W 20170430/170428234959-b54f386a5836a15747657461c6140f9e (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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