Department of Veterans Affairs, Stratton VA Medical Center, 113 Holland Avenue, Albany, N.Y. 12208-3410

R -- READJUSTMENT COUNSELING SERVICES SOL RFP 500-60-96 DUE 091796 POC Contracting Officer: Leslie Sabrina Jones, (518)462-3311, Ext 2615 The Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, NY is seeking contractors to provide readjustment counseling services to eligible Viet Nam Era Veterans within the Ulster County area. Readjustment Counseling Services for the purposes of this solicitation, shall be counseling provided by Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and other counselors individually or in concert, specifically directed at social, psychological and/or behavioral problems which bear a distinct relationship to the process of readjustment from military duty during the Viet Nam Era. Modalities of readjustment counseling other than job training, skills development, and substance abuse counseling, all of which must address as a primary goal and have as their central purpose, the amelioration of disruptions in the readjustment process from military duty during the Viet Nam Era. While the provision of medications and physical examinations are not to be considered as a component of readjustment counseling services and will not be provided for in the resultant contract, offerors will be expected to have the capability to arrange for through referral, physical assessments and medical treatment and therapy, or to provide such services directly. Prospective offerors submitting proposals in response to the Request For Proposals should have treatment centers that are physically located within a forty (40) mile radius of those counties which the contractor will provide services to eligible veterans. Solicitation will be available from the Issuing Office O/A August 14, 1996 upon written request to: Contracting Officer (90C), Stratton VA Medical Center, 113 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208. (0212)

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