USDA, Rural Development, 4440 NW 25th Place, P O Box 147010, Gainesville, Florida 32614-7010

R -- LEGAL SERVICES FOR FORECLOSURES AND DEFENSE OF BANKRUPTCY SOL RFP 09-00-6-120P DUE 111396. Contact Betty C. McMurtry, 352-338-3426, Administrative Contracting Officer. USDA, Rural Development requires contractors to provide legal services for uncontested and contested foreclosures and bankruptcy proceedings for 502 single family properties located in the counties of Pasco, Manatee, Hillsborough, and Pinellas in the State of Florida. To be eligible, the contractor must be licensed to practice law in Florida and a member of the Florida Bar in good standing. The solicitation is advertised under FAR Part 15, Negotiated Procedure, with the requirement for technical proposals to be evaluated to establish technically acceptable offerors who will be considered for an award. The contract award will cover a base year and two option years each subject to the availability of funding after 9/30/96. The contract type will be that of a firm, fixed priced per line item, indefinite quantity, indefinite delivery. Estimated quantity is 30 cases for each of the base and two option years. The Government's independent estimate is between $200,000 and $250,000. Only written requests for the solicitation package that are received by mail will be acknowledged; no telefax or telephone requests accepted! Electronic transmission of proposals will not be accepted. Evaluation factors and subfactors are as follows: I. Past Performance and Experience (40 points); (a) Key personnel identified and resumes supplied; (b) experience with foreclosures including contested ones in Circuit Court in Florida; (c) experience with bankruptcy defences; (d) references to establish due diligence and experience in the handling of an assigned case from initiation of pleadings to delivery of property to the client; (e) past experience and performance as a contractor for Rural Development in providing legal services for foreclosures. MINIMUM - Experience in handling a contested foreclosure documented as to timeline for filing and concluding the case with supporting information as to commercial or federal governmental client. Evaluation factor is considered greater than price. II. Understanding the Statement of Work (25 points); (a) Considerations of the social engineering impacts on foreclosure in Florida State Courts and how the process of foreclosure is impacted with contested proceedings initiated; (b) Summation of the delays and potential problems that may arise when a servicing document is missing from a file or when a petition for bankruptcy requires immediate response from secondary levels within the Rural Development; (c) Non-legal considerations in the eviction of a property owner foreclosed which may adversely affect the Rural Development standing in a community. MINIMUM - Narrative brief of causes and effects that a successful contractor would consider in taking action to foreclose, defend in bankruptcy court, and evict once foreclosure completed with comment on the impact upon the legal service where the contractor does not have access to source documents without following procedural dictates of the client. Evaluation factor is considered to be greater than price. III. Management Scheme (25 points); (a) Discussion of mix of technical, clerical, paralegal and legal personnel in the performance of the Statement of Work; (b) Annotated Outline of the process for tracking a case from receipt to conclusion including the tracking of billable reimbursable expenditures associated with the case. (c) Process to identify and report to COR challenges to Federal Law arising from the case filed. (d) Examination of the process of due diligence as it is controlled by the management of time and resources and tracking of calendar calls and due dates. MINIMUM Demonstrate commitment of resources and adherence to management scheme to ensure due diligence in the completion of a foreclosure within a 6-month period assuming that the case documentation supports the action as to completeness when assigned by the Government. Contemplated closing date for receipt of technical proposal is 1:00 P.M., local time, November 13, 1996. See Notes 1 and 26. (260)

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