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R -- SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE OPERATION OF FHA HOSPITAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM SOL DU100C000018568 DUE 052797 POC vickie chesley (202-708-1585, x141), A. Dolores Ammons-Barnett (202-708-1585, x134) WEB: Click here to download the solicitation from the HUD Contracting Opportunities Web Page, http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html. E-MAIL: Click here to contact Constance V. Chesley, Constance_V._Chesley@hud.gov. Period of Performance: one year base contract period with 4 one-year option periods. An indefinite quantity contract is contemplated to include minimum/maximum quantities of $1M/$23M respectively for the overall effort. Services are required to administer the FHA program of mortgage insurance for hospitals in accordance with Section 242 of the National Housing Act. The program's principal customers are the health care institutions that apply for insurance and those institutions that are currently insured under the program. HUD currently has a $4.9 billion portfolio consisting of 91 mortgages on 85 hospitals. In addition, the current workload in reviewing applications is approximately 6 to 8 applications per year. Approximately 87% of HUD's insurance risk is located in the State of New York. Required services include all application processes, loan management, asset management, and asset disposition activities (excludes accounting services and legal services). Also, the contractor shall provide direct support to HUD in developing legislation, regulations, policies, products, business plans, and marketing plans. Performance measures are included for each task in order for the Government to determine satisfactory performance. The Government will make one award for the overall effort. However, HUD program redirection may necessitate the need to forego the overall effort and award only portions, with potential multiple awards, for the following services: (1) feasibility analyses; (2) financial and operational reviews of insured hospitals; (3) analyses of the financial and operational conditions of troubled hospitals (includes turnaround plans); (4) management of hospitals for which HUD is mortgagee-in-possession or owner; and (5) marketing and disposition strategies for hospitals cited in (4) above. A separate guaranteed minimum quantity (TBD) will be established in the RFP for these five services. NOTE: HUD posts all required notices of its contracting opportunities on its Internet Home Page Contracting Opportunities site at http://www.hud.gov/cts/ctsoprty.html. Potential offerors who download copies of solicitations from HUD's Home Page will NOT automatically receive any amendments to those solicitations. You are advised to check back frequently to see if HUD has issued any amendments to solicitations you have obtained. All amendments will be posted on, and may be downloaded from, HUD's Home Page Contracting Opportunities site. (0097)

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