Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, 2300 Ramsey Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301

R -- MOCK SURVEY JCAHO SOL RFQ 565-16-98 DUE 031898 POC Janet A. Hudson (910) 822-7048 E-MAIL: E-Mail Contracting Officer at Janet.Hudson@med.va.gov., Janet.Hudson@med.va.gov.. This is a combined synopsis solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation Request for Quotations (RFQ) being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular Number 97-03. This procurement is set aside for small business and the SIC Code is 8742 and the small business size standard is $5.0 million. Services are required for a JCAHO pre-survey consultation utilizing the 1998 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations (JCAHO) standards. Contractor shall provide all labor materials and supervision to perform a JCAHO pre-survey during the months of April -- May 1998 for the VA Medical Center, Fayetteville, N.C. The pre-survey shall address Medical Staff and Nursing and an assessment shall be made of the facility's compliance with JCAHO standards. The medical center is a 154 bed general medicine, surgery, and psychiatric facility that provides primary and secondary care. It also houses a 39-bed nursing home care unit. For 1997, the medical center recorded in excess of 140,000 outpatient visits and 3,700 discharges. The proposal should be based on the JCAHO priorities for a facility of this size and complexity. The HAP component of the survey should be a key component in the proposal preparation. The pre-survey shall be performed through the use of interviews, document review, tour of patient care areas or other techniques. At the conclusion of the pre-survey, an exit conference shall be conducted to present a summary of findings and discuss areas of noncompliance and provide recommendations for compliance. A comprehensive written report outlining the findings and recommendations shall be provided to the VA within two weeks following completion of the survey. The actual dates of the pre-survey shall be coordinated with the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative. Services shall be performed Monday through Friday during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. excluding Federal holidays. It is required that the Contractor and contractor personnel have actual JCAHO survey experience. The following provisions apply to this acquisition: 852.219-70 Veteran-Owned Small Business; 852.270-4 Commercial Advertising; 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items; 52.212-3 Offer Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items; 52.212-4 Contract, Terms and Conditions- Commercial Items; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders- Commercial items, including clauses incorporated by reference under Section (b)(6) through (9); 52.212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Items; Offerors responding to this announcement shall submit their cost to perform services (all inclusive rate), a prospectus identifying how and what services will be provided and the time frame in which services will be provided. Offerors should submit information or examples of similar contracts performed for government agencies within the last three years and names and phone numbers of points of contact for past performance. Award will be made to the offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered: Experience, qualifications and cost factors will be used to evaluate offers. Experience and qualifications, when combined, are significantly more important than cost or price. The information required in provisions 52.212-1, a completed copy of provision 52.212-3 and the certification required in 852.219-70 must be submitted with offer. Quotations must be received by March 18, 1998 at 4:30 p.m. local time. Offerors desiring to obtain copies of the reference provisions shall send a facsimile transmission request to (910) 822-7900 Attention: Janet Hudson (0055)

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