Social Security Administration, Deputy Commissioner for Finance, Assessment and Management, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21207-5279

M -- OPERATION OF AN SSA FOLDER SERVICING OPERATION FACILITY SOL SSA-RFP-00-0188 DUE 022900 POC Barbara Hands, Contract Specialist, Phone 4109659517, Fax 4109669310, Email barbara.hands@ssa.gov WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&ProjID=SSA-RFP-00-01 88&LocID=2422. E-MAIL: Barbara Hands, barbara.hands@ssa.gov. The Social Security Administration (SSA) plans to issue a solicitation for a competitive 8(a) acquisition for the operation of a national Folder Servicing Operation (FSO) facility located in Plains, PA. The FSO is the national storage facility for storing active Supplemental Security Income (SSI) title XVI claims folders for approximately 1350 SSA field offices and other SSA components. The contractor shall furnish all necessary labor and supervision to perform all FSO functions. The proposed contract is for a base period of one year with four 1-year option periods. The contractor shall maintain a government-provided storage facility designed to accommodate work preparation and staging areas, with ample space for maintaining in excess of 10 million folders on an ongoing basis. This storage space is a two-tier master file facility with offices, two loading docks and processing areas. Equipment and most supplies will be provided by the Government. The contractor shall be responsible for receiving, sorting, recording (electronically) folders/foldered Post Eligibility (PE) material, destroying and inactivating folders, purifying and maintaining files. The contractor shall process and mail all recalled file folders to SSA offices, transport mail and folders to and from local U.S. Postal Services and annually process inactivation and destruction listings to remove folders from the FSO. The contractor shall also be responsible for processing schedules, receipt trends and tracking systems; maintaining a terminal digit filing system; initiating folder receipt and clearance action to update the folder system records and the supplemental security income control system; using a personal computer and communications software to access the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) IBM mainframe in St. Louis, MO.; and operating the data communications utility telecommunications equipment. This requirement is being conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Commercial Items. This requirement has been set aside 100 percent for 8(a) minority and disadvantaged business concerns in all stages of development. The applicable Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code is 8744 and the size standard is $5 million. In order to be considered eligible for award, an offeror must be an eligible participant in the 8(a) program for the specified SIC code on the date specified in the solicitation for receipt of proposals. SSA-RFP-00-0188 will be available on the EPS web page at www.eps.gov on or about January 28, 2000 with proposals being due 30 days later. All parties interested in submitting a proposal should download the solicitation from the EPS web page and provide the contract specialist with their company name, address, contact name, and telephone number. Any responsible and certified 8(a) source may submit an offer which will be considered by the agency. Please note that the solicitation version on the EPS web page will not include some attachments and those should be requested from the contract specialist. Posted 01/13/00 (D-SN415867). (0013)

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