Emergency Management Program Support

This is a notice issued on behalf of the National Institute of Health (NIH), Office of Acquisitions, Division of Emergency Management (DEM), ORS, DHHS, UNITED STATES. This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. There is no solicitation available at this time. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of all qualified small business sources. These services are commercially available (see draft SOW); (2) All small businesses to include: HUB Zone; Service-disabled, Veteran-owned; 8(a); Veteran-owned; Woman-owned; Small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) the size classification according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your response to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. The NAICS for this requirement is 541611 -Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services with a size standard of $16.5 Million. The SIC for this requirement is 8742 - Management Consulting Services Attached to this Sources Sought is a draft Statement of Work. Responses must reference HHS-NIH-OD-OLAO-75N98020R00006 and include the following: (1) Name and Address of the vendor, (2) Size and type of business (3) Point of contact with name, title, phone, fax and email, (4) DUNS number, (5) Vendor's capability statement (no more than 15 pages) addressing the attached draft Statement of Work. (6) List of organizations to whom the same or similar types of services have been previously provided to include contract number, dollar value, name, and the phone number of the Contracting Officer, ALL INFORMATION SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE OF February 21, 2020 at 3 PM EST. Please submit Capability Statements through email (brownant@mail.nih.gov). All questions and/or comments must be in writing and emailed to Mr. Anthony R. Brown at brownant@mail.nih.gov. Comments and questions will NOT be answered, but will assist in creating a solicitation for this requirement. Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a Request for Proposals. The Government DOES NOT intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement. Interested parties shall not be reimbursed for costs associated with preparation of their responses. Any proprietary information should be so marked. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed, to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the services. Information received will also be considered for the purpose of determining whether sufficient businesses within any of the socio-economic programs possess the capability to fulfill the Government's requirement and to ensure competition if a set-aside acquisition situation occurs. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement as a set-aside based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.