Physical Needs Assessment (PNA) Implementation

The U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for PNA Implementation. The contractor will be required to plan and perform technical assistance, quality control, and quality assurance with PHAs, HUD staff, and PNA providers on the new PNA to be completed by all PHAs for the first time over a one year period after the completion of the new PNA tools by HUD. The contractor will be required to facilitiate the flow of information to Public Housing Authorities with regard to the new PNA tool and guidance instruction manual and to coordinate with HUD quality control efforts. The further objective is for the contractor to complete PNAs on a statistically valid sample of public housing developments nationally after completion of the Public Housing Authorities' PNAs. The national sample will be used for quality assurance purposes and to determine the national needs number accordingly. The contract duration will be for one base year with two one-year options. More detailed information concerning the work requirements will be provided in the solicitation as well as the proposal receipt date. The solicitation should be available for downloading from the Federal Business Opportunity website on or about 8/31/11. This procurement is unrestricted. No hard copies of the solicitation will be made available. Telephone and email requests for the solicitation will not be accepted.