R -- Patient Care Unit Clerks

PATIENT CARE UNIT CLERK SERVICES A-76 STANDARD COMPETITIONThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) is posting the final Performance Work Statement (PWS)for Patient Care Unit Clerk services. It is also conducting a market survey to determine the availability and potential technical capability of businesses to provide all management, supervision, administration, and labor to support the Patient Care Unit Clerk services. Questions should be sent to the attention of Zetherine Gore at zgore@nih.gov or Lisa Adams at adamsl@od.nih.gov This standard competition will be conducted IAW the rules of the OMB Circular A-76 (Revised May 29, 2003). The Competitive Sourcing Official is Dr. Ed Sontag, Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Department of Health and Human Resources. The Agency Tender Official is Rob Mekelberg. The Government reserves the right to convert this procurement to one of the various federal small business programs should results of market research/survey and other such activity demonstrate that necessary criteria is met to support small business set-aside programs. The PWS for Patient Care Unit Clerks may be obtained at the weblink http://www.olao.od.nih.gov/VendorResources/RequestForProposal/fy2005a76 Patient Care Unit Clerk services will be provided at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. These services are currently provided by ninety-seven (97) government personnel and eight (8) incumbent service providers. The contract will be for one 12-month base year with four 12-month options. This standard competition will comply with the schedules mandated in the OMB Circular A-76. The solicitation will be released on or about September 30, 2005. The solicitation and amendments will only be available on-line at the FedBizOpps web page at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. The evaluation and cost comparison results will be announced by March 28, 2006. It is recognized that Circular A-76 requires very compressed proposal preparation schedules. NIH may also conduct pre-proposal meetings. The applicable and predominant North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 56111 - Office Administrative Services, with a size standard of an average of $6.0 million dollars over the last 3 years. Prospective offerors will be responsible for downloading the solicitation and all attachments. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the FedBizOpps web page for release of the solicitation and any amendments. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. If your organization has the corporate capability and expertise to perform this type of service, provide the following information about your company: 1) Company name, address, email address, website address and telephone number, and 2)Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability.. Please also specify the size of the company (e.g., small, large, university or nonprofit), as well as the ownership type (e.g., 8(a), disadvantaged, woman, veteran, service-disabled veteran), and/or whether the firm is located in a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone). The Government will evaluate the capability packages using the following criteria: 1) experience as a prime contractor providing administrative support services consistent in scope and scale with those described in the above outline and the final performance work statement to be posted in FedBizOpps at a later date; 2)Experience in securing and applying the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3)Experience in implementing a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel; and risk mitigation; and 4)Experience in providing services under a performance based service acquisition contract including a brief description of the work being done under the contract, key performance indicators and the company's performance record under the contract. Interested firms responding to this market survey are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the evaluation criteria above. Tailored capability statements should address organizational and staff experience and expertise to provide the required services. Firms should present focused and pertinent information about their company, and its products and services in response to this market survey and the requirements of this effort. If significant subcontracting or teaming effort is anticipated by small business in order to deliver technical capability, firms should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements to demonstrate that small business prime contractors can maintain labor, technical, and management control of the project, meeting the - limitations on subcontracting imposed on small business set-asides. Taking into account the magnitude of the scope of this effort, firms also should address the capacity of their financial infrastructure to deliver contract performance. Although no geographic restriction is anticipated, if responding firms are located outside the Washington Metropolitan area, indicate how the firm would coordinate with the agency program office to provide support to multiple sites. This request for information does not constitute a request for proposals and submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary for which the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. CAPABILITY STATEMENTS RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE SHOULD NOT EXCEED FIFTEEN (15) PAGES. Firms responding to the market survey of this notice must provide three (3) copies of a tailored capability statement to Zetherine Gore, National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Room 537C, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 no later than August 25, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. local time. If using a courier service, use the following city, State and Zip Code: Rockville, MD 20852.