R -- Patient Care Unit Clerks

DRAFT PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)for PATIENT CARE UNIT CLERKS A-76 STANDARD COMPETITION. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is posting a DRAFT PWS for comments and/or questions. The Applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is changed from 622110 - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals to 56111 - Office Administrative Services with a size standard of an average of $6.0 million dollars over the last 3 years. Questions/Comments regarding the PWS will only be accepted via email to the attention of Zetherine Gore at zgore@nih.gov or Lisa Adams at adamsl@od.nih.gov QUESTIONS/COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JULY 13,2005. Additions and or corrections to the PWS resulting from the questions/comments will be reflected in the final PWS. Therefore do not expect responses to questions/comments.This standard competition will be conducted IAW the rules of the OMB Circular A-76 (Revised May 29, 2003). The Competitive Sourcing Official (CSO) is Dr. Ed Sontag, Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Department of Health and Human Resources. The Agency Tender Official (ATO) is Rob Mekelburg. Once the PWS is finalized, the Government reserves the right to convert this procurement to one of the various Federal small business programs should results of a market research/survey and other such activity demonstrate that necessary criteria is met to support small business set-aside programs. The Performance Work Statement for Patient Care Unit Clerks can be accessed at 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 seven (7) 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 new schedules mandated in the proposed revision to OMB Circular A-76. Therefore the following schedule will be required for 2005. The solicitation will be released on or about September 16,2005. 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. NIH will issue other notices when further information is available. The solicitation and amendments will only be available on-line at the FedBizOpps web page at http://www.fedbizopps.gov on or about September 9, 2005. Prospective offerors are 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. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME.