R--Security Guards at Ann Arbor/Toledo Outpatient Clinic

The Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare Systems plans to award a sole source contract to The Whitestone Group, Inc., located in Columbus, Ohio, to provide security guard services at the Department of Veterans Affairs Toledo Outpatient Clinic. The contract will cover 80 hours of security services per week. This procurement will be conducted under VA Acquisition Regulation authority VAAR 819.7007, and the government intends to negotiate directly with this single source without competitive bidding. Interested parties or stakeholders were invited to respond by September 30, 2011, but the government reserves the right to reject competition based on those responses. The contract solicitation, identified as VA25111RP0513, relates to NAICS code 561612, which pertains to security guard services. All relevant Federal Acquisition Regulation provisions and clauses applicable to this contract are available online for review. This notice serves to inform potential competitors of the intent to sole source and to gather information to assist in determining whether competitive procurement is necessary, rather than soliciting formal proposals. Communication regarding this intent was directed to the contracting officer specified in the notice, with a disclaimer that email transmissions are not guaranteed by the government.