Registration and Training Services

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to solicit, negotiate and award a sole source contract to the American Bar Association, 321 North Clark Street, 16th Floor, Chicago, IL 60654 for Registration and Training Services. The services to be provided include the registration for up to 125 HUD attorneys to participate in the 2016 Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. In addition, the contractor shall conduct this training (Forum) based on a HUD developed curriculum which entails topics specific and critical to accomplishing HUD's mission. This curriculum will be provided to the contractor to present and to provide training for HUD attorneys on legal topics specific and critial to accomplishing HUD's mission. Training topics that distinguish this event from all others and feature HUD specific matters include: 1) Fair Housing Review of the Rental Housing Assistance Demonstration; 2) Harmonizing State and Local Financing with FHA; 3) Affordable Assisted Living Facilities; 4) Picking up the Pace on Green Multifamily Finance; 5) Low Income Housing Tax Credit Projections; 6) Combining Housing with Healthcare; 7) Workforce Housing; 8) Rental Assistance Demonstration; 9) HUD Multifamily Programs; and 10) Supportive Housing. This Forum will allow HUD attorneys to earn continuing legal education credits which fulfill professional licensing requirements. The contract award is anticipated to be Fixed Price. The anticipated period of performance is May 25-27, 2016. The Product Service Code (PSC) is U001 - Education/Training Lectures. Services are being procured under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1). THIS IS A NOTICE ONLY AND NOT A SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR QUOTES OR PROPOSALS. The determination not to open this requirement to competition is at the sole discretion of the Government. The intent of this notice is for informational purposes only. Interested firms responding to this notice must provide a capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Government's requirement above. The capability statement shall be sufficient enough in detail, but not exceed five(5) pages TOTAL, so the Government can determine the experience and capability of your firm to provide the above requirement. Only electronic copies of capability statements will be accepted and shall be submitted to Deborah Moody at deborah.d.moody@hud.gov and Tabitha Painson-McLeod at tabitha.painson-mcleod@hud.gov. The email shall contain in the subject line: Response to Notice-Registration and Training Services. No information or credentials offered via telephone will be accepted. The Government will not pay for any costs associated with providing capability information. All interested firms should submit their capability statemetns no later than 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time on Monday, May 16, 2016 to the attention of the contacts listed above. Late responses will not be considered. Contracting Office Address: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Management Support Division, 451 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20410