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The USDA Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) plans to award a sole source contract to Phelan-Gregory Consulting, Inc. for developing and delivering national training related to the Education and Administrative Reporting System (EARS). This system serves as a data collection tool for nutrition education activities funded by the Food Stamp Program. Phelan-Gregory Consulting has played a key role in the creation of EARS, having provided facilitation and logistical support to the EARS Workgroup for the past three years. Their involvement includes contributing to discussions on data elements for the form and helping to align consensus on included items and instructions. Awarding this contract without a competitive process is intended to prevent duplicated costs and avoid delays in implementing EARS. The USDA emphasizes that this notice is not a request for proposals and that decisions regarding competition are at the sole discretion of the government. Interested parties were invited to submit questions or comments by December 12, 2006. The contract falls under NAICS code 611699, and the primary contact for this procurement is Tina M. Nevitt at the USDA FNS office in Alexandria, Virginia.

General Info

USDA awards sole source contract to Phelan-Gregory for EARS national training development.

Agency

Department Of Agriculture → USDA Fns

NAICS

611699 - All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction

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PostedDec 1

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyDepartment Of Agriculture → USDA Fns

Contacts1 person available

OfficeALEXANDRIA, VA, 22302, USA

Organization / AgencyDepartment Of Agriculture → USDA Fns

Office AddressALEXANDRIA, VA, 22302, USA

Contacts

Tina M. Nevitt

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+1 (555) 000-0000

Full Description

The USDA, Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) intends to make a sole source award as authorized by 41 U.S.C.253(c)(1)to Phelan-Gregory Consulting, Inc. to develop and conduct a national training for the implementation of the Education and Administrative Reporting System (EARS), a data collection form for nutrition education activities funded by the Food Stamp Program. Phelan-Gregory Consulting, Inc. has been intricately involved in the development of EARS through their work providing facilitation services and logistic support to the EARS Workgroup. The company has been involved in all discussions surrounding data collection items considered for the form and has worked closely with the workgroup over the past three years to obtain consensus on items to include on the form and clarify their corresponding instructions. This sole source procurement will result in avoidance of substantial duplication of costs and unacceptable delays in the implementation process of EARS. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to open this requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the desecration of the Government. All questions and/or comments to this notice need to be received no later than 11:00am, Tuesday, December 12, 2006.