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U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Washington, DC 20534

October 21, 2024

Re: RFQ 15BCTS24Q00000004, Florence, AZ

All Interested Parties:

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) is to provide substance abuse, mental health and sex offender treatment services for male and female offenders held under authority of the United States in Florence, AZ. The services shall be in accordance with the 2022 Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) Community Treatment Services (CTS) Statement of Work.

The following must be completed and submitted with your quote:

Standard Form (SF) 1449 - Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items - Please complete blocks 12,17a, 17b, 23, 24, 30a, 30b, and 30c, of the SF-1449 and the continuation sheets. Please include your telephone number in Block 17a. Original signatures are required.

Quoter Representations and Certifications (FAR 52.212-3) - Prospective quoters are required to submit Annual Representations and Certifications at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/. By submission of a quote under this solicitation, the quoter acknowledges completion of the annual representations and certifications via SAM and verifies, by the submission of the quote, that the representations and certifications currently posted in SAM were entered or updated within the last 12 months and are current, accurate, complete and applicable to this solicitation. All quoters must be capable of and comply with FAR 52.2121(j), Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items, Unique Entity Identifier (Sept 2023) and FAR 52.2047, System for Award Management(SAM) (Oct 2018).

Required Documentation Identified at Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items

Government shall award to the lowest price, technically acceptable, responsive and responsible quoter.

PLEASE NOTE: Quotations will not be accepted by mail or fax. Your quotation must be emailed to sadeffenbaugh@bop.gov on or before the closing date/time. Email attachments (PDFs only) cannot total more than 14 MB per email. Please compress PDFs when possible to reduce the file size. It is understood by the contracting officer that you will likely need to send multiple emails. Please confirm with the Contracting Officer that all emails and attachments were received. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Deffenbaugh at sadeffenbaugh@bop.gov.

Please include SEPARATE FILE ATTACHMENTS for the following:

· Completed SF-1449

· Completed Business Quotation Information sheet

· Completed Technical Quotation Information packet

· Proof of completed SAM registration (must be Active at time of quotation submission)

· Technical Personnel Staff List

Quotations shall be received via email by November 12, 2024, 2:00 PM EST.

The solicitation will be distributed solely through the General Services Administration’s Beta SAM.gov website (beta.sam.gov). Hard copies of the solicitation document will not be available. The website provides downloading instructions. All future information about this solicitation, including solicitation amendments, will be solely distributed through this website. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this website to ensure they have the most up-to-date information about this solicitation.

Please direct any questions to sadeffenbaugh@bop.gov.

Sincerely, //s//

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