Guam_HD_Ambulatory_Care_Clinic_Solicitation_Cover_Letter_05262016.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Health Resources and Services Administration

Office of Acquisition Management and Policy Rockville, MD 20857-5600

June 10, 2016

You are invited to submit a proposal in accordance with FAR Part 15 and the requirements of this solicitation, number 16-258-SOL-00004. This is a full and open acquisition to acquire services for a contractor to provide Hansen’s Disease (HD) Outpatient Services in the Territory of Guam. The purpose of this requirement is to provide HD diagnosis, outpatient treatment, case management, and follow-up of persons diagnosed with HD and screening of their contacts. The number of patients in this service area is 110, with an estimated increase of 9 new patients per year. These patients will require at a minimum of 4 outpatient visits during each period of performance. The patient population with HD in the U.S. is multi-ethnic. It is expected that the contractor be conversant with an accepted multi-cultural approach in the provision of patient care services.

It is anticipated that a Firm Fixed-Price type contract will result from this solicitation. The period of performance is a base period of twelve (12) months and four (4) twelve-month option periods.

The NAICS code for this requirement is 622110.

Questions or issues for which you require clarification or correction by the Government shall be furnished electronically to Charisse Whitney at cwhitney@hrsa.gov. In order to allow for a timely response to all prospective offerors before the submission of proposals due date and time, questions shall be received by June 20, 2016 at 4:30 PM Central Time. Questions received after the due date and time for questions will not be considered, no exceptions.

Proposals shall be prepared in accordance with Section L and the Statement of Work of this solicitation. Proposals shall be signed by an official authorized to bind your organization and submitted to Charisse Whitney at cwhitney@hrsa.gov in accordance with Section L of this solicitation, by July 11, 2016 at 4:30 PM Central Time. Offerors shall request a delivery receipt when submitting proposals to ensure that your proposal has been received by the Government.

Proposals shall identify the offerors point of contact name, their phone number and email address, as well as company name, Tax Identification Number (TIN), DUNS Number, and complete physical address (including street, city, county, state, and zip code). The TIN and DUNS must match the name of the contractor to whom payments will be made.

Note that FAR 52.204-7 System for Award Management Maintenance is included in this solicitation. The contractor must be registered in the SAM database at www.sam.gov. Registered in the SAM database means that; 1) the contractor has entered all mandatory information, including the DUNS number or the DUNS+4 number into the SAM database; and 2) that the Government has validated all mandatory data fields and has marked the record as active. By submission of an offer the offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract resulting from this solicitation. If the determined successful offeror is

16-258-SOL-00004

not registered in the SAM database at the time of award then the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered offeror.

This solicitation does not commit the Government to pay any costs for the preparation and submission of a proposal nor does it commit the Government to make an award. It is also brought to the attention of all prospective offerors that the Contracting Officer is the only individual who can legally commit the Government to expenditure of public funds in connection with this proposed acquisition.

Sincerely, Charisse Whitney

16-258-SOL-00004