3.1 Instruction to Offers.docx

All Interested Parties, Instruction to Offerors:

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) is to provide substance use disorder, mental health treatment and sex offender treatment services for male and female offenders held under authority of the United States in the Youngtown, OH area. Services are to be provided in accordance with the enclosed Statement of Work entitled, “Federal Bureau of Prisons, Community Treatment Services, Statement of Work, 2022.”

The provision at 52.212-1 is hereby tailored to modify paragraph (b) "Submission of Offers.”

At a minimum, quoters shall complete and submit the following documentation:

Quoters who fail to furnish the below submission requirement may be excluded from consideration:

* Business Quotation Information Packet

* Proof of completed SAM registration (must be Active by time of quotation submission). Failure to have an Active SAM registration by the time of quotation submission could result in the quote being deemed non-responsive.

* Standard Form (SF) 1449 - Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Services - 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://sam.gov/content/home. 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, and applicable to this solicitation. All quoters must be capable of and comply with FAR 52.212-1(j), Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Services, Unique Entity Identifier (MAR 2023) and FAR 52.204-7, System of Award Management (SAM) (Oct 2018).

Quoters who fail to furnish any of the below submission requirements shall be excluded from consideration:

* Technical Quotation Information Packet Quotes shall be submitted on or before the quotation deadline specified in Block 8 of the Standard Form (SF) 1449, page 1 of the solicitation.

The period for acceptance of quotes (as described in Provision FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Products and Commercial Services (c)) shall be increased from 30 days to 180 days.

Electronic copies of quotations shall be submitted via email to p5clark@bop.gov and g3clark@bop.gov in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Please include SEPARATE FILE ATTACHMENTS for the following:

* Completed SF-1449 (Including the pricing table at section 2.1)

* Completed Business Quotation Information Packet

* Completed Technical Quotation Information Packet

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

* A copy of your current Professional Liability Insurance

The solicitation will be distributed solely through the General Services Administration’s SAM.gov website (www.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 Note: The Bureau will no longer accept quotations by mail. Email attachments (PDFs only) cannot total more than 14 MB per email. Please compress PDFs to reduce the file size. The Bureau understands you will likely need to send multiple emails. Please confirm with the Contracting Officer that all emails and attachments were received.

Quotations shall be submitted to the following email address:

Paul Clark, Contracting Officer Email Address: p5clark@bop.gov Gary Clark, Senior Contracting Officer Email Address: g3clark@bop.gov The following paragraphs are not applicable to the solicitation:

(d) Product Sample; (e) Multiple Offers; (h) Multiple Awards

(i) Availability of requirements documents cited in the solicitation