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Veterans Health Administration Regional Procurement Office (RPO) East 323 North Shore Drive, Suite 500 Pittsburgh PA 15212-5319

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Contracting Officer Ms. Millicent Covert millicent.covert@va.gov

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Regional Procurement Office (RPO) - East intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Mindful Life Skills, LLC, to obtain specialized services for the VA Pittsburgh Health Care System. Dr. Louanne Davis’ expertise is paramount for the research team’s VA funded study for yoga exercise as a rehabilitation tool for Veterans with severe mental illness (SMI).

Dr. Davis, a recently retired, unpaid affiliate at the Roudebush VAMC (Indianapolis), is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, and an Associate Scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Davis is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher with over 15 years of experience teaching Hatha Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation. Through these experiences, she has developed expertise in Mindfulness Meditation and Hatha Yoga as clinical interventions for persons with serious and chronic mental illnesses, conducting clinical trials, writing treatment manuals, creating therapist training and fidelity measures/procedures, and using qualitative methods to investigate participant perspectives on newly developed/adapted psychological interventions.

Dr. Davis will assist with developing the yoga manual and adapting the whole life protocol (WLP) manual for use in this project. She will be responsible for creating yoga and whole life WLP trainer fidelity measures specific to this project, training the yoga trainers and WLP trainers in techniques which apply to participants with serious mental illnesses, and overseeing the yoga training and WLP in general.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Any responsible sources who wish to identify their interest and capability to provide this equipment or equipment that is compatible must notify this Contracting Officer at Millicent.Covert@va.gov no later than Monday, November 21, 2022, by 11:59 AM EST. Telephone responses will not be accepted. Upon receipt of the interested parties' notification, the Contracting Officer will determine whether to conduct a competitive procurement or proceed with sole source negotiations.

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