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Offers must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended, by one of the following methods:

The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offers

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(a) By completing Items 8 and 15, and returning __________ copies of the amendment; (b) By acknowledging receipt of this amendment on each copy of the offer submitted; or (c) By separate letter or electronic communication which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO BE RECEIVED AT THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY is not extended.

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RESULT IN REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted, such change may be made by letter or electronic communication, provided each letter or electronic communication makes r eference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

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(Signature of person authorized to sign) (Signature of Contracting Officer) 08/30/2018 None 36C259 Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office

NCO 19

6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300 Greenwood Village CO 80111 36C259 Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office

NCO 19

6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300 Greenwood Village

CO 80111

To all Offerors/Bidders

36C25918Q9877

X The purpose of this amendment is to include a full copy of this synopsis solicitation.

FedBizOpps Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice

SUBJECT*

Suicide Prevention Campaign Media

GENERAL INFORMATION

CONTRACTING OFFICE'S *

ZIP-CODE

80111

SET-ASIDE

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS

Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office NCO 19 6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300 Greenwood Village CO 80111

DESCRIPTION *

See Attachment

POINT OF CONTACT *

(POC Information Automatically Filled from User Profile Unless Entered) Gabrielle Hawkins Contracting Specialist

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

ADDRESS

Department of Veterans Affairs Fort Harrison Veterans Affairs Medical Center 3687 Veterans Drive Fort Harrison, MT

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Rev. March

)* = Required Field FedBizOpps Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice

Due to a system error the entire combines synopsis solicitation can be found here in amendment 1. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation 36C25918Q9877 is issued as a request for quote (RFQ). This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-99 effective June 15, 2018 and July 15, 2018. No telephone requests will be accepted. Only written requests received directly from the offeror are acceptable. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 541890, with a small business size standard of $15.0 million. IF OFFEROR IS A GSA SCHEDULE HOLDER, ALL INFORMATION REQUESTED IN THIS NOTICE MUST BE PROVIDED, NOT JUST THE OFFEROR’S SCHEDULE NUMBER The following is a list of the contract line item numbers, quantities and units of measure including options.

STATEMENT OF WORK

TOTAL COST:

STATEMENT OF WORK

The purpose of this contract is to emphasize Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Suicide Prevention Campaign “Be There” to spread the message that suicide is preventable so service members, Veterans, and their families (SMVF) at risk of suicide or suicidal ideation can access support and referral to VA resources prior to crisis, in a de-stigmatized setting.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The Montana VA Health Care System has a requirement for an advertising agency to coordinate an advertising and marketing campaign using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) #BeThere materials (https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/support/shareable-materials).

Suicide is an urgent public health problem that causes extraordinary pain among individuals, families, and communities across the country. This marketing campaign will support educating SMVF and other key members of a Veteran’s social and support networks. These individuals will be the target audience. This campaign will take place from September 2018 through December of 2018.

Key marketing results will cover Lewis and Clark and Yellowstone Montana Counties media and outreach campaign utilizing the #BeThere National VA/DOD campaign. All ads have already been created and are owned by the Department of Veterans affairs. No creative work is necessary for this requirement.

SERVICES

Contractor shall provide:

1. Radio Campaign:

a. Radio Commercials: To include coverage in Helena and Billings, coverage on radio stations for the campaign period no less than 5 spots a day and no more than 13 spots a day.

2. Television Commercials:

a. Provide two to five 30 second television commercials using VHA #BeThere branded content found here: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/support/shareable-materials

3. Print Ads:

a. Two – Five monthly print ads and branded content ads in newspaper and on websites that reach our target audience sourced from: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/support/shareable-materials and developed with our public affairs office.

b. All content will incorporate “Choose VA” Logo.

4. Billboards:

a. VHA #BeThere branded content in locations strategically situated to intercept our Veteran target audiences to include coverage in Helena and Billings, no more than 3 billboards per location.

5. Review:

a. Contractor will agree to a review of services provided and provide a report. The review process will be based on but not limited to delivery of agreed services for radio, television, print ads, and billboards.

6. Security The C&A requirements do not apply, a Security Accreditation Package is not required. Staff will follow privacy and security policies and procedures.

The provision at FAR 52.212-1, INSTRUCTION TO OFFERORS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS (JAN 2017), applies to this acquisition with the following addenda: FAR 52.209-7 (JUL 2013) Information Regarding Responsibility Matters, FAR 52.216-1 Type of Contract (APR 1984) The Government contemplates award of a FIRM- FIXED PRICE contract resulting from this solicitation. and VAAR 852.270-1 Representatives of Contracting Officers (JAN 2008).

VAAR 852.215-70 SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED AND VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS EVALUATION FACTORS (JUL 2016)(DEVIATION)

(a) In an effort to achieve socioeconomic small business goals, depending on the evaluation factors included in the solicitation, VA shall evaluate offerors based on their service-disabled veteran-owned or veteran-owned small business status and their proposed use of eligible service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and veteran-owned small businesses as subcontractors.

(b) Eligible service-disabled veteran-owned offerors will receive full credit, and offerors qualifying as veteran-owned small businesses will receive partial credit for the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and Veteran-owned Small Business Status evaluation factor. To receive credit, an offeror must be registered and verified in Vendor Information Pages (VIP) database (https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov).

(c) Non-veteran offerors proposing to use service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses or veteran-owned small businesses as subcontractors will receive some consideration under this evaluation factor. Offerors must state in their proposals the names of the SDVOSBs and VOSBs with whom they intend to subcontract and provide a brief description of the proposed subcontracts and the approximate dollar values of the proposed subcontracts. In addition, the proposed subcontractors must be registered and verified in the VetBiz.gov VIP database (https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov).

The provision at FAR 52.212-2, EVALUATION -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014), applies to this acquisition. The government intends to use FAR Part 13 procedures to award this requirement. (a) The Government will award a contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal is responsive to the solicitation and determined to be the lowest price technically acceptable offer. In order to determine technical acceptability, all offers must receive a rating of pass for factors one and two. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

1. Technical: The offer shall be evaluated on the conformance to the requirements listed in the Statement of Work and an active status in SAM. The offeror shall submit a technical proposal, no more than five pages, that describes the means and methods of successfully performing all work detailed in the SOW to include the personnel being proposed to perform the work.

1. Past Performance: Offeror shall provide two references of contract in which they have provided the same or similar type of service. References shall include a point of contact, position held by the point of contact, company name, telephone number, mailing address and email address.

1. Price: Offeror’s price shall be evaluated to determine its fair and reasonableness. Please use the table on page 2 to submit pricing.

1. SDVOSB/VOSB: In the event that two or more offers are considered equal in all areas preference will be given to SDVOSB’s first followed by VOSB’s.

(b) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer’s specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award. (End of Provision) The clause at FAR 52.212-4 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS (JAN 2017), applies to this acquisition, with the following addenda:

FAR 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (NOV 1999) The Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within sixty (60) days of the expiration date of the current contract period.

For the purposes of the award of this Contract, the Government intends to evaluate the option to extend services under FAR 52.217-8 as follows:

The evaluation will consider the possibility that the option can be exercised at any time, and can be exercised in increments of one to six months, but not for more than a total of six months during the life of the contract. The evaluation will assume that the prices for any option exercised under FAR 52.217-8 will be at the same rates as those in effect under the contract at the time the option is exercised. The evaluation will therefore assume that the addition of the price or prices of any possible extension or extensions under FAR 52.217-8 to the total price for the basic requirement and the total price for the priced options has the same effect on the total price of all proposals relative to each other, and will not affect the ranking of proposals based on price, unless, after reviewing the proposals, the Government determines that there is a basis for finding otherwise.

This evaluation will not obligate the Government to exercise any option under FAR 52.217-8. The `specified' rates under this clause will be those rates in effect under the contract each time an option is exercised under this clause.

(End of clause) 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference (FEB 1998) This contract incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. Also, the full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this/these addresses:

FAR 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors (DEC 2013); VAAR 852.203-70 Commercial Advertising (JAN 2008); VAAR 852.203-71 Display of Department of Veterans Affairs Hotline Poster (DEC 1992); VAAR 852.232-72 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests (NOV 2012);

VAAR 852.215-71 EVALUATION FACTOR COMMITMENTS (DEC 2009)

The offeror agrees, if awarded a contract, to use the service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses or veteran-owned small businesses proposed as subcontractors in accordance with 852.215-70, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and Veteran-Owned Small Business Evaluation Factors, or to substitute one or more service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses or veteran-owned small businesses for subcontract work of the same or similar value.

852.219-75 Subcontracting Commitments Monitoring and Compliance.(JUL 2018)

(a) This solicitation includes the clause: 852.215-70 Service-disabled veteran-owned and veteran-owned small business evaluation factors. Accordingly, any contract resulting from this solicitation will include the clause 852.215-71 Evaluation factor commitments.

(b) The Contractor is advised that in performing contract administration functions, the Contracting Officer may use the services of a support contractor(s) to assist in assessing Contractor compliance with the subcontracting commitments incorporated into the contract. To that end, the support contractor(s) may require access to the Contractor's business records or other proprietary data to review such business records regarding contract compliance with this requirement.

(c) All support contractors conducting this review on behalf of VA will be required to sign an “Information Protection and Non-Disclosure and Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest Agreement” to ensure the Contractor's business records or other proprietary data reviewed or obtained in the course of assisting the Contracting Officer in assessing the Contractor for compliance are protected to ensure information or data is not improperly disclosed or other impropriety occurs.

(d) Furthermore, if VA determines any services the support contractor(s) will perform in assessing compliance are advisory and assistance services as defined in FAR 2.101, Definitions, the support contractor(s) must also enter into an agreement with the Contractor to protect proprietary information as required by FAR 9.505-4, Obtaining access to proprietary information, paragraph (b). The Contractor is required to cooperate fully and make available any records as may be required to enable the Contracting Officer to assess the Contractor compliance with the subcontracting commitments.

VAAR 852.237-70 Contractor Responsibilities (APR 1984) The contractor shall obtain all necessary licenses and/or permits required to perform this work. He/she shall take all reasonable precautions necessary to protect persons and property from injury or damage during the performance of this contract. He/ she shall be responsible for any injury to himself/herself, his/her employees, as well as for any damage to personal or public property that occurs during the performance of this contract that is caused by his/her employees fault or negligence, and shall maintain personal liability and property damage insurance having coverage for a limit as required by the laws of the State of COLORADO. Further, it is agreed that any negligence of the Government, its officers, agents, servants and employees, shall not be the responsibility of the contractor hereunder with the regard to any claims, loss, damage, injury, and liability resulting there from. (End of Clause)

The clause at FAR 52.212-5 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR EXECUTIVE ORDERS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS (JAN 2018) applies to this acquisition including the following clauses: FAR 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation & First Tier Subcontract Awards (OCT 2016); FAR 52.209-6 Protecting the Government’s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment (OCT 2015); FAR 52.219-28 Post-Award Small Business Program Representation (JUL 2013); FAR 52.222-3 Convict Labor (JUNE 2003); FAR 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (APR 2015); FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity (SEPT 2016); FAR 52.222- 36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (JUL 2014); FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons (MAR 2015); FAR 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving (AUG 2011); FAR 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (JUNE 2008); FAR 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer– System for Award Management (JUL 2013); FAR 52.222-41 Service Contract Act of 1965 (MAY 2014); and FAR 52.222-42 Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires (MAY 2014)

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FAR 52.222-43 Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act – Price Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts) (MAY 2014); FAR 52.222-55 Minimum Wages Under Executive Order (DEC 2015); FAR 52.222-62 Paid Sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706 (JAN 2017)

Quotes shall include the solicitation number (36C25918Q9877), the proposed unit price, the proposed extended price, any prompt payment discount terms, company name, the company point of contact, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, Tax Identification Number, DUNS number, and business size status.

The full text of a solicitation provision or contract clause may be accessed electronically at the address(es) below:

http://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html http://www.va.gov/oamm/oa/ars/policyreg/vaar/index.cfm

All information has been posted and there are no other documents available. Offers are to be received at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 19 (NCO 19) Rocky Mountain Acquisition Center, 6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 ATTN: Gabrielle Hawkins, Contracting Specialist at Gabrielle.Hawkins@va.gov and NCO19Services1@va.gov no later than 7:00 P.M. Mountain Time on Friday, September 14, 2018. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BY FASCIMILE (FAX MACHINE) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Any questions regarding this solicitation must be submitted in writing to the Contracting Officer no later than 10:00 a.m. MT, Thursday, September 6, 2018.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WAGE DETERMINATIONS: Department of Labor Wage Determinations 2015-5399 Revision Number 6, dated August 01, 2018 apply to this acquisition.