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* = Required Field Contract Opportunity Special Notice U004 Empowered Org Workshop Training (RSC/LEO) 36C26118P2585

36C261-20-AP-0463

89086 36C26120Q0271 N 611710 Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 21 VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System 6900 N. Pecos Road, Building 6 North Las Vegas NV 89086 Lawrence Aguilar 702-791-9000 Lawrence.aguilar@va.gov Lawrence.Aguilar@va.gov Lawrence.Aguilar@va.gov

SOURCES SOUGHT

The Dept. of Veterans Affairs, VISN 21, VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System is issuing this source sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement:

Requirement – The VA needs a company to educate, train and certify individuals on the personalized, proactive and patient centered care, to provide insight on caring for themselves and their team members.To provide education and training to VA staff on reigniting and the invigoration of their work and to reconnect to joy working in the healthcare profession At the conclusion of the training, selective VA staff members are to be trained as trainers on relationship-based care.

Location: Palo Alto VHA, Palo Alto, CA

The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 611719.

THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.

SOUGHT DISCLAIMER This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this RFI that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. The submission of pricing, capabilities for planning purposes, and other market information is highly encouraged and allowed under this RFI In Accordance With (IAW) FAR Part 15.201(e). SOURCES SOUGHT DESCRIPTION This is NOT a solicitation announcement.

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by January 31 2020 at 10:00am Pacific standard time (PST). All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to Lawrence.Aguilar @va.gov.

If you have any questions concerning this opportunity, please contact: Lawrence.aguilar@va.gov.