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* = Required Field Contract Opportunity Sources Sought Notice V212 Hired Car Services 93721 36C26121Q0585 04-22-2021

3:00PM

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N 485310 Department of Veterans Affairs VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21) VA Central California Health Care System 855 M Street, Suite 1020 Fresno CA 93721 VA Palo Alto Health Care System 3801 Miranda Ave.

Palo Alto, CA

94304

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY.

No Solicitation is currently available.

All information contained in this Sources Sought Announcement is preliminary, as well as subject to modification, and is in no way binding on the Government. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this request. The information requested will be used solely within the Department of Veterans Affairs to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside of the Government. The determination of a procurement strategy, based upon the comments submitted in response to this Sources Sought Announcement, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Potential Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible for an award (See Internet Site https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/). Potential Offerors must also have a current Online Representations and Certification Application on file with SAM.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 485310, Taxi Service, size standard is $16.5 million. NOTE: Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement.

Only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to olivia.duarte@va.gov no later than 3:00 PM Pacific Time, April 22, 2021.

Before responding please carefully read and consider the following:

As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, “At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern.” See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html

Description of Services

The VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) has a requirement for non-personnel services contract to provide patient transportation services for the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS). The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

Place of Performance: The contractor shall provide transportation service to the following locations which are referred to as “standard” locations in the price schedule:

Palo Alto Medical Center 3801 Miranda Ave Palo Alto, CA 93404 Menlo Park Medical Center 795 Willow Road Menlo Park, CA 94025

Livermore Medical Center 4951 Arroyo Road Livermore, CA 94550 San Jose Outpatient Clinic 5855 Silver Creek Valley Place San Jose, CA 95138

Stanford University 450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305 San Jose Airport 1701 Airport Blvd San Jose CA 95110

San Francisco Airport San Francisco, CA 94128

Other locations will be paid per mile at a rate that will be referred as “non-standard” locations in the price schedule. The overall geographic area covered by this contract will be Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Livermore, San Jose, Monterey, Capitola, Fremont, Stockton, Modesto, and Sonora.

The Government will use this information when determining its business type decision:

(a) Business Size (Large/Small)

(b) Business Socio-Economic Status (SDVOSB, WOSB, 8(a), HUBZone, etc.)

(c) SAM record

(d) DUNS number

(e) Ability and experience with similar projects.

(f) List of projects similar in scope.

DISCLAIMER

This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this sources sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.