Cover Letter Lexington KY.pdf

U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Washington, DC 20534

September 9, 2020

Re: 15BCTS20Q00000059, Lexington, Kentucky

All Interested Parties:

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) is to provide substance use, mental health, and sex offender treatment services for male and female offenders held under authority of the United States in the Lexington, Kentucky area. Services are to be provided in accordance with the enclosed Statement of Work entitled “Federal Bureau of Prisons, Community Treatment Services, September 2017.

The following must be completed and submitted with your quote:

Standard Form (SF) 1449 - Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items - 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://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/. 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, complete and applicable to this solicitation. All quoters must be capable of and comply with FAR 52.212-1(j), Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items (Jun 2020), Unique Entity Identifier and FAR 52.204- 7, System of Award Management (SAM) (Oct 2018).”

http://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/

Required Documentation Identified at Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items

Government shall award to the lowest price, technically acceptable, responsive and responsible quoter.

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

• Completed SF-1449

• Completed Business Quotation Information Packet

• Completed Technical Quotation Information Packet

• Proof of completed SAM registration (must be Active by time of quotation submission)

• Technical Personnel Staff List

Quotations shall be received by September 24, 2020 2:00 PM EST via email to the following email address:kacannon@bop.gov. The Bureau will no longer accept quotations by mail. Email attachments (PDFs only) cannot total more than 14 MB per email.

Please compress PDFs when possible 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.

The solicitation will be distributed solely through the General Services Administration’s Beta.SAM.gov website (beta.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 direct any questions to kacannon@bop.gov

Sincerely, Kathaleen Cannon Contracting Officer mailto:kacannon@bop.gov