Attachment 5 Mandatory Qualification Criteria.pdf

ATTACHMENT 5

MANDATORY QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

Listed below are mandatory qualification criteria. The offeror shall include all information which documents and/or supports the qualification criteria in a clearly marked section of its proposal. The qualification criteria establish conditions that must be met at the time of receipt of Final Proposal Revisions (FPRs) by the Contracting Officer in order for your proposal to be considered any further for award.

a. The Medical Library Assistant Act and its extensions limit participation via the contract mechanism to existing public and private non-profit medical libraries and their parent institutions.

b. Regional Requirements for NN/LM Services (i.e., basic requirement) are as follows:

• Region 1 - Offerors proposing for Region 1 must be located in and provide service to the states of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

• Region 2 - Offerors proposing for Region 2 must be located in and provide services to the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Region 3 - Offerors proposing for Region 3 must be located in and provide service to the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin

• Region 4 - Offerors proposing for Region 4 must be located in and provide service to the states of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming.

• Region 5 - Offerors proposing for Region 5 must be located in and provide service to the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

• Region 6 - Offerors proposing for Region 6 must be located in and provide service to the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

• Region 7 -Offerors proposing for Region 7 must be located in and provide service to the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and U.S. Territories in the Pacific Basin.

• Region 8 - Offerors proposing for Region 8 must be located in and provide service to the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Note: The regional requirement for NN/LM Services does not apply to proposals submitted in response to the three optional contract activities (i.e., National Library of Medicine Training Center, NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center, the NN/LM Web Services, Technology & Operations Center). To receive an award for a NN/LM Center, offerors may either submit a proposal for the NN/LM Center along with submitting a proposal for the Basic Contract Award or offerors may submit solely for the NN/LM Center Award.