RFI Document.pdf

Project Title: Special Population Continuum of Care (CoC) Network For Office of Refugee

Resettlement (ORR) Division of Unaccompanied Children Operations

Seeking Sources

Description:

This Request for Information is to seek sources capable of providing all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to deliver a full continuum of care for special population unaccompanied children in ORR Custody as defined in the attached PWS except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. As part of market research, ORR is issuing this RFI to determine: (i) if there are an adequate number of qualified interested contractors capable of providing support as further described in the attached Draft PWS; and (ii) whether the requirement is suitable for a small business set-aside.

Attachments

• Draft PWS - PDF

HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS NOTICE

In responding to this RFI, please DO NOT PROVIDE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. Only the following information, readable in either Microsoft Word 365, Microsoft Excel 365, or .pdf format, in the response: Submit the response by email to the Primary Point of Contact and the

Secondary Point of Contact listed at the bottom of this notice at your earliest convenience and preferably before the closing date and time of this notice.

• Provide the complete name of your company, address, name of contact for follow-up questions, email, phone number and, if your company has an active registration in https://sam.gov, your company’s Unique Entity ID (UEI).

• Identify any aspects of the description of the requirements in the BACKGROUND section of the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) that could be viewed as unduly restrictive or create unnecessary barriers that adversely affect your firm’s ability to fully participate in a procurement for the Special Population Continuum of Care and explain why. Please offer suggestions for how the requirement could be organized or structured to encourage the participation of small businesses.

• For NAICS code 623990 o Indicate whether your company is (a) a small business or (b) other than small business. See the Table of Small Business Size Standards.

o If you believe the NAICS code listed in this notice is not the best NAICS code for the type of services addressed in this notice, identify an alternative NAICS code that you believe would be more appropriate for the planned procurement.

• Provide your firms existing Federal Supply Schedule contract(s) or other contracts for special population services against which the Department may be able to place orders, identify the contract number(s) and other relevant information.

• Describe your firm’s experience (as a prime, subcontractor, or consultant) advising U.S.

government on requirements related to the services described in the PWS.

Please send RFI responses to:

Marvin Nunez, Contracting Officer

Marvin.Nunez@acf.hhs.gov

Marvin Barnett, Contract Specialist

Marvin.Barnett@acf.hhs.gov

IMPORTANT NOTES

Among many other provisions and clauses, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision

52.204-7, System for Award Management, and FAR clause 52.204-13, System for Award

Management Maintenance will be included in the solicitation and FAR clause 52.204-13 will be included (among many other clauses) in the resultant contract. Therefore, a source that wishes to submit a quote after a solicitation is eventually released will be required to have an active registration in https://www.sam.gov when submitting an offer; if that source receives the resultant award, they shall continue to be registered in until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of the contract resulting from the solicitation. See https://www.sam.gov for information on registration.

The information received in response to this RFI will be reviewed and considered so that ACF may appropriately solicit for its requirements in the near future. This notice should not be mailto:Marvin.Nunez@acf.hhs.gov mailto:Marvin.Barnett@acf.hhs.gov construed as a commitment by Government Contacting Services (GCS) to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. GCS anticipates issuing a solicitation for this requirement in fiscal year 2024.

Responses will not be considered as proposals or quotations. No award will be made as a result of this notice. ACF is not responsible for any costs incurred by the respondents to this notice.

ACF reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and appropriate.

Thank you for taking the time to respond to this request!