Cover letter.pdf

U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Washington D.C. 20534 August 17, 2012

Re: RFP-TDAT-013-13, Washington, DC

All Interested Parties:

This Request for Proposal (RFP) is to provide transitional drug abuse treatment and mental health treatment services for male and female offenders held under authority of the United States in Wilmington, Delaware. Services are to be provided in accordance with the enclosed Statement of Work entitled Federal Bureau of Prisons, Community Transitional Drug Abuse Treatment and Mental Health

Treatment Services Master’s Required dated April 2011.

The following must be completed and submitted with your proposal:

Standard Form (SF) 1449 - Solicitation/Contract/Order for

Commercial Items - Please completes 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.

Representations and Certifications (FAR 52.212-3) -

Prospective offerors are required to submit Annual

Representations and Certifications via the Online

Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) website at http://orca.bpn.gov. By submission of a quote under this solicitation, the offerors acknowledges completion of the annual representations and certifications via ORCA and verifies, by the submission of the quote, that the representations and certifications currently posted in ORCA were entered or updated within the last 12 months and are current, accurate, complete and applicable to this solicitation. All quotes must be capable of and comply with

FAR 52.212-1(j), Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items, Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number (JUNE 2008) and

FAR 52.212-4(t), Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial

Items, Central Contractor Registration (CCR) (JUNE 2010).

Submission of your quote constitutes compliance.

Federal Bureau of Prisons Service Contract Business

Management Questionnaire

Required Documentation Identified on Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors

The Government shall award to the lowest priced, technically acceptable, responsive and responsible offeror.

Please submit one original of your signed proposal so as to be received by 2:00pm, EST on August 31, 2012, to the following address:

Sarah Ellis

Federal Bureau of Prisons

320 First Street (5005), N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20534

The solicitation will be distributed solely through the General

Services Administration’s Federal Business Opportunities website

(http://www.fedbizopps.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 also 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 place any questions in writing and fax them to

202-616-6224 to my attention or by email to sellis@bop.gov.

Sincerely, Sarah Ellis

Contracting Officer