Cover_letter_El_Monte.pdf

U. S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Washington, D.C. 20534

February 4, 2016

Re: RFQ-CTS-031-16, El Monte, CA

All Interested Parties:

This Request for Quotation (RFQ) is to provide Transitional Drug Abuse Treatment and Mental Health services for male and female offenders held under authority of the United States in El Monte, CA.

Services are to be provided in accordance with the enclosed Statement of Work entitled “Federal Bureau of Prisons, Community Treatment Services Drug Abuse Treatment and Mental Health Treatment Services, Statement of Work, March 2015 (Revised December 2015), No Master’s Required.”

The following must be completed and submitted with your Quotation:

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 quoters are required to submit Annual Representations and Certifications via the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) website at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/. By submission of a quotation under this solicitation, the quoter acknowledges completion of the annual representations and certifications via ORCA and verifies, by the submission of the quotation, 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, Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number (April 2014) and FAR 52.212-4(t), Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items, System for

Award Management (SAM) (MAY 2015).

Federal Bureau of Prisons Service Contract Business Management Questionnaire

Required Documentation Identified in the attachments, Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Submission of Offers

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

Please submit one original CD/DVD of your signed quote so as to be received by 12:00 pm ET on Friday, February 26, 2016, to the following address:

Katherine A. Bowen Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, N.W.

Room 5005 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 send them to my attention by email to kbowen@bop.gov.

Sincerely, Katherine Bowen Contracting Officer