Solicitation MCHB IDIQ July 30 v.1.docx

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Health Resources and Services Administration

Office of Acquisition Management and Policy Rockville, MD 20857-5600

July 30, 2020

Dear Sir/Madam:

You are invited to submit a proposal in accordance with the requirements of FAR Part 15 and FAR Part 16 and the requirements of this Solicitation #75R60220R00023. This requirement is to provide IDIQ to Support the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children Evaluation Studies. The NAICS code for this requirement is 541720. The Government anticipates single award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts will result from this solicitation. This contract will allow for Firm Fixed Price or Cost Reimbursement Task Orders. The Period of Performance is a base period of twelve (12) months with four (4) twelve (12) month option Periods.

Questions or issues for which you require clarification or correction by the Government must be furnished electronically via email to Biji John at bjohn@hrsa.gov. In order to allow a reply to be provided to all prospective Offerors before submission of their task order proposal, your questions must be received no later than 17:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on August 4, 2020. Questions received after the due date and time will not be considered. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Acknowledgements of any amendments and the receipt of one (1) electronic copy of your call order proposal must be received in the Contracting Office by 17:00 P.M. EST, August 24, 2020, via email to Biji John at bjohn@hrsa.gov.

Your proposal be prepared in accordance with Section L, Section M, and the "Statement of Work". Your RFP shall be prepared in accordance with Section entitled "Instructions, Conditions, and Notices to Offerors’. This RFP does not commit the Government to pay any costs for the preparation and submission of a quote nor does it commit the Government to make an award. It is also brought to your attention that the Contracting Officer is the only individual who can legally commit the Government to expenditure of public funds in connection with this proposed acquisition.

Your task order proposal must provide a contact name and number, your company name and complete address, including street, city, county, state, zip code, e-mail address, Tax Identification Number (TIN), and Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS). The TIN must match the name of the vendor to whom the payments will be made. Please note that FAR 52.204-6 Contractor Identification Number Data Universal System (DUNS Number). The Contractor must be registered in the SAM database at www.Beta.sam.gov. "Registered in the SAM database" means that (1) the Contractor has entered all mandatory information, including the DUNS number or the DUNS+4 number, into the SAM database; and (2) The Government has validated all mandatory data fields and has marked the record "Active".

By submission of an offer, the Offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting from this solicitation. If not registered in the SAM database within the time prescribed by the Contracting Officer, the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered Offeror System for Award Management (SAM) requires any prospective awardee to have a DUNS number and be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any award resulting from this solicitation.

If you do not have a DUNS number, please contact Dun and Bradstreet by calling Dun and Bradstreet at 1- 866-705-5711 or via the Internet at http://www.dnb.com. If you are not registered in the SAM you may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the internet at http://www.sam.gov or by calling 1-207-438-1690.

Requests for additional information concerning this RFP should be referred to Biji John at Bjohn@hrsa.gov.

Sincerely yours, /s/

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