Sources Sought Notice 36C25725Q0074.docx

Sources Sought Notice Sources Sought Notice

GENERAL INFORMATION

SET-ASIDE

NCO 17 North Texas Healthcare System Regional Procurement Office West (RPO-W) 124 E. Hwy 67, Suite 100 Duncanville TX 75137

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist Ivan Torres ivan.torres1@va.gov

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

4500 South Lancaster Rd

Dallas TX

COUNTRY

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

AGENCY’S URL

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AGENCY CONTACT’S EMAIL ADDRESS

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DESCRIPTION

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTES; the Government is seeking information for market research purposes only.

1. The Department of Veterans Affairs, North Texas (Dallas) Healthcare Center has a requirement for Court Reporting and Stenotype Services. The contractor shall provide services via electronic means (Teams). If services are on-site, person will need to report to the North Texas (Dallas) Healthcare Center, location of the meeting place will vary dependent on the content. All travel costs will be sole responsibility of the contractor.

The contractor shall utilize Communication access real-time translation (CART) for The CART captioner uses a special phonetic keyboard or stenography methods to produce an accurate translation that is then broadcast to the recipients on a screen, laptop, or other device. CART is also sometimes called open captioning, real-time stenography, or real-time captioning.

2. Scope: The contractor shall provide services via electronic means (Teams). If services are on-site, person will need to report to the North Texas (Dallas) Healthcare Center, location of the meeting place will vary dependent on the content.

The contractor shall utilize Communication access real-time translation (CART) The CART captioner uses a special phonetic keyboard or stenography methods to produce an accurate translation that is then broadcast to the recipients on a screen, laptop, or other device. CART is also sometimes called open captioning, real-time stenography, or real-time captioning.

As a CART captioner, you'll need a CART caption link from the meeting organizer and a CART captioning solution or software to connect to and provide CART captions in a Microsoft Teams meeting. As a meeting organizer, you can set up and offer CART captioning to your audience instead of the Microsoft Teams built-in live captions that are automatically generated.

3. Estimated Quantities:

4. Contract Award: The Government contemplates award of a Firm Fixed-Price contract resulting from this solicitation. Contract period will be from 9 December 2024 to 9 June 2025.

5. Place of Performance The contractor shall provide services via electronic means (Teams). If services are on-site, person will need to report to:

VA Medical Center Quality and Patient Safety Service 4500 South Lancaster Rd Dallas. TX. 75216

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is 561492 - Court Reporting and Stenotype Services.) Services Service Code (PSC) is R606 Support- Administrative: Court Reporting.

Responses to this notice shall include company/individual name, size status for the above reference NAICS code, a service capability statement, SAM Entity Unique Identifier (EUI), DUNS Number, address, point of contact, and examples of similar facilities to which similar services have been provided to. Contractors should provide information on whether they are certified SDVOSB, VOSB, Hub zone, 8(a), women-owned concern. If standard company brochures are supplied as a response to this Source Sought, ensure that additional information tailored to this notice is included.

A solicitation is not currently available. If a solicitation is issued, it will be announced on the Contract Opportunities website https://sam.gov at a later date, and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from the response to this announcement. Contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM); see the website https://www.sam.gov for registration information.

Do you plan on responding to a solicitation for this requirement with a Joint Venture utilizing multiple owned companies as majority or non-majority owners?

If you are in GSA, please provide the schedule and contract number.

Responses to this notice must be submitted via email to ivan.torres1@va.gov no later than October 30, 2024, at 10:00 am CT. No telephone inquiries will be accepted.

DISCLAIMER

This RFI is issued only for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this Sourced Sought Notice marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this Sources Sought Notice.

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