Fraud_Recovery_Processing_Sources_Sought_Attachment_1.pdf

Army Fraud Recovery Processing W91CRB-17-T-0018

INTRODUCTION

The Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) on behalf of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management & Comptroller (ASA (FM&C)) is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for an Commercial, Firm Fixed Price type contract to facilitate and oversee expeditious research to determine appropriate lines of accounting and identify the appropriate account holder to enable accurate, efficient and effective posting/processing of these fraud recovered funds. Only seeking information from Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH,

THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES (IN FULL OR IN PART) OR

PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. All Small Business Set-Aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

DISCLAIMER

“THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A

“REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)” TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A

SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE

GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT

IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF

RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY

RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

RESPPONSES WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO

THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE REQUEST FOR

QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF ANY ISSUED. IF A

SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE

POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO

MONITOR THE GPE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS

REQUIREMENT.”

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

The Fraud Recovery and Collections Process is designed to monitor Army procurement activity to recover funds once adjudicated through the justice system. Activities include coordination with Criminal Investigation Command (CID), The Judge Advocate General (TJAG), Department of Justice (DOJ), Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Army commands and others; identifying appropriate lines of accounting to which fraud recoveries are posted; establishing a tracking tool from end-to-end; developing a standard operating procedure (SOP); and ensuring expeditious return of funds identified as Army fraud when properly adjudicated.

The Fraud Recovery and Collections Process requires contractor advisory and assistance support services to support Resource Management (RM) field operations, conduct data collection and analysis, coordination and communication with Commands, RMs, Fund Holders, DFAS, The Judge

Advocate General Office (TJAG), Department of Justice (DOJ), CID, DCIS, and other applicable organizations involved with the fraud recovery process, and financial reporting.

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services in support of the areas specified in Program Background (above). Further detail is provided in the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) attached to this announcement (Attachment 2).

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated;

2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Business Analysts/Subject Matter Experts must have at least 15 years of Army finance experience in Army systems such as PBAS, ODS, STANFINS and dbCAS.

ELIGIBILITY

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 541611 with a Small Business Size Standard of $15M. The Product Service Code is R499. Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond;

however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (CAPABILITIES STATEMENT)

Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten (10) pages in length in Times New Roman font of not less than 10 pitch. The deadline for response to this request is no later than 2 pm, EST, 4 May 2017. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be e-mailed to jaclyn.a.harris.civ@mail.mil. This documentation must address at a minimum the following items:

1.) What type of work has your company performed in the past in support of the same or similar requirement?

2.) Can or has your company managed a task of this nature? If so, please provide details.

3.) Can or has your company managed a team of subcontractors before? If so, provide details.

4.) What specific technical skills does your company possess which ensure capability to perform the tasks?

5.) Please note that under a Small-Business Set-Aside, in accordance with FAR 52.219-14, the small business prime must perform at least 50% of the work themselves in terms of the cost of performance. Provide an explanation of your company’s ability to perform at least 50% of the tasking described in this PBSOW for the base period as well as the option periods.

6.) Provide a statement including current small/large business status and company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history, office locations, DUNs number, etc.

7.) Respondents to this notice also must indicate whether they qualify as a Small, Small Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, HUBZone, or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern.

8.) Include in your response your ability to meet the requirements in the Facility and Safeguarding requirements.

9.) Provide your company’s General Schedule Administration (GSA) Labor categories that specifically match the Labor categories of the PWS.

10.) Confirm that your company is able to perform the requirements of the PWS under this schedule.

Specifics regarding the number of option periods will be provided in the solicitation.

The proposed contract is anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by labor categories that are subject to the Service Contract Act or a collective bargaining agreement.

Upon evaluation of the capability statements, if it is determined that this requirement will be an unrestricted competition, the Government intends to evaluate the Small-Business responses and conduct further market research to identify a subcontracting goal.

Responses to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Jaclyn Harris, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email jaclyn.a.harris.civ@mail.mil

All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

No phone calls will be accepted.

All questions must be submitted to the contract specialist identified above. The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought.