2 - 5 CMS Publications In Braille

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; A SEPARATE WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. QUOTES ARE BEING REQUESTED. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intends to award using Simplified Acquisition Procedures, a fixed priced purchase order for purchase to print 2-5 CMS Publications in Braille in accordance with the attached Statement of Work for one base year and four option years. A purchase order award will be made within (5-10) days after the response due date of this notice. The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) is 323119. Responses must be sent electronically in MS Word format to renee.wallaceabney@cms.hhs.gov on or before Thursday June 28, 2012 by 2:00 pm. EST. All Bidders will need to provide CMS with a translated sample of the Medicare Summary Notice (MSN) that was attached to the package file name 1.6_PartB_Assigned[1].pdf.  "Bidders should inform CMS of the formats in which they can accept documents/data (e.g., hard copy, PDF file, secure FTP site, etc.)"Samples may be sent to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Attn: Renee Wallace-Abney, 7500 Security Boulevard B3-27-25, Baltimore, Maryland 21244. "All business proposals final price shall be submitted in whole dollars only, rounded to the nearest dollar."  Questions may be submitted by email to me until June 25, 2012.  The Government intends to award an order to the responsible offeror whose quotation offers the best combination of technical capabilities and proposed price; the best value (considering price and other factors). All responses/quotes submitted shall remain valid for a period of 180 days. Interested parties must be able to affirm no conflicts of interest with parties involved in Medicare claims processing in light of the work identified in the statement of work. In the event a vendor/government identifies a conflict, the vendor shall be responsible for providing a mitigation strategy that satisfies the government. In the event that the conflict cannot be resolved, the order cannot be awarded or an existing order may need to be terminated.