553-14-1-2119-0001 VISN 11 verc university affiliation

This is a notice of intent to award Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC) under Other Than Full and Open Competition amongst all educational institutes to establish an essential capability for engineering or developmental work calling for the practical application of investigative findings and theories of a scientific of technical nature for the Veterans Engineering Resource Centers (VERC) office for the VA Center for Applied Systems Engineering (VA-CASE) at the Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 11, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, 4646 John R Street, Detroit, MI 48201 and Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, 1481 W. 10th St., Indianapolis, IN 46202.



The Department of Veterans Affairs, SAO Central Region Contracting Office, 708 S. Third Street, Suite 108E, Minneapolis, MN 55417 intends to solicit proposals and negotiate and enter into a limited source contracts with educational institutes. The proposed procurement is for services for which the government intends to solicit and negotiate with only educational institutes in accordance with FAR 6.302-3(a)(2)(ii), Industrial Mobilization, Engineering, Developmental or Research Capability or Expert Services.



The Universities shall provide Operations Systems Engineering Support at the Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 11 to facilitate innovation solutions to the health care delivery challenges identified by national, network and facility leadership as well to propose important opportunities for change and improvement. This service is also referred to as System Redesign.



The NAICS code for this action is 541330.



This solicitation shall be issued as competitive proposals amongst all educational institutes only. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be posted on the Government Point of Entry on or about May 8, 2014. All inquiries should be submitted via e-mail to: VHACOSAOCentralRegionContractStaff@va.gov . Solicitation documents may be obtained electronically at www.fbo.gov. The prospective offeror is responsible for downloading all documents including amendments at the Federal Business Opportunities website without further notification from the Contracting Officer. There is a Pre-Proposal Conference scheduled for May 20, 2014 at 10 a.m. EST. Proposal due date is June 3, 2014 at 1 p.m. CST.