618-14-3-5852-0001 - MMCGME Membership

This is a notice of a proposed contract action published to notify potential sources that the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN, intends to issue a sole source award to the Metro Minnesota Council on Graduate Medical Education (MMCGME) for the purchase of continued intern and resident support services of their physician resident staff. The MMCGME is a non-profit consortium of the Twin Cities public teaching hospitals in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metro area which includes: Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, Regions, Fairview Health System and the University of Minnesota Medical School. The MMCGME facilitates a wide range of activities among the affiliated hospitals and develops consolidated programs to avoid duplication of efforts and enhance efficiency in health care services, education, and research.

The proposed contract action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. Numbered Note 22 applies. Therefore, this sole source award is being made pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other company will satisfy agency requirements.

The VAMC intends to award a firm fixed price contract with an estimated value of $460,000. The contract will include a base year with the option to extend the contract for an additional three (3) years.

Any inquires to this sole source acquisition must be submitted in writing to the attention of Pamela Phillips at The Department of Veterans Affairs, 113 Comanche Road, Contracting Office, Building 53, Fort Meade, SD, 57741 or by email to Pamela.Phillips@va.gov. Requests by telephone will not be honored.