Consulting Services for Baldrige efforts

Added: Jun 07, 2017 5:28 pm Modified: Jun 26, 2017 3:01 pmTrack Changes This Amendment is to clarify that all offers must be received by 11:59 PM EST on June 28, 2017. It is the responsibility of the offeror to submit offers on time.

Please be mindful anything above 5 MG will need to be split into multiple emails.

The Department has had issues with Zip Files and I ask you please do not Zip Files, it is preferred you send multiple emails with the subject: Vendor File 1 of 3 to ensure that I know how many emails I should be receiving

Questions: Solicitation states that single spaced 12 point font is required for the technical offer and double spacing is required for resumes, would it be accepted to include a single spaced bar chart/graph?

Answer: Slight variation in font will be accepted. It is advised the offer use their best judgement and remember that font requirements are advised for the standardization and ease of review.

Questions: We have more that we would like to include, will this be accepted?

Answer: Size limits are important to follow but similar to the font size slight variations will be accepted however I would strongly recommend you adhere to the requirements posted in the solicitation.

Added: Jun 07, 2017 5:28 pm The Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System New England intends to acquire professional consulting services with the knowledge and skills to help us meet our goal of being one of the top ten healthcare systems and obtaining a Malcom Baldridge award.

The proposed procurement is set aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small business. The NACIS code is 541611with a size standard of $ 15 Million

This procurement is being conducted as a commercial item, using FAR part 13.5 Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items (SAP-CI). It is anticipated that the solicitation for this requirement will be posted in June 2017. Interest parties are solely responsible for monitoring of the below mentioned website for postings of the solicitation and any amendments thereto.

It is anticipated The Department of Veterans Affairs will solicit a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) type, contract. The anticipated performance period is 01 August 2017 through 31 July 2018, with four, one-year option periods. Interested vendors will be required to submit a price and non-price (technical) proposal. The evaluation for contract award will consider the non-price technical proposal of the submission to be more important than price.



Additional information for this requirement will be listed in the solicitation upon its release, which is anticipated to be in June 2017, to Federal Business Opportunities FBO.gov.



Contractor must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) website (www.sam.gov) in order to be considered for award.







The solicitation posting date is tentative and subject to change.

Please direct all questions regarding this requirement, to Lorrie Baines via email at lorrie.baines@va.gov

Contracting Office

Network Contracting Office 1 NE

718 Smyth Road 90C

Manchester, NH 03104

Points of Contact(s):

Lorrie Baines (603) 629-3297



*****This notices replaces the noticed issued under VA241-17-R-0330********