Hearing impaired services

THIS IS A SOURCE SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. The Wilkes Barre Veterans Affairs Medical Center (WBVAMC), 1111 East End Boulevard, Wilkes Barre, PA is performing market research to determine if there is a sufficient number of qualified (1) Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business; (2) Veteran Owned Small Business; or (3) Small Business firms to set aside a single award contract contingent upon the availability of funding. The Government will use responses to this notice to make to an appropriate acquisition decision.The contractor shall provide sign language interpreter services as needed for the applicants, employees and patients on-site at the WBVAMC, address noted above. Interpreters shall interpret spoken English to American Sign Language (ASL) and ASL to spoken English.

Interpretation services are needed for various scheduled and unscheduled events:

i. The scheduled events are as follows:

1. Monthly Staff Meetings held on the third Wednesday of each month from 8:30 am to 9:30 am and 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.

2. Quarterly Town Hall Meetings held on the 2nd Wednesday of 2nd month of each quarter (November, February, May and August) at 3:00 pm. Each meeting will last a minimum of one hour and a maximum of six hours.

3. The dates and/or times noted above are subject to change. Any changes to assignments will be communicated twithin two (2) business days of requested service.

ii. Unscheduled events will be communicated to the contractor within two (2) business days of requested service. Unscheduled events will last a minimum of one hours and a maximum of six hours.



All interpreters should be registered with The Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, according to the Sign Language Interpreter and Transliterator State Registration Act (Jul. 2, 2004, P.L. 492, No. 57 Cl. 63). Interpreter shall hold one of the following certificates: CI or CT or both, CSC, NAD IV or higher, or NIC. If the contractor does not provide interpreters with this registration, then the interpreters provided must be approved by the employees who are hearing impaired, and the employees must sign the Request for Use of Non-Registered Interpreter/Transliterator form, which is attached below.



All interested firms who can meet the requirements stated above should respond, via email, with information describing their interest, capabilities, geographic location and indicate which socio-economic category for which they qualify to the Contract Specialist Rachel Turk rachel.turk@va.gov no later than 12:00 p.m. (EST), December 2, 2009.