Hospitalist Locums VA Black Hills

The purpose of this posting is to answer questions resulting from RFQ: VA263-16-Q-0711. See the question and answer attachment.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 23 located at 708 South Third Street, Suite 200E Minneapolis, MN 55415 is issuing solicitation VA263-16-Q-0711 for the VA Black Hills Health Care System located at 113 Comanche Road, Fort Meade, SD 57741 for a contract(s) to provide onsite Hospitalists Locums . The requirement is for the Hospitalist Locums component only which is approximately 3.7 FTE. The solicitation is set aside for Veteran Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB).



The Government anticipates award by December 1, 2016.

The contract base performance period will be for six months.. It is anticipated performance commence on January 1, 2017. The contract will also include one six month option periods to be exercised at the discretion of the Government.

NAICS Code 561320 applies with a size standard of $27.5 million.



The Government point of contract for this solicitation is Shea Colby, Contracting Officer email questions and complete proposals to shea.colby@va.gov . All questions need to be emailed within five business days of this solicitation posting on FBO (Due October 7, 2016). All questions and answers will be posted on FBO within three business days of the question period ending.

Please Note: All required solicitation documents shall be in the following software and size formats.

Do not send as an executable or .exe file. Email size shall not exceed six megabytes. Any corrupted file or media containing a virus could result in the offer not being considered for award.

Software Compatibility: use a word processing and spreadsheet program compatible with Microsoft ® Word 2007 ® and Microsoft ® Excel 2007 ®. PDF is Adobe ® Portable Document Format.



This notice does not commit the Government to contract for any service.

Please see the attached solicitation and all six attachments.



VOSB/SDVOSB offerors need to be certified in the Vendor Information Pages (VIP) to be considered for this requirement.