Transitional housing for homeless veterans with serious mental illness

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Network Contract Office (NCO) 18 has a services requirement for transitional housing for veterans with serious mental illness (SMI). The Contractor shall provide services as part of its Community Based Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) program locally in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. The goal of the HCHV program is to remove homeless Veterans from the street or habitation unfit for Veterans and place them in community-based, residential environments with sufficient therapeutic services to meet the needs of those Veterans. Many transitional housing and other residential environments provide barriers to placement that may include maintaining a period of sobriety, no sexual offenders or other specific past felonies. The need for a homeless transitional program that provides shelter for the severely mentally ill, disabled and aged Veteran is necessary. The NAICS code for this solicitation is 623220 with a small business size standard of $14M. This solicitation will be posted unrestricted. The Government anticipates awarding a firm fixed price contract. The contractor shall perform in accordance with the Performance Work Statement that will be included in the solicitation. All responsible sources may submit a quotation, which if timely received, shall be considered by this agency. Only one award will be issued for this solicitation. Solicitation Package VA258-16-Q-0357 shall be posted on Fedbizopps on or about August 10, 2016. No solicitation packages will be mailed. Responses must be concise and be specifically directed to the requirement referenced above. All offerors who provide goods or services to the United States Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov and complete Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA). Additionally, all Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses or Veteran Owned Businesses who respond to a solicitation on this project must be registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise VetBiz Registry located at http://vip.vetbiz.gov. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor Fedbizopps for changes or amendments. Point of Contact: Nonya Montano, Contract Specialist, Nonya.Montano@va.gov