VetSuccess RO 328 Chicago Award: Sterling Medical Associates, Inc.

Acquisition Service - Frederick (AS-F) on behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs, issued Solicitation No. VA0798-12-R-0011, on November 2, 2011 for assistance providing vocational rehabilitation and employment (VR&E) services on a national basis in the following areas: initial assessment; case management; job placement services to assist the Veteran in finding and maintaining suitable employment; educational and vocational counseling; and discrete services to provide for the specialized needs of Veterans. The solicitation closing time/date was 12:00pm, November 30, 2011.



VR&E Contract Line Items (CLINs) are at the Chicago Regional Office (RO) level. Offerors must have proposed on all Services Groups A-E. Service groups are as follows: Service Group A Initial Assessment/Evaluation; Service Group B Case Management/Rehabilitation Services; Service Group C Employment Services; Service Group D Educational and Vocational Counseling; and Service Group E Discrete Services.



The procurement was conducted as a full and open competition using commercial practices in FAR Part 12, the Contracting by Negotiating procedures in FAR Part 15 and the VAAR.



It was the Government's intention to award one Firm Fixed Priced Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the Chicago RO. The Government reserved the right NOT to award based on the proposals received. Evaluations were conducted and selection was made in accordance with the guidelines provided in the FAR, VAAR, and solicitation.



The NAICS code for this acquisition is 623410 with a small business size standard of $7,000,000. Subcontracting Plans were required for large businesses and were reviewed for compliance with FAR 19.702, FAR 19.704, and the VA's subcontracting goals to determine acceptability. Non-Veteran Owned offerors must have stated in their proposals the names of the SDVOSBs and VOSBs with whom they intend to subcontract and provide a brief description of the proposed subcontracts and the approximate dollar values of the proposed subcontracts.



In addition, the proposed sub-contractors must have been registered and verified in the VetBiz.gov Vendor Information Pages (VIP) database at (http://www.VetBiz.gov) in accordance with VAAR 852.215-70 and registered in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) as required by 48 CFR subpart 4.11, to have been eligible to participate in VA's Veteran-Owned Small Business prime contracting and subcontracting opportunities programs to receive new contract awards. Otherwise, successful large business offerors must have had an acceptable Small Business Subcontracting Plan to receive award of a contract. Small Businesses were exempt from the requirement to submit a subcontracting plan.



The following award information is provided:



" RO 328 Chicago

Contract: VA798-12-D-0029

Award Date: 5/17/2012

The minimum contract order for RO 328 Chicago is $24,595.84.

The maximum contract order is $1,700,000.00.

Awardee:

Sterling Medical Associates, Inc.

411 Oak Street

Cincinnati, OH 45219-2598

DUNS #01-264-1031