074/bgvc/registered dietician/7. 9. 25

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Veteran Affairs, is issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for on-call licensed/registered dietitian services at the Robert E. Spiller Bowling Green Veterans Center in Hancock County. The procurement seeks qualified individuals and organizations to provide comprehensive nutritional assessment, care planning, medical nutritional therapy documentation, staff training, dietary compliance monitoring, and related dietitian duties for facility veterans. All service providers must maintain current Certificate of Liability insurance, hold a valid Kentucky license to practice nutrition and dietetics, complete required credentialing paperwork, and provide Medicare/Medicaid non-exclusion verification. The evaluation criteria allocates 800 points to technical proposals, 400 points to cost proposals, and up to 200 points for oral demonstrations/presentations if required, for a maximum of 1,400 possible points. Technical scoring addresses professional references (150 points), experience resume (150 points), seven-day availability affirmation (200 points), and staff listing within 60-mile radius (300 points). Written questions must be submitted by 3:00 PM EST on July 31, 2025, with the Commonwealth responding by August 7, 2025, and proposals must be submitted in hard copy to the Carl M. Brashear Radcliff Veterans Center, 100 Veterans Drive, Radcliff, Kentucky 40160, by 3:00 PM EST on August 21, 2025. The anticipated contract term runs from September 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, with the Commonwealth reserving the right to renew for up to two additional two-year periods, subject to approval by the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Legislative Research Commission Government Contract Review Committee.

Cost proposals must be submitted separately in sealed format, requiring vendors to provide costs for regular pay, holiday pay if applicable, shift preference pay if applicable, and overtime pay for licensed/registered dietitians. The RFP specifies that vendors shall bear all travel and lodging costs associated with service delivery. No set-aside designations or restrictions on organization types are identified in the available solicitation documents, and no incumbent vendor information is provided. This is a re-solicitation of RFP 074 2500000317, which closed on June 18, 2025, and was not awarded. Online bidding is prohibited, and all bids must be time-stamped at the Radcliff Veterans Center front desk by the specified deadline. No offeror's conference is scheduled. The specific award value or budget range has not been disclosed in the procurement documents provided.