G--MH Residential & Transitional Care

The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Northern California Health Care System intends to solicit proposals in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 12 on or about August 18, 2015, with a closing date for proposals on or about September 11, 2015 from contractors in the VANCHCS catchment area, to provide services as part of its Addiction Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS) Program. Contractor shall be required to provide Residential Treatment and Transitional (Clean and Sober Living) Services as part of the overall continuum of care for Veterans with substance use disorders (SUD).The solicitation will be available for download from http://www.fbo.gov. Interested contractors are responsible for downloading copies of the solicitation (and any subsequent amendments) from that website, and no hard copies will be made available. The solicitation will provide full information to contractors about the proposal submission process. Prospective offerors are encouraged to register their interest in the solicitation on the FBO website so that they are notified of the issuance of the solicitation or any amendments. Large and small businesses as well as non-profit organizations are welcome to respond in the event no Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses or Veteran Owned Small Businesses have the capacity to provide this service. The goal of ARTS is to assist Veterans with substance use disorders in their recovery efforts to live a life free of addiction. ARTS provides a full spectrum of care from outpatient to intensive outpatient to transitional living (clean and sober living environments) to intensive residential services. Intensive SUD residential services are residential environments with sufficient supportive and specialty treatment services to meet Veteran needs and ultimately, facilitate recovery and improvement of their overall health status. The purpose of this solicitation is to obtain proposals from contractors who can provide care, treatment and rehabilitative services to veterans suffering from serious mental illness, including veterans who are homeless, in community-based treatment facilities offering a safe and secure environment that supports their rehabilitation goals. Contractors will be required to provide rehabilitative services, but will not be required to provide detoxification or other hospital level treatment - those services will be provided by the VA at VA facilities. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 623220. Size Standard of $15.0 Million. To be eligible for award, contractors must be registered in the System of Award Management at www.sam.gov. Registration is free and potential offerors are encouraged to visit that SAM website and register as soon as possible to avoid delays should they be selected for a contract award. Questions concerning this announcement should be directed to the Contract Specialist using the e-mail address provided. Questions concerning this announcement should be directed to Nandini Johnson, Contracting Officer via email at [email protected] NLT 12:00 p.m. on August 28, 2015.