Q--Surgical Technicians, 5 FTE

Page 2 of 3 This is a Sources Sought only. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is performing market research to determine if there are any vendors with economic status of Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Veteran Owned, Women Owned, and other Small Businesses that can provide temporary staffing for the following critical positions at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) in Palo Alto, CA. Surgical Technicians (ST) 5 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) There is no solicitation document as this time. The NAICS is 561320 with Small Business size of $27.5 million. NOTE: Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement. Only firms interested and capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to [email protected] no later than 5:00 PM Pacific, July 29, 2019. If interested, please provide the following information: Name of Company Point of Contact Name, phone number, and email address DUNS number Socio-economic status such as Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, VOSB, Women-Owned Small Business, etc. should be included. SDVOSB/VOSB status will be verified using VetBiz. Capability Statements Describe experience with providing Surgical Technicians and past performance with Government contracts Provide all-inclusive hourly rates estimate for the ST based on the requirements in the PWSs. (Note, this is not a request for quote it s requesting pricing information for market research purposes only.) Before responding please carefully read and consider the following: As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html Invoices will only be accepted on a monthly basis. Weekly invoices will not be accepted. Please see the DRAFT Performance Work Statements attached for further details. DISCLAIMER This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this sources sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.