R--Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment Services (VRE)

This is a Sources Sought Notice Only; Please Do Not Respond With AProposal. This sources sought notice is issued in an effort to conduct additionalmarket research for information and planning purposes only. TheDepartment of Veterans Affairs (VA), Vocational Rehabilitation &Employment service (VR&E) has a requirement to provide vocationalRehabilitation and Employment Services for the Regional Office - St.Paul, Minnesota including Rochester, St. Cloud, Duluth (Arrowheadregion) and most areas of Central and Southern Minnesota. The VR&E Services solicited are: Complete Initial Assessment/Evaluation;Case Management; Employment Services; Educational and VocationalCounseling; and Discrete Services. The VA may award one or morecontracts for these services. The contracts shall be performance based, fixed price, indefinitedelivery/indefinite quantity contract. The period of performance forthe awarded contracts shall include a six-month base period and twooption periods, each three months in length. The service will be considered for sole source to Service DisabledVeteran Owned/Veteran Owned Small Business or set aside to ServiceDisabled Veteran Owned/Veteran Owned Small Business firms. Awards shallbe made based on the evaluation criteria established in thesolicitation. This announcement is not a request for competitive proposals. Allresponsible sources shall respond by submitting a written narrativestatement of capability including technical information/or othertechnical informational literature demonstrating the ability to performthe above requirements via e-mail to the point of contact below. Additionally, the contractor shall address their ability to provideservices throughout the state of Minnesota. Contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration(CCR), accessed via the internet at http://www.ccr.gov. Responses arerequested by September 23, 2009 no-later-than 2:00 p.m. Central Time. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 624310 and the size standard is 7Million. Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted. If you are aService Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business or Veteran Owned SmallBusiness with an approved NAICS code of 624310 please submit yourtechnical information and questions concerning this notice to thecontract specialist at [email protected]. Points of Contact: Kari K. Berger, Contract Specialist, 612-970-5763Department of Veteran Affairs Regional OfficeVR&E Division1 Federal DriveSt. Paul, MN 55111Email: [email protected]