Description
NAICS Code: 337122 The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Division of Job Corps, intends to award a sole source purchase order to ResCare, Inc. located at 9901 Linn Station Road, Louisville, KY, 40223-3813. The estimated value of the purchase order is $68,559. The statutory authority permitting the acquisition of the requirement by other than full and open competition is 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements. Job Corps is a national training program that provides comprehensive academic, residential and career technical training services to approximately 60,000 disadvantaged youth each year at 125 Job Corps centers nationwide as authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 and the Job Corps Policy and Requirements Handbook. The subject requirement requires the contractor to procure 72 Captains Beds for the Ramey Job Corps Center located in the city of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The Ramey Job Corps Center is one of three Job Corps Centers located on the island of Puerto Rico which all sustained severe damage as a result of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017 and resulted in the immediate closure to students of all three Job Corps Centers. The pre-existing beds were damaged beyond repair and left unsanitary in the hurricanes. ResCare is the current operator of the Ramey Job Corps Center as well as the other two centers located on the island, Arecibo Job Corps Center and Barranquitas Job Corps Center. As the current operator ResCare continues to provide security, maintenance, construction, material, services, and all necessary personnel in preparation to re-open the Job Corps Centers to students. As the current operator, ResCare is the only viable source to procure, receive, inspect and install the beds. The government has no on sight personnel that can perform inspection of the necessary furniture which necessitates this logistical requirement to facilitate the return of student to the Job Corps Center. In addition, time is of the essence as the Ramey Job Corps Center is planned to re-open to receive students in January of 2019. Delay with regard to receipt, inspection and installation of the beds in a timely fashion will prevent the Job Corps Center from re-opening as planned. The anticipated period of performance/delivery date for receipt of the beds is 90 days. This is a Special Notice of the Intent to award sole source purchase order. It is published for informational purposes only and not a request for competitive quotes. Therefore, no solicitation document exists for this requirement. No responses to the Notice of Intent to sole source are anticipated.