Q--Tazewell CBOC

The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to negotiate sole source commercial item procurement with Tazewell Family Physicians, P.C, at 123 Ben Bolt Avenue, Tazewell, VA 24651. The purpose of the procurement is to provide Primary Care general medical and mental health Services utilizing a pre-existing contractor operated clinic in the Tazewell, Virginia area, to cover the Salem, Virginia catchment area. The contractor's facility shall be complete with primary care providers and personnel required for primary care and routine primary care and mental health services. The clinic must have both on-site lab and radiology capability OR be able to demonstrate that a contractual relationship exists to provide off-site lab and x-ray services to the existing clinic. Clinic must be able to cover the following geographic locations in the catchment area for Tazewell and within the VA Medical Center, Salem, Virginia's primary service area which are the counties of: Bland, Tazewell, Wythe, and Giles and the towns or cities in these counties. These services shall be performed at Tazewell Family Physicians, P.C's Medical facility. The contracted provider must be within the Tazewell, Virginia area to prevent a lapse in continuity care for the current 771 unique veteran enrollees. This proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of sole source awards under the HUB Zone Act of 1997-15 U.S.C. 657a (see FAR 19.1306) in conjunction with FAR 6.302.5(b) (5). The NAICS code for this requirement is 621498, Size Standard $10.0 M. This notice of intent to sole source is not a request for competitive quotes. No formal solicitation document exists at this time. Responses to this notice should include the following: name and address of company/provider, DUNs and Bradstreet Number, number of Primary Care providers and supporting staff employed by the firm; business size (large or small); identify whether or not firm falls into any of the following socioeconomic categories -Service Disabled Veteran-Owned, Veteran Owned, 8(a), HUB Zone, or other socioeconomic categories (woman-owned, minority owned, etc.); firms experience in providing Primary Care and Mental Health Outpatient services and any other pertinent information which demonstrates firm's ability to meet the above requirement. Interested parties may identify their interest by submitting a detailed capability statement in response to this requirement no later than 12 Noon, January 12, 2011 EST to: [email protected] or Fax: 757-728-3132. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.