NOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES: The formal solicitation release of the below acquisition has been delayed. The anticipated release is 29 April 2005, or the following week. We apologize for the delay, and any inconvenience this may have caused. -- -- The United States Air Force Academy intends to solicit and negotiate a follow-on, competitive indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for the Department of Defense Medical Examination Review Board (DODMERB) professional medical services. This contract will be a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract. The contract provides for professional medical services to accomplish complete medical, audiometric, and optometric “screening” examinations for the United States Service Academies (Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine), Reserve Officer Training Corps. (ROTC), and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS). Required services shall be performed throughout the United States and its territories. Therefore the contractor is required to establish/provide multiple examination centers at various locations throughout the country and territories as specified. The contract is expected to begin 1 Oct 2005 with a 30-day phase-in period (01– 30 September 2005). The basic period of performance is anticipated to be one year (01 October 2005 – 30 September 2006), with 5 one-year options. The desired schedule is as follows: solicitation release – 29 MAR 05, proposals due – 06 MAY 05, negotiations complete – 28 JUL 05, award – AUG 05. Contracted services include, but are not limited to, providing for the professional examinations as listed above, along with personnel management, information technology capable of receiving and sending data electronically to a web based, hypertext protocol secure (https) client server, and the ability to maintain a database of scheduled applicants, and be able to prepare and provide management reports. The approximate number of examinations required annually for this effort is 20,000 (1,667 per month), and may require as many as 36,000 (3,000 per month). However, these numbers are only approximate based on historical data, and anticipated future needs, and are not to be considered exact or binding. Multiple awards are not being considered. A source selection will be conducted in accordance with AFFARS 5315.3 at The United States Air Force Academy, CO. A Request For Proposal will be released, no sooner than 15 calendar days after this notice is posted, on the worldwide web at the following website: http://www.fedbizopps.gov/ (FedBizOpps). Interested parties are encouraged to check the site for new documents and updates on a regular basis. Documents may be downloaded from the website; the Government does not intend to provide hard copies of any documents. No telephone calls for these documents will be accepted. Potential offerors are invited to submit questions, comments, and suggestions concerning any and all documents. Answers to questions received will appear at FedBizOpps when considered appropriate by the Contracting Officer. The USAFA point of contact is: Contracting Officer – Mr. Jan K. Christensen, 8110 Industrial Drive, Suite 200, USAFA CO 80840, FAX: 719-333-6608, e-mail address:
[email protected]. Please note that all prospective contractors must register with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database to contract with the Department of Defense. To learn more about this CCR requirement and how to register, please visit the CCR website at http://www.ccr.gov/ or call 1-888-227-2423. NOTE: Contractors are required to submit standard Representations and Certifications on-line. A new Federal Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE) initiative called the ‘Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA)’ is being implemented. ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of many of the representations and certifications required by the Federal Acquisition Regulations found in solicitations. However, agency specific provisions and solicitation specific provisions not included in ORCA will still have to be included in solicitations. See the Federal Register publication at http://frwebgate4.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=9696846436+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve. Numbered Note 26 Applies