Firm Fixed-Price, Non-Personal Healthcare Service for Fellowship Medical Services at the Pine Ridge IHS Hospital, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

The Great Plains Area Indian Health Service hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source, Firm Fixed-Price, Non-Personal Healthcare Service contract for University Fellowship for Medical Specialty Services, Hospitalist/Adult Medicine On-Call/Clinic Physician, Emergency Services Medical Physician, Obstetrical Gynecology Physician to the University of Washington, a large business. The period of performance will be for one (1) year from the Date of Award with four (4), one (1) year option periods. The acquisition is to provide Physician services through a Fellowship. This type of partnership embodies a whole selection process, Fellows apply for the Fellowship, they're interviewed & a selection is made about a year in advance. These fellows are then committed to Pine Ridge I H S academically for the entire year. Understand it is different types of arrangements with Fellowships & academic centers other than a straight up locum’s contract. On the academic side of things, the institution is having to make arrangements & agreements with students. This is a paid Fellowship at Pine Ridge & provides the Fellow with a unique learning experience. The total estimated value is less than $12,000,000.00. This sole source contracting action is pursuing a waiver from placing an order on a competitive basis pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements and is based on the market research and a Sources Sought that was issued, resulted in no vendors having no academic affiliation with an accredited educational institute to provide Physician services through a Fellowship. Responses to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government, would not be cost or time prohibitive, and would not hinder the mission objective of our agency standardization. The determination not to compete this proposed contract action is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice. This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals. Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed to Craig Wells, Chief of the Contracting Office at [email protected] via e-mail only (phone calls/voice mail messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response). Please indicate in the subject of your email: Notice of Intent Question Submission – 2022-PRH-005, University of Washington.