The Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service is conducting a market investigation to seek potential vendors that could fulfill the below requirement. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PRPOSALS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT COMMITTED TO AWARD A CONTRACT PURSUANT TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME AND REQUEST FOR SOLICITATION PACKAGES WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. The applicable NAICS code is 621210 with a size standard of $7.0 million. Based on the response to this Sources Sought, the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service will decide if this requirement will be set aside for small business, for a small business program, or done through full and open competition. The draft requirements are below: Mission The mission of the Spirit Lake Health Center in Ft. Totten, North Dakota is to provide the best possible health care services to the Native American population on the Spirit Lake Nation. To meet the mission, the Spirit Lake Health Center facility requires a training Dentist to support and assist in the temporary duties assigned at the Clinic. Responsibilities Perform services compatible with the medical facilities operating capacity and equipment. Provide services for the Indian health service beneficiaries served by the clinic. Contract Dentist shall provide emergency and routine general Dental Services for eligible patients (children, adults, and elderly) at the Spirit Lake Health Center Dental Center. Duties include but are not limited to: 1. Diagnostic/examination, screening, initial and periodic. 2. Prophylaxis, including hand scaling, use of ultrasonic instrumentation. 3. Emergency care-diagnosis and treatment. 4. Treatment of oral infections. 5. Preventive services-sealant, fluoride, OHI. 6. Restorative-simple and complex. 7. Endodontic-anterior and posterior. 8. Periodontal Diagnosis, treatment, surgery and chemical treatments. 9. Oral Surgery-simple and surgical extractions of erupted teeth, partial impactions, soft tissue and biopsy. 10. Pediatric dentistry-pulpotomies, pulpectomies, stainless steel crowns. 11. Crown and bridge-single and multiple units. 12. Removal prosthetics. 13. Radiographic interpretation-periapical, bitewing, panorex, occlusal, extraoral soft tissue. 14. Adjunctive general services (i.e.: x-rays, Fluoride treatment, etc.). 15. Consultation with medial staff as needed. 16. Charting in patient dental/medical records-health history, exam, dental progress, referral forms. 17. Notes and PCC (IHS 803). 18. Limited dental laboratory procedures. 19. Limited oral medication to treat dental anxiety. Specific dental services not included, but are not limited to: 1. Orthodontics 2. General anesthesia Qualifications 1. Graduate of an accredited dental school in the United States. 2. Must hold a current and unrestricted dental license form any of the United States. 3. Must apply to and be accepted as a temporary member of the Spirit Lake Health Center medical staff. 4. Must apply for and have approved appropriate dental privileges by the Spirit Lake Health Center medical staff. 5. Must possess current basic life support (BLS) certificate. 6. Must possess documentation of continuing dental education. Duty hours Contract Dentist shall work approximately 2.5 days per week to be scheduled by the Chief Dental Officer or his/her designee. A day is considered eight (8) hours with a ½ hour lunch during business hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday. -------- This request is for interested vendors with the capability of provided the required work to submit a capability statement, to assist the Government in determining in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.502-2(b) whether or not this procurement will be set aside for any of the programs. Responses must reference the sources sought number 2009-FT-Dentist and include the following: (1) Name and address of the Organization, (2) The size standard and small business program (8(a), Service Disabled Veteran, HubZone) status of the company, (3) Point of contact with name, title, phone, fax, and email, (4) DUNS number. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUCEMENT AND ANY FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION REQUESTS. RESPONDENT WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED OF THE RESULTS OF THE EVALUATION. ALL INFORMATION SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE. The closing date for responses is September 10, 2008 at 11:00 am CST. Email capability statements are authorized, but is up to the vendor to make certain that the email was received. All questions concerning this sources sought may be emailed to Tammy Dennert,
[email protected] or John Bercier,
[email protected] not later than September 4, 2008. Mailed documents can be sent to the address listed in Fedbizopps.