This is a Sources Sought only. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is performing market research to determine if there are any vendors with economic status of Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Veteran Owned, Women Owned, other Small Businesses, and other than small business that can provide On-site Per-procedure Dialysis Services for the VA Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS) Fresno, CA. The contractor shall provide all personnel, transportation, and equipment to perform inpatient Hemodialysis treatment services to Veteran patients who are being cared for as inpatients at VA Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS). The contractor shall provide the necessary nurses who have certifications, experience, knowledge, abilities and skills in operating a dialysis machine to provide hemodialysis, CRRT (continuous renal replacement therapy), apheresis, and PD (peritoneal dialysis) treatments to Veteran patients. All services will be performed at VACCHCS in the ICU/Stepdown Unit, Medical/Surgical Ward, in the Same Day Procedures suite or ED (Emergency Department). The services will be performed at any time, 24 hours/7 days a week. The services will be coordinated by the staff dialysis nurse at VACCHCS. The payment of services shall be per patient, per treatment/procedure. The contractor dialysis nurse will generally consult with the Charge Nurse, Staff Nephrologist or Chief of Medical Service at VACCHCS when unusual circumstances arise. VACCHCS will provide physician oversight services and retain ultimate authority over and responsibility for each patient s care and treatment. The contractor is to provide a patient-pathways onsite liaison. The individual will coordinate education, post discharge care, outpatient clinic appointment and any necessary outpatient dialysis treatment. The liaison shall conform to VA policies in coordinating the services needed for the patient upon discharge. This may require understanding the processes of the VA social work, health care benefits, and other care services for veterans. There is no solicitation document as this time. The NAICS is 621492 Kidney Dialysis Centers with Small Business size of $38.5 million. NOTE: Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement. Only firms interested and capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to
[email protected] a no later than 13:00 PM Pacific, July 23, 2019. If interested, please provide the following information: Name of Company Point of Contact Name, phone number, and email address DUNS number Socio-economic status such as Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, VOSB, Women-Owned Small Business, etc. should be included. SDVOSB/VOSB status will be verified using VetBiz. (If Applicable) Capability statements How many employees do you have in or around Fresno, CA metropolitan area? Describe experience providing On-site Per-procedure Dialysis Services? Identify price schedule structure for these services based on the requirements in the PWSs. The use of CMS CPT coding guidelines is encouraged. (Note, this is not a request for quote it s requesting pricing information for market research purposes only.) Before responding please carefully read and consider the following: As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html The Service Contract Act will apply. Pursuant to FAR 52.222-17 Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers, a successor contractor will be required to offer a first right of refusal to incumbent employees. Invoices will only be accepted on a monthly basis. Weekly invoices will not be accepted. Please see the DRAFT Performance Work Statements attached for further details. DISCLAIMER This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this source sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.