U099--Police Dog and Handler Training

This is a Sources Sought Notice for a police dog, and dog and handler training for the John D. Dingle VA Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. The contractor shall furnish all necessary labor, supervision, management, management support, transportation, supplies, equipment and materials necessary to furnish the following services. The services required are provided and are subject to changes should a solicitation be issued as a result of this notice. The police dog must be between 12 and 36 months old and must come with a written guarantee that it has not had any type of aggression training (bite work). The dog will be trained in obedience, narcotics detection, and trailing (not tracking). Handler training shall include a minimum of 200 hours of practical application under a qualified instructor s supervision, and a minimum of 40 hours of classroom instruction from a qualified instructor. Please respond if you have the ability and intent to complete this requirement. Include the following information in your response: Capabilities Statement; Company name and address; DUNS number; Socioeconomic size status (example: large, small, WOSB, SDVOSB, etc.); Point of contact information (name, phone, email); Whether a site visit will be required/requested; FSS or GSA contract number, if applicable. This Sources Sought Notice is intended to locate any business capable of performance. The anticipated NAICS Code for this requirement is 812910. This is not a Request for Quotation and quotes shall not be reviewed at this time. The Department of Veterans Affairs shall not be responsible for any costs incurred by the contractor as a result of this Sources Sought Notice. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to any particular acquisition approach. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. All responses shall be submitted via email by Friday, February 14, 2020, at 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST). Responses shall be submitted to Jeanne Ortiz at [email protected]. Phone calls shall not be accepted for this notice.