SPECIAL NOTICE
69 -- Training Materials
- Notice Date
- 1/14/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Administrative Services Division/Contracting, 100 North 6TH Street, Butler Square 5TH Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403
- ZIP Code
- 55403
- Solicitation Number
- PR-16-783828
- Archive Date
- 2/13/2016
- Point of Contact
- Carol R. Dingess, Phone: 970-494-7360
- E-Mail Address
-
carol.dingess@aphis.usda.gov
(carol.dingess@aphis.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE - THIS IS A NOTICE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENT TO ISSUE A SOLE SOURCE AWARD The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Human Resource Department located in Riverdale, MD intends to award a sole source firm fixed priced Delivery Order to Insight Management Consulting, LLC in Crofton, MD (GSA Contract# GS-10F-0220R) for the purchase of training materials for 100 employee participants for a course offered by Management Consulting, LLC called "Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when Stakes are High". The statutory authority permitting Other than Full and Open Competition is 41 U.S.C. 253( c )(1) FAR 6.302-1 - The property or services needed are available from only one responsible qualified source at this time and no other type of property or services will satisfy these needs. APHIS has certified instructors in the program called "Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when Stakes are High". To deliver this program, they are required to use the prescribed participant materials. These are off-the shelf and not customized for the agency, and available on GSA contract. Each person participating in the Course must have a "Participant Suite", hereinafter referred to as a "Suite," which is comprised of 4 things - 1) a 250-page toolkit used as a workbook during the training 2) a soft-bound copy of the New York Times Best-seller, Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High, or Crucial Accountability 3) a 6 CD Audio Companion CD-Set of the authors teaching the skills on CD and 4) a course completion certificate. Unit of issue = 1 Participant Suite per participant This notice of intent is NOT a request for proposals or quotations. Request for copies of a solicitation in response to this notice will not be honored or acknowledged. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed action is based upon responses to this notice and is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability by responding to this requirement, no later than 4:00 P.M. MT on January 29, 2016, by email, fax or mail to carol.dingess@aphis.usda.gov, Fax# 970-472-1897, Address: 2150 Centre Ave, Building B (MS-2E6), Ft. Collins, CO. 80526. Please use reference# PR-782838 when responding. No telephone inquiries will be honored. All information submitted should support the vendor's capability to provide the items required, and shall be furnished at no cost or obligation to the Government. The Government reserves the right to cancel the Sole Source Award. The primary North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541611 - Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services. The Small Business Category Size is $15.Mil.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/APHIS/Contracting/PR-16-783828/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: USDA, APHIS, MRPBS, HRD, 4700 River Road, Unit 80, Riverdale, Maryland, 20737, United States
- Zip Code: 20737
- Zip Code: 20737
- Record
- SN03992748-W 20160116/160115083730-28bf3fbe03141216030a3b03dadd2067 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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