Q -- DENTAL SERVICES

Notice Date

August 9, 2001

Contracting Office

Bureau of Reclamation, Contracts Group, 1150 N. Curtis Road, Suite 100, Boise, Idaho 83706-1234

ZIP Code

83706-1234

Solicitation Number

01SP101484

Point of Contact

Julie Mathews, Contract Specialist 208-378-5200

E-Mail Address

click here to contact the contract specialist via (jmathews@pn.usbr.gov)

Description

The Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Regional Office, provides acquisition/administrative support services for the Dept of Labor's Centennial Civilian Conservation Corps Center in Nampa, Idaho. The Center has a requirement for professional dental services for approximately 300 students enrolled at the Center. Services are to be performed at the Center. The Center provides a fully-equipped dental facility, including all supplies and equipment required for performance of the services -- the Contractor provides only labor. Services include: preventive dental health education; routine dental exam for each new student; individual diagnosis and treatment plans for each new student; all necessary dental procedures; services of a dental hygienist and dental assistant; and, providing advice and recommendations regarding student dental care to Center staff. Estimated hours required: dentist, 16 hours per week; hygienist, 12 hours per week; dental assistant, 16 hours per week. The contractor must also have available, or make arrangements to have available, facilities within the local commuting area of Nampa, Idaho for 24 hour on-call emergency services -- approximately five calls per year. Offerors (dentist and dental hygienist) must be licensed to practice in the State of Idaho. Reclamation intends to award one or more fixed-price multi-year contracts (for a single 5 year period) beginning on or about November 1, 2001, from a single solicitation. Offerors may propose on the following services: (a) dentist services, dental assistant services, and dental hygienist services; (b) dentist services and dental assistant services only; (c) dental hygienist services only. No information will be available for this solicitation, on the web-site, until this notice has been published a minimum of 15 days. A solicitation (RFP (Request For Proposal) and related amendments) will be available in late August and we intend to publish it both on our web-site www.pn.usbr.gov/contracts/service and at www.fedbizopps.gov on line. We recommend you visit our web-site first as offerors have had difficulties at www.fedbizopps.gov. Offerors are strongly encouraged to register via the web-site to be included on the offeror list in order to receive convenient e-mail notification of amendments and to encourage subcontracting opportunities. If you are interested in competing for this contract, you must down load and/or print the solicitation documents from the website. The solicitation will be posted in the Adobe Acrobat format. If you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, there's a link on our site to it. No paper copies or CD-ROMs will be issued unless the website becomes inoperable, then the solicitation and any amendments will be made available on CD-ROM or paper. If issued on CD-ROM or paper, one copy will be mailed free of charge to each party on the offerors list. Offerors are responsible for checking our website frequently for amendments or notices, particularly before submitting their offers. Telephone requests for the solicitation will not be accepted. This requirement is a small business set-aside. The small business size standard is $5 million. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is 621210. Any award will be based on the best value to the Government. We will evaluate past performance, experience, and price and price related factors to determine the best value. These factors are subject to change and the offerors will need to review sections L and M of the solicitation when the solicitation is issued. See numbered Notes 1 and 26.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010813/QSOL001.HTM (W-221 SN50U5F7)