SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Verbatim Hearing Recordings
- Notice Date
- 11/4/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 561492
— Court Reporting and Stenotype Services
- Contracting Office
- Social Security Administration, Office of Budget, Finance, and Management, Office of Acquisition and Grants Eastern Region 1, JFK Federal Building, Room 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, 02203, United States
- ZIP Code
- 02203
- Solicitation Number
- SSA-RFQ-01-10-0001
- Point of Contact
- Camille A Carregal, Phone: 617-565-2845
- E-Mail Address
-
camille.a.carregal@ssa.gov
(camille.a.carregal@ssa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Social Security Administration, Region I is publishing this pre-solicitation synopsis notifying interested individuals of its intent to issue a Request for Quote for the establishment of Blanket Purchase Agreements in order to, on as as needed basis, acquiring Verbatim Hearing Recordings (VHR) for Disability Hearings for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR). Individual call orders will be placed against these BPAs for the VHR products. This requirement is a 100% set aside for small business. The period of performance for the BPAs will be for a base period plus 3 one year option periods. The Place(s) of Performance will be throughout Region I. The states that are included are: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The VHR Contractor, before an Administrative Law Judge(ALJ) will be responsible for the delivery of a final product consisting of: 1. Complete, legible and accurate notes, in the Agency provided software format for digital proceedings, summarizing all aspects of hearing testimony and ALJ directives at each hearing proceeding before an ALJ; 2. Complete set of proposed and admitted exhibits offered by the claimant on the day of the hearing, along with any background records associated with teh record available at the sites; and 3. A complete audible digital recording, on compact Disc(CD) and computer hard drive, of the verbatim record for each hearing proceeding before an ALJ, labeled with the claimant's name, social security number, hearing date and digital recording identification. SSA will provide the VHR Contractor access to, and use of, its recording equipment and a CD,pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Regulations on providing government-furnished equipment to contractors, codified at 48 C.F.R. Subpart 45.3. However, the VHR Contractor shall provide his/her own note paper and pens/pencils. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued no later than 11/13/09. All contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database at www.ccr.gov prior to award, and all contractors must undergo a security background screening prior to performance of any work under the BPA. This acquisition will be for commercial supplies/services prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Prt 12 and will be conducted using simplified acquisition procedures in accordance with FAR Part 13.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/SSA/DCFIAM/SSAR1/SSA-RFQ-01-10-0001/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Hearing Sites/Offices located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, United States
- Record
- SN01998114-W 20091106/091104235456-21407844e8f6a596c23b4ba227c1281e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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