SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Intent to Sole Source to Saint Wall Street, LLC.
- Notice Date
- 7/30/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 12-233-SOL-00586
- Archive Date
- 8/23/2012
- Point of Contact
- Korriise LaRoche, Phone: 3014433586
- E-Mail Address
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korriise.laroche@psc.hhs.gov
(korriise.laroche@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a notice of intent. The Program Support Center on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) intends to negotiate and award a purchase order on a sole source, noncompetitive basis to Saint Wall Street, LLC., for Program Return on Investment Training. The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) is responsible to oversee the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) originally authorized by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) from 2005-2010, and subsequently reauthorized under the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (CRA) from 2010 - 2013. OFA provides $150 million in discretionary grant funding to organizations in 47 states and the District of Columbia to provide services to improve outcomes for individuals, couples, families and communities through partnerships for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood activities. Currently, one hundred and twenty CRA-funded grantees are in the first year of implementing programs that have great potential to improve self-sufficiency and employment outcomes for individuals and families. Both of these are consistent with the goals of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, which OFA also oversees. Successful implementation of these community-based programs is impacted by the quality and relevance of the technical assistance and training provided through OFA's technical assistance system. Saint Wall Street has the history, expertise and capacity to provide specialized Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) to OFA's 120 HMRF grantees. The T/TA that Saint Wall Street will provide will focus on ensuring a return on investment in HMRF programs. The field supporting efforts to attain optimal results and outcomes in HMRF programs continues to develop and emerge. For the past four years, Saint Wall Street has worked to build a strong knowledge base and understanding of the HMRF programs, develop tools, and construct a conceptual framework to support the work of grantees to foster sustainability beyond Federal funding. OFA affirms that Saint Wall Street is uniquely qualified to be the T/TA resource for HMRF grantees, and to the broad Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood fields. Saint Wall Street LLC was a sub-contractor on the OFA TA Contract for the previous round of OFA grantees and provided the Program Return on Investment (PROI) training to previously funded OFA grant programs. Saint Wall Street's Program Return on Investment (PROI) is a proprietary product maintained as a trade secret under applicable State and Federal law. In 2008, PROI was customized for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grantees-a five year, high-profile program initially authorized under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Saint Wall Street's HMRF PROI is not marketed, sold, licensed, or distributed by any other source. It is the exclusive purview of Saint Wall Street and has been used exclusively by OFA for the HMRF grantees. Data for Program Return on Investment (PROI) calculations are developed from government, extensive research, and private sources. Saint Wall Street's credentialed data analysts have extensive knowledge and expertise in market research and evaluation, and data collection and analysis. Saint Wall Street developed a proprietary process to re-calculate national cost data to per-person and per-family costs. These costs, along with research findings on probability analyses, enable Saint Wall Street to assess cost-benefits, which in turn produce project returns on investment, and serve as a foundation for longitudinal measures to arrive at actual returns on investment. ACF is investing significant resources in multiple Federal HMRF evaluations to document successes, challenges and lessons learned from HMRF programs. This strategy is designed to establish an evidence-base that will support continued funding under the reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Likewise, OFA is committed to assist grantees in meeting the required objectives outlined in the Funding Opportunity Announcements, with particular regard to program sustainability beyond Federal funding. To successfully address this issue, in 2008 OFA worked with Saint Wall Street to develop and pilot its customized HMRF PROI to provide program-specific technical assistance to help grantees develop and use effective, specific, field-tested case statements designed to sustain programs. This product was widely, and exclusively, utilized by grantees with the favorable results of several having obtained funding from other sources. OFA acknowledges the potential value to the government to conduct a limited evaluation of the HMRF PROI product to measure and hopefully determine its value and effectiveness in helping HMRF grantees achieve sustainability and self-sufficiency. In October 2012, HMRF grantees will begin their second year of the 3-year program implementation under the CRA. Saint Wall Street possesses the requisite knowledge and experience, and has demonstrated its capability, having served the first round of grantees over the past 4 years. This resulted in the development of the tailored PROI product. The OFA HMRF grant program has a limited 3-year project period, and grantees are nearing the end of the first year of implementation. Effective sustainability requires early intervention. Continuing PROI technical assistance by Saint Wall Street is the most efficient and cost-effective option to ensure that OFA can provide its next cohort of grantees with proven, field-tested resources critical to program success. As previously stated, the HMRF Funding Opportunity Announcements included a requirement that applicants submit a project sustainability plan that specifies its approach to securing additional financial resources. In support of these efforts, OFA is responsible to provide T/TA to facilitate sustainability implementation. Again, OFA piloted Saint Wall Street's customized HMRF PROI to provide program-specific technical assistance to help grantees develop and use effective, specific, field-tested case statements designed to sustain programs beyond Federal funding. Saint Wall Street has the sole advantage of being able to expeditiously provide the critical resources to the HMRF field and allow OFA to immediately provide this assistance at the beginning of year 2. The Period of Performance is 12 months with one 12 month option period. The proposed requirement is for services the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b). The Government intends to acquire the services as a commercial item using simplified acquisition procedures. HHS anticipates the award of a firm fixed-price contract. Parties that believe they are capable of meeting these requirements must submit a statement, with supporting documentation, of their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to Korriise LaRoche, korriise.laroche@psc.hhs.gov on or before 10:00 a.m. EST/EDT on August 8, 2012. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow the PSC to determine if it can meet the above unique specifications described herein. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. In order to receive an award from the PSC, the vendor must be registered in the Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov. In addition, the vendor must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) at ww.ccr.gov. Please reference announcement number 12-233-SOL-00586 on all correspondence.
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