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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 01, 2016 FBO #5396
DOCUMENT

R -- Acquisition of Veteran Death Data from States - Attachment

Notice Date

8/30/2016
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

813920 — Professional Organizations
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Veterans Benefits Administration;Office of Acquisition;1800 G. Street N.W.;Washington DC 20006
 

ZIP Code

20006
 

Solicitation Number

VA101V16Q0424
 

Response Due

9/6/2016
 

Archive Date

11/5/2016
 

Point of Contact

Mary J. Connors
 

E-Mail Address

mary.connors@va.gov
(mary.connors@va.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

VBA, for its own operations and in collaboration with the National Cemetery Administration (NCA) and Veterans Health Administration (VHA), requires authoritative birth certificates, death certificates and/or the ability to make queries confirming the fact of a person's death to support ongoing operations. VBA, VHA and NCA will use this information to independently confirm and/or correct other, potentially inaccurate reports of birth and death received from a variety of sources. VBA, VHA and NCA use birth and death data for many purposes including: 1) establishing eligibility to increased payments for newborn children of a Veteran award beneficiary; 2) terminating benefits when a Veteran or beneficiary is confirmed to be deceased; 3) granting benefits to the survivors of a deceased Veteran; 4) providing burial services for the interment of a deceased Veteran; 5) cancelling appointments and prescription medications for a deceased Veteran. Confirmation and/or correction of death and birth information allows VBA, VHA and NCA to more effectively comply with legislation barring improper payments and more effectively prevent the inadvertent shipments of controlled prescription drugs while also improving data quality in VBA systems The Veterans Benefits Administration intends to negotiate on a sole source basis pursuant to FAR 6.302-1 (only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements) an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Contract with National Association of Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) for the furnishing of authoritative birth and death certificates and queries on fact of death. NAPHSIS is a non-profit national association whose members represent state and local vital records, health statistics and information system agencies and is located in District of Columbia, with offices in Silver Springs, Maryland. It is estimated that VBA will require approximately 40,000 queries of fact on death, 15,000 death certificates and 10,000 birth certificates over a twelve month period. The resulting contract will be for a base period with two twelve month option periods. NAPHSIS is an organization comprising the vital statistics offices of all 50 state governments, several US territories and New York City's vital statistics office. NAPHSIS' system directly connects to databases in almost all of these state and territory governments (48, notably excluding Texas and New York State - outside of NYC) In considering the data required, VBA considered the two critical criteria necessary for effective and expedient reliance on records 1) the authoritativeness of the data and 2) the geographical coverage from this this information could be sourced. While other sources exist, none of the sources reviewed as part of the market research identified the authoritative data set required by VBA. In accordance with FAR 6.305, the Justification will be posted to FBO within 14 days following the award. However, all other responsible sources may submit a capability statement, which will be considered by the agency. Capability statements will be considered only from entities who are regularly established in the business called for and whom in the judgment of the Contracting Officer (CO) are financially responsible and able to show evidence of their reliability, ability, experience, facilities and personnel to render prompt and satisfactory service and that the data produced is the authoritative data required to enable VBA to make decisions.. This Notice of Intent is NOT a request for competitive proposals. Parties may identify their interest, accompanied by supporting literature outlined above, to the Contracting Officer no later than September 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM EST. Responses should be sent to Mary.Connors@va.gov. Information received will be for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. The determination to conduct a competitive procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Interested parties responding to this sources sought request shall submit the following information at a minimum: (1) company name and address, point of contact with phone number, and DUNS number; (2) documentation relating to capability as outlined in this Sources Sought Notice; (3)socio economic denomination or intentions of subcontracting to a socio economic category; (4) proof of CVE Certification in the VA Vet Biz website or intention of registration prior to submission of offers to a solicitation; Registration may be accomplished at https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov/. The Government will not pay any costs for responses submitted. Electronic submissions are acceptable via Mary.Connors@va.gov.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/WDCVARO372/WDCVARO372/VA101V16Q0424/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA101V-16-Q-0424 VA101V-16-Q-0424.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2975633&FileName=VA101V-16-Q-0424-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2975633&FileName=VA101V-16-Q-0424-000.docx

 

Note: If links are broken, refer to Point of Contact above or contact the FBO Help Desk at 877-472-3779.
 

Record

SN04247643-W 20160901/160830235911-27f2cfa9c42276e4fe1a2542affe5aa4 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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