SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Tattoo Removal Service
- Notice Date
- 2/7/2023 11:51:13 AM
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 621111
— Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists)
- Contracting Office
- NATIONAL ACQUISITIONS - CO WASHINGTON DC 20534 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20534
- Solicitation Number
- 15BNAS23Q00000018
- Response Due
- 2/23/2023 8:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 03/10/2023
- Point of Contact
- Jeffrey Elder, Phone: 2023059759
- E-Mail Address
-
jelder@bop.gov
(jelder@bop.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- SBA Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
- Description
- The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ). It consists of 122 institutions throughout the United States, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico, 6 regional offices, a Central Office (headquarters), 2 staff training centers, and 22 Residential Reentry Management offices.� The BOP is responsible for the custody and care of approximately 160,000 adult Federal offenders. Approximately 91 percent of these inmates are confined in BOP-operated facilities, while the balance is confined in secure privately managed or community-based facilities and local jails. Of the 160,000 estimated inmates in BOP custody, approximately 95% will release from incarceration and reenter society.� These individuals will face many challenges such as obtaining employment, building healthy and pro social relationships, seeking housing and becoming productive citizens.� Frequently, these individuals have engaged in lengthy criminal lifestyles which have led them to make impulsive and permanent decisions impacting their futures.� One of these is tattooing.� While tattoos have gained mainstream acceptance, prison tattoos, gang related or extremist related tattoos, and prominently placed tattoos denoting an anti-social lifestyle and socially inappropriate tattoos frequently hinder an individual�s reentry into society.� The BOP has targeted several groups of inmates who are prioritized for tattoo removal.� The groups include those separating from a gang or terrorist affiliation, mentally ill inmates who already face reentry barriers, and inmates with prominent tattoos (on the face, head, neck or hands) that could impact employment.� Tattoo removal is focused on eliminating and reducing the stigma attached to these tattoos.� While outwardly these tattoos may be seen by society as off-putting, indicative of criminal behavior, or a curiosity, they also hold deeper meaning for the individual.� Mentally ill individuals often associate them with psychotic or other distressing episodes and extremists or gang member�s associate tattoos with significant events in their criminal lifestyle.� Removing them both increases the societal support of successful reintegration and helps the individual begin to step away from a criminogenic identity.
- Web Link
-
SAM.gov Permalink
(https://sam.gov/opp/5f01063e5a544251a81758174aa96930/view)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC 20534, USA
- Zip Code: 20534
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20534
- Record
- SN06584369-F 20230209/230207230107 (samdaily.us)
- Source
-
SAM.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
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