R418--Legal Services for Guardianship

This is a Sources Sought for market research purposes only. The Veterans Administration, SAOW Network Contracting Office (NCO) 21 is issuing this solicitation in support of the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System. The VASNHCS is seeking a contract for legal representation for filing and disposition of guardianship cases for Veterans who are deemed incapacitated, who reside within Washoe County, who are admitted to the VA hospital and/or Community Living Center (CLC) and who have no family, friends or significant who are willing or able to act on the Veteran s behalf. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform legal services to assist with guardianship requests as defined in this Scope of Work (SOW) except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. Please note that this Sources Sought Notice is for information only and does not constitute a solicitation for competitive bids/proposals. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government; however, all interested parties who believe they can meet the requirement are invited to submit information describing their capability to provide the required services. There is no solicitation document as this time. The NAICS is 541110 with Small Business size of $15.5 million. NOTE: Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement. OVERVIEW: See attached Statement of Work Only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their information and capability statement by email to kulvinder.brar@va.gov no later than 10:00 AM Pacific Time, April 14th, 2023. Failure to provide the following information completely and accurately may result in a determination that your company is not a viable source. Please include the follow information about your organization in your response (1) Name of Organization, (2) Address + Zip Code, (3) Telephone number, (4) Fax Number, (5) Size of Business: Large or Small, (6) SAM status, (7) Point(s) of contact, and (8) email address. Failure to provide the following information completely and accurately may result in a determination that your company is not a viable source. Before responding please carefully read and consider the following: As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html DISCLAIMER This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this sources sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.