PROCUREMENT UPDATE: December 21, 2023

We greatly appreciate the industry feedback and questions received to the draft Performance Work Statement for Direct Care, Supervision (DCS) and Facilities Maintenance (FM) Services for Unaccompanied Children housed at the Greensboro Influx Care Facility (ICF), located in Greensboro, NC. We are currently considering industry feedback in the acquisition strategy and the PWS for Request for Proposal (RFP) issuance.

As previously stated during the APBI held May 9-11, 2023, ACF intends to solicit this requirement using full and open competition procedures. We anticipate the release of the RFP will occur late January/early February 2024. The solicitation number for this effort is 75ACF124R00007.

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI):

On May 09, 2023, the Administration for Children & Families’ (ACF) Head of Contracting Activity advised industry partners at the Advanced Planning Brief to Industry (APBI) that Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) intends to issue a short-term sole source contract for Direct Care, Supervision (DCS) at the Greensboro Piedmont Academy (GPA) Influx Care Facility (ICF) while a long-term competitive action is planned and intended to be solicited in early Fiscal Year 2024.

The Notice of Intent to Sole Source the short-term Contract to Deployed Services, LLC was posted on May 10, 2023 on sam.gov. The short-term Contract for DCS was awarded on May 18, 2023.

As stated at the APBI, ACF intends to solicit the long-term competitive action in early Fiscal Year 2024. As part of this process, the Government Contracting Services (GCS) requests industry feedback and questions to the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS). Additionally, GCS requests vendor capabilities in response to the draft PWS.

Responses shall follow a 5 page limitation in MS Word with 12-font Times New Roman for feedback and questions. And a 3 page limitation in MS Word with 12-font Times New Roman for capability statements. Cover pages are excluded from this count.

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