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General Information
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Department for this solicitation:
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Procurement
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Date Prepared:
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03/08/23
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Types:
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IFB
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Advertisement Type:
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Service
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Materials
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Service & Materials
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PW Construction
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Agency Construction
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Real Estate
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Solicitation/Project#:
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6100057679
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Solicitation/Project Title:
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12 OVR PaRC Logistical Support and Coord Services
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Description:
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The Department of Labor and Industry (DLI), Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) is issuing this Invitation for Bids (IFB) to procure Logistical Support and Coordination Services for Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Council (PaRC), Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Council (parehabilitationcouncil.org).
PaRC works in partnership with PA-OVR as is mandated in Section 105 of the Rehabilitation Act –State Rehabilitation Council and Independent Commission Resources | Rehabilitation Services Administration (ed.gov). PaRC fulfills this required mandate within the Commonwealth in order for PA-OVR programs to be eligible to receive and maintain federal VR funds. Pennsylvania has a combined state agency and a single Rehabilitation Council.
Contracted services must enhance the operation of the PaRC and allow for the following opportunities: Position papers to be considered and/or incorporated into legislation, policies, and programs which will benefit persons with significant disabilities in their vocational pursuits; assist the PaRC in meeting all its categorical membership requirements of the Rehabilitation Act and reflect ethnic, gender and geographic diversity in the council from across the state; affording PaRC members the opportunity to have a greater understanding of their responsibilities as defined in federal law, using this knowledge to define council positions and advising OVR.
Small Diverse Business (SDB) and Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) Participation. The Department’s Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion and Small Business Opportunities (BDISBO) has developed a goal setting policy based upon recommendations from its 2018 Disparity Study. The goal setting policy requires BDISBO and agencies to identify contract-specific participation goals for SDBs (which include Minority Business Enterprises, Women Business Enterprises, LGBT Business Enterprises, Disability-Owned Business Enterprises, and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises) and VBEs (which include Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprises). Bidders must either agree to meet the participation goals in full or must request a full or partial Good Faith Efforts waiver from one or both participation goals. Failure to meet the participation goals or establish they have made good faith efforts to meet the participation goals will result in rejection of a proposal as nonresponsive. The goals that have been established for this Project are set forth below:
SDB – 11%
VBE – 3%
SDB and VBE Goal Information Session. The Commonwealth has made significant changes to the SDB and VBE requirements, and failure to meet these requirements may result in your proposal being deemed nonresponsive. Therefore, the Issuing Office will hold an SDB and VBE Goal Information Session for this IFB which we highly recommend you attend. The purpose of this Session is to provide an overview of the IFB and SDB and VBE Participation submission instructions. Bidders may also ask questions during the Session, however responses provided during the Session are not official until the question is submitted in writing via a Solicitation Addendum in SRM. Q&A Board questions and written responses shall become part of this IFB.
The location, date, and time of the SDB and VBE Goal Information Session are as follows:
SDB and VBE Goal Information Session – via MS Teams, Thursday, 03/16/2023, 9:00am ET.
An RSVP to the SDB and VBE Goal Information Session is due via email to Nicole Moyer, nicomoyer@pa.gov by COB Wednesday, 03/15/2023.
Any questions following the SDB and VBE Information Session must be submitted individually and in writing via email by 2pm ET on Tuesday, March 17, 2023, to the L & I Central Procurement resource account - RA-li-OIT-BAS-Procur@pa.gov, with IFB 6100057679 - 12 OVR PaRC Logistical Support and Coordination Services in the Subject Line. All questions and responses are considered an addendum to and part of this IFB. The Issuing Office shall not be bound by any verbal information, nor shall it be bound by any written information that is not either contained within the IFB or formally issued by the Issuing Office. The Issuing Office does not consider questions to be a protest of the solicitation.
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