THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. This is not a request for offers, quotes or proposals. This notice does not represent a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract. This is a market research tool only to determine the capability of potential sources.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is contemplating establishing a contract under NAICS Code(s) 541211 Sector: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; Title: Offices of Certified Public Accountants, and the Small Business Standard is $19 million, PSC Code R710, Support Management: Financial for support services for the Vendor Risk Management Program which provides oversight of Ginnie Mae's vendors to ensure their activities are conducted in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

The program also assesses the vendor's ongoing ability to provide the required services and identifies potential risks to Ginnie Mae. The program assists with the identification of strategic, reputational, operational, transaction, credit/financial, and compliance/legal risks affecting Ginnie Mae by third-party entities. HUD is issuing this Request For Information (RFI) in order to solicit responses from capable sources and capability statements to ensure sufficient competition exists to meet the government's requirements.

Teaming arrangements and joint ventures will be considered for any subsequent procurement based on the Government's market research.

Please review the DRAFT Performance Work Statement (PWS) and provide your feedback to Ms. Lynn Sims, Sr. Contract Specialist at [email protected]. No phone calls will be accepted. All correspondence shall be sent via email only.

CONTEMPLATED MAGNITUDE
Contract is estimated to be valued between $5 million and $10 million.

RESPONSE REQUESTED
Small Businesses are highly encouraged to respond.

This synopsis is a market research tool being used to determine the availability and capability of potential sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and whether the government will proceed with this acquisition. The Government will not pay for any information solicited.

If a contract is ultimately pursued, responses to this synopsis will be used to aid in determining whether the acquisition is set-aside for small business or in establishing small business subcontracting goals. All qualified firms are encouraged to respond.

The capability statement shall address, at a minimum, the following for the past three years:
1.Name and address of company and or companies (if there is a teaming arrangement or joint venture);
2.Technical expertise relevant to the requirement;
3.Technical approach relevant of the requirement (1 to 2 paragraphs);
4.Management approach relevant to the requirement (1 to 2 paragraph);
5.Corporate experience relevant to the requirement (1 to 2 paragraph);
6.Indicate if you are a small business or any other socio-economic categories that apply to your firm under the designated NAICS code;
7.Relevant past performance. Your capability statement needs to include a list of three customers (Government/non-Government) within the past three (3) years highlighting similar work in nature, scope, complexity, and difficulty and a brief description of the scope of work. Your submission for relevant past performance must include for each customer:

•Contract name;
•Contracting Agency or Department, POC and contact information;
•Yearly contract value (in $);
•Whether your firm was the prime or a subcontractor;
•Period of performance;
•Description of work and how it relates to the requirements.

Interested firms responding to this market survey must provide a capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Governments requirements for the above. The capability statement shall be in sufficient enough detail, but not exceed 3 pages TOTAL, so that the Government can determine the experience and capability of your firm to provide the requirements above. Please specify one primary and one alternate Point of Contact (POC) within your firm, including telephone numbers and email addresses in case clarifications of your submission are needed.

Only electronic copies of capability statements will be accepted and should be emailed to: Ms. Lynn Sims at [email protected]. The e-mail shall contain the following subject line: Response to Sources Sought Notice - Vendor Risk Management Assessment Requirement. The Government may use the responses received to determine whether to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside, or in the absence of a least two small business responses to this notice, may determine to proceed with a full and open competition. This decision and whether to proceed with the acquisition is at the sole discretion of the Government.