This amendment will post the answers to vendor questions  and extend the RFP propoposal due date to July 11, 2019 by 4:00 pm Eastern Time and provide the following revised documents:

Revised RFP

Revised Attachment 5 Cost Estimating Template

Revised Attachment 3 Monthly Report Template

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intends to award multiple IDIQ contracts to conduct tobacco retailer inspections regionally. Region 1: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont. Region 2: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin. Region 3: Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, US Virgin Islands, Virginia, West Virginia. Region 4: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Region 5: Puerto Rico.

The contractors shall assist in inspecting retail establishments that sell cigarettes and/or smokeless tobacco products and in surveillance of other entities that fall under the scope of the Tobacco Control Act. The requirement will be a total small business set-aside under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. All companies that anticipate submitting a proposal must be able to employee commissionable inspectors to conduct the inspections. In order to be commissionable, the proposed inspector must be a health, food, or drug officer/employee of the State, Territory, or political subdivision thereof where the inspections will be conducted.