Research Services to Support the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of Procurement Services (OPS), in support of the Office of Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) intends to award a Firm Fixed Price contract on a sole source basis to the Institute Of Medicine National Academy Of Sciences (IOM), located at 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001.

The proposed contract action requires a vendor to conduct research to assist ILAB in the development of its research strategy on child labor and forced labor, including funding priorities for future research. The research will be conducted in three inter-related phases: refinement of a literature review framework for use by the literature review authors and in the planning of the workshop, a literature review, and an experts' workshop. The final deliverables that will be produced include a refined literature review framework, a literature review report, a short read-ahead paper for use at the experts' workshop, an experts' workshop, a summary report on the workshop, 3 ILAB/workshop committee/grantee meeting agendas and brief meeting minutes, a workshop agenda, a list of workshop participants, and 2 progress reports.

The statutory authority for this sole source procurement is FAR 8.405-6(b)(1).

Interested parties may identify their interest and capability statement to respond to this requirement in writing to Valerie Pickard, Contract Specialist or via e-mail to pickard.valerie.s@dol.gov NO LATER THAN 11:00AM (ET) on December 10, 2015. Information received shall be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement for similar support and services in the future.

THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR QUOTES. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE