Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

UPDATE**2/7/2020 --- Posted attachment RFI LOG for questions and answers received. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FEDERAL ACQUI... UPDATE**2/7/2020 --- Posted attachment RFI LOG for questions and answers received. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) SUBPART 12.6, STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS AND 13.5, SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL ITEMS, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION. QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A SEPARATE WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. This combined solicitation/synopsis is for purchase of the following commercial services and products: Foreclosure Legal Services and Related Technical Support for the State of Maine under NAICS 541110. This requirement is a total small business set-aside. The objective is to retain a private attorney or law firm (herein called "contractor") to provide legal services in connection with foreclosures with or without deficiency judgments, Judgments, and/or actions to recover possession related to Section 502 (Single Family Housing) debts to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). All suits will be filed in the State Court for the County where the security property is located, unless specifically directed otherwise. This work is to be performed on cases throughout the State of Maine. The USDA, Rural Development (RD) anticipates establishing multiple Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) under this solicitation, in accordance with the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS). The government may make multiple awards under this solicitation. ** Requests for information requiring government responses must be submitted electronically in a Portable Document Format (PDF) to be received no later than 3:00 PM, CST, 03 Feb 2020 to Shelia.stoddard@usda.gov Government responses to RFIs will be posted NLT 3:00 PM, CST, 07 Feb 2020. Proposals are DUE NLT: 3:00 PM, CST 21 Feb 2020 to Shelia.stoddard@usda.gov . ENSURE attached BPA Agreement is signed/filled in. Any proposal received after that time will not be accepted and are considered late.