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THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT. THE SUBMISSION OF THIS INFORMATION IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT ... THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT. THE SUBMISSION OF THIS INFORMATION IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO PROCURE ANY SERVICES, AND HUD DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION OR OTHERWISE PAY FOR THE INFORMATION SOLICITED. The purpose of this notice is to conduct a market survey to determine if there are adequate Small Businesses, HUBZone, 8(a), Women Owned, Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned, or Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Small Business contractors that can provide administrative and executive services for various program areas within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), located at HUD Headquarters in DC. This notice also invites industry comment to help improve the requirement documents. Participation in this notice is optional. Non-participation will not restrict an offeror against participation in any future solicitations for the same or similar requirement. Likewise, participation will not provide any advantage in future solicitations over offerors who did not participate. This is being issued under NAICS 561110, Office Administrative Services, with a size standard of $8M. Use of this NAICS code for this notice does not bind the Government to using this same NAICS code for a future solicitation. The product Service Code (PSC) contemplated is R699, Support- Administrative: Other. SCOPE OF WORK: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires a contractor to provide administrative and executive services for various program areas within HUD Headquarters program office locations. HUD is currently conducting market research on the best way to award an administrative and executive support services contract at its Headquarters building, located at 451 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20410. Please see the attached DRAFT Performance Work Statement for complete details as Attachment 1. RESPONSE REQUIREMENT: A. Questions Submit any questions regarding this sources sought notice via email ONLY to Michelle Johnson, Contracting Specialist at Michelle.L.Johnson@hud.gov. The email subject line shall be "HUD Admin-Exec Support Services.” Questions must be received by 2:00 pm Eastern Time, Thursday April 15, 2021. Questions about when a solicitation will be issued, the content of the DRAFT PWS, or requesting details of the current contract will not be answered. Please limit questions during this Q&A period to only questions about how to respond to the Sources Sought Notice itself. B Submission Submit responses to this notice via email ONLY to Michelle Johnson, Contracting Specialist at Michelle.L.Johnson@hud.gov. The email subject line shall be " HUD Admin-Exec Support Services.” The submission must be received by 2:00 pm Eastern Time, Thursday April 22, 2021 and shall comply with the formatting and size limitations stated below. NO HARD COPY OR FACSIMILE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, general capability statements, etc.) should not be submitted. C. Format Responses to this notice must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). D. Submission requirements - Each company’s response to this notice shall contain the following information: A summarized description of your company’s experience specifically with Administrative and Executive Support Services listed in the attached Draft PWS, using the questionnaire provided as Attachment 2. You may include any contracts performed in the past 5 years. No limit on quantity of references, you may add additional lines as needed. Paragraph 1.4 of the Draft PWS, Description of Services, lists the requisite education and experience of each labor category. Please submit a statement identifying your understanding of this requirement and if you can meet this requirement with current staff. If you do not currently have the required staff, please explain your plan to meet this requirement. Provide your company’s complete contact information, and DUNS Number as registered in SAM. Indicate your company’s business size applicable to this NAICS code and include any applicable socio-economic categories. If you have a GSA schedule contract or other federal contract which allows issuance of orders by other agencies, and the described services are available under that contract, please indicate as such and provide contract and contact information. Recommended NAICS Code. Please make a recommendation as to whether NAICS code 561110 is the most applicable NAICS for this requirement or provide any alternative NAICS codes you feel should be considered for the eventual solicitation. Optional: Any comments you wish to offer to help improve the DRAFT PWS and make it more industry-friendly prior to inclusion in a future solicitation. If there are any inconsistencies noted which would cause you to submit a question about our requirement or the performance post award, please draw them to our attention so we may improve the requirement before the solicitation is issued. If you would take exception to anything in the PWS, so state. If there are standard commercial practices for this type of service that we could adopt to improve our requirement, please indicate/describe. Optional: Copies of any contracts or statements of work for contracts you currently hold for other FEDERAL agencies which might be helpful to HUD in forming the solicitation for this requirement. This is for market research purposes only and IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP). It does not restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any costs incurred in preparation of a response to this notice.