Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Comprehensive Medical Services -FDC Houston
Department of Justice · Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons
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AI summaryThe Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Field Acquisition Office, wants comprehensive medical services for inmates at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Houston, Texas. It is open to all businesses (not a small business set-aside) and covers a 12-month base year plus four 12-month options. The response due date is November 17, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, by email, and the cover letter says funds are not yet available. More in the summary
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The notice looks incomplete: The middle of the main solicitation file was attached but not read. That part includes Section L (proposal instructions), Section M (evaluation details), the performance work statement (Attachment 2) and Attachment 1 (line items and estimated quantities), all listed in the file's table of contents. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Field Acquisition Office, wants comprehensive medical services for inmates at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Houston, Texas. It is open to all businesses (not a small business set-aside) and covers a 12-month base year plus four 12-month options. The response due date is November 17, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern, by email, and the cover letter says funds are not yet available.
Who can bid (4)
- No set-aside: any business may bid, not only small businesses
- Hospitals and facilities used must keep a quality accreditation (for example Joint Commission or NCCHC), at 100% in the performance table
- Cybersecurity attestation form (Attachment 7) with supporting documents, submitted with the offer, then every year
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- Firms that hold or take part in a BOP medical claims adjudication contract must explain how any conflict of interest will be avoided
How to submit: Email to shewittshiley@bop.gov and BOP-ADM-FAO-CMS-S@bop.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (9)
From the version posted Oct 14, 2026.
- Serious: Accredited hospital and provider network needed. You must line up accredited hospitals and community providers near Houston; accreditation and driving distance are both scored, and the performance table expects 100% accreditation.
- Worth checking: Funds not yet available. No award will be made until funds are confirmed in writing, and the Government can cancel at any time, before or after the response due date, without paying proposal costs.
- Worth checking: Conflict of interest can get an offer rejected. Firms that hold or take part in a BOP medical claims adjudication contract must address the conflict or their offer is rejected.
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- Worth checking: Cybersecurity attestation due with the offer. The Federal Bureau of Prisons Vendor Cybersecurity Attestation Form and supporting documents must be sent with your response, then every year.
- Worth checking: Prime pays subcontracted providers, BOP will not step in. Only the prime contractor is paid by the BOP and must pay doctors and hospitals; the BOP won't settle payment disputes, and unjustified late payments count against your performance rating.
- Worth checking: Staff background checks and drug test. Anyone who enters the institution goes through background checks and a urine drug test; a positive test disqualifies the person.
- Worth checking: Full performance within 30 calendar days of award. Community-based services must be fully running within 30 calendar days of award or the start of the performance period, whichever is later.
- Minor: Award may cover only some services. The Government may award any or all line items or accept an offer for less than the full set of services, so partial offers are allowed but are scored accordingly.
- Minor: Billing and reporting paperwork. Claims are due within 90 calendar days, corrected claims within 30 days, and monthly expense estimates by the 15th, so you need billing staff and systems.
Read from the notice and 5 attachments. Show which files.
- 15BCMS26R51700001 FDC Houston COMP MEDICAL COMBINED SOLICITATION amendment 2.pdf (read)
- SF30 2 HOU.pdf (read)
- SF30 1 HOU.pdf (read)
- Questions and Answer 2 COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL SERVICES FDC Houston.pdf (read)
- Questions and Answer 1 COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL SERVICES FDC Houston.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Comprehensive medical services for inmates at FDC Houston, including inpatient and outpatient facility services and professional services (doctors and other providers)
- Specialty care appointments available within 14 calendar days of referral whenever possible; urgent medical and dental appointments within 14 days or sooner if clinically indicated
- Telehealth that works with the BOP's Webex Room connections; tele-triage (remote screening by a nurse or doctor) is line item 2c1 in the questions and answers
- Submit medical claims within 90 calendar days after an inmate's discharge or outpatient visit; resubmit corrected claims within 30 calendar days of rejection
- Send the institution a written monthly estimate of expenses by the 15th of each month, with early estimates for August and September
- Send lab, x-ray, EKG and progress notes with the patient or by fax to the contracting officer's representative (COR, the BOP's technical contact); a written physician report is due within ten business days of discharge
- Complete a session-based invoice verification (SBIV) record for each day of on-site services and attach it to the matching invoice
- Pay subcontracted healthcare providers promptly, and help hand off patients to a successor contractor for 60 days after the contract ends, at no added cost
- Contract type
- Indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed unit prices (one set price per unit, whatever the work ends up costing)
- Period of performance
- 12-month base year + four 12-month options, plus an extension of up to 6 months under FAR 52.217-8. The base year and four options can't exceed 5 years (about 5.5 years with the extension).
- Place of performance
- FDC Houston, Houston, Texas, plus community-based providers
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Best value on technical, past performance and price. Factors other than price, combined, are significantly more important than price.
- Offers due
- November 17, 2026, 2:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to shewittshiley@bop.gov and BOP-ADM-FAO-CMS-S@bop.gov
What they'll judge offers on
- Technical: (1) level of diversity of services proposed; (2) driving distance and conditions to and from the community-based providers; (3) enhancements to the basic requirements that help the institution meet the BOP's stated mission; (4) accreditation status of the proposed contract facility(ies)
- Past Performance
- Price (reviewed for reasonableness)
What to include when you submit
- Send a technical proposal, a past performance proposal and a business proposal, as the table of contents lists them; the Section L preparation instructions were not read
- Complete the offer section of Standard Form 33 (SF 33, the form you sign and return as your offer) and list the amendments you received (Amendments 1 and 2)
- Include the completed Federal Bureau of Prisons Vendor Cybersecurity Attestation Form (Attachment 7) with supporting documents
- Price each Section B line: the 12-month base year, four 12-month options and the 6-month extension
- If your firm holds or takes part in a BOP medical claims adjudication contract, include a detailed explanation of how conflicts of interest will be avoided
After award, you must have
- Insurance for the whole contract: medical liability $1,000,000.00 per occurrence/$3,000,000.00 aggregate, general liability $500,000 per accident or occurrence for bodily injury, employer's liability $100,000, and workers' compensation as law requires. Certify it in writing to the contracting officer before starting work. From 15BCMS26R51700001 FDC Houston COMP MEDICAL COMBINED SOLICITATION amendment 2.pdf:
Comprehensive General Liability: $500,000 per accident or occurrence for bodily injury.
- Provider staff who enter the institution must pass background checks and a drug test, and attend orientation and yearly refresher training From 15BCMS26R51700001 FDC Houston COMP MEDICAL COMBINED SOLICITATION amendment 2.pdf:
An individual who does not pass the security clearances will be unable to perform services…
- Security clearance investigation package for each institution-based provider within 30 calendar days of award From 15BCMS26R51700001 FDC Houston COMP MEDICAL COMBINED SOLICITATION amendment 2.pdf:
…shall provide a complete security clearance investigation package for each institution-based provider within 30 calendar…
- Quality control plan (QCP, your plan for checking your own work) approved by the institution before performance starts From 15BCMS26R51700001 FDC Houston COMP MEDICAL COMBINED SOLICITATION amendment 2.pdf:
Shall be submitted to the ACO for approval before start of performance.
- No non-U.S. citizens in any position with access to or development of a Department of Justice IT system From 15BCMS26R51700001 FDC Houston COMP MEDICAL COMBINED SOLICITATION amendment 2.pdf:
The Department of Justice does not permit the use of Non-U.S. citizens in the performance of this contract or commitment…
Not in the notice text
- The middle of the main solicitation file was attached but not read. That part includes Section L (proposal instructions), Section M (evaluation details), the performance work statement (Attachment 2) and Attachment 1 (line items and estimated quantities), all listed in the file's table of contents.
- Page limits, proposal format and past performance requirements (such as how many references) are in Section L, which was not read.
- Estimated quantities and prices wanted per line item (for example 2c1 and 2d1) are in Attachment 1, which was not read; no Government estimate of value is given.
- No question deadline is given in the parts read; questions go by email to the two addresses above, and the dates of Amendments 1 and 2 are not stated.
- No incumbent is named in the parts read.
- When funds will be confirmed is not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- SAM.gov lists no set-aside, but the notice text limits who can bid:
- The notice text says this is set aside for small businesses, but SAM.gov lists no set-aside. Ask the contracting officer which one applies before you bid.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: Email to shewittshiley@bop.gov and BOP-ADM-FAO-CMS-S@bop.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 14, 2026
- Notice type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- Office
- Fao, Grand Prairie, TX
- Product/service code
- Q201 · Medical – Managed Healthcare
- Business type
- Medical & healthcare (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 622110)
- Versions
5 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 14, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Nov 17, 2026
- Sep 30, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Sep 28, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Sep 17, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 17, 2026
- Sep 15, 2026 · Combined Synopsis/SolicitationDue Nov 17, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Amendment 2- Correct verbiage in section M- Evaluation Factor for Award. 52.212-2 (DEV) Evaluation Factors : "Technical, Past Performance and Price. Evaluation factors other than price when combined are significantly more important than price." M. 03.01 Technical Criteria ( Accreditation status of the proposed contract facility(ies);) to 4. 1. Level of diversity of services proposed; 2. Driving distance and conditions to and from the community-based providers; 3. Enhancements to the basic contract requirements proposed by the offeror which will facilitate institution’s ability to conform to the BOP’s stated mission; 4. Accreditation status of the proposed contract facility(ies); Amendment 1- Fix clerical error on attachment 1. Updated Optometrist to 2d1. Attachment updated. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Offers are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 15BCMS26R51700001 is issued as a Request for proposal (RFP) for Comprehensive Medical Services. This acquisition is not set-aside for small business concerns. This solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses by reference. The full text of provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov. (ii) Please see Section B in the attached solicitation for details regarding Line-Items. (iii) No brand name requirement for the items that are to be acquired. (iv) Services rendered will be provided at FDC Houston, located in Houston, Texas. The date and times will be determined after award. Please see attached solicitation for details. (v) See solicitation for list of provisions. (vi) See solicitation for list of clauses. (vii) Offers shall be received via email (shewittshiley@bop.gov and BOP-ADM-FAO-CMS-S@bop.gov) on or before the deadline as listed on the SF-33 Block 9. You may also contact us with any questions via the same email addresses. (viii) Please see below for Contracting Officer's contact information.
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