R -- Fraud Investigation Services

The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to the St. Louis County Police Department to provide investigative services for the Office of the Inspector General, Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Unit in St. Louis, MO. The contractor shall provide the necessary personnel, materials, services, equipment, and perform all tasks necessary for or incidental to providing the required services to investigate fraud against SSA's Title II and Title XVI disability programs and other Federal and State programs, (including Title XIX, Medicaid) in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. The contractor provided personnel must have law enforcement (arrest) authority, as defined by the statutes and regulations of the state of Missouri. Interested and qualified parties that feel they can provide these services may respond by submitting their capability statement by email to cynthia.ragland@ssa.gov no later than 3:00pm EST on March 7, 2008. Faxed responses shall not be permitted. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. This is NOT a solicitation for offers. All inquiries regarding this requirement must be made to email address listed above. The Government does not intend to pay for information received. All responses from responsible sources will be fully considered. As a result of evaluating responses to this notice, the contracting officer may determine that a solicitation will be issued. If a solicitation is issued, no additional synopsis will be published. Any such solicitation will be issued to the intended vendor, as stated herein, and to all firms that respond to this notice or otherwise request a copy of the solicitation.