Section J Attachment 7 Service Contract Business Management Questionnaire

FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS

SERVICE CONTRACT BUSINESS MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

Purpose:
The policy of the Fe de ral Bureau of Prisons in acquiring services is to e ncourage firms lawfully e ngaged in the practice of pe rforming Government required services to submit a s t a t e me n t of qualifications and pe rformance data.
This questionnaire should only be submitted by a related services organization when re quested to do so by the specific provisions of a solicitation, requested by the Contracting Officer, or public announcement.
This questionnaire may be used as a basis for selecting firms for discussions, or screening organizations preliminary to inviting submission of additional information. Definitions:
(a)
"Principals" are those individuals in a firm who possess legal responsibility for its management. They may be officers, directors, owners, partners, and pe rsons having primary manage ment or supervisory responsibilities within a business entity (e.g., ge neral manager, plant manager, head of a subsidiary, division or business se gment, and similar positions). (b)
"Parent Company" is that firm, company, corporation, association, or congl omerate which is the major stockholder or highest tier owner of the firm completing the questionnaire; (i.e. Firm A is owne d by Firm B which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Corporation C. The "parent company" is Corporation C).
"Joint Venture" is a collaborative undertaking by two or more firms or individuals for which the participants are both jointly and individually responsible.

(c)

"Consultant" as used in this questionnaire, is a highly specialized individual or firm having significant input and responsibility for certain aspects of a project and possessing unusual or unique capabilities for assuring succe ss of the finished work.

(d)

"Specialists and Individual Consultants" as used in this questionnaire, refer to individuals who have major project responsibility, or will provide unusual or unique capabilities for the services under consideration.

(e)

Discipline as used in this questionnaire, refers to the primary capability of individuals in the responding firm. Possession of an academic degree, professional registration, certification, or extensive experience in a particular field of practice normally reflects an individual's primary discipline. 1.

P rim e refers to that firm which may be coordinating the concerted and compl ementary inputs of several firms, individuals or related services produce a completed task. The prime would