Service Contract Business Management

FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS

SERVICE CONTRACT BUSINESS MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

Purpose:
The policy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in acquiring services is to encourage firm s lawfully engaged in the practice of perform ing Governm ent required services to subm it a statem ent of qualifications and perform ance data.
This questionnaire should only be subm itted by a related services organization when requested to do so by the specific provisions of a solicitation, requested by the Contracting Officer, or public announcem ent.
This questionnaire m ay 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 persons having primary management or supervisory responsibilities within a business entity (e.g., general manager, plant manager, head of a subsidiary, division or business segment, and similar positions). (b) "Parent Company" is that firm, company, corporation, association, or conglomerate which is the major stockholder or highest tier owner of the firm completing the questionnaire; (i.e. Firm A is owned by Firm B which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Corporation C. The "parent company" is Corporation C).
(c) "Joint Venture" is a collaborative undertaking by two or more firms or individuals for which the participants are both jointly and individually responsible. (d) "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 success of the finished work. (e) "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.
1. 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.
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Prime refers to that firm which may be coordinating the concerted and complementary

inputs of several firms, individuals or related services produce a completed task. The prime would