Equine Assisted Therapy Services

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION / SOURCES SOUGHT INQUIRY The Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (RMRVAMC), located at 1700 N. Wheeling Street, Aurora, Colorado 80045, is seeking an indoor horse arena with the use of a minimum of three horses/equines (up to two can be donkeys, and/or miniature equines) for the purpose of RMRVAMC employees to provide patient-centered mental health care in the form of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy to RMRVAMC Veterans and their Caregivers.

The contractor shall provide space and horses/equines that shall be used to provide individual and group Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy to Veterans. This will be staffed within the current full time equivalent employee (FTEE) in Social Work Service. This program will need the contracted space for one, 2 hr. 15 min day per week to conduct group therapy.

The contracted space will be staffed by RMRVAMC staff, in collaboration with contracted equine specialist in order to provide high quality care by specially trained mental health care providers and equine specialists, to assure meeting performance measures/standards. The NAICS code is 624190 Other Individual and Family Services The information submitted shall contain the company s business size status. This is a request for information and sources only, which may or may not lead to a future solicitation!

This is not a request for proposal (RFP). No questions will be answered. The VA will not pay for any information received resulting from this sources sought notice. Requests for copies of a solicitation shall not be honored or acknowledged. Information should be forwarded to the Contracting Officer.

If your organization can provide these services and is interested in this opportunity, please respond to Kadarius Griffin, Contract Specialist, Department of Veterans Affairs, NCO 19, 6162 S. Willow Drive, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 or via e-mail at Kadarius.Griffin@va.gov and NCO19lab@va.gov with a statement describing your capabilities.

The capability statement shall include a point of contact, complete mailing address, telephone number, email address and state the company s business size status. The deadline for this information is 9 AM Mountain Time, May 31, 2024. In response to this announcement, please provide the information below:

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