SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- SAFETY AND FIRE SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 3/17/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston Texas, 77058-3696, Mail Code: BJ
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 9-BJ-V63-03-01P
- Archive Date
- 3/17/2004
- Point of Contact
- Frances L. Mahan, Contract Specialist, Phone (281) 483-2338, Fax (281) 483-0567, Email frances.l.mahan@jsc.nasa.gov - Alice J Pursell, Contracting Officer, Phone (281) 483-9027, Fax (281) 483-4066, Email alice.j.pursell@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Frances L. Mahan
(frances.l.mahan@jsc.nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/JSC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Safety and Fire Services at the JSC site; JSC operations at Ellington (EF) Field, Houston, TX; Sonny Carter Training Facility (SCTF), and various other NASA Locations. The contract for the following services will most likely be a five-year contract including options. The primary scope of the effort to be performed under this contract includes but is not limited to the following: perform detailed engineering design reviews of design construction plans, specifications, and submittals for JSC projects; interpret NFPA, OSHA, DOD, NEC, UBC, NASA and JSC codes and safety requirements as they relate to systems, structural and architectual fire protection measures, and fixed fire protection measures and systems; review sprinkler system hydraulic calculations to determine adherence to aforementioned requirements as well as current consensus standards; perform safety and fire protection surveys and studies of JSC projects, including structures, test configurations, hazardous operations and construction sites and determine hazards and degree of fire risk, and whether or not they meet established practices; perform mishap investigations, including verification of corrective actions and development of lessons learned; provide 24-hour per day, 7 day per week, emergency response capability to engage first-aid, rescue activities, and liaison activities with the Houston Fire Department at the scene; develop information for preplanning fire fighting emergency response operations; conduct fire and emergency drills; provide preventative maintenance and repairs for the fire suppression, detection, and alarm systems, including heat, smoke and flame detectors and sprinklers, inspect, test and maintain fire extinguishers, conduct safety training, including classroom, indiviual videotape, and satellite transmitted courses for NASA by operating the NASA Safety Training Center; develop and coordinate mass communication for safety information at JSC and throughout the NASA community; in addition, operate the JSC Safety Learning Center; plan, develop, document and maintain control of safety requirements, implementation procedures, safety plans, investigation files, mishap records, procurement requirements, goals and objectives; and plan, organize implement, analyze and diseminate information using optimal information handling technologies with the intent of assuring rapid access to data and information in support of safety and fire protection objectives such as the identification of favorable or unfavorable data trends and lessons learned for use as motivational awareness information; provide safety support to test for space flight and institutional research and development objectives conducted at JSC, SCTF, and EFD, and tests involving JSC personnel or hardware at offsite contractor and international locations; and purchase, issue and account for all lockout and tagout devices at JSC. Proposers must possess extensive knowledge of OSHA, DOD, NFPA, NEC, UBC and NASA safety and fire protection requirements. JSC is a highly unique and complex site which demands leading-edge safety personnel, who are knowledgeable of and qualified to deal with the critical nature of unique spaceflight ground support facilities at all JSC locations and various NASA locations. Prior to award of this contract, the apparent winner must be licensed in accordance with the fire alarm rules and regualtions for the State of Texas as defined by the Texas Insurance Code and the Texas Commission of fire protection. Furthermore, the offerors must have as members of key personnel at minimum a Certified Safety Professional and/or Professional Engineer. NASA JSC intends to hold a pre-proposal conference approximately midway between the release of the RFP and the proposal due date. Details and instructions for the preproposal conference will be given at the time of the release of the RFP. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26. This procurement has been set-aside for eligible 8(a) concerns. Offerors are solicited only from small business concerns expressly certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for participation in the SBA's 8(a) Program. See Note 1. The NAICS Code and Size Standard are 541330 and $23 Million, respectively. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. The anticipated release date of the DRAFT Request for Proposals is on or about April 14, 2003, with an anticipated offer due date of on or about June 24, 2003. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See NASA Specific Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office 97 format and will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/JSC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=73 Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Internet site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below. All contractual and technical questions must be submitted in writing (e-mail or fax). Telephone questions will not be accepted.
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