SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- RFI - Federal Asset Sales, Personal Property, e-Marketplace, end-to-end Value Added Services (VAS) Solution
- Notice Date
- 6/10/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service (FTS), IT Solutions, Center for Innovative Business Solutions, 6354 Walker Lane, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA, 22310
- ZIP Code
- 22310
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-FAS-PP-03-0002
- Response Due
- 6/24/2003
- Archive Date
- 7/9/2003
- Point of Contact
- Kyle Turner, Contracting Officer, Phone 703-306-7545, Fax 703-306-7545,
- E-Mail Address
-
kyle.turner@gsa.gov
- Description
- Background: Conceived in November of 2001 by the Quicksilver E-Government Task Force, the Federal Asset Sales (FAS) program is designed to improve and optimize the way that the federal government recovers and disposes of all types of federally owned assets ? real property, financial property, and personal property. Each year the Federal Government disposes of and sells billions of dollars of surplus under- and un-utilized, seized, and forfeited assets. Assets are sold to the public through a variety of inefficient, fragmented sales processes that; fail to maximize sales revenues, result in higher costs of sales operations and longer sales cycles, and make it difficult for citizens to find Federal assets for sale. FAS seeks the services of a service aggregator that can assist Federal agencies with selling and disposing of personal property assets. The solicitation will focus exclusively on creating a performance-based, best-value solution for selling personal property assets. There will be three component services sought under the FAS personal property solicitation; Development (One-Time Creation of the e-Marketplace solution), E-Marketplace Operations (Continuous online sales transactions through single or multiple online auction E-Marketplaces), Value-Added Services (VAS) Operations (Provide interested agencies with optional services to aggregate and channel assets to the most effective online/offline sales venues, and support pre- and post-sales activities, for example: Strategic Asset Segmentation, Refine Asset Description and Standardize Asset Condition, Warehousing and Asset Transportation Buyer Qualification, Full Service Marketing, Inspection Support, Asset Valuation and Appraisals, Settlement Support, Title/Escrow Transfer, Logistics and Shipping, Payment Collection). Capability: The Successful awardee and its sub-contractors must have a broad range of capabilities for fulfilling the needs and outcomes of the FAS initiative. Capabilities include, but are not limited to: effectively aggregate assets and channel similar assets to the most beneficial sales channel; charge competitive and reasonable rates for asset disposal channels and services; use established channels (i.e. e-Marketplaces/VAS providers) to leverage existing commercial best practices, and create new channels as appropriate; market to Federal Agencies, acquiring additional surplus assets. FAS? Procurement/Desired Outcomes: Service Provider must have the potential to compete in a competition for providing: Increase agencies? net proceeds from asset sales; Help federal agencies determine the most effective channel available to dispose of their assets; Decrease agencies? expenses related to asset sales; Accelerate asset disposal cycle time; Make it easier for citizens, businesses, and government agencies to find and buy government personal property assets. The objective of this RFI is to obtain capabilities statements, based upon the requirements outlined above, from all (large and small) businesses interested in this opportunity. Contractors should identify any information they consider to be sensitive or proprietary. Responses will assist the Government in determining whether to set-aside, restrict competition in some way or solicit offers from all responsible sources. Identify your interest in either being a Prime or Subcontractor for this requirement. Should the procurement be set-aside for small business, FAR clause 52.219-14 ?Limitations on Subcontracting? (DEC 1996) will apply. Small businesses, interested in bidding as a prime contractor under a set-aside program, must provide sufficient information to demonstrate that compliance with this requirement can be met. All interested businesses are hereby invited to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten pages (not including past performance information) to demonstrate their ability to provide the services outlined above. The capabilities statement should be tailored to this request and identify the source(s) capabilities to complete the requirements listed above, including information on key staff experience and a description of corporate experience with similar projects of like size and complexity, present and past performance information. For each reference listed include the name of a contact person, telephone number, e-mail address, type of contract awarded and date. In addition to addressing the requirements listed above respondents must provide information concerning gross revenue, number of employees in company, number of years in existence and primary focus of business. In order for the FAS to assess acquisition strategy and set-aside possibilities, interested parties shall also include a cover letter that includes company name, points of contact, telephone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, prime or sub-contractor interest, and identifies the company as one or more of the following: 1) small business; 2) 8(a) business; 3) HUBZone small business; 4) small disadvantaged business; 5) woman-owned small business; (6) veteran-owned small business; (7) service-disabled veteran-owned small business, or (8) large business. Please note: This Sources Sought/RFI is not a Request for Proposals (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately to award a contract on the basis of this Sources Sought/RFI or otherwise pay for the information solicited. Response to the request will not serve as proposals, bids, or offers, which could be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Address responses to: All responses to this Sources Sought/RFI must be received by 4:00 P.M. EST on Tuesday, June 24, 2003. Point of Contact: Kyle A. Turner, Contracting Officer, Kyle.Turner@gsa.gov Offerors are encouraged to check the FAS website at http://egov.gsa.gov to the link to Federal Asset Sales, on a regular basis as all information concerning the above action will be posted there.
- Record
- SN00344062-W 20030612/030611070012 (fbodaily.com)
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