MODIFICATION
99 -- Voluntarily Abandoned Property (VAP) Management and Disposal
- Notice Date
- 5/26/2006
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 562910
— Remediation Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, Headquarters TSA, 601 S. 12th Street TSA-25, 10th Floor, Arlington, VA, 22202
- ZIP Code
- 22202
- Solicitation Number
- HSTS03-06-R-CAO054
- Response Due
- 6/23/2006
- Point of Contact
- Mark Urciuolo, Contract Specialist, CTR, Phone 571-227-4213, Fax 571-227-2911, - Marvin Grubbs, Contracting Officer, Phone 571-227-1581, Fax 571-227-2913,
- E-Mail Address
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Mark.Urciuolo@associates.dhs.gov, Marvin.Grubbs@dhs.gov
- Description
- Final Questions and Answers for Solicitation # HSTS03-06-R-CAO054 TSA VAP 1. What is the number of anticipated pickups at each airport – is there more than one TSDF? If these are more than one TSDF, how many and what are the addresses? Would we be required to pick-up waste other than at a TSDF, and if so, where? The SOW specifically calls out the minimum number of pickups per Cat per time frame. The Offeror shall propose which TSDFs it proposes to use. Those TSDF’s will then become subject to the audits. 2. What is the volume of pickups (how many 55 gallon drum containers are estimated per month?) TSA provided the weight in the answer to a previous question posted earlier. Please use that stated weight to establish volume. 3. Please provide pricing for the types of containers listed on Page 11 of Section C. This is to be proposed by the Offeror as part of the price proposal, if invited to submit. 4. Please provide more detailed definitions on kinds of wastes, required/preferred disposal requirements, government directed sites, etc. Hazmat is hazmat. As far as disposal requirements those are set by law, which is something they should know. 5. Will TSA consider increasing the scope to include VAC services (for sump pumps and oil/water separators)? No. This nothing to do with property left at check points. 6. Page 4, first paragraph under the line “Please note the following” “All contractor personnel will be required to complete and submit a confidential and non-disclosure agreement prior to beginning work.” Further down this page it also states that “on-site personnel may be required to take annual TSA-sponsored training courses such as IT security, …etc”. It’s assumed that these requirements WOULD NOT apply to service personnel who pick, pack, and manifest waste and/or provide VAC Services (if it is added). Please provide additional information regarding to whom these requirements apply. Applies to any personnel that would need a TSA badge and access to our infrastructure. 7. C.7 Security Requirements – please provide clarification on who will need a security clearance. Clearance only applicable for SIDA badging if done, everyone else must be US citizen and pass background check, applicable only if getting a TSA badge. 8. Please provide clarification regarding whether or not the following items are considered as part of the routine waste pickups. Special Hazardous Materials – Ammunition, C.3.3.3.2 Special Hazardous materials – Fireworks, any radioactive materials, aerosols and compressed gas cylinders, medical waste or other kinds of ammunition: blasting caps, flares, dynamite or fireworks. SOW specifically states max 10 pickups per year. 9. Please provide clarification on whether or not the specialized wastes are ALWAYS handled as one-off pickups and not assumed to be handled with the other wastes. Pickups of the specialized wastes are to be handled separately from the other waste. 10. Will materials be segregated and is there a holding time for any of the materials? Will certain items be able to stay onsite until a certain quantity is reached to be picked up? Materials are stored onsite at airport prior to pickup. Pickups must occur at a minimum as called out in the SOW and must also be performed when requested by an airport. 11. Will TSA provide any manifests for the materials previously handled? Please provide any information based on previous VAP experience. TSA will not provide manifests for previous pickups by the current contractor. The contractor should be aware of the manifest requirements. 12. Please provide any previous contractor information regarding what type of “support” is required from the contractor in regards to the sharps/needles mail back program including all interested TSA locations. What are TSA’s expectations for “support”? As answered earlier, the contractor wiupport contract at all a part of this contract? -No, this contract is totally separate. 12. What kind of interaction will there be with the existing Environmental Support contract? -The environmental support contract services the field in any environmental support needed. The field might have a specific question that may be directed toward this contractor, but may have to be answered by you and therefore you would be the contact. We will need the contractor to be able to give correct and timely responses to the field. 13. Please further define the CLINs and verbiage such as CONUS, -CONUS = Continental United States. OCONUS = Outside Continental United States. AK = Alaska. HI = Hawaii. PR = Puerto Rico. SP = South Pacific. USVI = United States Virgin Islands. These refer to the regions of the U.S. and all locations contain TSA federal airports that will potentially need service under this contract. 14. Will the list of CLINs be changed, adding disposal of materials at other locations? -We will clarify the definitions and the list of airport categories. All additional definitions needed were included in the Statement of Work 15. Regarding the disposal CLIN, 3ae. This needs to be one price regardless of what is going into the container? -We are looking for one fixed-price per container. A fixed-price pick-up fee regardless of what you are picking –up. These prices may differ between regions, but we are looking for one price. 16. Where would the requirements for audits and research fall? -Audits will be performed on facilities, that is TSDFs. TSDF audits fall under this category. You will be expected to make sure TSA is following requirements and protocol. The audits would fall under CLIN 00002 in the base year and the “0001” series of CLINs for the option years. 17. What vehicle was used for the existing contract? -This was a fixed-price Task Order awarded under GSA Schedule 899. The current requirements are being competed as full-and open. 18. What percentage of small business use is expected? -We do not require small business use, but this is an evaluation factor and therefore a strength detailed in Section M. No use of small business will be a deficiency. 19. Would suggestions to TSA be placed in the Technical Proposal? -Any suggestions would be part of your technical proposal, but you will need to clarify why these suggestions would be in the best interest of TSA. 20. In today’s discussion, you had made reference to a new environmental information system being established by the TSA Hazmat Mgmt Program. How would that impact the Hazmat Management Contractor. Specifically: - Does the automated reporting system need to interface with this new environmental information system? If so, is it possible to obtain some basic information about this system? - Who is the current contractor serving in the role of Environmental Management Support Contractor (i.e., who is establishing this new system with which the automated reporting system may need to connect into)? Is the Environmental Management Support Contractor eligible to bid on the Hazardous Materials Management contract? We made reference to a new Environmental Management System (EMS) being implemented by TSA and our Environmental Support Services contractor. This EMS is similar to the EMS as described by the ISO 14000 requirements. The Hazmat Management Contractor will be responsible for the technical and logistical hazardous materials management support services such as providing containers, ensuring proper container identification, marking, labeling, packaging, shipping, and final treatment of the collected materials. The EMS is TSA's management tool. We do not foresee the web based automated reporting and tracking system, called for in this procurement, receiving or processing data or information from the EMS. Rather, reports from the web based automated reporting and tracking system may be fed to the EMS. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (26-MAY-2006). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 06-SEP-2006, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/TSA/HQTSA/HSTS03-06-R-CAO054/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: CONUS and OCONUS - All TSA Federalized Locations
- Record
- SN01135968-F 20060908/060906232917 (fbodaily.com)
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