SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance Program - Solicitation Document 1
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2009
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of State, Office of Logistics Management, Acquisition Management, P.O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, Virginia, 22219
- ZIP Code
- 22219
- Solicitation Number
- SAQMMA09R0001-Solicitation
- Point of Contact
- Jay Zagursky,, Phone: 703-875-6294, Jay Zagursky,, Phone: 703-875-6294
- E-Mail Address
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Zagurskyjj@state.gov, Zagurskyjj@state.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation document SAQMMA09R0001 Pursuant to the information advertised on November 13, 2008, The U. S. Department of State, Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) Program has a requirement to enhance the capacity of qualified African Nations to participate in internationally mandated peace support operations (PSO) and contingency operations in Africa. The purpose is in accordance with U.S. Policy Objectives supporting the United Nations, the African Union, African Regional Economic Communities, the African Standyby Force Concept and Individual Troop Contributing Countries. The ACOTA Program will pursue its purpose of enhancing the PSO and contingency operations capacities of selected African Nations in three ways. First the ACOTA program will directly train and equip African Peacekeepers, Peacekeeping and Contingency Operations Contingents, and associated staffs at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. Second, the ACOTA program will train African PSO trainers so as to enable African partners to indigenously conduct PSO training over the long term with minimal outside assistance. Third, the ACOTA program will sustain an effort over the long term to mentor and assist indigenous training, provide updated "instructor cadre" refreshment training, provide limited equipping for training purposes, and upgrade training facilities. One important feature of the ACOTA program is that the training and equipping programs for each African partner nation are uniquely tailored to meet the nation's special training, equipment and infrastructure needs, peacekeeping deployment plans, mission specificity, and national, regional, and African stand-by force (ASF) requirements. The uniquely tailored training and equipping programs are achieved through close collaboration with the partner nation's planners, officials and leadership. The contractor's program manager and one other permanent official assigned to the contractor's ACOTA program shall have a current secret secuirty clearance. All other contractor personnel performing the specific work described in this statement of work are not required to posess a security clearance. The contractor shall maintain the capability to purchase, store, pack and transport from CONUS to the training location, all equipment necessary to support each training activity. The Department of State intends to award 3 or more IDIQ training contracts by conducting an unrestricted/partial set-aside, full and open competition, with one award set-aside for service disabled veteran owned small business. We anticipate a one year contract with four option years. Telephone request for the solicitation will not be accepted. All questions must be submitted via email to Jay Zagursky at ZagurskyJJ@state.gov. All questions must be received no later than Thursday, April 2, 2009. All questions and answers as well as a list of attendees will be posted by amendment to the solicitation. No more than two individuals from and organization will be permitted to attend the pre-proposal conference. To sign up for the pre-proposal conference contact Jay Zagursky at the above e-mail address no later than Friday, 20 March 2009, requests made after this date may be denied due to clearance issues.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Africa as required by world events, United States
- Record
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