SOURCES SOUGHT
F -- Sources Sought for Small Business Concerns-Operate and Maintain the NPS Visibility Monitoring and Data Analysis Program
- Notice Date
- 11/17/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- WASO - WCP - Denver Contracting & Procurement P.O. Box 25287MS WCP Denver CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- R2350111001
- Response Due
- 11/30/2010
- Archive Date
- 11/17/2011
- Point of Contact
- Robert D. Dobson Contract Specialist 3039876988 bob_dobson@contractor.nps.gov;
- E-Mail Address
-
Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Park Service is defining its acquisition strategy for the solicitation and award of a fixed price contract to operate and maintain its visibility monitoring network. The successful contractor will be required to provide sufficient personnel, time, and materials necessary to ensure the continued operation of the NPS visibility monitoring network of eleven sites including field optical responsibilities, data collection, reduction and validation, quality assurance and control, configuration management, reporting, and other support services. This sources sought notice serves to aid in determining market interest and capabilities from small business concerns for this prospective contract. The Contracting Officer is considering a total small business set aside but the CO must establish a reasonable expectation that offers would be obtained from two or more Small Business entities that are competitive in terms of market prices, quality, and delivery. Your are advised that the Government is seeking to define the applicability of the requirement with regard to the available socio economic program. From the responses to this market research, the Government will evaluate the viable options and select the final acquisition strategy. Therefore, your response to this research is instrumental in supporting your company's business interests. If the Contracting Officer is unable to determine that the above strategy is viable, the requirement may be competed on an unrestricted basis. It is anticipated that any resulting contract would be accomplished under the provisions of a fixed price contract. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 541620, Environmental Consulting Services, with a size standard of $7 million in average annual reciepts. This project requires the successful contractor to be a firm with substantial demonstrated experience in operating and maintaining large-scale visibility monitoring networks in pristine type areas. The contractor must be knowledgeable in new visual monitoring methods and technologies and have field experience using these methods; have sufficient knowledge and experience in doing monitoring station maintenance, field audits, instrument operations and repairs, and quality data oversight and troublsheeting; subtantial demonstrated experience in the acquisition, processing, and validation of visual data; expertise in the development and operation of database management systems to facilitate the validation storage, retrieval, and analysis of data generated by the monitoring networks; and provide the expertise to maintain and enhance the database management system proposed. If your company is a small business in the cited NAICS code and is interested in this requirement, please provide a response to this request via email to Mr. Robert Dobson, bob_dobson@contractor.nps.gov no later than November 30, 2010. The response should be no longer than two pages and should include general information about your firm and address how your firm meets the experience and expertise cited herein. NOTE: THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. NO REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE MADE FOR ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING A RESPONSE TO TIS REQUEST.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/NPS/APC-IS/R2350111001/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Denver, CO
- Zip Code: 80225
- Zip Code: 80225
- Record
- SN02328655-W 20101119/101117233941-e8b4139a531385ef8c1974835f1e82d7 (fbodaily.com)
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