SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Program Support - All responses due 2pm EST, May 16, 2012.
- Notice Date
- 5/3/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B, HQ CECOM CONTRACTING CENTER, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, ABERDEEN PROVING GROU, MD 21005-1846
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-7350
- Response Due
- 5/16/2012
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2012
- Point of Contact
- Tyler Restrick, 443-861-4719
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B
(tyler.j.restrick.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Request for Information (RFI) only. Do not submit a proposal or quote. After reviewing the Description of Requirements currently posted to FEDBIZOPS, interested capable contractor are invited to provide responses to the following questions. Please provide responses if you can support some or the entire Requirement, highlighting the specific areas. Responses should follow this format and be submitted electronically as one complete document. This RFI is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to procure any items/services, or for the Government to pay for the information received. Description of Management Support: The contractor shall prepare various briefings, presentations, and public release data in various formats (viewgraphs, multi-media slide shows, graphics, and narratives). The types and quantities of these various briefings and presentations will vary, depending upon the target audience and topics. The contractor shall discuss each required briefing, presentation or public release data to gather the level of detail required for the topic and target audience and prepare a complete, appropriate package for the required briefing, presentation or public release data. This requires the contractor to have a technical understanding of the products managed by PM-NV/RSTA, as well as an understanding of Army Program Management and graphical / multimedia software. Description of Operations Support: The contractor shall organize all administrative contractor personnel at PM-NV/RSTA, ensuring front desk and telephone answering coverage for essential hours of business for the front office when assigned personnel are on leave, coordinating the reviewing process for documents, reviewing and recommending streamlining for business processes where administrative areas can impact for improvements as a part of the business process re-engineering effort ongoing at PM-NV/RSTA. Description of Administrative Support: The contractor shall perform receptionist/typist duties for the PM NV/RSTA. Duties include answering phones, receiving guests, managing the calendar for the Deputy PM and Technical Director, and assisting other administrative personnel with travel requirements. Additional duties supporting PM NV/RSTA include: assisting PM NV/RSTA personnel in tracking time and attendance by keeping a log of their leave and travel as they provide it; managing the calendar for scheduling the use of two conference rooms and the video teleconference system; assisting with security matters/visitor control; and maintaining a file of official correspondence for PM NV/RSTA, minutes in staff meetings, and a monthly activity list. Typist duties are assisting with official correspondence to include: ensuring letter/memo format agrees with Army standards (AR25-50), proper routing of letter/memo for the PM's signature, and distribution as required, to include FedEx, U.S. Postal service, inter-office mail, etc. Description of Facilities Manager Support: The contractor shall provide facilities management support to the office of Project Manager, NV/RSTA, including the Project Manager and his support staff, as well as Product Manager FLIR. The required facilities management support is in the form of written policies and procedures approved government format, as well as daily submission of work orders to keep the building in proper repair, and maintain the use of the Secure Internet access facility for classified message access and retrieval in the building. The contractor shall also keep the video teleconference facility in proper repair as a part of the responsibilities. The contractor must be adept at computer based office applications, as well as possess the skills to recommend and use the appropriate systems to contact and submit requests for maintenance and repair. The contractor must possess a security clearance up to a Secret for maintenance and repair of the secure internet access facility. Description of Engineering Support: The contractor shall provide analysis of complex technical systems from an overall performance perspective in support of the office of Project Manager, NV/RSTA, including the Technical Director and Project Manager's support staff. The contractor must be able to apply analysis techniques to plan, evaluate and document recommended solutions and improvements to systems, and identify required resources to accomplish the approved solutions. One position must be dedicated to reporting status of theater assets. Description of Property Management and Logistics Support: The contractor shall provide database updates to the local property database and documentation support to the office of Project Manager, Night Vision, Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition and his support staff. The contractor must be adept at computer based data base applications, word processing and other office applications. The contractor must also be able to document 100% property accountability, prepare and process property transfer forms, and keep track of all transfers. The contractor shall also provide direct technical and administrative logistics support to Product Manager, Forward Looking Infrared (PM FLIR) for the Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3). This support shall be in the form of review and markup (if required) of logistics documentation, and provide support on site at systems fielding as needed. The contractor must have knowledge of various regulations and policies with respect to materiel acquisition, integrated logistics, and logistic supportability. The contractor will provide as needed assistance in the development of Logistics Support Analysis (LSA) documentation. The contractor may be required to travel in support of logistics support reviews at contractor production facilities and provide fielding support. Fielding schedules are changing on a daily basis; most have recently been to Afghanistan for up to 10 days. Current support has not been participating in these OCONUS fieldings. CONUS fieldings may be included; those are normally of four day duration, to Fort Hood, TX, or similar locations. The contractor is not expected to participate in more than three (3) CONUS fielding trips a year, if needed. 1. Please provide the following Point of Contact information: Company: Address: Point of Contact: Phone Number: Fax Numbers: Email Address: 2. Please identify your company's small business size standard based on the primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code of 541330 - Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services - Engineering Services. The Small Business Size Standard for this NAICS code is $4,500,000.00. For more information, refer to http://www.sba.gov/content/table-small-business-size-standards. Large Business Concern Small Business (SB) Concern 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) Woman-Owned Small Business Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Veteran-Owned Small Business Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business 3. If you identify your company as a Small Business or any of the SB subcategories as stipulated in Question # 2, then is your company interested in a prime contract for the below requirement? 4. Under the current SB recertification regulations, do you anticipate your company remaining a small business, under primary NAICS Code 541330 - Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services - Engineering Services. If you are a SB answer questions 4A & B. All others skip to Question #5. A. If your company is awarded the contract, will you be able to perform at least 50% (percent) of the work? B. If you are a small business, can you go without a payment for 90 days? 5. Does your company have experience as a prime contractor administering Multiple Award Contracts (MACs)? 6. If you answered "yes" to Question # 5, please provide as much of the following information as possible; A. MAC contract number(s); B. aggregate dollar value of entire MAC contract; C. aggregate dollar value of task orders you prime on each MAC; D. number of task orders you primed on MAC; E. Is the work on each MAC similar in scope to that of the above requirements? 7. Is your company planning on business arrangements with other companies, please list the process used in selecting the members? 8. Please provide details regarding proposed joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other business arrangements to satisfy requirements. Offerors are encouraged to identify teams, indicating each team member's size based upon the NAICS code of the work that the team member may be doing. 9. Is your company currently providing similar services to another government agency (you may also include contract #s for government) or other non-government customer? If so, please identify the agency or non-government customer. If you are unwilling to share your customer's identity, please address whether your company offers the same or similar services commercially 10. Has your Company performed this type of effort or similar type effort (to include size and complexity) in the past, if so provide Contract Number, Point of Contact (POC), e-mail address, phone number, and a brief description of your direct support of the effort? 11. What are the core competencies of your employees that would support the above requirements? Also, provide the total number of individuals currently employed by your company that are capable of supporting the requirements. 12. Does your company have the ability to store/transmit TOP SECRET Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)? 13. Do all the employees that would support this Requirement have a TOP SECRET Clearance? 14. Does your firm possess an approved Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) accounting system? 15. Does your company have experience and ability of a graphic support capability and creation of briefing packages, image creation and manipulation, trifolds, booklets and books, and posters using Microsoft Office suite of software as well as Photoshop? Please describe. If your answer is no, please skip to question 4. If yes, is this graphics support capability also able to use Canon plotters for producing posters? If yes, is this graphics support capable of multitasking, such as tracking a three car fleet of GSA vehicles? Please describe. 16. Does your company have experience and ability to provide support personnel capable of receiving all incoming tasks, assigning them out to the appropriate branches, running meetings, tracking tasks, coordinating review of program documentation and ensuring the smooth operation of the office. This requires knowledge of the Project Manager, the Program Executive Officer, and the subordinate Product Manager Offices, as well as the Assistant Secretary of the Army structure. Please describe. 17. Does your company have experience and capability to provide administration support able to schedule travel for managers in the Defense Travel System (DTS), keep schedules up to date in MS Outlook for managers, conference rooms, and video teleconference facility? Please describe. 18. Does your company have experience and capability to provide administrative support to assist personnel with time and attendance information, and assist with visitor control and security matters? Can they maintain correspondence files in accordance with Army standards, and assist government staff with ensuring correspondence format agrees with Army standards (AR25-50)? Please describe. 19. Does your company have experience with Army routing of correspondence for signatures? Proper distribution of US Postal Service mail, FedEx mail, interoffice mail, etc. in a government office? Please describe. 20. Does your company have experience and capability to provide facilities management support? Do you have personnel capable of providing interface with the building landlord, calling in work orders when problems arise, as well as coordinating with the staff locally? Are they adept at Microsoft Office applications? Can they use all the systems required by Fort Belvoir to submit trouble requests? Are they capable of maintaining the SIPRNET facility? Please describe. 21. Does your company have experience and capability to provide engineering support, including analysis and review of technical documentation? Can they evaluate and provide recommended solutions to technical issues? Can support staff review, track and report on asset availability? Please describe. 22. Does your company have experience and capability to provide property management support? Do you have experience with the PBUSE system? Please describe. 23. Does your company have experience and capability to provide logistics support? Do you have experience with property transfer and issue forms used by the Army? Do you have experience with Army logistics documentation? Please describe. 24. Interested companies may also provide a "White Paper" (no more than 20 pages in length) describing how its products and technical expertise could produce and deliver such capabilities as described in the information below. Also, identify your company's past and current customers to which you provided similar products, including a customer/company name, point of contact, phone number, and address/e-mail where they can be contacted.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B HQ CECOM CONTRACTING CENTER, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE ABERDEEN PROVING GROU MD
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
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