SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Ropes challenge course design and installation
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 339999
— All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Direct Reporting Unit - AFPC/SVC, AFPC/SVC - AFNAFPO, 2261 Hughes Ave Ste #156, Lackland AFB, Texas, 78236-9854, United States
- ZIP Code
- 78236-9854
- Solicitation Number
- F41999-13-I-7006
- Archive Date
- 4/4/2013
- Point of Contact
- Joe F. Hereford, Phone: 2103957878, Richard W. Jones, Phone: 210-395-7854
- E-Mail Address
-
joe.hereford@us.af.mil, richard.jones.59@us.af.mil
(joe.hereford@us.af.mil, richard.jones.59@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE: This is not a solicitation but rather a Request For Information (RFI) to determine potential sources for information and planning purposes only. 1. Introduction. The purpose of this RFI is to conduct market research to determine if responsible sources exist to provide commercially available ropes challenge course design and installation based on brand name or equal descriptions from Alpine Towers International and include Alpine Tower II and Odyssey II. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 339999, All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing. The NAFI will use this information to determine the best acquisition strategy for this procurement. The NAFI requests that interested parties respond to this notice if applicable. Additionally, please provide any anticipated teaming arrangements along with a description of similar supplies/services offered to the Government and to commercial customers for the past three years. Any responses involving teaming arrangement should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners. 2. Respondents' Replies to RFI. To maintain consistency and equality in this process, vendors are requested to use the structure outlined below for their response. Cover Page Vendor Name Vendor Address Contact information for the vendor representative Response to the substance of this RFI Brochures and/or other literature While hardcopy is acceptable, e-mail is the preferred submission method. The file should be in Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Work format. It should be sent to the POC listed in the FBO announcement no later than 20 March 2013, 12:00pm CDT. AFPC/SV will not provide reimbursement for any expenses incurred in connection with this RFI including costs of preparing a response or providing any additional information. 3. Requested Information. Respondents are requested to provide the following information: A brief overview of your company and its products including installation capability. Name, address and telephone and facsimile number of a Point of Contact (POC). Describe the features and components of all applicable options offered per the below description: True high challenge course for teams that offer events designed for 4 to 8 participants to complete together. The central idea is that groups of persons will share a more productive, fun, and educational challenge course. Allow for small teams to have a more engaging challenge course experience relying on and learning such important skills as cooperation, communication, rapid problem solving, resource management, adaptation, and trust in a very intense high course setting. Provide stimulating, focused, and minimal-risk experience to participants that offer team-oriented events instead of individual style initiatives/elements. A course that offers variable program styles, for example: shorter exposure programs (1.5 to 3 hours); longer immersion programs (1 day to multi-day). A course that can engage several groups of 8 persons simultaneously with a total of four to seven groups actively in the course at the same time and can be fully operational with 5 staff participant flow. DESCRIPTION a. All work must include ground preparation for the project. b. Must include a 200'X200' security fence including lockable gates 1 vehicle and one personnel entrance. No barbed wire required. c. Ropes course designs based on Alpine Towers International and include Alpine Tower II, and Odyssey II. d. Alpine Tower II e. 50' tall, base of structure is 30' x 30', a. • The Tower is freestanding, engineered for winds in excess of 100 mph and heaviest snowfalls. b. • A variety of initiatives--The Beanstalk, The Team Beam, The Corporate Ladder, The Missing Link, The Floating Poles, The Diabolical Seesaw, The Hanging Cargo Net, The Hang down Ropes, The Karma Platform, and the Etriers, 4:1 Self-Haul System, Team Hoist, Partner Hoist, The Piano, Entry Decks and Ramps, The Team Beam Deck, and The Giant Swing by Choice. c. • Low-to-the-ground group initiatives in Tower base--The Titanic, The Perimeter Traverse, The Tai Chi Traverse, Penny in the Haystack, The Amazon, Traffic Jam, The Jump, Trust Falls, Spiders Alive, Raising the Sphinx, and a Spider's Web. d. • Several activities require the entire group for success, such as The Tower Pull and Moon rocks. e. • Staff Training: 3 days technical training follows installation; 3 days Universal Facilitation Training within 6 weeks to 3 months. Odyssey II f. • One large, inclined cargo net, approximately 40' long by 15' wide, intended for groups of up to eight to climb simultaneously. This is the primary entrance. This net will also have a tube net section that allows participants to gain access to the upper events from the lower events. This net will be installed on a winch-raising system for access prevention. g. • One lower-level entry net, approximately 25' long and 15' wide, located under the zip line exits, ascending to the lower events. This net will be installed on a winch-raising system for access prevention. h. • Four linear course events Matrix, Lateral Limbo, Team Traverse, Complex X that offer opportunity for groups of up to eight persons to move horizontally through the course. Two events are set high (approximately 30' above ground) and two events at a mid-height level (approximately 18'). i. • Two zip line exits that use a hydraulic zip-line-lowering system manufactured by Extreme Engineering (patented). Zip lines will have an installed length of 100'. j. • Two tree houses with canopy covering (green or red vinyl awning). k. • Two lower decks; no canopy covering. l. • All operational/safety equipment is provided. m. • Instructor's Manuals (14). • Staff training: 2 days for up to 12 participants/1 trainer.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFSVA/AFNAFPO/F41999-13-I-7006/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Physical location is at Holloman AFB sports area. Land has been provided by CE as user defined. Ropes course must fit in a 200’X200’ fenced in area., Holloman AFB, New Mexico, 88330, United States
- Zip Code: 88330
- Zip Code: 88330
- Record
- SN02997392-W 20130301/130227234627-c2682c18e7a9ed3d14249114ec82c48f (fbodaily.com)
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