SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- TECHNICAL INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION AND LOGISTICS SERVICES TIALS 2
- Notice Date
- 12/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561210
— Facilities Support Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- NNC14ZCH011L
- Response Due
- 1/16/2014
- Archive Date
- 12/30/2014
- Point of Contact
- Michelle A. Mader, Contracting Officer, Phone 216-433-2765, Fax 216-433-2480, Email Michelle.A.Mader@nasa.gov - Joseph Dorsey, Contract Specialist, Phone 216-433-8153, Fax 216-433-5093, Email Joseph.C.Dorsey@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Michelle A. Mader
(Michelle.A.Mader@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NASA/GRC is hereby soliciting information about potential sources for a cost plus fixed fee, follow-on, onsite support services contract for the following: 1.0 LOGISTICS SERVICES Property/Equipment Management receives, tracks, stores, screens, redistributes, and disposes of Glenn property. This area maintains the system that tracks equipment; produces and maintains records for lost, damaged, or destroyed equipment; conducts annual physical inventories; tracks and documents loans of Government property; and tracks capitalized equipment. Staff members pick up, receive, inspect, redistribute, warehouse, and maintain records for all excess property, including scrap material; prepare computing equipment for reuse; process requests for the reuse or donation of excess and surplus property; conduct Internet auctions of surplus property; manage Glenns Hold Storage system for stock items; conduct an annual inventory; and maintain a website. Supply Management identifies, documents, and physically controls all inventory items by identifying storage space; managing, warehousing, and maintaining stores stock, program stock, and standby stock (including hazardous chemicals); shipping and receiving hazardous drums and cylinders; and managing returnable containers. Staff members also provide standard and clean-room laundry services and monitor, track, and control the tool cribincluding machining and fabrication test equipment, hardware, and software. Freight Traffic encompasses traffic management, shipping, and receiving. This includes ensuring custody and centralized control over inbound and outbound shipments, packing items and completing shipping documents, maintaining forms and documentation, processing and distributing freight bills, and resolving overdue notices for collect freight bills. Transportation conducts studies for proposed transportation activities; provide bus transportation for personnel; and load, unload, pick up, and deliver instruments, machinery, office equipment, printed matter, and interoffice and U.S. Postal Service mail. In addition, recyclable materials and hazardous materials and waste are picked up and transported to designated locations. Staff members maintain Glenns vehicles, operate the motor vehicle dispatch service, and operate, manage, and keep records for motor pool vehicles, other Government vehicles, fuels, and the garage. Move Operations provides technical leadership, guidance, and logistics for all Glenn personnel moves and analyzing all move requests in accordance with guidelines. 2.0 STOCK PURCHASES Stock Purchases uses the NASA Glenn Supply Management Systems to administer the Glenn supply management program consisting of stores stock and program stock. 3.0 MEDIA SERVICES Media Services helps Glenns researchers document and publish their results and achievements. Staff members provide publishing, duplicating, imaging, and educational program services for Glenn as well as computer application support for the Logistics and Technical Information Division and editing and proposal support for the Research and Technology Directorate. Publishing services include editing; the preparation and manipulation of photographs, illustrations, and drawings; electronic document formatting; and information management services and a customer interface for scientific and technical documents as well as publishing not related to research. This includes illustrations and design for printing, projected visuals, exhibits, displays, presentations, three-dimensional models, and Web pages. The Imaging Technology Center provides photographic, imaging, and animation support for aeronautical research, engineering, physical science, and other programsboth to document technical research and events and to inform the public of research advances. Educational Services develops NASAs next-generation workforce by creating projects and opportunities that attract and retain students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Other staff members support the Research and Technology Directorate with technical writing and editing, award nomination coordination and package preparation, and new proposal coordination and publication support. Duplicating Services duplicates, assembles, binds, addresses, and prepares documents for distribution; repairs and maintains Government-owned office equipment; sends out orders for printing by the Government Printing Office. Forms Management creates and maintains all Glenn forms. 4.0 RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND HISTORY OFFICE Records Management provides a variety of services to ensure that Glenns functions are documented adequately in accordance with regulation and business needs. The core of this function is the understanding and application of National Archives regulations as they pertain to records creation, maintenance, storage, accessibility, safeguarding, and disposition. Staff members maintain and manage their own inactive records storage facility, which requires preparing boxes for storage, tracking through a database, and retrieval whenever necessary. Records management is a customer-service-focused organization that assists employees with understanding and applying records retention schedules, developing file plans and inventories, and assisting with records clean-up activities. Records search and retrieval for Freedom of Information Act requests, audit activities, and research projects are other key services. The mission of the History Office and archives area is to ensure that the Glenn community can use and interpret historical resources to better understand current programs and culture. Responsibilities include the oversight and management of the Centers archives through collection development, appraisal of materials, description of materials, and ensuring accessibility through the creation of finding aids. The History Office provides both a basic reference service and more in-depth research of historical topics. This is done through the exploration of current archival holdings, materials held by records management, and interaction with retirees through oral history interviews. Research is documented through historical writing ranging from essays to peer-reviewed books, exhibits, and Web applications. Of particular focus is the documentation of historic facilities as required by the Historic Preservation Act. The History Office works closely with the Centers historic preservation officer and the State Historic Preservation Office to ensure that mitigation requirements are met when a historic facility is demolished or altered. 5.0 LIBRARY AND LEARNING CENTER The Glenn Science & Engineering Library provides librarians and clerical support for Glenns library, including participation on NASA teams for operating the NASA Digital Library. This includes charging and discharging materials, issuing late and recall notices, preparing materials, and routing to successive requestors, as well as receiving, processing, shelving, or filing books, journals, research reports, specifications, microfiche, and other library materials. The area acquires books, subscriptions, specifications and standards, documents, audiovisual materials, microforms, and CDROMsand other electronic materials for the Library. This involves purchasing subscriptions and maintaining library copies and records: ordering books, other documents, and audiovisual materials; and processing interlibrary loan requests to other libraries and from other NASA libraries. New and previously uncatalogued library collection materials are catalogued, and comprehensive reference services are provided. This area also provides local computer support for electronic library systems, administers Glenns Bibliographic Web database, and conducts outreach activities to promote the library and its services. The Learning Center provides about 1200 individual instruction classes for civil service and support service contractor personnel in many different disciplines. 6.0/7.0 ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL SERVICES The administrative and clerical services area is essential to the daily operations of Glenn. Services offered include standard support positions, as well as organizational-specific roles. Administrative support staff members facilitate efficient operations through exceptional customer service in all standard business practices. Administrative Services provides qualified candidates for a wide range of support positions, enabling organizations to perform optimally. General tasks include, but are not limited to, project coordination, database and spreadsheet maintenance, data analysis, Web content maintenance, and configuration management. Clerical Services provides branch, division, and office support to accomplish an organizations clerical tasks and requirements. Clerical support candidates are proficient in the processes needed to complete tasks including, but not limited to expense reports, acquisition support, meeting support and minutes, correspondence preparation, workshop coordination, calendar management, and office coverage. 8.0 METROLOGY The Calibration Lab inspects, repairs, and calibrates instrumentation used for test and measurement. It uses standards that are traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology and that are derived from natural physical constants, radio measurements, or comparison to consensus standards. This service includes metrology-oriented engineering consultation, metrology networking, leveraging other Government laboratories, and maintaining compliance with NASA standards. [End Description] The contractor will required to provide an approximate workforce of 270 employees to cover the above functions. The estimated period of performance is five (5) years, with one (1) two-year base and three (3) one-year options. The estimated total contract value is $125 million. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including Small, Small Disadvantaged (SDB), 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Veteran Owned (VOSB), Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SD-VOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals. The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Service Disabled Veteran (SD-VOSB), or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses hereto. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. A link to the current contract will be provided in said synopsis. Therefore, interested offerors/vendors are asked not to request a copy at this time. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Interested offerors/vendors having the required specialized capabilities to meet the above requirements should submit a capability statement of ten (10) pages or less indicating the ability to perform all aspects of the effort described herein. Responses must include the following: name and address of firm, size of business; average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; whether they are large, or any category of small business, number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact - address and phone number). List any contract transition experiences that your company has had with contracts of this size. Explain to us how you would go about transitioning. Describe any experiences that your business has had with Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) and the Service Contract Act. The requirement is not considered to be a commercial-type service. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. All responses shall be submitted to Joseph Dorsey (Joseph.C.Dorsey@nasa.gov) no later than 4:30P.M, EST, January 16, 2014. Please reference NNC14ZCH011L in any response. Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
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