SOURCES SOUGHT
Z -- Office Hardening and NEXRAD Radar Shelter Hardening. - SPECIFIC SITE LOCATIONS
- Notice Date
- 5/23/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 236220
— Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC2 - 11th floor /OFA61, 1325 East West Highway, 11th Floor, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- NWWP0000-14-02076
- Archive Date
- 6/28/2014
- Point of Contact
- Moshe S Damari,
- E-Mail Address
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moshe.damari@noaa.gov
(moshe.damari@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Weather Forecast Offices Sites and Radar Data Acquisition Sites (RDAs) Request for Information (RFI) Number NWWP0000-14-02076 National Weather Service Southern District: Office Hardening and NEXRAD Radar Shelter Hardening. DESCRIPTION THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE OF SOLICITATION ISSUANCE. Response to this RFI is strictly voluntary and will not affect any firm or corporation's ability to submit an offer if and when a solicitation is released. There is no bid package or solicitation document associated with this announcement. The requested information is for planning purposes and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement action will be issued. No entitlement to payment by the Government of direct or indirect costs or charges will arise as a result of the submission of contractors' information. Further, NOAA is not at this time seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any improperly identified proprietary information. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulations. The National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking information about potential sources certified as a small business, small disadvantaged business, 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business, HUBZone small business, woman-owned small business, very small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business). interested and capable of providing services under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Construction (NAICS Code 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction) The NOAA is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to obtain responses from capable small business, small disadvantaged business, 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business, HUBZone small business, woman-owned small business, very small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business)interested in providing the building hardening project at various sites in the Southern United States and Puerto Rico. SPECIFIC SITE LOCATIONS ARE ATTACHED RESPONSES: Capabilities package/response submittal must be received no later than 12:00 Pacific Standard Time on 2014. Any information submitted is voluntary. All Interested firms having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed all aspects of NAICS Code 236220 having a size standard of $33.5 Million Dollars are welcomed to respond to this RFI. The submission shall be prepared in Microsoft WORD 2000 or greater, no more than ten (10) pages, not including the Cover Letter, single spaced, 10 point font minimum. Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with: 1. A cover letter provided for the ten (10) page submission shall include: a. Name and address of the company. b. Company's business size status and socio-economic status (i.e. Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone (Hub Zone), Section 8(a)), etc.; c. A point-of-contact to include phone number, fax number, and email address. In addition, please provide affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, and potential teaming partners. 2. The capability and capacity statement package must demonstrate and address: a. Prior/current specific project experience at Federal installations, as well as, nonfederal installations involving building hardening may be provided. Provide information that indicates that the above mentioned construction complies with all local, state and federal regulations. Experience should include magnitude, scope, and complexity of projects performed within the last three years including; Contract number, organization supported, scope of work, whether the offeror was a prime contractor or subcontractor, contract value, Government point of contact with a current telephone number, and a brief description of how the contract referenced relates to the services described herein. b. A listing of active NAICS Code 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, maximum contract capacity, committed contract capacity to date; active remaining capacity. c. Current existing successful teaming arrangements, Joint Ventures, or Mentor agreements held with other business concerns, large or small businesses engaged in this type of work. d. Provide no more than three (3) references, for no more than three (3) of the most recent and relevant contracts, performed within the last three (3) years for each of the requirements. Include name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address of references. Also, provide a brief description of the work performed, role of the contractor to include whether the work was self-performed, contract number, total contract value, and period of performance. Contracts must be same or similar to the work described in this announcement. 4. This RFI is for planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to pay for information submitted in response to this request. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the market analysis and debriefings will not be available. It is the reader's responsibility to monitor the Fed Biz Opps for any resultant or future solicitation package (s) that may be issued. 5. Results of the market research will be used to satisfy Parts 10 and 19 and other applicable parts of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and associated directives and guidance. Specifically, the results of the research will be used to analyze, evaluate, determine and document the capabilities and capacity of contractors to provide services as described in the Scope of Services. The information gathered may be used by the Government in a variety of ways such as to document formal acquisition plans, prepare benefit and cost-type determination and justifications, and to determine industry best practices, technical and acquisition approaches. 6. In addition to the above, the Government requests comments from interested parties to the following questions: a. Would your firm be interested in submitting a proposal considering the anticipated scope of work items? If not, why? b. Does your firm have sufficient experience in the anticipated scope items that would allow the government evaluator to assess your firm's capability? If not, please explain. c. What is the minimum and maximum dollar value project which your firm would routinely consider submitting a proposal for? d. What is the maximum bonding capacity of your firm? e. What maximum annual capacity of work can your firm reasonably manage while assuring effective and efficient program/project implementation and maintaining quality products? f. What is your firm's resource availability (Staffing and Equipment) available to perform the work (self-perform)? g. What elements of work would your firm consider be subcontracted? h. Address your firm's capability of execution on a national CONUS and One OCONUS basis versus limiting contracts to the specific geographic areas. Please provide recommendations. i. In what socio-economic programs does your firm currently participate (e.g. 8 (a), HubZone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business, etc.)? What is the extent of your participation in these programs? l. What do you consider are the most critical criteria that would distinguish one company's capabilities from/over another? Explain. m. Would your firm participate in this acquisition with other firms as teaming members or joint ventures? p. Please provide your recommendations concerning the anticipated number of contract awards, how many contracts your firm feels should be reserved for small business, the potential geographic contract areas, the scope of work, and the proposed NAICS code. q. Does your firm have any other comments or suggestions that you would like to share with the Government? This is an RFI to be used in planning a future acquisition, please do not send in any cost proposals or cost information. Request for proposals, if and when issued, will be available via the Internet at www.fedbizopps.gov, and www.acquisition.army.mil/asfi/. As such, it is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor the above mentioned sites for the release of any additional information. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A PRE-SOLITIATION NOTICE OF SOLICITATION ISSUANCE. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. Moshe Damari (Contractor Support - CACI) Electronically send responses to moshe.damari@noaa.gov or faxed to (206) 526-6025
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