MODIFICATION
V -- Transportation Assets
- Notice Date
- 6/9/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 484230
— Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Administrative Services Division/Contracting, 100 North 6TH Street, Butler Square 5TH Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403
- ZIP Code
- 55403
- Solicitation Number
- AG-6395-S-14-0096
- Point of Contact
- Leah H. Schultz, Phone: 6123363625
- E-Mail Address
-
leah.h.schultz@aphis.usda.gov
(leah.h.schultz@aphis.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS), National Veterinary Stockpile (NVS) is requesting information regarding the availability of transportation assets to meet our disposal needs, hauling potentially hazardous diseased animal carcasses from numerous locations to and from origin within the Continental United States to disposal sites. There is no known frequency or locations as related to these hauling requirements. It will be required on an as needed basis. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of issuing this sources sought notice is to seek information from vendors with the capability of providing transportation assets and to determine the most prevalent equipment available to haul potentially hazardous diseased animal carcasses. The equipment of interest may include but not be limited to the following; • Rendering trucks with sealable gate - tractor-trailer that is used to haul carcasses • Tractor-trailer trucks (semi-truck) with an attached box trailer • Open top trailers • Roll-off trucks (a tractor-trailer truck with detachable open-top box container). CAPABILITIES Please provide a description of your company's transportation assets including but not limited to: A. The number of transportation assets meeting the description; B. Available sizes C. Estimated pricing based on the assets identified (ex. mileage rates and/or load rates based on assets proposed) This is not a request for proposals, but instead market research to determine interested vendors prior to issuing a solicitation. Pricing information provided is for estimation purposes only. A determination by the Government on the method of competing this requirement has not been established. The Government will not award a contract based on this Sources Sought Notice or the information received, nor will it reimburse participants for the information they provide. If you are an interested vendor, please provide the following information: 1) Business name and point of contact; 2) DUNS number and CAGE code; 3) business size; and 4) a brief statement of Capability (no more than three pages) which demonstrates the ability to meet the specialized work requirements above. Include any past performance information on contracts of similar size and scope. Electronic responses are preferred. Information provided will not be used as a part of any subsequent solicitation requirement. Interested sources who submit data are responsible for appropriately marking information if it is proprietary in nature. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract action based on this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses are due no later than 12 p.m., Central Time, on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, to the attention of Leah Schultz, Contract Specialist, via e-mail to leah.h.schultz@aphis.usda.gov or by fax to 612-336-3550.
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