SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Enterprise Roundtable Membership
- Notice Date
- 4/7/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisition Division, Norfolk Federal Building, 200 Granby Street, Norfolk, Virginia, 23510, United States
- ZIP Code
- 23510
- Solicitation Number
- NFFKAS00-15-01578
- Archive Date
- 5/6/2015
- Point of Contact
- Stacy Fullerton,
- E-Mail Address
-
Stacy.Fullerton@noaa.gov
(Stacy.Fullerton@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- American Society for Quality, Inc. - Enterprise Roundtable Membership The Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Eastern Region Acquisition Division (ERAD) Simplified Acquisition Branch on the behalf of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office for Seafood Inspection, Silver Spring, Maryland intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Intelex using the procedures in FAR Parts 6 and 13. NMFS requires an American Society for Quality, Inc. (ASQ) Enterprise Roundtable Membership for all NMFS employees. The period of performance is April 23, 2015 through April 22, 2016 and contains four (4) one-year option periods. This membership is required in order to have access to ASQ's entire body of knowledge as well as assistance in human development, leadership, and quality management concerns. Furthermore, the ASQ membership offers certifications that are essential for the Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection personnel and the Office's overall mission. Personnel in the Seafood Inspection utilize many different certifications, including Certified Quality Auditor, Certified HACCP Auditor, and Certified Quality Inspector. The main benefit of these certifications is the assurance it provides to stakeholders of the Seafood Inspection of the qualifications of auditors. The auditing profession, including food inspectors both private and public, are moving towards a unified qualifications mechanism of peer certification, specified training, auditing experience, formal evaluation, and re-evaluation. Accordingly, many governments are moving to this process of qualified auditors with some element of third party involvement. Overall, ASQ is considered the pre-eminent group for these individual certifications because all of these certifications are not currently provided by any other single third party. The statutory authority for other than full and open competition is FAR 13.106-1(a)(2)(b)(1)(i), Only one responsible source. The applicable NAICS code is 813920 with a Small Business Size Standard of $15 million. The Product Service Code, (PSC) is R420 for Certifications & Accreditation Services. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes, however, all quotes received by 9:00 A.M. EST on April 21, 2015 shall be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future. Evidence must be provided of ability to perform the requirement. Responses to this notice, if any, must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the government. A Firm Fix-priced purchase order will be made using FAR 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at www.sam.gov; offerors must also obtain a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and provide it with the offer. Inquiries must be submitted via email to Stacy.Fullerton@noaa.gov by 9:00 A.M. EST, April 21, 2015.
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