SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Expeditionary Maneuver Program Support - Draft Statement of Work
- Notice Date
- 10/19/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NSWC Panama City Divison, 110 Vernon Avenue, Panama City, Florida, 32407, United States
- ZIP Code
- 32407
- Solicitation Number
- N61331-16-R-0004
- Archive Date
- 11/24/2015
- Point of Contact
- Scott E. Dubuque, Phone: 8502344864
- E-Mail Address
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Scott.Dubuque@navy.mil
(Scott.Dubuque@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft Statement of Work for the Expeditionary Maneuver Program Support requirement. The purpose of this Sources Sought announcement is for market research and will be utilized for planning purposes only. This is not a solicitation for proposal and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow-up information requests. In the event a solicitation is developed, it will be assigned a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) number and the announcement will be published on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division is seeking sources to provide engineering and technical support for Expeditionary Maneuver (ExMan) programs in support of Expeditionary Force 21 initiatives. The tasking covers various areas of concern affecting NSWC PCD mission support areas for ExMan, such as Seabasing Operations, Movement of Combat Power Ashore, and Land Maneuver and Logistics Operations. The Statement of Work for ExMAN Program Support, included with this sources sought announcement, specifies the requirement for the contractor level of effort. A Cost plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) type IDIQ contract is anticipated. The resultant contract will be for a 12 month base period with four twelve month option periods. The applicable NAICS Code is 541330 and the Small Business size standard is $38.5M. The Contractor will be required to provide the necessary science and technology, mission analysis, research and development, acquisition, and life cycle sustainment for individual warfare and logistics systems and the integration of these various systems to enable and protect the warfighter in the expeditionary environment. The purpose of this contract is to augment ongoing efforts and meet newly emerging and indeterminate requirements, Urgent Universal Need Statement (UUNS), and initiatives of the U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to meet expeditionary goals and warfighter needs. The intent is to be able to expedite tasking for concept development, advanced prototyping, and test support by providing additional program support as required (i.e. expert engineering, configuration management, fiscal and program management, briefing and documentation preparation, administration support, etc.) to assure successful completion of the various programs. The nature of the Expeditionary Warfare (ExWar) tasking requires a Contractor with contemporary knowledge, experience, and understanding of the Sea Base Concept of Operations (CONOPS), USMC doctrine and operations, amphibious warfare systems (including riverine and littoral environments), and Mine Warfare (MIW) and Mine Countermeasures (MCM) including Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). ExWar tasking consists of the following capability areas: -Mine and IED Countermeasures (Very Shallow Water MCM, Surf and Beach Zone, Land MCM and Route Clearance) -Distributed Operations and Expeditionary Logistics (Cargo and Personnel Movement, Energy Conservation, Force Protection, Water Purification) -Interfaces with Seabasing Assets (Transportability, Navigation, Communications, Fueling, Maintenance) -ExMan Threat Assessment, Mission Analysis, and Modeling and Simulation -Land vehicle operations insertions to support ExMan (Automation and Robotics, Navigation, Sensor and Neutralization, Safety, Sustainability) -Unmanned Systems (Control, Sensing, Neutralization, Communications, Target Recognition) In evaluating contractor capability, the Government will consider the following: A. Successful completion of a DCAA Accounting Audit for Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee contracts. B. Institution of a Registered Process Improvement Program, e.g. ISO 9000 and CMMI with examples of use in performance of contract tasking. C. Successful completion of a Contractors Purchasing System Review. D. Institution of an acceptable estimating system in accordance with DFARS 215.407-5-70. E. History and capability to expeditiously support and manage multi-million Cost plus Fixed Fee contracts. F. History and capability to ensure a workforce that has and can maintain a position of Public Trust or a National Clearance in order to access CUI or higher classified materials. Interested contractors should submit a capabilities package, with a cover letter, that is brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrates ability to meet the stated requirements with sufficiently qualified personnel. There is no specific format or outline submittals must follow. Submittals should be no longer than 15 pages in length. Provide qualification information (type and duration of employee experience relevant to the requirements) and the level of involvement (prime or sub-contractor) and time periods for work on similar projects. The capabilities package should clearly present evidence that the interested party is fully capable of providing the required services and as such may contain any information that the interested party feels is relevant. Information provided will be treated as Business Sensitive and will not be shared outside of Government activities and agencies without the permission of the provider. Foreign participation in this request for information is excluded. Only prime contractors should respond. All responses shall include the following company information: 1. Company Name, Address, Cage Code, and DUNS. 2. Company business size by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. 3. Small Business Type, if applicable. 4. Small Business Graduation Date Company size. Provide number of employees and average annual revenue. 5. List any IDIQ type contracts that your company holds. 6. Point of Contact for questions and/or clarification. 7. Telephone number, fax number, and email address. 8. Documentation of DCAA Approved Accounting System, including date of latest approval received. 9. If your company is considering priming this contract and is required to perform at least 50 percent of the work, how would work beyond in-house capabilities be handled? 10. Identify the risk areas associated with this effort? Identify how risks could be mitigated? 11. Can your company prime a team composed of a sufficient number of large and small subcontractors to perform this contract in an efficient, cost effective manner while meeting contract requirements? Please explain. Respondents who submit proprietary data shall clearly mark the data with appropriate markings. Any proprietary information submitted in response to this synopsis will be appropriately protected when clearly identified as proprietary. Submitted materials will not be returned, and will be destroyed. Submissions shall not contain any classified information. Interested Offerors may submit their interest and required documentation via e-mail to Contract Specialist Scott.Dubuque@Navy.mil by 5:00 P.M. CST, on 9 November 2015. Responses must be marked with the sources sought designation number: N61331-16-R-0004.
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