SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- PEO ACWA, Management, Program, and Integration Support
- Notice Date
- 10/28/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI), 3055 Rodman Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois, 61299-8000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 61299-8000
- Solicitation Number
- W52P1J-16-R-ACWA
- Point of Contact
- Kelli K Craddick, Phone: 3097822050, Christine K Berry, Phone: 3097826980
- E-Mail Address
-
kelli.k.craddick.civ@mail.mil, christine.k.berry2.civ@mail.mil
(kelli.k.craddick.civ@mail.mil, christine.k.berry2.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Army Contracting Command - Rock Island, on behalf of the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA), is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support a PEO-wide requirement for Management, Program and Integration Support. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541712. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals. Submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary. The government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If a requirement should materialize, no basis for claims shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought Notice or the Government's use of such information. Background: The PEO ACWA has identified an ongoing need for support to the mission to demilitarize the U.S. Government's chemical weapons stockpile. The PEO ACWA has the responsibility of implementing alternative technologies to baseline incineration for the environmentally safe disposal of the U.S. stockpile of lethal, unitary chemical agents and munitions in Colorado and Kentucky. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD AT&L) has approved the designation of neutralization followed by biodegradation as the technology for the destruction of assembled chemical weapons currently stored at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado. The USD AT&L has also approved the designation of neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation as the technology for the destruction of assembled chemical weapons currently stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky. The objective of this contract is to provide support services to the PEO ACWA, located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and three PEO ACWA Field Offices (FO); Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, Richmond, Kentucky; Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, Pueblo, Colorado; and the Anniston Field Office, Anniston, Alabama. A principle objective of the support services will be to provide integration and overall support services contractor management for all tasks under the contract, including specific demilitarization expertise to include alternative technologies and knowledge transfer from baseline chemical weapons destruction projects. The primary areas of support for the PEO ACWA HQ at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood Area, Maryland, are as follows: Systems Engineering and Operations (SEO) Directorate. The SEO requires support in the areas of engineering, quality, acquisition risk management, scheduling, and program office estimate development. The Risk Management Directorate requires environmental, monitoring, security, conduct of operations, quantitative risk assessments, surety, and safety expertise to provide technical and subject matter expertise. Other areas are knowledge transfer, public affairs, human resources, treaty management, strategic planning, and records management. The primary areas of support for the PEO ACWA Field Offices located at Richmond, Kentucky; Pueblo, Colorado; and Anniston, Alabama, are as follows: expertise and experience in chemical weapons demilitarization, engineering, and technologies such as explosive destruction technologies over the various chemical demilitarization project phases (systemization, operations, and closure); project management; project controls (cost, schedule, budget, and performance data analysis); quality assurance; risk management; environmental compliance and permitting; safety, occupational health, and emergency preparedness; chemical security programs; chemical surety programs; information technology and cybersecurity; chemical laboratory sampling, analysis and air monitoring; operational procedures; property management; treaty management; records management; and administrative and training support in the aforementioned areas/disciplines to the respective FO and other subject matter experts relating to the chemical munitions, baseline site experience, or specialty areas. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) organization name, address, email address, web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. Describe your company's services and technical expertise and how it could produce and deliver such capabilities in the requirements. Also, identify your company's past performance history and current customers to which you provided similar support services. The information submitted will be reviewed by Government personnel only. The capability statement should be no more than five (5) pages in length. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; and 3) implement a successful management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance and hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 1600 Central Time 30 November 2015. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to Kelli Craddick at kelli.k.craddick.civ@mail.mil. If you have any questions concerning this opportunity please contact: Kelli Craddick, telephone 309-782-2050, email kelli.k.craddick.civ@mail.mil.
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