FISC Norfolk Acq Group, Hampton Roads Detachment, 1968 Gilbert St., Suite 600, Norfolk, VA 23511-3392

U -- GROUND SAFETY FOR MARINES COURSE SOL N00189-99-R-0066 POC Linda R. Coleman, 757-443-1406, Contract Specialist, and Marlene K. Chambley, 757-443-1362, Contracting Officer RFP N00189-99-R-0066 DESC: The Government intends to negotiate an Indefinite Delivery/Requirements type contract with firm fixed price unit prices for the instruction of Ground Safety for Marines Course, as required by the Naval Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Training Center, Norfolk, VA. Training will take place in the continental United States as well as overseas. Detailed specifications and delivery requirements will be specified in the solicitation. The resulting contract will be from the date of award to 30 September 2000 with two one-year options. This procurement will be solicited on the basis of full and open competition. The Standard Industrial Code (SIC) is 8999. PART I -- All responsible sources must submit resumes, past performance and pricing data to the Fleet & Industrial Supply Center by 4:00 p.m. on the date the offer is due. Two (2) instructor (s) are required to teach this course. The instructor must have either a four (4) year baccalaureate degree and at least five (5) years of experience in occupational safety, health, safety engineering, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance, environmental engineering, or any combination thereof OR a two (2) year associate degree and at least seven (7) years of experience in occupational safety, health, safety engineering, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance, environmental engineering, or any combination thereof OR a minimum of ten (10) years of experience working in occupational safety, health, safety engineering, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance, environmental engineering, or any combination thereof AND a minimum of three (3) years of instructional experience (one (1) year of experience equates to a minimum of 160 hours of classroom training time per 12 month period) AND at least one (1) year of aforementioned experience must be in teaching Naval personnel OR instructor must have at least three (3) years of active duty in the Navy or Marines with an honorable discharge with continuous service. Offerors shall submit resumes on the provided resume form included in the RFP. Offerors shall describe their past performance on similar contracts held within the past three (3) years, which are of similar scope, magnitude, and complexity to that required by this solicitation, or affirmatively state that they possess no relevant, directly related, or similar past performance. Offerors who have held similar contracts shall provide a detailed explanation demonstrating the relevance of the contract to the requirements of this RFP and shall provide the following information: Contract Number(s); name and telephone number of Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), or point of contact at the activity for which the contract was performed; Dollar value of the contract; Detailed description of the work performed; Number of subcontractors used, if any, and a description of the extent of work performed by them. The Government shall assess the risks associated with the offeror's past performance and consider the number,type and severity of any quality, delivery or cost problems in performing the contract, the corrective action taken, and effectiveness of the corrective action. If resumes are determined to be unacceptable by the technical evaluation committee, offerors will not be given the opportunity to correct the resumes. Only those offerors whose resumes are determined to be acceptable will continue to PART II -- Evaluation for Award. Part II consists of the technical proposal which will be an oral presentation; written material; and price proposal. The Government will present identical questions to each offeror to test their knowledge of ground safety training for Marines during clarification of oral presentations time. Potential Offerors are hereby notified that the solicitation and subsequent amendments to the solicitation will ONLY be available by downloading the documents at FISC Norfolk Website: http://www.nor.fisc.navy.mil/contracts/solicitations/default.htm or at http://neco.navy.mil, and this office will nolonger issue hard-copy solicitations. In order for this office to obtain a Bidder's List, potential offerers must submit written requests to the above address or by facsimile machine at (757) 443-1424. Written requests must include company name, point of contact, solicitation number, address, phone number and email address (if available). Requesting to be included on the Bidder's List WILL NOT entitle the offeror to a hard copy solicitation. The RFP will be issued approximately 14 October 1999 and will close 30 days after release. By submitting a proposal, the vendor will be self-certifying that neither the requestor nor the principal corporate officials and owners are currently suspended, debarred, or otherwise ineligible to receive contracts from any Federal Agency. Failure to do so may represent grounds for refusing to accept the proposal. Posted 09/17/99 (W-SN381659). (0260)

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