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U -- CONFINED SPACE SAFETY COURSE SOL N00189-00-R-0009 DUE 112699 POC Dawn Sunkins at (757) 443-1423 or (757) 443-1442 DESC: The Government intends to negotiate an Indefinite Delivery/Requirements type contract with firm fixed price unit prices for the instruction of Confined Space Safety Course, as required by the Naval Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Training Center, Norfolk, VA. The resulting contract will be from the date of award to 30 September 2000 with four one-year options. This is a 100% Small Business Set-aside. 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 2:00 p.m. on the date the offer is due. The estimated release date of the solicitation is 29 October 1999. Both instructor(s) must have, as a minimum, a four (4) year baccalaureate degree in any of the following: industrial hygiene, chemistry, physics, biology, occupational safety and health, or chemical, environmental or safety engineering AND at least ten (10) years of experience in confined space program management, industrial hygiene, gas free engineering, occupational safety and health or safety engineering AND at least one of the two instructors must be a National Fire Protection Association Certified Marine Chemist AND at least one of the two instructors must be an ABIH Certified Industrial Hygienist AND both instructors must have 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 both instructors must have at least one (1) year of aforementioned experience must be in teaching naval personnel OR at least three (3) years of active duty in the Navy with an honorable discharge 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 confined space safety 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. 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 so represent may be grounds for refusing to accept the proposal. Number Note 1 applies. Posted 10/15/99 (W-SN392224). (0288)

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