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Z -- PRESOLICITATION NOTICE FOR A-76 STUDY FOR BASE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION, CHINA LAKE, CALIFORNIA SOL N68711-00-R-4101 POC Lisa Young 619-532-1181 or Sonnya Crook 619-532-2993 WEB: NAVFAC Website, http://esol.navfac.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, younglm@efdsw.navfac.navy.mil. This is the Pre-Solicitation Notice for an OMB Circular A-76 Cost Comparison Study for the Construction Maintenance Utilities Division, Public Works Department, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. There are approximately 182 positions affected by this study. The required services include, but are not limited to, labor, equipment, materials, supervision and management to accomplish the services for maintaining, operating, repairing and altering facilities, equipment and utilities infrastructure, as well as providing range services in support of the Naval Air Weapons Station mission. Representatives of the tasks are: repair, alterations, construction and equipment installation for buildings and structures; operation, maintenance and repair of dynamic equipment, air conditioning, refrigeration and heating equipment, electrical transmission and distribution systems, heating plants (boilers), water plants and distribution systems including water productions and well fields, waste water collection systems and fire protection and intrusion detection systems; providing project estimating, scheduling and production control services; manning a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, operational, maintenance and repair service trouble desk and dispatching function to provide service call work; providing range services and other miscellaneous services. The expected term of the contract consists of a two-month phase-in, a one-year award and four one-year options. The contract type will be a performance-based combination Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Quantity. In accordance with OMB Circular A-76, the offer determined to represent the best value to the Government, price and other factors considered, will be compared to the Government's proposal to perform said services. A contract will not be awarded unless the costs of contracting are lower than the costs of continued Government performance by a factor equal to or greater than ten percent of the Government's personnel costs. Government personnel adversely affected by conversion of Government performed services to contract have Right of First Refusal for jobs for which they are qualified. In accordance with FAR 15.1, Engineering Field Division Southwest determined it is in the Navy's and Industry's best interest to streamline the acquisition process by utilizing a Three-Step source selection process. Please refer to sections L & M of the RFP for details. All potential offerors are reminded, in accordance with DFARS 252.204-7004, REQUIRED CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION (MAR 1998), lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. The Standard Industrial Code is 8744. In accordance with FAR 5.102(a)(7) availability of the solicitation will be limited to the electronic medium; solicitation will be available for download via the NAVFAC website at http://esol.navfac.navy.mil. The official plan holders list will be maintained on and can be printed from the website. All prospective offerors and plan rooms are encouraged to register as plan holders on the website. Plan holders lists will only be available from the website. Registering offerors and plan rooms must provide a complete name, complete mailing address and area code and phone number, offeror type (prime contractor, sub contractor, supplier or plan room), email address and size (large business, small business, small disadvantaged business, woman owned small business or other). Notification of any changes (amendments) to the solicitation will be made only on the Internet. It will be the contractor's responsibility to check the website for any posted changes. The RFP will be available on the NAVFAC website on or around 25 April 2000 with a closing date for Step I proposals on 25 May 2000. A Step I pre-proposal conference is tentatively scheduled for 10 May 2000. Interested parties should e-mail Lisa Young at younglm@efdsw.navfac.navy.mil by 03 May 2000 to reserve a seat at the conference. Additional details regarding the Pre-proposal conference will follow under separate CBD announcement.***** Posted 04/07/00 (W-SN442758). (0098)

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