Sources Sought Notice.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTIFICATION

Announcement Number: 1305M2-20-NMAN-RHB

Project Title: NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown: Mid-Life Repair Services

The Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO), Eastern Region Acquisition Division (ERAD), in support of the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), is performing market research to determine an acquisition strategy for the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown: Mid-Life Repair

Services. The Ronald H. Brown is an AGOR 24 Class vessel.

OMAO is seeking to identify sources capable of performing the work required on page 2, under the heading “Description of Requirement”.

The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 336611 – Ship

Building and Repairing with a size standard of 1,250 employees.

This Sources Sought is for planning purposes only and is issued in accordance with FAR Provision

52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (OCT 1997), provided at:

https://www.acquisition.gov/.

Solicitations are not available at this time. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response.

This notice does not constitute a commitment by the United States Government and respondents will not be entitled to payment of direct or indirect cost incurred in responding to this Sources

Sought. Responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the

Government to form a binding contract. Any information that the vendor considers proprietary should be clearly marked as such. All interested parties are invited to submit a capability statement, to include a completed questionnaire (Attachment 1), that shall be considered by the agency. The Capability Statement must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NOAA to determine if the party can meet all of the requirements. When submitting, all responses should include the following information:

Name of Company

DUNS Number

Cage Code

Business Size and Type

Address

Point of Contact / Company Representative

Phone Number / Email Address

Responses, questionnaires and capability statements should be submitted via email to the Contract

Specialist, Jessica Loftus (Jessica.Loftus@noaa.gov). All electronic correspondence shall have the subject line read: 1305M2-20-NMAN-RHB: NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown: Mid-Life Repair

Services

Deadline for submission is Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 11:00am EST.

https://www.acquisition.gov/ mailto:Jessica.Loftus@noaa.gov

Description of Requirement

The Ron Brown midlife overhaul modifications are envisioned to be described in work package specifications along with associated contract-level and functional-level design drawings. The specifications and associated drawings are not intended to include every detail of work required to carry out the modifications. The specifications will be developed to varying levels of detail depending on how well the work can be identified and considering the level of risk to cost and schedule of the overall project. The contractor will be responsible for the production-level design of all work packages.

Contract level design is defined as the description of the intent of the work to be completed for a modification. This may include overall system layout and operation or performance requirements.

Equipment sizes will be identified; however, specific equipment may not be called out. Functional level design is defined as complete determination of all engineering decisions. This includes equipment selection and in some cases routing of major system components. Production level design is defined as the complete description of industrial work required to execute a work package. This includes production drawings, definition of exact pipe/cable runs, drawing development, BOM development, etc.

The contractor will be required to obtain the services of a NA/ME firm to conduct production-level engineering.

The mid-life overhaul scope of work will include a vessel repower to include the replacement of the main propulsion system. This is envisioned to require removal of existing propulsion equipment (diesel generator sets, main propulsion motors, propulsion motor drives, propulsion motor cooling units, propulsion and ship service switchboards, etc.) and installation of new propulsion equipment. This will also require removal and installation of auxiliary systems and equipment. The end result of the repower effort will be a fully functional, approved electric propulsion and generation system meeting all applicable ABS, USCG, and SOLAS requirements.

A Single System Vendor, independent from the Contractor, will be required to integrate all re-power related modifications.

Approximate particulars of the Ronald Brown hull form are:

Length Overall: 273’-2”

Beam, Molded Amidships: 52’-6”

Depth, Main Deck at Side, Amidships: 26’-6”

Draft, Load Line, Molded: 17’-0”

Draft, Load Line, Extreme Navigational: 19’-1”

Displacement, at Load Line Draft: 3,528 LTSW

Draft, In Docking Condition, Mean (Est.): 15’-0”

Draft, In Docking Condition, Extreme Navigational (Est.): 17’-0”

Displacement, In Docking Condition (Est.): 2,900 LTSW