NSPIRE_DEMO_Sources_Sought_eBuy_-_FBO.pdf

NSPIRE DEMO SOURCES SOUGHT AND CAPABILITY STATEMENTS

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY

This is not a request for offers, quotes or proposals. This notice does not represent a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract. This is a market research tool only to determine the capability of potential sources.

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT WILL ALSO BE RELEASED ON GSA eBuy and FBO

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is contemplating establishing an task order under GSA Schedule 00CORP – The Professional Services

Schedule (PSS) under Category 871-7 Construction Management and Engineering Consulting

Services Related to Real Property under NAICS Code(s) 236220 – Construction Management

Services (Small Business Standard is $36.5) and 541330 – Engineering Services (Small

Business Standard is $15.0) for Housing Inspection Services and is issuing this Sources

Sought in order to solicit responses from capable sources and capability statements to ensure sufficient competition exists to meet the government’s requirements.

This synopsis is a market research tool being used to determine the availability and capability of potential sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and whether the government will proceed with this acquisition. The Government will not pay for any information solicited. If a contract is ultimately pursued, responses to this Sources Sought will be used to aid in determining whether the acquisition is set-aside for small business or in establishing small business subcontracting goals. All qualified firms are encouraged to respond.

Teaming arrangements and joint ventures will be considered for any subsequent procurement based on the Government's market research.

Please review the FINAL Performance Work Statement (PWS) and provide your feedback to

Kathy Gatewood Clark at Kathy.L.Clark@hud.gov.

BACKGROUND

HUD is looking to move away from its current approach for procuring and managing inspection services to ensure that its inspection procurements comprehensively and timely satisfy its inspection requirements. The current approach requires REAC to undertake extraordinary measures to ensure quality inspections. HUDs overarching objective is for the

Contractor to take the responsibility for the lifecycle of recruiting, training, and monitoring combination inspectors, as well as being responsible for delivering to HUD an inspection product that has been subject to quality management procedures. The current approach to procuring inspections has resulted in a serious backlog of inspections with gaps in in the national level of coverage needed. Additionally, REAC must undertake an unacceptable level of effort and investment to support the current approach, such as:

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1. Recruiting, training, monitoring, mentoring, and developing all inspectors participating in the program;

2. Providing the inspection software used by Contractor to perform the field data collection component of the inspection process;

3. Maintaining multiple divisions of the REAC tasked with oversight and quality management of inspections; AND

4. Managing inspectors on an individual basis, including conducting all necessary quality management functions at the individual level.

The options available to REAC to rectify these issues under the current approach are insufficient. REAC therefore seeks a Contractor with the capabilities to recruit and train its own inspectors that can supply accurate inspection observations, including all support and administrative services that enable the Contractor to perform such work.

OBJECTIVES

REAC is seeking Contractor support to provide engineering consulting services and function as an advisor to the government to assist with conducting a national demonstration supporting the

National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) protocol. The engineering consulting services include; design reviews, inspection and testing services, testing of inspection software, modeling and analysis, facility surveys, research studies, risk mitigation strategy development or reviews, and other related technical consulting services.

APPLICABLE REGULATIONS/MANUALS/DOCUMENTS/PUBLICATIONS

The Contractor shall abide by all applicable regulations, publications, manuals, and policies and procedures in the performance of this contract including, but not limited to the following:

The Contractor shall use inspectors certified by HUD when the contract calls on the Contractor to perform inspections.

The Contractor shall be familiar with all HUD-associated notices and guidance and shall incorporate this guidance into its procedures when performing tasks using HUDs protocol

RESPONSE REQUESTED

Small Businesses are encouraged to respond.

HUD is interested in the capabilities of perspective contractors in the following areas:

The capability statement shall address, at a minimum, the following:

1. Name and address of company and or companies (if there is a teaming arrangement or joint venture);

2. Technical expertise relevant to the requirement and corporate experience relevant to the requirement;

3. Technical approach relevant of the requirement and management approach relevant to the requirement;

4. Indicate if you are a small business or any other socio-economic categories that apply to your firm under the designated NAICS code;

Please take the opportunity to review the attached FINAL PWS to provide comments, questions, relevant information and/or responses to the capabilities HUD stated within this document.

Follow the below submission requirements:

Submission requirements:

1. Page limit capabilities- eight (8) 8 ½ x 11 pages

2. Page limit draft document comments- two (2) 8 ½ x 11 pages

3. 1” margins (top, bottom and sides)

4. Times New Roman font - 12 point

5. Page limitation does not include (1 cover page or 1 letter of introduction page)

6. Do not include promotional materials

Interested firms responding to this market research must provide a capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Governments requirements within the attached FINAL PWS. The capability statement shall be in sufficient enough detail, but not to exceed ten (10) pages TOTAL. The capability statement should provide the enough information so that the Government can determine the experience and capability of your firm to provide the requirements stated within the FINAL PWS.

HUD will also use any comments and questions regarding the FINAL PWS to shape the final

PWS and solicitation documents that will be published if this requirement moves forward. Please specify one primary and one alternate Point of Contact (POC) within your firm, including telephone numbers and email addresses.

Only electronic copies of capability statements will be accepted and should be emailed to:

Kathy.L.Clark@hud.gov. The e-mail shall contain the following subject line: Response to

Sources Sought Notice – NSPIRE DEMO Requirement. The Government may use the responses received to determine whether to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside, or in the absence of a least two small business responses to this notice, may determine to proceed with a full and open competition. This decision and whether to proceed with the acquisition is at the sole discretion of the Government.

All interested Contractors should submit their capability statements by NOON MDT on Friday, May 24, 2019 attention Kathy Gatewood Clark. Late responses will not be considered.