AMC-LEVEL PROTEST PROGRAM and Fort Carson Access.pdf

AMC-LEVEL PROTEST PROGRAM

5152.233-4000 AMC-LEVEL PROTEST PROGRAM (NOV 2008) (LOCAL CLAUSE)

If you have complaints about this procurement, it is preferable that you first attempt to resolve those concerns with the responsible contracting officer. However, you can also protest to Headquarters, AMC. The HQ, AMC-Level Protest Program is intended to encourage interested parties to seek resolution of their concerns within AMC as an Alternative Dispute Resolution forum, rather than filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office or other external forum. Contract award or performance is suspended during the protest to the same extent, and within the same time periods, as if filed at the GAO. The AMC protest decision goal is to resolve protests within 20 working days from filing. To be timely, protests must be filed within the periods specified in FAR 33.103. If you want to file a protest under the AMC-Level Protest Program, the protest must request resolution under that program and be sent to the address below.

All other agency-level protests should be sent to the contracting officer for resolution.

Headquarters U.S. Army Materiel Command

Office of Command Counsel-Deputy Command Counsel

4400 Martin Road

Rm: A6SE040.001

Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000

Fax: (256) 450-8840 or email usarmy.redstone.usamc.mbx.protests@mail.mil

The AMC-Level Protest procedures are found at:

http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/commandcounsel.html.

If internet access is not available, contact the contracting officer or HQ, AMC to obtain the HQ AMC-Level Protest Procedures.

ACCESS TO FORT CARSON

ACQUIRING ACCESS TO FT CARSON

Acquiring Access to Fort Carson Installation (One-Time Service/Supply) Effective 1 May 2015, individuals that do not have a Department of Defense (DoD) Identification (ID) Card and require entry on to Fort Carson Installation will be subjected to a National Crime Information Center Check (NCIC Check). The individual must have a valid U.S. or State issued photo ID, or U.S. Passport to show for proof of identity. If the individual is driving a vehicle, it must have a valid driver’s license with current registration and insurance for the vehicle being driven on the installation. Everyone in the vehicle will be required to go through this process.

1. If the vendor only requires one-time access, then the vendor is highly encouraged to access the base through Gate 3. Gate 3 will perform the NCIC checks. In order for the NCIC check to be performed at the gate:

a. The individual must have a valid U.S. or State issued photo ID, or U.S. Passport to show for identity proof.

b. If the individual is driving a vehicle, it must have a valid driver’s license with current registration and insurance for the vehicle being driven onto the installation c. Foreign National Visitors must present their passport or foreign military identification badge. Foreign National Visitors or Contractors/Vendors must be escorted by a DoD ID card holder at all times while on the installation.

2. All identification presented must meet the requirements of the Real ID Act: The REAL ID Act of 2005 establishes minimum standards for the production and issuance of state issued driver licenses and identification cards which include requirements for a photograph and certain biographic information, such as name, DOB, gender, height, eye color and address. State-issued driver license and identification (ID) cards from states not meeting the standards cannot be used for accessing Federal facilities beginning 10 January 2016, unless the issuing state’s compliancy deadline had been extended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As of 18 September 2020, DHS indicates that Driver Licenses and ID cards for all 50 states are REAL ID compliant. (https://www.dhs.gov/real-id#).

Accepted secondary forms of identification include.

a. U.S. passport or U.S. passport card

b. Permanent Resident Card/Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-551)

c. Foreign passport with a temporary (I-551) stamp or temporary (I-551) printed notation on a machine-readable immigrant visa

d. Employment authorization document that contains a photograph (Form I-766)

e. In the case of a nonimmigrant alien authorized to work for a specific employer incident to status, a foreign passport with Form I-94 or Form I-94A bearing the same name as the passport and containing an endorsement of the person's nonimmigrant status, as long as the endorsement has not yet expired, and the proposed employment is not in conflict with any restrictions or limitation identified on the form.

f. Current/valid driver's license from a REAL ID Act state or a state with a REAL ID Act extension for implementation g. Driver's license or ID card issued by federal or local government agencies meeting REAL ID standards with photo, name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color and address

h. School ID card with photograph

i. U.S military or draft record

j. U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Cards

k. Transportation worker ID card

l. Native American Tribal Document

All persons requesting unescorted access will continue to be vetted through the NCIC not have REAL ID Act compliant form of identification and cannot provide supplemental identity proofing documents, they must be escorted at all times while one the installation The vendor will only be granted access onto Fort Carson Installation if the NCIC III check on the individual shows no disqualifying issues in the check. Gate 3 will allow them to enter the base. If there are disqualifying issues Gate 3 access control will notify the individual contractor that they are being denied access.

https://www.dhs.gov/real-id

The following information can deny an individual entry onto Fort Carson: - The NCIC-III check contains criminal information about the individual that causes the senior commander to determine that the individual presents a potential threat to the good order, discipline, or health and safety of the installation.

- The installation is unable to verify the individual’s claimed identify based on the reasonable belief that the individual has submitted fraudulent information concerning his or her identity in the attempt to gain access. The individual has a current arrest warrant in NCIC, regardless of the offense or violation.

- The individual is currently barred from entry or access to a federal installation or facility.

- The individual has been convicted of crimes encompassing sexual assault, armed robbery, rape, child molestation, production or possession of child pornography, trafficking in humans, drug possession with intent to sell or drug distribution.

- The individual has a U.S. conviction of espionage, sabotage, treason, terrorism or murder.

- The individual is a registered sex offender.

- The individual has been convicted of a felony within the past 10 years, regardless of the offense or violation.

- The individual has been convicted of a felony firearms or explosives violation.

- The individual has engaged in acts or activities designed to overthrow the U.S. Government by force.

- The individual is identified in the Terrorist Screening Data Base (TSDB) as a known to be or suspected of being a terrorist or belonging to an organization with known links to terrorism or support of terrorist activity. Contractors who are denied access on to Fort Carson shall immediately contact the Contracting Officer identified in the contract. If more than a one-day pass is required, contact the Contracting Officer for additional procedures.

See https://www.carson.army.mil/ for the latest guidance for COVID-19 Health Protection Requirements.