B01 - PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE TO RFP 140M0121R0001_1.docx

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This acquisition is being conducted in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 15. The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), on the behalf of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), is conducting this acquisition to meet the Government’s Requirements Titled: “U.S. Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region – Infrastructure Needs and Impacts.” The BSEE, Acquisition Operations Branch, is the contracting office for this acquisition and the resultant contract administration. All vendors interested in this acquisition must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) located at https://www.sam.gov/SAM/ in order to be considered for award and receive a Government contract. The Government intends to competitively award a Single Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Contract for the Government’s Requirements described herein. Therefore, a solicitation will be issued on an unrestricted basis. The North American Industry Classification System Code 541690 – Scientific & Technical Consulting Services, with a small business size standard of $16.5 Million Dollars, is applicable to the Government’s Requirements. The period of performance of the intended contract is anticipated to consist of one base year and four, one-year options.

BACKGROUND:

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), as mandated by the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act administers exploration and development of energy and mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf.

BOEM is charged with the responsibility of issuing a lease, easement, or right‐of‐way for energy development on the OCS. To inform its management of energy development in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region (the OCS offshore California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii), BOEM has identified a requirement to obtain certain scientific and technical information. There is a need to identify and document available resources for potentially suitable energy development sites. To fulfill the need, BOEM is seeking performance of scientific and technical services, including technical, economic, and policy analyses related to infrastructure needs for offshore energy development. Infrastructure needs may include assessments and requirements of the infrastructure as well as its impacts which may include conflicts and synergies. Infrastructure refers to the aspects of offshore energy development outside of the offshore energy facility itself which may include ports, navigation, transmission, and supply chain.

Understanding infrastructure requirements needed to enable renewable energy development, along with any synergies, co‐benefits, and potential conflicts will help inform BOEM and other agencies’ offshore wind planning and environmental reviews, and enhance inter‐industry negotiations, mitigations, and mutual benefits. These study questions will be addressed under this Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, titled, “U.S. Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region Energy – Infrastructure Needs and Impacts”.

The individual Task Orders (TOs) will be applied to the offshore renewable sector within and adjacent to the Pacific OCS Region to better understand infrastructure needs for offshore energy development.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Contractor shall provide all the services described below. The Government will describe specific services and tasks in individual Task Orders as they arise over the course of the contract. Task Orders will follow the general guidelines in the Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract.

Examples of potential Task Orders addressing infrastructure needs for the Pacific OCS Region may include:

1. A comprehensive assessment on port infrastructure to identify technical solutions or other opportunities for a port improvement plan and estimate costs for the identified improvements. The assessment may address port readiness with respect to draft requirements for offshore wind development and identify additional dredging or other measures to improve and maintain the port navigation.

2. An inter-industry interaction investigation to understand potential interactions, including synergies, co-benefits, and space-use conflicts, by analyzing available data relevant to port industries and offshore wind port infrastructure needs and assessments from previous studies, and by collecting new information including ethnographic methods on other port infrastructure needs

3. A study assessing the other infrastructure needs and modifications, and its associated costs, that will be needed for offshore wind development. Infrastructure needs may include supply chain or delivery of power to the electrical grid.

4. A study assessing infrastructure impacts of infrastructure upgrades on the environment, or with other industries. Impacts may include resilience, job creation, other socioeconomic impacts, and impacts to other industries and user.

HOW TO SHOW INTEREST TO COMPETE FOR A CONTRACT:

If your organization is interested in participating in this acquisition, send your organization’s complete legal name, physical address and DUNS Number as well as your organization’s point of contact’s complete legal name, email address, and telephone number via email to Tae-Won.Eum@bsee.gov by November 23, 2020, 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time.

Any valid organization expressing an interest in this acquisition will receive a copy of the complete solicitation upon issuance.

An interested organization must Reference Solicitation 140M0121R0001 in its response/correspondence.

RESPONSES/CORRESPONDENCES MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING.