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AFICC 773 ESS/PK- EXPEDITIONARY/ CONTINGENCY MEDICAL MATERIAL (ECMM) SERVICES

Air Force Expeditionary/ Contingency Medical Material (ECMM) Services – ECMM Services

General Information

Classification Code: R706 – SUPPORT – MANAGEMENT: LOGISTICS SUPPORT

NAICS Code: 541614 – Process Physical Distribution & Logistics Consulting Services

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)/ SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT to conduct market research relative to the Expeditionary/Contingency Medical Material Services – ECMM requirement. This RFI announcement is NOT a Request for Proposal (RFP) and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. The information from this RFI is for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract.

General Intent

The Air Force is looking to award a single contract to facilitate this requirement. This market research is being conducted to assist in determining the best acquisition strategy for the subject service. Any information regarding contract type, commercial practices, and specifications are requested and being considered for the development of the solicitation.

This announcement is targeted for all qualified businesses that can perform the services as stated in the Performance Work Statement (PWS); responses from all interested parties are appreciated and accepted.

Description

This is a non-personal services contract. The purpose of the Expeditionary / Contingency Medical Material (ECMM) Program is to provide qualified personnel, services, and expertise to provide analytical and management support, medical logistics support, and general warehousing services to assemble, manage, support, maintain, repair, calibrate, deploy, reconstitute, and sustain ECMM assemblages (including components) in pre-determined and standardized configurations. An assemblage is an authorized (and approved) allowance listing of equipment and supplies (medical and non-medical) which are necessary to equip, operate, maintain, and provide health service support activities across a full range of military and humanitarian operations. The contractor will provide support/services to staffed and unstaffed United States Air Force (USAF), Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), Air National Guard (ANG), United States Army (USA), and the JANUS Project (not an acronym) installations within the CONUS and OCONUS Theater of Operations. This includes the possibility for temporary surge in operations/workload for contingency, humanitarian, and base exercises.

The contract period of performance will be from 01 March 2025 to 28 February 2030, with a base year + four (4) 12-month option periods and one 6-month extension option.

If not approved, the Government will not be able to provide equivalent or comparable services for prepositioned medical materiel for the AFRC, ANG, USAMMA, and JANUS Project at locations assigned by each agency. Execution of services will require maintaining a staffing solution (on-site staffing and travel support) able to meet acute mission requirements at various locations. The ECMM contract is mission essential to the success of contingency medical services and completing this requirement with General Schedule employees or military service personnel is not a viable option as the scope and scale of this program exceeds manpower authorized on stakeholders’ Unit Manpower Documents.

This requirement will utilize standard commercial terms and condition in accordance with FAR Part 12. Negotiation will be necessary to ensure receipt of the best value for the Government.

Background

The initial ECMM contract was maintained by the Army Medical Command. In October of 2015, The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency established a Medical Enterprise Support Plan to provide contracting support to the Air Force medical Service in 2018 and began the primary contracting agency for Air Force Medical Portfolio, Category 10. ECMM was developed as a requirement to support Air Force Medical Services (AFMS). The requirements for ECMM include in-garrison maintenance of War Reserve Materiel (WRM) at various Consolidated Storage and Deployment Centers (CSDCs) both in-garrison and travel maintenance and logistical support throughout the continental United States. In addition, ECMM has provided Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to staffed sites in support of performing annual inventories, equipment, production, sustainment, deployment, reconstitution, and maintenance operations for WRM, Force Health Protection (FHP), Home Station Medical Response (HSMR), Army APS and Army UDP.

This requirement is currently under contract FA8003-21-C-0004 as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. In accordance with NAICS 493110, General Warehousing and Distribution, this requirement is primarily to provide analytical and management support, medical logistics support, and warehousing services to assemble, manage, support, maintain, repair, calibrate, deploy, reconstitute, modernize, and sustain ECMM assemblages (including components) in pre-determined and standardized configurations. These services will support staffed and unstaffed USAF, AFRC, ANG, Army, and JANUS installations within the CONUS and OCONUS Theater of Operations.

The current contract also provides inventory, equipment, and training services to MTFs and support to a classified mission out of the 88th Medical Group, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The contractor shall provide medical equipment preventive maintenance, calibration, and repair on-support to 90 Air National Guard (ANG) Medical Units located within the 54 states and territories to include the newest MDG located in Guam.

Information Requested

The AFICA 773d Enterprise Sourcing Squadron (773 ESS) is seeking responses to the questions listed below. Please provide your responses on company letterhead to the Point of Contact (POC) identified at the end of this RFI.

1. Please provide your company’s name, mailing address, Cage Code, Unique Enitty ID, Point of Contact (POC), telephone number and e-mail address. Please also provide the name of the company’s Parent Company, if applicable.

2. Please provide your business size status (i.e. 8(a) Business Development Small Business Certification, Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), Woman- Owned Small Business (WOSB) or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDCOSB), Small Business, Large Business, etc.) under NAICS 519130. *If you are under the 8(a) program, please identify when you graduate from the program.

3. Given the nature of the work described in the PWS, if you feel another NAICS code better fits this requirement, please identify that.

4. Has your company had experience with this type of service, and/or at this magnitude in the last 5 years?

5. Based on the PWS, do you have enough information to provide an accurate proposal? If not, what additional information can the Government provide to assist you in creating a more accurate proposal?

6. Identify any factors that likely contribute risk or uncertainty to developing a contractor proposal for this proposed requirement. Please rate any factors you identify as either high or low regarding the degree of risk to the contractor. For the high risk drivers, please explain why the risk is high and suggest how the Air Force might mitigate or reduce this risk.

7. Do any components of the PWS conflict with standard industry practice? If so, please describe.

8. Would your company be interested in participating in this solicitation?

Please provide any additional questions, comments, concerns, etc. you have concerning this proposed acquisition. Provide feedback on whether the objectives, requirements, and other information presented in the PWS are clear, achievable within the proposed period of contract, and provide suggested changes, as appropriate.

Format of Responses

Limit RFI responses to 10, single-sided, single-spaced pages. The font for text should be Times New Roman 12-point or larger. The Responder may use oversized pages (including “foldouts”) where appropriate to contain graphic presentations. Oversized pages do not count as extra pages within the page limitations. Submitted responses should be in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format. Existing commercial documentation and product literature can also be submitted and is not subject to a page limitation. Responses must be unclassified and any proprietary information provided must be marked accordingly. To protect such data, each line or paragraph on the pages containing such data must be specifically identified and marked with a legend similar to the following:

“The following contains proprietary information that (name of Responder) requests not be released to persons outside the Government, except for the purposes of review and evaluation.”

Interested parties must send their responses to this RFI, no later than (NLT) 1600 (4:00 p.m. Central Standard Time), 5 August 2024 to theresa.jackson.5@us.af.mil and eric.oliver.5@us.af.mil.

Disclaimer – This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise reimburse the responder for information submitted as a result of this RFI. The Government reserves the right to use the information provided by any respondent for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Information submitted will become the property of the Government. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation.