Synopsis_Linguist.doc

Synopsis:

This is the pre-solicitation notice for Exercise Planning/Linguist Support services and linguist surge support for USCENTCOM. The contractor will provide a full-time Arabic-speaking Exercise Planner for non-personal service to U.S. Central Command J7 in support of military exercises, table-top planning, staff training events, and senior level seminars. The planner must speak, understand, and write in modern standard Arabic well enough to simultaneously translate English into Arabic during U.S. led plenary sessions with Arabic speaking partner nations. The contractor must have at least four years of exercise planning experience working at the Combatant Command level or higher within the U.S. Department of Defense. Surge support providing additional periodic linguist personnel will be required as dictated by the exercise lead planner throughout all phases of planning and executing USCENTCOM battlestaff, combined joint training exercises, and senior leader seminars.

The performance period is one base year from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 and four one-year option periods. The procurement will be a HUBZone small business set-aside. The applicable North American Industry Classification Systems Code (NAICS) is 541930 (Translation and Interpretation Services) and the related small business size standard is $7 million.

A contract with options will derive from the solicitation. The solicitation is anticipated to be issued on 2 December 2014 and close on 5 January 2015. Notification of any revisions to the solicitation will be provided via the Federal Business Opportunities website at http://www.fbo.gov. Procurement documents will not be directly provided in a paper hard copy format or compact disc format. It is the responsibility of the contractor to check the FBO website daily for any posted revisions made to the solicitation. The solicitation will available for all interested parties to download from the FBO website. The closing date, time, and submission information will be included in the solicitation document. By submission of an offer, the offeror acknowledges that a prospective awardee must be registered in the System for Award Management database at http://www.sam.gov prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract resulting from this solicitation. Lack of registration in the SAM database will make an offeror ineligible for award. The Small Business Specialist, Nelson Escribano can be contacted at (813) 828-0264. Any questions regarding this notice should be directed to Lieutenant Anthony Lee, Contract Manager, e-mail anthony.lee.19@us.af.mil.