Sources Sought - Comprehensive Pavement Data Collection.pdf

AFICC 772 Enterprise Sourcing Squadron

SOURCES SOUGHT (SS)

THIS NOTICE IS ISSUED AS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR

INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. This notice DOES NOT constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), Invitation for Bid (IFB), solicitation, or package requesting technical competencies/qualifications of the prospective contractor, nor does it represent any commitment by the Government. Since this is a SS announcement, no evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement nor does this obligate the Government to award a contract. No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a bid package or solicitation. A solicitation does not presently exist. The Air Force will not accept or acknowledge emails over 5MB, brochures, samples, catalogs, and any other marketing solicitation information.

The Government is performing market research primarily to determine if there are firms that possess the capability to execute the requirements of this SS. Therefore, we further invite all business concerns to provide a capability statement in response to this requirement. Prospective contractors shall be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) prior to award of any Federal Government contract. Contractors are encouraged to obtain further information on SAM registration at the following website:

https://www.sam.gov/

If your firm would be interested in such work, you are strongly encouraged to submit a capability statement that addresses as a minimum the questions presented within this announcement and submitted to the points of contact listed below by the due date. The Government does not intend to rank submittals or provide any reply to interested firms. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541330 – Engineering Services, is applicable to this acquisition. The small business size standard for this NAICS is $25.5 Million.

Following submissions of a capability package, the United States Air Force (USAF) representatives may choose to engage in additional communications with selected respondents only intended to support market research for further clarification of industry capability to meet requirements.

The Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) Operations Directorate, Asset Visibility Division (COA) has a requirement for 100 percent inspection, comprehensive distress identification and analysis, and supplemental non-destructive data collection for all primary and secondary ranked airfield pavements at Keesler AFB, MS as indicated by Attachment 1. The contractor shall provide all necessary engineering, GIS, software, technology and related services, including Quality Control, required to collect, store, deliver, and analyze pavement distress data, various pavement attributes, pavement images, and data from all other specified sources, in accordance with (IAW) the Performance Work Statement (PWS). As part of this effort, the contractor will provide both a Software Viewing Tool and Software Data Processing https://www.sam.gov/ and Management Application to be hosted on the United States Government’s (USG) secure cloud platform. The contractor will subsequently provide raw collected data to the Data Processing and Management Application, and all post-processed data, indices, and other measures of interest in the Data Processing and Management Application and/or Software Viewing Tool.

Contractors who can provide these services are requested to identify if they are interested and submit in writing an affirmative response which includes as a minimum the following information:

a. Name, address, UEI/CAGE and point of contact to include telephone number and email address of your company.

b. Based on your professional experience in the private sector, would you consider this requirement to coincide with product/services provided in the commercial market?

c. Specify your business type; large business, small business, small disadvantaged business, 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business, HUBZone small business, woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business based upon NAICS 541330. Specify all that apply.

d. Provide an additional NAICS code with justification that you would recommend as being more applicable.

e. Would your firm propose on this project as a prime contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s), prime contractor with team member subcontractor(s), or a joint venture? If you have proposed a joint venture, identify to the extent possible, your team members. Identify the business size of your team members or joint venture firms. If a teaming arrangement is planned, give details to the extent practicable on how the team will likely be composed. See FAR subpart 9.6 for Government policy on teaming arrangements and 8(a) Program regulations described in 13 CFR 124.513.

f. Identify any projects completed in the past five (5) years for the same or similar scope to help determine your firm’s capability in meeting the requirement for the items listed in the attached documents. Include any Government contracts (Federal, State, or local) you have been awarded for this type of requirement. Also, include the contract number and a Government point of contact. Identify if your company was the prime contractor or a subcontractor for these projects.

g. Is this service available on a GSA Schedule? If so, please provide the GSA Contract number and NAICS/special item number. If GSA is in the process of awarding a schedule for this service please provide the GSA point of contact name and phone number.

h. Interested firms are encouraged to provide suggestions on services that can be included on this SS to improve the development for this requirement.

All responsible sources are encouraged to submit a capability statement response to this announcement. All questions and responses shall be submitted electronically to Mrs. Lisa Jones at lisa.jones.31@us.af.mil and Mrs. Ann Gladden at geraldine.gladden@us.af.mil no later than Friday, 26 April 2024 @ 2:00 PM CDT. Responses shall be no more than 15 pages (single spaced, front and back, no smaller than Times New Roman, font size 12 or equivalent). If submissions exceed the page count noted, the Government will only review the first 15 pages and disregard the remainder of the submission. Extraneous materials (brochures, manuals, etc.)

will not be considered.

The Government does not intend to rank submittals or provide any reply to firms as it relates to the Government's review of the data submitted in response to this announcement.

LIST OF ATTACHMENTS:

1. Draft PWS – Comprehensive Pavement Data Collection – Pilot Project mailto:lisa.jones.31@us.af.mil mailto:geraldine.gladden@us.af.mil