NSGB_Q&A__4.pdf

This document outlines a federal contract opportunity for sealift transportation services between Jacksonville/Blount Island, Florida and Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command requires regularly scheduled commercial liner service of containerized and breakbulk cargo with a minimum of seventy 40-foot containers including twenty refrigerated, and two thousand square feet of breakbulk per southbound sailing, and thirty containers including two refrigerated and one thousand square feet of breakbulk per northbound sailing. Sailings must occur every fourteen days on a fixed day of the week basis, with transit times of seven days southbound and eighteen days northbound. The contract will be a firm-fixed-price requirements contract with economic price adjustment for one base year and four option years, solicited using a small business set-aside with a NAICS code of 483111 and size standard of 500. The government anticipates a pre-proposal conference on March 21, 2018 and proposals due by early March 2018.