NSGB_Q&A__5.pdf

This document contains details regarding a federal contract opportunity for regularly scheduled commercial liner service between Jacksonville/Blount Island, Florida and U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, a component of the United States Transportation Command, requires containerized and breakbulk cargo transportation on a fixed schedule with a minimum of seventy 20-foot equivalent units and 2000 square feet of breakbulk cargo capacity on southbound sailings, and thirty 20-foot equivalent units and 1000 square feet of breakbulk cargo capacity on northbound sailings. Transit times must not exceed seven days southbound or eighteen days northbound. The agency intends to award a firm-fixed-price requirements contract with economic price adjustment to a VISA participant vessel owning/operating carrier for a one-year base period and four one-year options. As a small business set-aside, the applicable NAICS code is 483111 with a size standard of 500 employees. The pre-proposal conference is scheduled for March 21, 2018 and proposals are due in response to a solicitation to be issued on or around March 7, 2018.