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SECTION SF 30 BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

The following items are applicable to this modification:

AMENDMENT BODY

The purpose of this amendment is to:

1) Revise the basis for award language under FAR 52.212-2(b). 52.212-2(b) now contains the following language:

An overall ‘Acceptable’/’Unacceptable’ rating will be assigned to each of the non-price Factors as a result of the source selection evaluation. Price will not be adjectively rated.

Offerors must be found ‘Acceptable’ in each non-price Factor to be considered for award. Any offerors rated ‘Unacceptable’ for any non-price Factor may be excluded from the competitive range.

2) Add personnel qualifications for a Data Systems Management Specialist under Attachment 15. Attachment 15 now contains the following requirements for a Data Systems Management Specialist:

Minimum Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree in business, technical, or engineering field

· 3 years technical experience relevant to maritime logistics systems and data management

· 2 years experience in maintaining Oracle or Sybase Relational Data Management Systems database (RDBMS) using ANSI SQL applications, or similar commercial softwares.

· 1 year experience developing enterprise logistics data analysis/studies

· 1 year experience executing ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy /Coast Guard/Commercial databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

3) Revise the proposal page instructions under 52.212-1 Addendum. 52.212-1 Addendum now contains the following language:

Each volume of the proposal shall be clearly marked as to the volume number, the solicitation number, and the Contractor’s name. It is permissable to include a title page, table of contents, list of figures, and glossary of acronyms at the start of Volume I and Volume II, outside of all page limitations.

4) Revise Section ii.1.c. of the Technical Experience requirements under 52.212-1 Addendum. Section ii.1.c. of the Technical Experience requirements now contains the following language:

c. Acquisition/Transfer of Ships

5) Revise Section 3.35 of the Performance Work Statement to reference Section 6.15 of Attachment 12. Section 3.35 of the Performance Work Statement now contains the following language:

3.35 Provide Fleet Assist (FA) Support

The Contractor shall provide Fleet Assist (FA) support to (1) resolve ad-hoc problems that are beyond the capability of the ship’s crew (examples are in Section 6.15 of Attachment 12)

6) Add a Mission Essential Contractor Services worksheet (Attachment 25) and revise DFARS 252.237-7023 and 252.237-7024 to reference Attachment 25. DFARS 252.237-7023 (c)(1) now contains the following language:

(c)(1) The Mission-Essential Contractor Services Plan submitted by the Contractor (using Attachment 25), is incorporated in this contract.

DFARS 252.237-7024(b) now contains the following language:

(b) The offeror shall provide with its offer a written plan (using Attachment 25) describing how it will continue to perform the essential contractor services described in the Performance Work Statement under Sections 3.0 Fleet Sustainment Support, 4.0 Logistics Systems, Data Management, Facilities and Business Services, 5.0 Combat Logistics Force (CLF) Load Management, 6.0 Ordnance Management, and 7.0 Supply Chain Management.

7) Revise the personnel requirements under 52.212-1 Addendum and Attachment 15 so that a GED may be used as an equivalent to a high school diploma.

8) Delete the "key personnel" label from Purchase/Financial Data Analyst and Business Process Analyst labor categories under Attachment 15.

All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

SECTION SF 1449 - CONTINUATION SHEET

The following have been modified:

52.212-1 ADDENDUM

Proposals shall be only hand delivered or mailed.

Hand delivered and mailed proposals shall be sent to the following location and must be received there prior to the due date and time for proposal submission:

Military Sealift Command

Attention: Mr. Troy Francis, Code N1022

914 Charles Morris Ct., SE, Building 157

Washington Navy Yard, DC 20398-5540

Access to the Washington Navy Yard is restricted. Offerors and couriers and other delivery services may encounter unpredictable and lengthy delays or denied access when attempting to enter that facility. Similarly, mailed proposals may encounter unpredictable and lengthy routing delays. In all cases, Offerors are responsible for the risks associated with the chosen delivery method and for ensuring that the Government receives the complete proposal at the appropriate designated location prior to the due date and time for proposal submission.

Proposals shall be presented in two (2) separately bound volumes:

· Volume I (Technical)

· Volume II (Past Performance, Price, and Solicitation Documents)

Three hard copies of Volume I and one hard copy of Volume II shall be provided. Additionally, one electronic copy each of Volume I and Volume II shall be provided. The electronic copies shall be in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF) and shall be provided on a CD. If there is a discrepancy between the hard copy and the electronic copy, the hard copy will prevail. Volume I shall not contain any pricing data.

Each volume of the proposal shall be clearly marked as to the volume number, the solicitation number, and the Contractor’s name. It is permissable to include a title page, table of contents, list of figures, and glossary of acronyms at the start of Volume I and Volume II, outside of all page limitations VOLUME 1: Technical The Technical Volume shall include a section for (1) Technical Experience, (2) Key Personnel, and (3) Quality Management System in accordance with the requirements below:

(1) Technical Experience (shall be limited to thirty (30) 8.5” x 11” pages, 1-inch page margins, and 12-point font): The offeror shall demonstrate that its company meets the minimum experience requirements. The offeror shall not simply rephrase the requirements below, but instead provide relevant maritime (e.g., MSC, Navy, Coast Guard or Commercial Industry) examples and references to demonstrate how it meets the requirements. Key Personnel experience, subcontractor experience, or partner experience may apply in an offeror’s ability to meet the technical experience minimum requirements. Each example of technical experience that is provided must include the following:

a. Length of the effort (including approximate start and end dates).

b. Maritime related customer/point(s) of contact.

c. Brief description of the services provided, and explanation of how that effort is relevant to the corresponding minimum requirement.

d. The technical experience information provided by the offeror must meet the following three minimum requirements (Fleet Sustainment Support, Logistics and Data Management Services, Supply Chain Management) as follows:

1) Fleet Sustainment Support in a maritime environment (e.g., MSC, Navy, Coast Guard or Commercial Industry). The offeror shall demonstrate at least four years of cumulative Fleet Sustainment Support experience. Within its response for Fleet Sustainment Support, the offeror must include at least one relevant example of experience for each item below (i.e., “a”, “b”,…).

i. Logistics Maintenance Support

1. Specification Development Support

a. Develop logistics requirements to be included in ship overhaul work packages.

b. Assist Port Engineers with research and technical analysis to determine form, fit, and function of replacement equipment. Review the replacement equipment specifications to determine impact on baseline configuration and initial outfitting spares.

c. Identify applicable Military Specifications (MILSPECS), technical drawings, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) / Coast Guard standards or commercial specifications for marine equipment.

d. Determine part sources of supply, availability and price from DoD Supply System, commercial vendors, customer fleet inventory or customer warehouses inventory.

2. Equipment Life Cycle

a. Develop equipment standardization options to maximize equipment performance based on current equipment baseline installed onboard the target ship or ship class.

b. Identify logistics information such as Allowance Parts Lists (APLs), Allowance Equipage Lists (AELs) or Allowance Appendix Pages (AAP) used for ship overhaul work item(s).

c. Identify planned equipment alterations to be included in overhaul work package.

3. Maritime Upgrade (MARUP), Service Life Extension Program (SLEP), Regular Overhaul (ROH), Mid-Term Availability (MTA) and Post-Shakedown Availability (PSA) Support

a. Provide status of logistics information required from overhaul shipyard including technical manuals/drawings, configuration changes and part requisitions.

b. Update configuration baseline based on shipyard data.

c. Perform sample equipment validation and inventory.

d. Monitor the delivery of Government Furnished Material.

e. Monitor material issued from shipboard storeroom to shipyard to support industrial work.

f. Track repairable end items to ensure customer maintenance and billing are correct.

g. Support customer equipment and parts obsolescence program.

h. Provide supply training to shipboard personnel using the various modules in ShipCLIP, or similar commercial software, to perform configuration management, inventory management and supply management.

ii. Ship Logistics Transition Support

1. Ship Activation/Deactivation/Acquisition/Transfer Support Services

a. Activations - conduct equipment validations and storeroom inventories. Update configuration and inventory data in CMLS, or similar commercial software.

b. Deactivations - conduct repair parts offload and screen against customer fleet shortages.

c. Acquisition/Transfer of Ships

i. equipment and system validations

ii. on-load/off-load material; repackage, re-label, and verify special material management data

iii. Review acquisition data from Material and Equipment Real-time Information Network (MERLIN) and Real-time Outfitting Management Information System (ROMIS-MMS), or similar commercial software, to include configuration, bill of material, allowances and inventory.

iv. Review initial outfitting buylists to include repair parts, equipage and consumables.

2) Logistics and Data Management Services in a maritime environment (e.g., MSC, Navy, Coast Guard or Commercial Industry). The offeror shall demonstrate at least four years of cumulative Logistics Systems and Data Management Services experience. Within its response for Logistics Systems and Data Management Services, the offeror must include at least one example of experience for each item below (i.e., “1”, “2”,…).

i. Configuration Baselines

1. Process and maintain quality of data for ship class functional and installed configuration baselines to support new construction, ship transfers (from Navy, commercial industry or other agencies) or life-cycle ship availabilities.

2. Analyze ship classes to determine inconsistencies with configuration baseline.

ii. Ship Initialization –

1. Map data from external government/commercial systems/data sources to CMLS, or similar commercial software, to initialize new ships to the customer fleet.

2. Initialize new ship by loading Functional and Installed Configuration Baseline, Storeroom and Operating Storeroom allowances, Inventory, Bill of Material (Allowance Parts List/Allowance Equipage List) and Technical Manual/Drawing data.

iii. Data Maintenance –

1. Maintain an enterprise configuration management system that supports several ship classes.

2. Maintain relevant logistics information including National Stock Number (NSN), NSN Substitute and Replacement, Unit Price, Unit of Issue, Vendor, Demand and Technical/Drawing data.

3. Develop ad hoc data responses to inquiries from customer to include, but not be limited to, readiness posture, excess/shortage class comparisons, and installed baseline comparisons.

iv. Feedback –

1. Review Configuration Change Request, Allowance Change Request and Fleet Coordinated Shipboard Allowance List (COSAL) Request and determine proper support.

2. Apply results of feedback review to ship and/or ship class in enterprise configuration management system and modify affected data records.

3) Supply Chain Management in a Marine Equipment environment. The offeror shall demonstrate at least four years of cumulative Supply Chain Management experience. Within its response for Supply Chain Management, the offeror must include at least one example of experience for each item below (i.e., “1”, “2”,…).

i. Material and Ordnance Handling Equipment (MHE/OHE)

1. Provide support to manage MHE and OHE ashore and afloat to support customer operations. This includes configuration management and oversight of maintenance and repair of MHE/OHE ashore and afloat.

2. Provide research results of MHE/OHE vehicle design, batteries, battery chargers or maintenance programs to determine ship applicability.

3. Interface directly with customer Port Engineers, Chief Engineers, other engineering staff or Navy personnel.

ii. Supply Chain Material Management Procurement Expediting

1. Provide support to the supply chain to ensure the expeditious processing of high priority material ordering and tracking to support ship overhaul and repairs, deployment load outs, ship transfers, or reactivation/deactivation efforts.

2. Assist with the management and expediting of standard (supply system) and non-standard (open market) requisitions for customer fleet operating tempo and repairs.

3. Validate supply chain documentation requiring sole source justification and coordinate with customer to ensure all documentation requirements are valid and complete. Perform technical edit screening of shipboard open purchase requests. Initiate shipment requests and track shipping status.

(2) Key Personnel The offeror shall provide the following resumes (using Attachment 14 – Resume Format):

Program Manager – 1 Resume

Project Manager – 2 Resumes

Logistician – 1 Resume

Senior Data Systems Management Specialist – 1 Resume

Senior ILS/Configuration Analyst – 4 Resumes

ILS/Configuration Analyst – 2 Resumes

Senior Supply Management Analyst –2 Resumes

For each resume, offerors must state whether the key personnel is currently employed by the offeror or not. If not, the offeror must provide a signed Letter of Intent for each proposed key personnel who is not employed by the offeror.

Resumes must demonstrate that the individual meets the minimum technical requirements. The following table shows the minimum technical requirements for each key personnel category.

Required #

Key Resumes Labor

Category Minimum Requirements

Manager

(Key Personnel) Minimum Requirements

· Bachelors degree in a business, technical, or engineering field;

· Certification as Project Management Professional;

· 15 years experience in conducting analyses, studies, or projects in the fields of marine supply and logistics;

· 10 years combined experience in ship acquisition support, fleet sustainment support, logistics systems/data management or supply chain management;

· 5 years experience in managing contracts of a scope and complexity similar to that of this contract;

· 4 years logistics shipboard experience for MSC, Navy, Coast Guard or the commercial maritime industry.

(key personnel) Minimum Requirements

· Bachelors degree in a business, technical, or engineering field

· Certification as Project Management Professional

· 8 years experience in conducting analyses, studies, or projects in the fields of marine supply and logistics

· 4 years experience in one of these disciplines: fleet sustainment support, logistics systems/data management or supply chain management

· 2 years experience in managing projects with at least 10 personnel in one of these disciplines: fleet sustainment support, logistics systems/data management or supply chain management

· 2 years logistics afloat experience for MSC, Navy, Coast Guard or a commercial ship operator.

· 5 years experience with ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy /Coast Guard/Commercial databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

· Bachelor’s degree in business, technical, or engineering field

· A total 8 years of experience in asset life cycle management and associated integrated logistics support (design to disposal), maritime operational logistics, or enterprise-wide supply chain management

· 4 years experience in the development of logistics plans, business cases or formal studies

· 4 years experience with ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy/Coast Guard/Commercial databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

(key personnel) Minimum Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree in business, technical, or engineering field

· 10 years technical experience relevant to maritime logistics systems and data management

· 3 years experience in maintaining Oracle or Sybase Relational Data Management Systems database (RDBMS) using ANSI SQL applications, or similar commercial softwares.

· 4 years experience developing enterprise logistics data analysis/studies

· 2 years experience in performing data management activities that affect remote locations using data replication

· 4 years experience executing ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy /Coast Guard/Commercial databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

Minimum Requirements

· High school diploma or GED

· 12 years of experience providing ship acquisition or fleet sustainment logistics support services to MSC, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, or commercial ship operating companies, to include all of the following:

· Equipment provisioning and allowance modeling to support preventative (planned), corrective (unplanned), and alterative (e.g. TRANSALTs, MACHALTs, etc) maintenance.

· Sourcing of material from commercial and federal sectors.

· Development and maintenance of ship configuration baselines and equipment/systems top-down breakdown/hierarchical relationships.

· Marine engineering system functionality, components, and associated Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) elements to support planned/unplanned maintenance.

· Ship repair planning and specification development processes

· Marine engineering system preventative and corrective maintenance

· 6 years experience executing ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy/Coast Guard/Commercial databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

(key personnel) Minimum Requirements

· High school diploma or GED

· 8 years of experience providing ship acquisition or fleet sustainment logistics support services to MSC, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, or commercial ship operating companies, to include all of the following:

· Equipment provisioning and allowance modeling to support preventative (planned), corrective (unplanned), and alterative (e.g. TRANSALTs, MACHALTs, etc) maintenance.

· Sourcing of material from commercial and federal sectors.

· Development and maintenance of ship configuration baselines and equipment/systems top-down breakdown/hierarchical relationships.

· Marine engineering system functionality, components, and associated Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) elements to support planned/unplanned maintenance.

· Ship repair planning and specification development processes

· Marine engineering system preventative and corrective maintenance.

3 years experience executing ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy /Coast Guard databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

Minimum Requirements

· High school diploma or GED

· 12 years of experience providing ship acquisition or fleet sustainment logistics support services to MSC, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, or commercial ship operating companies, to include all of the following:

· Afloat supply financial and inventory management.

· Material identification and sourcing material from commercial and federal sources.

· Material order submission, tracking, and expediting using DoD and Navy MILSTRIP requisition transactions.

· Material shipping, monitoring, tracing, and tracking using both commercial sources and the Defense Transportation System (DTS) for CONUS and OCONUS delivery.

· Identifying, analyzing, auditing, and developing requirements for the acquisition of logistics information in support of planned maintenance, industrial assistance, equipment alterations, and removals.

· Reviewing, interpreting, and auditing acquisition documentation, specifications, technical manuals, vendor supplies data, vendor purchase orders, shipboard feedback, and other available technical information.

· Conducting shipboard inventories, developing storeroom mock-ups, layout, and supporting material on-loads and off-loads.

· Conducting ashore inventories. Performing causative research for inventory gains or losses.

· Auditing, updating, analyzing, and determining shipboard inventory management posture.

6 years experience executing ship acquisition and fleet sustainment support services utilizing any of the following systems: MSC/Navy /Coast Guard/Commercial databases/systems such as CLIP/CMLS, ShipCLIP, WinMASP, NTCSS, CDMD-OA, SCLSIS, MERLIN, Inter-Active Computer Aided Provisioning System (ICAPS) or IHS Haystack.

(3) Quality Management System (QMS).

Offerors shall submit (a) or (b) to meet the minimum requirement for this section:

(a) A copy of its ISO 9001:2008 certificate.

Or

(b) A statement certifying that its QMS has been accepted by a Government agency under a previous contract effort (include contract number) and that its QMS addresses the following topics: Control of Documents; Customer Focus; Management Review; Competence, training and awareness; Purchasing Process; Customer Property; Internal Audits; Control of nonconforming product; Corrective Action; Preventive Action. Offerors need not provide a copy of its QMS with its proposals.

VOLUME II: PAST PERFORMANCE, PRICE, and SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS

FACTOR 2 – PAST PERFORMANCE:

Offerors are requested to provide information on up to three previous Government contracts whose effort is/was recent and relevant to the effort required by this solicitation.

a. “Recent” is defined as a contract in-progress or completed within the last three years. If the offeror has not had three Government contracts within the last three years, information on recent and relevant subcontracts and/or commercial contracts may be submitted.

b. “Relevant” is defined as a contract that is of similar scope, magnitude, and complexity to the requirements as set forth in this solicitation.

i. Scope: Experience in the areas defined in the PWS.

ii. Magnitude: The measure of the similarity of the volume, dollar value and duration of the work actually performed under the offeror’s submitted contracts to the PWS.

iii. Complexity: The measure of the similarity of technical difficulty, managerial intricacy and/or required coordination of efforts and disciplines performed by the offeror in its submitted contracts to the PWS. For complexity, not only will the tasks performed by the offeror be considered, but also the offeror’s ability to coordinate tasks (e.g., concurrent performance requirements).

A Past Performance Data Sheet (Attachment 19) is requested to be submitted for each contract to be considered as past performance. Offerors shall provide a detailed explanation demonstrating the similarity of the contracts to the requirements of this solicitation; a detailed description of the work performed for the contract; and the role performed, including whether the offeror acted as a prime contractor or a subcontractor.

For each of the contracts the offeror describes in a Performance Data Sheet (Attachment 19), the offeror is requested to provide a Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment 18) to a reference at the organization that awarded the contract. It is requested that the reference, not the offeror, email or fax the completed Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment 18) BEFORE THE DUE DATE FOR PROPOSALS directly to Troy Francis, Military Sealift Command, 914 Charles Morris Court SE, Washington Navy Yard DC 20398-5540, e-mail: troy.francis@navy.mil; Fax Number: (202) 685-5935. The offeror, NOT THE GOVERNMENT, is responsible for ensuring that the Government receives a sufficient number of questionnaires.

All offerors are requested to address historical compliance with the requirements of FAR Part 52.219-8 (Utilization of Small Business Concerns) in the Performance Data Sheet (Attachment 19). In addition, large businesses are requested to address historical compliance with the requirements of FAR Part 52.219-9 (Small Business Subcontracting Plan) and DFARS 252.219-7003 (Small Business Subcontracting Plan, DOD Requirements.) in the Performance Data Sheet (Attachment 19).]

An offeror that does not have recent and relevant past performance to provide for consideration is requested to affirmatively state that it does not have recent and relevant past performance for the Government to consider.

FACTOR 3 – PRICE:

All information relating to price data shall be included in Volume II.

Price Worksheet

Offerors shall complete the attached Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (Attachment 20). Offerors shall fill in the labor rate for each corresponding labor category for the base year and for each option period. Offerors shall provide fully loaded labor rates, inclusive of all direct costs, indirect costs, and profit. Offerors shall also include its proposed formula for overtime rates.

SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS

Section A – Proposal Cover Letter

The following information shall be provided in the proposal cover letter:

Authorized Offeror Personnel: Provide the name, title, telephone number, facsimile number, and e-mail address of the individual who can obligate your company contractually. Also, identify those individuals authorized to negotiate with the Government and who can answer questions regarding your proposal.

Company Information: The name, address, telephone number, Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number, and Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code of the offeror.

Agreement with Terms: A statement specifying the extent of agreement with all terms, conditions, and provisions included in the solicitation. Offerors are to clearly detail any exceptions taken and the rationale for the exceptions taken to the solicitation. Exceptions taken to the solicitation may render the proposal unacceptable to the Government.

Section B – Signed SF 1449, Acknowledge Amendments (if applicable), and Other Documents

Offerors shall provide the following:

1) Signed SF 1449

2) Completed Representations and Certifications. Offerors must complete all applicable Representations and Certifications, including FAR 52.212-3. Offerors must also complete all applicable provisions, including FAR 52.209-7.

3) Acknowledgement of all solicitation amendments. Offerors must acknowledge all solicitation amendments.

4) Completed Form DD254 (Attachment 17) with applicable CAGE code

5) Completed Form SF LLL (Attachment 21)

6) Service Contract Act (SCA) Certification. The offeror shall certify that it will comply with the Service Contract Act and Department of Labor Wage Determination (Attachment 24) in performance of this contract, should they apply.

7) Mission-Essential Contractor Services Plan. In accordance with DFARS 252.237-7023 and 252.237-7024, all offerors shall submit a Mission-Essential Contractor Services Plan and complete and provide Attachment 23 to the RFP.

8) Small Business Subcontracting Plan. In accordance with FAR 52.219-9 (Class Deviation 2013-O0014)(Aug 2013) and DFARS 252.219-7003 (Class Deviation 2013-O0014)(Aug 2013), large business offerors shall submit a Small Business Subcontracting Plan with their proposal. Offerors shall ensure that they submit a Small Business Subcontracting Plan with all of the information required by FAR 52.219-9 (Class Deviation 2013-O0014)(Aug 2013).

In preparing the Small Business Subcontracting Plan, offerors should note that historical compliance with FAR 52.219-8 and FAR 52.219-9 (Class Deviation 2013-O0014)(Aug 2013) may be evaluated as part of Past Performance in future source selections.

A subcontracting plan is NOT REQUIRED from small business concerns and will not be evaluated.

QUESTIONS

Questions regarding this solicitation shall be submitted by e-mail to Mr. Troy Francis, email: troy.francis@navy.mil. The deadline for questions is 15 days prior to the due date for proposals. Questions received after the deadline may not be answered.

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

The Commander, Military Sealift Command (COMSC), in his role as single Department of Defense (DOD) manager for sea transportation, operates a worldwide command and a Government-owned fleet of approximately 116 ships that provides strategic and operational sealift to meet national defense objectives. In executing this mission, COMSC has implemented a Program Management (PM) organization responsible for all life cycle matters pertaining to ship’s operating with the Combat Logistics Force (PM1), Special Mission (PM2), Pre-Positioning (PM3), Service Support (PM4), and Sealift Programs (PM5). Each Program Manager is responsible to COMSC for the operation, maintenance, and administrative management required providing mission-ready ships worldwide to the Command Sponsors. An inventory of the vessels by Hull Number is available at the following Internet address: http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/inventory.asp?var=hull. The fleet inventory and operating status change as required to support sponsor mission requirements.

The Military Sealift Command (MSC) logistics organization has an integrated Headquarters presence both at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC, and in Norfolk, VA. MSC has five area commands, each headed by a U.S. Navy captain, covering the Atlantic, Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Far East areas of responsibility. MSC's area commanders are the primary points of contact for MSC customers and numbered fleet commanders in their respective areas and are the personal representatives of the MSC commander. The area commands also are the MSC commander's direct links to MSC ships, providing maintenance oversight, logistics coordination and other needed services.

The mission of the Logistics (N4) Directorate is to provide logistics support for the Military Sealift Command (MSC) force necessary to achieve assigned missions. The Directorate provides worldwide support services in the functional areas of fleet logistics operations, enterprise-wide facilities and Global Shore Infrastructure Program (GSIP) management, acquisition logistics, sustainment logistics, logistics systems and data management, Combat Logistics Force (CLF) load management, ordnance management, and supply chain management. MSC may be tasked with additional missions as directed by US Fleet Forces and/or United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). In executing assigned missions, the Logistics Director is responsible for policy, processes, procedures, systems and performance measures. Additionally, the Logistics Director is Competency Manager for the MSC logistics military/civilian workforce. In this capacity, the Director is responsible for staff capacity/balancing, professional development, performance evaluation/recognition, personnel actions, and accession planning.

Scope. This contract will provide non-personal services to the Logistics Directorate of MSC. The Contractor shall have the capabilities and the requisite skills to perform on all task orders contemplated under this contract.

Objective. The purpose of this contract is to obtain logistics services from multiple Contractors to support MSC in the areas identified in the performance work statement.

Non-Personal Services. Non-personal logistics services shall be provided under this contract. Personnel rendering the services are not subject, either by the contract’s terms or by the manner of its administration, to the supervision and control usually prevailing in relationships between the Government and its employees.

Specific Tasks. The Contractor shall provide services for the Government’s quick turn on, emergent work. The Contractor shall be prepared to provide these services in all areas of the world where the Government has requirements to perform the logistics services. Specific task descriptions and instructions, sufficient in detail to allow for Contractor performance, shall be provided with each task order (TO) issued under this contract.

MSC anticipates requiring onsite (government office) contractor support in the following, but not limited to, locations; Norfolk, VA, Washington, DC, San Diego, CA, Singapore, Italy, Bahrain, UAE and Guam. Attachment 2 identifies the current onsite requirements and the number of government-provided computers by location. Contractors will be required to travel to support current and future missions, shipyard availabilities and ad-hoc requests to support activities like equipment validations, warehouse and storeroom inventory and training. The Contractor shall also be prepared to provide these services in all areas of the world where the Government requires logistics services onboard Government ships.

The Contractor shall utilize government-owned automated logistics systems as part of required support. These systems are illustrated in Attachment 1. The government will provide computer equipment and access to these systems at government-owned facilities. The contractor must have sufficient computers, telephone and Internet bandwidth in contractor facilities. The government will not reimburse the contractor for any computer and telephone in connection to these services.

The terms “MSC” and “Government” will be used interchangeably within this document to refer to the United States Navy, Military Sealift Command. The terms “Contractor” and “Service Provider” will also be used interchangeably within this document to refer to the commercial organization providing contract services to MSC.

The Contractor shall use commercial best practices to provide the logistics support services listed below in support of Military Sealift Command (MSC) ship operations and to maintain fleet readiness.

2. Ship Acquisition Support

2.1. New Construction and Ship Transfers

The Contractor shall perform support services for the construction or transfer of new ships into the MSC fleet. Services may include, but are not limited to; review, assessment or sampling of key life cycle logistics areas, equipment and system validations, consolidation, staging, on load, off-load, repackage, re-label, and verify special material management data (shelf-life, lot number or similar special material characteristics) of material, build mock-up locations, identify, and process shortages and excesses, back-load material to vessels, inventory material, generate and submit inventory listings, prepare listings of material removed from the vessel and update the shipboard databases to support ship delivery schedules.

2.2. Inventory Material

The Contractor shall perform and record results of physical inventories on MSC ships and in MSC shore support facilities or warehouses. Inventories are to be performed and recorded using MSC systems and procedures identified in the CDMP, Attachment 12. Inventories will include Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR) validation as required to support inventory valuation.

2.3. Equipment Validation

The Contractor shall perform and record the results of physical ship system/equipment validations. Validations are to be performed and recorded using MSC systems and procedures identified in the CDMP and ILS Handbook (Attachment 13) for configuration management, logistics support, and property management evaluations.

2.4. On-load or Off-load Repair Parts and Plant Property from Designated Vessels The Contractor shall; (1) Conduct on-loads or off-loads on designated MSC vessels as directed, (2) Process off-loaded material, remove damaged and expired material, and coordinate movement of the material to designated locations, and (3) Update ShipCLIP inventory data as required.

2.5. Technical or Logistics Documentation Review and Assessment

The Contractor shall review life cycle logistics technical and configuration data in ship construction projects and provide results of review to designated Government representatives. Reviews will be performed in accordance with the CDMP. Contractor may be required to review new construction deliverables such as Outfitting Operations Plan, Provisioning Guidance Conference Agenda, Estimated Outfitting Statistics (Storeroom Items (SRI)/Operating Space Items (OSI)/ Technical Manuals/Drawings) and spare parts buy lists. Contractor will review new construction data from Material and Equipment Real-time Information Network (MERLIN)/Real-time Outfitting Management Information System-Material Management System (ROMIS-MMS) which includes configuration, bill of material, allowances and inventory.

2.6. Item Unique Identification (IUID) Support

The Contractor will support loading Item Unique Identification (IUID) into CMLS provided by external entities.

3. Fleet Sustainment Support

Support includes material life-cycle actions required to support proper operation and maintenance of shipboard equipment through the ship life cycle. The Maintenance, Repair, and Training (MRT) report, Attachment 3a, provides the known life-cycle requirements to date.

3.1. Maritime Upgrade (MARUP)/ Service Life Extension Program (SLEP)/ Regular Overhaul (ROH)/ Mid-Term Availability (MTA)/ Post-Shakedown Availability (PSA) Support

The Contractor shall support MSC in Ship Operations, Activations, Deactivations, Turnovers, or Conversions.

3.2. Attend Repair Availability Planning Meetings

The Contractor shall attend and participate in repair availability planning meetings to obtain logistics planning information and maintenance schedule changes.

3.3. Attend Reading Sessions

The Contractor shall attend and participate availability Quality Assurance Reading Sessions to validate the logistics requirements are complete IAW Configuration Data Management Plan.

3.4. Provide Overhaul, Alteration, Voyage Repair, Service Order Specifications Support

The Contractor shall (1) Assist Port Engineers with research and technical analysis to determine form, fit, and function of replacement equipment, (2) Review the replacement equipment specifications for configuration and life cycle support impact, (3) Identify current equipment configuration and suitable replacement equipment/end items, (4) Identify initial outfitting spares, and (5) Research and identify applicable Military Specifications (MILSPECS), technical drawings, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) / Coast Guard standards, commercial and international specifications of marine, propulsion and electronics equipment. (5) Provide recommendations for equipment standardization options to maximize equipment performance and reliability based on what is already installed onboard the target ship or ship class, and (6) Identify Allowance Parts Lists (APL) / Allowance Equipage Lists (AEL)/General Use Consumable Lists (GUCL), Allowance Appendix Pages (AAP), and Record Identification Codes (RICs) associated with the work item(s), and (3) Identify TRANSALTs for adding and deleting equipment.

3.5. Perform Work Specification Life Cycle Logistics Technical Reviews

The Contractor shall validate appropriate life cycle logistics support and configuration records are developed and adequate Technical Support Data (TSD) (i.e. technical manual, spare parts list and drawings) is acquired for GFE used to complete any Alterations (ALTs). The Contractor shall (1) Conduct technical reviews of work specifications to validate correct configuration data is documented in the work package, (2) Verify that the correct life cycle logistics support requirements are in the overhaul procurement package. (3) Interface with Port Engineers and ship class Type Desk staff members to identify equipment relocation or change outs and to recommend sparing requirements to validate corrective and preventive maintenance are covered, (4) Evaluate technical documentation for applicable parts requirements. (5) Determine estimated parts prices, and (6) Determine parts sources and availability from the DOD, Navy supply system, commercial sources, MSC ships and/or residual assets.

3.6. Review Completed Overhaul and Voyage Repair Records

The Contractor shall review work package and voyage repair completion reports to validate correct configuration data is documented in the equipment section of the work items and identify required additions (adds), changes or deletions to ship equipment configuration, and develop new or revised equipment support documentation as a result of the completed work. The Contractor shall recommend when any TSD is required, and shall review TSDs for format, content and acceptability in accordance with paragraphs 3.4 and 3.5. When TSD is not available, the Contractor shall notify the Government of the shortfall. When tasked, the contractor shall record and track required TSD in accordance with paragraph 3.7.

3.7. Track Technical Support Data (TSD)

The Contractor shall (1) Identify GFE or CFE that requires TSD, (2) Determine and enter the requirement for TSD into tracking for all GFE and CFE required in overhauls, voyage repairs, service orders and Alterations (ALTs), (3) Interface and meet with Port Engineers, contracting department personnel, other Government staff and commercial vendors to monitor all added, deleted and modified work items, package amendments and/or alterations by external activities. (4) Track and/or update TSD status for all added, deleted and modified work items, package amendments or procurement contracts that require TSD until received and accepted.

3.8. Review Technical Support Data (TSD)

The Contractor shall review TSD received with CFE/GFE procurements in accordance with the CDMP.

3.9. Prepare Availability Support Ship Visit Work Plan

The Contractor shall review ship logistics support records and prepare a list of action items for accomplishment during availabilities in accordance with the CDMP.

3.10. Provide Ship Activation/Deactivation ILS Support Services

The Contractor shall support MSC ship activation/deactivation activities as directed by the Government. For ship activations, activities may include, but not be limited to, conducting equipment validations, storeroom inventories, and initializing configuration, repair parts, and inventory data in CLIP/CMLS once data gathering efforts have been completed. Ship deactivations shall include but not be limited to activities including repair parts offload, screen against MSC fleet shortages to enable MSC to realize cost savings as shortages are addressed with free issue assets, transportation of parts, appropriate packup of offloaded parts, as well as an inventory of the offloaded parts. During deactivations, ship configuration data resident in CLIP/CMLS shall be removed and archived.

3.11. Provide ILS and Liaison Support Services

The Contractor shall provide services to the Program Logistics Representative, Ship Type Desk and overhaul management team that will include, but not be limited to (1) Coordinate the Availability Support on-site start date, (2) Coordinate the Provisioning Guidance Conference (PGC)/kick-off conference with the Senior Government representative and the shipyard, (3) Support the applicable Government representative(s) in resolving ILS questions, (4) Brief applicable Government representative(s) on the status of on-site ILS , (5) Identify and track outstanding ILS data and notify the Senior Government representative upon completion of all requirements, (6) Identify, forward for procurement in accordance with and track initial outfitting requirements as a result of new installations or equipment modifications, (7) Identify costs caused by ILS elements, (8) Collect and retain ILS deliverables as directed by the Government,.

3.12. Maintain Availability Configuration Baseline

The Contractor shall provide services to maintain the configuration of a ship during availabilities and voyage repair periods. This support requires use of the Windows MSC Availability Support Program (WinMASP).

3.13. Provision Equipment

The Contractor shall obtain logistics support documentation for new, modified and/or unsupported equipment in accordance with the CDMP.

3.14. Develop Allowance Parts Lists (APLs) or Allowance Appendix Pages (AAP) or Apply Statement of Prior Submission

The Contractor shall develop or revise APLs or AAPs or apply statement of prior submission in accordance with the CDMP and WinMASP Users’ Manual.

3.15. Conduct Reliability and Maintainability Assessment

The Contractor shall (1) Conduct reliability and maintainability assessments to assist in determining the range and depth of ILS elements required on board and ashore, (2) Obtain failure and demand data from manufacturers, (3) Obtain vendor recommendations for corrective and preventative allowances, and (4) Validate Replacement Factor data.

3.16. Conduct Logistics Support Review

The Contractor shall conduct logistics support reviews during ship availabilities. using appropriate MSC Lead Allowance Parts List (M-LAPL) to determine if the M-LAPL supports the new equipment A sample MLAPL is provided in Attachment 6.

3.17. Obtain and Review Technical Manuals

The Contractor shall review technical manuals for acceptable life cycle logistics information in accordance with the CDMP.

3.18. Review Shipboard Supply Effectiveness

The Contractor shall review ship supply effectiveness (Attachment 7 - Supply Effectiveness) reports to identify deficiencies in the data

3.19. Conduct Configuration Analysis

The Contractor shall conduct ShipCLIP Configuration Analysis in accordance with the CDMP.

3.20. Conduct Supply Management Analysis

The Contractor shall; (1) Conduct a Supply Management Analysis for MSC vessels in accordance with the CDMP, (2) Identify the supply management support required for equipment installed or removed during each ship’s availability period and/or for equipment on board that does not have adequate support, and (3) Update CLIP/CMLS accordingly.

3.21. Conduct Technical Manual (TM), Chart and Drawing Analysis

The Contractor shall; (1) Compare ship’s Tech Manual and Drawing Indices with CLIP/CMLS, the MSC Virtual Technical Library (VTL), and other references to identify any omissions or errors, (2) Produce and install new TM and/or drawing indices aboard ship, (3) update configuration and logistics data/records as required in accordance with the CDMP, (4) Provide data for requisitions and TM deficiencies.

3.22. Provide Familiarization Shipboard Logistics Automated Systems Training

The Contractor shall provide shipboard logistics automated systems familiarization or specialized training to the crews of MSC vessels during MTAs, ROHs, VRs or as requested. The Contractor shall train the crew on the operation, functionality, and use of the system, along with all external reporting requirements.

The Contractor shall provide shore-side CMLS logistics automation systems familiarization training or specialized training to shore-side personnel (Civilian/Military) as required.

3.23. Monitor Government Issued Material Maintain Configuration Baseline

The Contractor shall monitor, record and report to the Government representative all material issued from shipboard storerooms to support industrial ship repair work items. The record of material issued shall be entered in ShipCLIP or CMLS.

3.24. Develop Reports

The Contractor shall prepare reports as identified in each task order.

3.25. Develop and Maintain Hierarchical Structure Code (HSC) Baselines

MSC uses a structured top down break down approach to document ship systems, system relationships and as-built, as-modified installed configuration. Ship configurations baselines and installations must be loaded and maintained within MSC systems. The Contractor shall perform functional and installed baseline HSC development and maintenance in accordance with CDMD-OA Technical Specification 9090-700C, the CDMP, Expanded Ship Work Breakdown Structures (ESWBS), MSC ship life cycle support business rules, and in coordination with MSC N7 and their system, Shipboard Automated Maintenance Module (SAMM). HSC baselines will be maintained within CMLS. The Contractor shall update CMLS in accordance with the CDMP.

The Contractor shall (1) develop Hierarchal Structure Code (HSC) functional baselines, and (2) develop a top-down breakdown structure for functionally significant items in accordance with the CDMP and the MSC Fleet Master HSC baseline and MSC life cycle support business rules. Baselines shall be coordinated with the MSC N7 engineering team and shall align with SAMM.

The Contractor shall maintain the Master fleet and each MSC ship class functional baselines. The Contractor shall create new HSC records for new functions added to a given class, modify existing HSC records upon receipt of fleet feedback or…