N6247026R0030 Electrical Utilities Facilities AE IDIQ Sources Sought - Final.pdf

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR

PROPOSAL. THERE WILL NOT BE A SOLICITATION, SPECIFICATIONS, OR

DRAWINGS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. This market research tool is being issued for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. No contract will be awarded from this announcement, and no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice.

This notice is a market research tool used to obtain information only, and to determine the availability and adequacy of potential qualified small business sources who possess the capabilities to provide the services as specified below. NAVFAC Atlantic is performing this market research to aid in the development of its acquisition approach. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. This is not a solicitation but Sources Sought only.

NAVFAC Atlantic is seeking to identify potential qualified Small Businesses, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) certified 8(a) businesses, SBA certified HUBZone businesses, Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), SBA certified Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), or SBA certified Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Businesses (EDWOSB) with the capacity, experience and interest in competing for an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for electrical discipline Architect- Engineer (AE) Services. Projects will be primarily in the NAVFAC Atlantic Area of Responsibility Worldwide. Should a solicitation be developed upon completion of market research, a combination Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (FFP/IDIQ) type contract is anticipated with a base period of up to 12 months with a potential of four (4), one-year option periods, which cumulatively will not exceed sixty (60) months. The anticipated aggregate total of work to be issued over the life of the contract via task order shall not exceed the estimated maximum amount of $90 million.

The anticipated North American Industry Classification Standard (NAICS) code to be used for this procurement is 541330—Engineering Services with a small business size standard classification of $25.5M. These services will be procured in accordance with 40 USC Chapter 11, Selection of Architects and Engineers, as implemented by Revolutionary FAR Overhaul

(RFO) 36.102.

NAVFAC Atlantic is searching the marketplace for companies that are capable of providing Architect-Engineer (AE) Services which includes provision of all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, and all equipment necessary to perform the services listed below.

Description of Services. These services will support Navy and Marine Corps electrical generation, transmission & distribution utility systems, and electrical generation and systems at the facility level, world-wide. The types of utility and facility engineering services expected to be performed under this IDIQ contract are:

a. Engineering services may include but are not limited to, producing utility and facility system master plans, engineering studies, surveying and production of utility and facility mapping, field electrical testing, recommended distribution improvements, electric load and demand modeling, voltage drop and voltage flicker studies, short circuit analysis, protection device coordination studies, arc-flash studies and labeling, life cycle cost analysis, utility and facility interactive systems and distributed resources island systems evaluation, and 1391 documentation and conceptual design. Firm should be able to utilize electrical modeling software such as, but not limited to: SKM, ETAP, Easy Power, and Milsoft. Any electrical testing shall be in accordance with an InterNational Electrical Testing Association (NETA) specifications and performed by a NETA certified technician.

b. Infrastructure management services may include but are not limited to, development and implementation of standard processes to inventory and manage utility assets and collect direct condition ratings including infrastructure condition assessment program (ICAP) and utilities infrastructure condition & assessment program (UICAP).

c. Operation and maintenance consultation services may include but are not limited to, development of standard operating procedures, preventive maintenance plans, operator training, NAVFAC’s P-604 Electrical Safe Acts For Employees (ESAFE) training and revisions, process and instrumentation drawings/electric system one-line drawings for utility systems, development of Geographic Information Systems for utilities using GPS and mobile field data collection.

d. Provide services for electrical substation, electrical transmission, and electrical distribution conceptual design, operations and maintenance technical support up to 300 kV. Conceptual design support would include overhead and underground electrical systems. Support would include electrical distribution frequencies worldwide, most popular being 50 and 60 Hz systems.

e. Provide services for shore-to-ship power services conceptual design, operations and maintenance technical consultation support for ship power connections up to 15 kV.

f. Provide services for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and all electrical controls for electrical equipment including, but not limited to, relays, both mechanical and electronic.

g. Provide services for electrification of buildings.

h. Provide services for Smartgrid, Microgrid, Bulk Energy Storage, Electric Vehicle (EV) charging technologies, and other unique technologies involving electrical utilities and/or facilities.

i. Provide services for utility applications using small or micro-modular reactors.

j. Provide services for electrical commissioning.

k. Provide services for electrical generation including, but not limited to, fossil fuels generation, photovoltaic, wind turbines, and gas turbines such as combined heat and power (CHP). Provide expertise and engineering support analyzing facility distributed energy generation interconnection into utility medium voltage supply systems.

l. Provide services for maintenance testing of existing equipment/conductors, and acceptance testing of newly installed equipment/conductors. Any electrical testing shall be in accordance with InterNational Electrical Testing Association (NETA) specifications and performed by a NETA certified technician.

m. Provide services for cybersecurity of the electrical systems per Navy standards and best industry practices.

n. Provide services for power quality, reliability, and resiliency – (Three Pillars of Energy

Security P-602) and other best practices, including State, Federal, and host country codes and regulations. This effort will include system efficiency. Both voltage and current harmonics may be analyzed and recommendations for reductions of harmonic effects would be offered. Transient and grid stability issues could also be analyzed. Distribution hardening will be provided.

o. Provide services for utility and facility systems power quality monitoring, recording and analysis using IEE 1159 Recommended Practice for Monitoring Electric Power Quality.

p. Provide services analyzing facility distributed energy generation interconnection into utility medium voltage supply systems.

q. Provide services for interconnect agreements with local utility companies and transmission interconnects.

If you are considering entering into a teaming arrangement, you should provide the name of all teaming partners, the anticipated type of teaming arrangements, address the specific services each member will provide and include applicable professional qualifications and experience for each member, and to what extent your firm has worked with the proposed teaming partners in the past. For other than bundled requirements you may be able to joint venture with one or more small businesses and not be considered affiliated as long as each member of the joint venture is small under the applicable NAICS code (13 CFR 121.103(h)(3)). The limitation on subcontracting would apply to the cooperative effort of the joint venture and not each individual member (13 CFR 125.6). A small business prime will be required to comply with RFO 52.219- 14 which states that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended by employees of the concern. Provide evidence that on past contracts of a similar nature that your firm (as the prime contractor) was able to comply with the requirement of RFO 52.219-14 and will be able to comply with this requirement under the proposed contract.

Submittal Requirements: As permitted by RFO Part 10, it is requested that interested parties submit a brief capabilities statement package demonstrating the ability to perform the services listed above. The capability package must be complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the firm’s qualifications to perform the defined work. Please note that your submittal shall not exceed ten (10) single-sided pages. PAGES IN EXCESS OF THE TEN (10) PAGE LIMIT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. Submit your completed responses no later than 2:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on 26 June 2026 to the Contract Specialist, Barkley Brown via email at barkley.k.brown.civ@us.navy.mil. Identify in the subject line of your response: “N6247026R0030: Electrical Utility & Facility AE Worldwide IDIQ”. The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from the potential sources as a result of this synopsis. Information received as a result of this sources sought will become part of our market research to determine interest and capability of potential sources. The documentation shall address, at a minimum, the following:

A. COMPANY PROFILE to include: (1) full name and address of the firm; (2) year firm was established; (3) name of two principals (including titles, telephone and email addresses); (4) copy of any certifications (if 8(a) or HUBZone certified, provide the SBA Business Opportunity Specialist name and phone number assigned); identify the size status of your firm (small or other than small) and if small, identify any sub-categories of small business for which you qualify (i.e., WOSB, EDWOSB, SDB, VOSB, SDVOSB); and (5) indicate if the firm is registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database, including Unique Entity ID (UEI) and CAGE Code; and, if a small business, provide a narrative of how your firm will comply with the limitations on subcontracting clause (RFO 52.219-14) required to be included in any small business program set-aside.

B. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE. Include information on recent past projects that best illustrate your qualifications to perform the various services listed above. Provide a brief written statement as to your ability to perform and manage a minimum of 5 large defined task orders simultaneously at various locations, both CONUS and OCONUS such as would be required in an IDIQ type contract. List up to three (3) projects performed within the last five years that best illustrate your qualifications to perform the various services listed above. Provide the following information for each project listed: a. Contract number and project title; b. Name of contracting activity; c. Administrative Contracting Officer’s name, current telephone number; d. Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative or primary point of contact name and current telephone number; e. Contract type (e.g., cost plus, requirements, firm fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, or combination); f. Period of performance (start and completion date); g. Basic contract award amount and final contract value; h. Summary of contract work: (1) Provide information and experience of key personnel demonstrating the ability to provide the types services listed in the primary tasks above; and (2) Subcontract management: provide information on any proposed joint ventures or teaming arrangements (i.e. team members, previous working relationships with proposed team members and percent of work anticipated to be subcontracted (note: any joint ventures with 8(a) members must comply with Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 13, Section 124.513). The Government reserves the right to request additional information as needed, from any and all respondents.

The Relevant Experience must be complete and sufficiently detailed to allow for a determination of the firm's qualifications to perform the defined work. The Relevant Experience must be on 8.5 by 11-inch standard paper, single spaced, 12-point font minimum and limited to 10 single sided pages. The Government reserves the right to request additional information as needed, from any and all respondents.

Note: If using corporate experience of teaming partners or affiliates/subsidiaries/parent/LLC/LTD member companies (name is not exactly as stated on the response to sources sought) to demonstrate corporate experience, clearly explain how the teaming partner or the affiliates/ subsidiaries / parent/LLC/LTD member companies will have meaningful involvement in the performance of this contract.

C. ALTERNATE NAICS. Potential contractors believing that services identified under a different NAICS code can be provided that will meet or exceed the requirements identified within this sources sought notice are encouraged to respond. Please provide the applicable NAICS code and provide justification/reasoning for selection of that code.

D. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, if any, that the responders believe to be relevant.

Questions or comments regarding this notice may be addressed in writing to Barkley Brown via email at barkley.k.brown.civ@us.navy.mil. Answers to questions received about this sources sought announcement will be made available to all responders.

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CITED NO LATER THAN 2:00 P.M. EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME (EDT) ON 26 JUNE

2026. LATE RESPONSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

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We appreciate your interest and thank you in advance for responding to this notice.