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SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED

AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL

Regional Procurement Support Office

Giessener Strasse 30

60435 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Tel.: (+49) 69 7535 3312

E-Mail: HutchinsonGG@state.gov

July 07, 2020

PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE

Solicitation No.: 19GE5020R0070

The American Consulate General, Frankfurt provides the following Pre-Solicitation Notice regarding the issuance of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for:

Language Assistant Services, US Embassy Jerusalem, Israel

The Regional Procurement Support Office in Frankfurt, Germany, intends to issue a Firm Fixed-

Price Type Contract during the third quarter of calendar year 2020.

General Requirements:

The purpose of this contract is to provide Language Assistants (LA)s, capable of providing consecutive and simultaneous interpretation and document translation services, to the United States Security

Coordinator (USSC) and its multi-national coalition partners in support of USSC’s mission to strengthen the skills, competencies, and abilities of the Palestinian Authority (PA) security sector and promote security coordination between Israel and the PA.

As part of the contract requirements package, the Contractor shall provide LAs, including both interpreters and translators, to support USSC personnel in areas of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation in high level meetings with senior PA officials, translation and handling of important and/or official government documents, routine review and translation of information carried in the news media, and limited administrative support services necessary to carry-out the purposes of this contract. Services may include simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and document translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. A minimal amount of translation may be required from Hebrew to English and English to Hebrew. LAs shall be thoroughly familiar and experienced with military and governmental terminology in Arabic and English. Specialized translation and consecutive and simultaneous interpretation in the fields of legal, medical, engineering, human resources, law enforcement, logistics, and IT/IA may be required. An expert or very high degree of subject matter expertise or knowledge of terminology in the above fields in Arabic and English is required. Services may be required to be performed in Jerusalem and within all areas of the West

Bank. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, transportation, tools, materials, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform interpretation and translation services as defined in this PWS. The Contractor shall provide all management, supervisory, and project personnel to perform these services. The Contractor shall support this effort with the appropriate staffing to provide support for its employees. The management structure used by the Contractor shall ensure the efficient and effective accomplishment of all tasks. Office space is the responsibility of the

Contractor.

mailto:HutchinsonGG@state.gov

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The performance period of this contract is from the start date in the Notice to Proceed and continuing for one Base Year + 4 Years option.

Pursuant to FAR 36.204, the magnitude of this project is anticipated to be between $1,000,000.00 and

$5,000,000.00 U.S. Dollars for the entire project.

Companies interested in the solicitation should express their interest by written correspondence, no later than Wednesday July 15, 2020, to the attention of Granville G. Hutchinson at the above e-mail address and MUST include the following information: Name of Firm, Name, Telephone, Email

Address of Point of Contact and Complete Physical and Mailing Address of Firm DO NOT

TELEPHONE. The solicitation package/documents will not be placed on beta.Sam.gov. Only companies expressing interest in writing shall receive a copy of the solicitation package when it becomes available.

Firms shall be knowledgeable in written and spoken English.

APPLICATION FOR SOLICITATION DOCUMENTATION CHECK LIST

In applying for the solicitation material, you are acknowledging that your company is able to reach compliance with the following highlighted requirements included in the solicitation.

In accordance with DOSAR 652.242-73 AUTHORIZATION AND PERFORMANCE (AUG

1999), it will be necessary for your organization to possess authorization to operate and do business in the country in which this contract will be performed. Furthermore, authorization shall include the requirement to be registered to do business in Israel, and the obligation to be in possession of a

Value Added tax registration number. Contractors shall be required to provide:

a. A thorough description as to what steps you have taken to investigate all requirements to obtain authorization to perform in the given country, and to obtain in-country business registration;

b. Details of your findings and a description of what your organization will actually be required to undertake to obtain licensing, registration and applying for a Value Added Tax registration number; and

c. Specific information concerning the period you anticipate it will take to obtain appropriate authorization.

You will be required to provide information that clearly shows you are able to perform work in

Israel. Any entry or work visa issues requirements must be clearly discussed with a plan to mitigate any risk clearly identified.

If you have a Duns number* and have been beta.SAM** registered, please include below. Please note that the requirement to obtain a Duns number and for your company to be beta.SAM registered, will be a mandatory requirement upon contract award.

Duns number:

beta.SAM Registered: ( ) Yes ( ) No

* Dunn and Bradstreet: www.dnb.com/get-a-duns-number.html

** System for Award Management: www.beta.SAM.gov http://www.dnb.com/get-a-duns-number.html http://www.beta.sam.gov/

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The failure to provide the above documentation when submitting your proposal may result in your proposal being found technically unacceptable and removed from the competition without further discussions.

Solicitation and award will be subject to the laws and regulations of the United States of America.

This requirement is being competed utilizing full and open competition procedures.

The Contract Specialist for the administration of this contract is Mr. Granville G. Hutchinson, Tel.

+49 69 7535 3312, email HutchinsonGG@state.gov mailto:HutchinsonGG@state.gov