SPECIAL_NOTICE_SYNOPSIS.docx

The Bureau of Reclamation intends to award a sole source contract to Big Sky Safety. The NAICS code used for this requirement is 541611 – General Management Consulting Services. The objective of this requirement is for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to provide transitional consulting services to the new Safety Manager. Work is to be completed as follows:

• Provide introductions and interaction with staff in the Regional and Area Offices

• Review, instruct and discuss the following:

· GPRO Safety Manager role, responsibilities, and duties

· Reclamation and GPRO safety and occupational health processes and procedures

· Department of Interior Safety Management Information System and Dam Safety Information System

· GPRO safety initiatives currently in progress

· Unresolved safety issues when position was vacated

· DOI Safety Net

· Regional Safety Office electronic files and records

· Reclamation operations, maintenance and construction methodologies

• Onsite visits to Area Office (AOs) and Field Offices

• Onsite visits to AO power production and pumping facilities, and dams

The location of the majority of the work to be performed is at the Great Plains Regional Office in Billings MT with travel visits to Montana Area Office and field facilities; Wyoming Area Office and field facilities; Eastern Colorado Area Office and field facilities; Dakotas Area Office and select field facilities; Nebraska-Kansas Area Office and select field facilities; and Oklahoma-Texas Area Office and select field facilities.

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY NOTICE; QUOTATIONS ARE NOT BEING REQUESTED, AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this notice by submitting their capabilities to provide these services in writing, by email to Arlene Dawson at adawson@usbr.gov, 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 21 , 2015. All responses received by the closing date of this notice will be considered by the Government.