Sources Sought Notice for Fort Novosel Gunnery Range.pdf

Version – July 2015

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR FORT NOVOSEL GUNNERY RANGE AND

TRAINING OPERATIONS COMPLEX, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICES

INTRODUCTION

The Mission and Installation Contracting (MICC) – Fort Eustis, Virginia 23604 is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for providing Fort Novosel Gunnery Range and Training Operations Complex, Maintenance and Repair Services. The intention is to procure these services on a competitive basis

BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET

RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

(IN FULL OR IN PART) OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN

COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. All Small Business Set-Aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Location

% On-Site Government

% Off-Site Contractor

Fort Novosel, Alabama 36362 99% 1%

DISCLAIMER

“THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS

IS NOT A “REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)” TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES

NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A

COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE

NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO

AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS

ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO

THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. RESPPONSES

WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO

THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE

REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF

ANY ISSUED. IF A SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED

ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE

RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO MONITOR THE GPE FOR

ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT.”

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

The Fort Novosel Aviation Center of Excellence Gunnery Range and Training Complex provides numerous ranges and training areas supporting Program of Instruction (POI) School House Courses, Tenant Units, Non-tenant Units to include Army Reserve and National Guard Units, and Other-Services Units in accomplishing their Commanders’ training goals. The Range and Training Complex encompasses roughly 59,730 acres across Dale and Coffee counties North and South of Highway

27. A map of the coverage area is at TE 2. More information about Fort Novosel is available at the Fort Novosel Internet site, http://www.Novosel.army.mil.

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

The Contractor shall furnish all personnel, vehicles, labor, equipment, repair parts, and supplies including Government reimbursed supplies, except as specified herein as Government furnished. The contractor shall (1) fabricate, requisition, store, maintain and operate equipment and targets for operation of the Aviation Gunnery Range (AGR);

(2) requisition, store, maintain and operate equipment and targetry for operation of the other ranges and training facilities listed herein; (3) perform organizational, direct support/general support (DSGS), preventive maintenance, and repair on range materials, computer controlled hardwired target devices, radio controlled solar powered target devices, and moving targets; (4) operate moving and stationary targets as required by the using unit; (5) inspect, maintain, and repair the range and training complex and related real property and appurtenances including, but not limited to, target berms, service roads, permanent foxholes and bunkers, drainage pipes and systems, sediment control structures, terraces, fences and gates, parking lots, vegetation control, electrical power, and data lines from the entrance of administrative areas to all targets and buildings; (6) perform range maintenance, administrative and operational functions as specified herein; ; (7) operate the Range Control Center; (8) perform mowing and vegetation control of LOS areas, road right of ways and range areas not contracted to DPW; (9) Provide operational Aviation Vertical Obstruction Identification (AVOID) support for Fort Novosel, Alabama by managing, operating, providing technical support, deploying and sustaining the AVOID database; (10) operate Command Tracker system by managing, operating, providing technical support support assistance, and sustaining the Command Tracker system; (11) prepare and submit reports as listed within Technical Exhibit (TE) 1 or as requested by the COR; and (12) perform supply functions for Range Branch. Maintenance and repair shall consist of recurring and unscheduled work. Recurring services (preventive maintenance) include, but are not limited to, inspections, targets and target subsystems, firing positions, signs, fences, gates/barriers, moving target storage buildings, classrooms, range markers, road grading, vegetation control, sediment control structure drains, and mowing. Unscheduled services (repair) include, but are not limited to, unserviceable targetry, erosion problems, beaver dams, road washouts, electrical, and data cable problems. The contractor shall provide maintenance to meet operational standards specified herein on all scheduled firing days. These services are in support of the areas specified in Program Background (above). Further detail is provided in the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) attached to this announcement (Attachment 1).

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, CAGE code, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Access and General Protection/Security Policy and Procedures. Contractor and all associated subcontractors employees shall comply with applicable installation, facility and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative). The contractor shall also provide all information required for background checks to meet installation access requirements to be accomplished by installation Provost Marshal Office, Director of Emergency Services or Security Office.

Contractor workforce must comply with all personal identity verification requirements as directed by DOD, HQDA and/or local policy.

No security clearances are required for personnel perfoming under this contract. However, all contractor personnel serving in positions requiring access to Government computers, including firing desk, operations, and supply personnel, must be able to obtain and maintain a favorable Tier 1 (T1) investigation.

Berry Amendment

IT (e.g. Clinger-Cohen Act)

Service Contract Act

Government Furnished Property plan.

ELIGIBILITY

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 561210, Base Facilities Operation Support Services with a Small Business Size Standard of $47.0M. The Product Service Code is S216. Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (CAPABILITIES

STATEMENT)

A draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) and draft Personnel Qualifications Description are attached for review. (Attachment 1)

Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten

(10) pages in length in Times New Roman font of not less than 10 pitch. The deadline for response to this request is no later than 10 am, EST, 10 June 2024. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be e-mailed to Contract Specialist, Miss Hunter Langdon, and Contracting Officer Mr. Nicola Cicolini III, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email hunter.m.langdon.civ@army.mil and nicola.cicolini2.civ@army.mil.

This documentation must address at a minimum the following items:

1.) What type of work has your company performed in the past in support of the same or similar requirement?

2.) Can or has your company managed a task of this nature? If so, please provide details.

3.) Can or has your company managed a team of subcontractors before? If so, provide details.

4.) What specific technical skills does your company possess which ensure capability to perform the tasks?

5.) Please note that under a Small-Business Set-Aside, in accordance with FAR 52.219-14, the small business prime must perform at least 50% of the work themselves in terms of the cost of performance. Provide an explanation of your company’s ability to perform at least 50% of the tasking described in this PBSOW for the base period as well as the option periods.

6.) Provide a statement including current small/large business status and company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history, office locations, DUNs number, etc.

7.) Respondents to this notice also must indicate whether they qualify as a Small, Small Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, HUBZone, or Service Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Business Concern.

8.) Include in your response your ability to meet the requirements in the Facility and Safeguarding requirements.

The estimated period of performance consists of one (1) Base Year of 12 months and four (4) Option Periods of 12 months each with performance commencing in June 2026. Specifics regarding the number of option periods will be provided in the solicitation.

The contract type is anticipated to be Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract. The Level of Effort for 5 years is estimated at Range Operations being open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

The proposed contract is anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by labor categories that are subject to the Service Contract Act or a collective bargaining agreement.

Upon evaluation of the capability statements, if it is determined that this requirement will be an unrestricted competition, the Government intends to evaluate the Small-Business responses and conduct further market research to identify a subcontracting goal.

Your response to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Miss Hunter Langdon, and Contracting Officer Mr. Nicola Cicolini III, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email hunter.m.langdon.civ@army.mil and nicola.cicolini2.civ@army.mil.

All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

No phone calls will be accepted.

All questions must be submitted to the contract specialist identified above. The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought.