Sources Sought Notification HB SLEP.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTIFICATION

Project Title: NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow: Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) Services

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. This is a Sources Sought for planning purposes only and is issued in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (OCT 1997) provided at:

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.215-3

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO), Eastern Acquisition Division (EAD), in support of the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), is performing market research to determine an acquisition strategy for the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow: SLEP Services. The Henry B. Bigelow is a Fisheries Science Vessel.

The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code is 336611 – Ship Building and Repairing. The small business size standard for this NAICS code is 1,300 employees.

No solicitation document exists at this time. Issuance of this notice does not constitute any obligation on the part of the Government to procure these items or services or to issue a solicitation. In addition, the Government is under no obligation to pay for information submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice (SSN), and responses to this notice cannot be accepted as offers. Any information that the vendor considers proprietary should be clearly marked as such. The Government shall not be held liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is not properly identified.

Businesses are encouraged to submit a typed Capability Statement in response to this sources sought announcement to include a completed questionnaire (Attachment I). OMAO is seeking to identify sources capable of performing the work required under the heading “Description of Requirement”.

Submitted Capability Statements shall include the following:

1. Company name and address

2. Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number:

3. Type of business (e.g. large business, small business, 8(a),veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, and/or women owned small business) as validated via the System for Award Management (SAM)

4. Company point of contact – name, phone, and e-mail address

5. Describe capabilities for meeting the “Description of Requirement”.

Responses, to include capability statement and completed questionnaires, should be submitted via email to the Contract Specialist, Tamara Horton (Tamara.Horton@noaa.gov) by August 5, 2024 at 4:00PM Eastern Standard Time.

Description of Requirement

The Henry B. Bigelow service life extension program overhaul modifications are envisioned to be described in work package specifications along with associated contract-level and functional-level design drawings. The specifications and associated drawings are not intended to include every detail of work required to carry out the modifications. The specifications will be developed to varying levels of detail depending on how well the work can be identified and considering the level of risk to cost and schedule of the overall project. The contractor will be responsible for the production-level design of all work packages.

Contract level design is defined as the description of the intent of the work to be completed for a modification. This may include overall system layout and operation or performance requirements.

Equipment sizes will be identified; however, specific equipment may not be called out. Functional level design is defined as complete determination of all engineering decisions. This includes equipment selection and in some cases routing of major system components. Production level design is defined as the complete description of industrial work required to execute a work package. This includes production drawings, definition of exact pipe/cable runs, drawing development, BOM development, etc.

The contractor will be required to obtain the services of a NA/ME firm to conduct production-level engineering.

The SLEP overhaul scope of work will include a vessel repower to include the replacement of the main propulsion system. This is envisioned to require removal of existing propulsion equipment (diesel generator sets, main propulsion motors, propulsion motor drives, propulsion motor cooling units, propulsion and ship service switchboards, etc.) and installation of new propulsion equipment.

This will also require removal and installation of auxiliary systems and equipment. The end result of the repower effort will be a fully functional, approved electric propulsion and generation system meeting all applicable ABS, USCG, and SOLAS requirements. A Single System Vendor, independent from the Contractor, will be required to integrate all re-power related modifications.

A DRAFT specification (Attachment II) is provided for reference but is not all inclusive and is subject to change.

Approximate particulars of the Henry B. Bigelow hull form are:

● Length Overall:

● Beam:

● Draft, Full Load Centerboard Retracted:

● Draft, Full Load Centerboard Extended:

● Displacement Light Ship:

● Displacement Full Load:

209’ 49’-2” 19’-4” 29’-7” 1,840 Metric Tons 2,479 Metric Tons