Advanced Contract Initiative for Emergency Power

Added: Apr 07, 2008 10:24 am

Issuance of Amendment 0004; the closing date remains unchanged.

Added: January 8, 2008 Modified: February 22, 2008Track Changes The Pittsburgh District requests that all offerors provide a list of personnel that plan to attend the Pre-Proposal Conference scheduled for February 28, 2008. Please submit the information to james.m.costantino@usace.army.mil or by fax (412) 644-51 09. Offerors that previously submitted this information can disregard this notice.

Added: January 8, 2008 Modified: February 15, 2008Track Changes The Request For Proposal (RFP) is available on FedTeds. The preproposal conference information is located within Section L of the RFP.

Added: January 8, 2008 Modified: February 5, 2008Track Changes The tentative issuance date is revised to be February 8, 2008.

Added: January 8, 2008 1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will require contract service support for generator set activities in response to natural and man-made disasters, to include Incidents of National Significance, in the United States or its territories. An Incident of National Significance is an actual or potential high-impact event that requires robust coordination of the Federal response. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with other departments and agencies, and t he White House, as appropriate, declares Incidents of National Significance. There are no automatic triggers for an Incident of National Significance. The anticipated contract type, expected to be awarded in April 2008, is a requirements contract. The co ntract will be for a base period not to exceed one year and four one-year option periods not to exceed one year each. Up to three contracts (3) contracts may be awarded in support of the following geographic regions: East Region (includes Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands); Central Region; and the West Region (includes Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam). Offerors are encouraged to submit proposals for all regions, but it is not mandatory. Each contract will have a maximum value of $75.0M; the overall program will not be in excess of $225.0 million.

2. CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS: The Contractor shall be responsible for providing all labor, materials, transportation, equipment and supervision and required internal logistical support to perform generator set activities. Generator set activities are defined as assessing power needs; preparing, hauling, installing, operating and maintaining, servicing, fueling, relocating and recovering diesel powered generator sets (Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) and as sociated fuel systems; purchasing materials and installing miscellaneous electrical equipment in support of the response missions. The Government furnished generator sets range in size from 4 KW up to 3MW. The Contractor may also be required to lease gen erators to meet mission requirements. The contractor will be required to perform generator set activities on leased generators, too.

3. SELECTION: In accordance with FAR Part 15, the source selection method will be by the Best Value/Trade-Off m ethod. Contractors will be required to submit a technical and price proposal. Award may be made to other than the lowest price offeror based on an evaluation of the proposals against the evaluation criteria that will be outlined in the Request for Propos al. USACE, Pittsburgh District, will conduct proposal evaluation and award contract(s). In order to be considered for award, contractors must be registered in the Central Contractors Registration (CCR) database; information regarding registration can be located at www.ccr.gov. This procurement will be conducted on an unrestricted basis; open to all businesses regardless of size. If a large business firm is selected, an acceptable small business subcontracting plan will be required prior to award. All f irms are reminded the successful firm is highly encouraged to place subcontracts to the maximum extent practicable with small, small disadvantaged business, veteran owned small business, service-disable veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business and women owned small business firms in accordance with the provisions of FAR 19.702 and, in accordance with the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

4. AVAILABILITY OF SOLICITATION: USACE, Pittsburgh District, will iss ue the solicitation. This solicitation will be available at this website on or about January 23, 2008. No paper copies will be mailed.