Aircraft Transient Alert and Aircraft Wash Services Contract Award

1. The Department of the Army, Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC), Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Washington, intends to solicit bids for a contractor to provide Aircraft Transient Alert and Aircraft Wash Services on McChord Field. The requested services are required to assure safe movement, parking, servicing and maintenance to Air Force assigned aircraft, foreign, commercial and other on DOD aircraft. The contractor shall supply sufficient manning to ensure quality and timely services. As a minimum, the contractor shall accomplish an aircraft tow, wash preparation, wash, lube, and restoration within specified time limits and in accordance with (IAW) applicable technical data, while at the same time, recover and launch 2 large aircraft (cargo/transport/tanker type) and no more than 8 small aircraft (fighter/trainer). At a minimum, contractor manning will not fall below levels that would prevent the contractor from following all applicable technical data and ensure safe flight line operations. On rare occasions, mission requirements may necessitate scheduling two washes in one day; in this case arrangements will be made no later than 48 hours prior to allow for manning adjustments. Additionally, the contractor shall start a flight line wash service within 2 hours after notification and respond for de-icing fluid clean up within 1 hour. Above and beyond these requirements, when the number of aircraft requiring service precludes servicing at the same time, the Maintenance Operations Control (MOC) will determine the order priority.

2. The Invitation for Bid (IFB) will result in the award of one (1) single fixed-price requirements contract. The applicable NAICS code is 488190, Other Support Activities for Air Transportation - quote mark Airports, Flying Fields, and Airport Terminal Services (aircraft servicing and repairing) quote mark and the small business size standard is $32.5 million. This procurement will be a 100% small business set-aside.

3. The anticipated contract period of performance is a base period of 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2016 and four (4) one-year option periods (Option Period 1: 1 October 2016 - 30 September 2017; Option Period 2: 1 October 2017 - 30 September 2018; Option Period 3: 1 October 2018 - 30 September 2019; Option Period 4: 1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020) that expires on 30 September 2020.

4. The Government will not honor telephonic requests for the solicitation. When issued, the solicitation will be available via the FedBizOpps website, http://www.fbo.gov/. The tentative IFB issue date is 23 June 2015 and the anticipated closing date is 17 July 2015. Interested offerors shall consult the actual solicitation for final dates and times.

5. The Government will consider bids from all capable and responsible sources. Firms offering a response to this notice should ensure that they have registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database, https://www.sam.gov/, and ensure that the applicable NAICS code 488190 is included in the SAM profile prior to submission of bids.

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