Armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services throughout Central California and surrounding areas

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a requirement to acquire armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services throughout Los Angeles, CA and surrounding areas.  The armed PSOs will protect federal personnel and property at federally owned and leased buildings. The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). The period of performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. Services shall be furnished via an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with fixed hourly rates. This acquisition is being solicited as unrestricted. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price.  The estimated PSO hours throughout the Central California area is 2,475,000 hours for a 60-month period.  The submission requirements and evaluation criteria will be defined in the solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 561612 with size standard is $25.5 million.  The Contractor is required to register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov.  No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with the System for Award Management.