Boiler Inspection and Repair

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection Quarantine (PPQ), has an upcoming requirement for a 5 year IDIQ (Base and 4 option years) for the annual inspection and repairs of four boilers located at Moore Air Base, 22675 N. Moorefield Road, Edinburg Texas 78541. The four boilers need to have a baseline inspection completed and then have annual inspections conducted in the following years.  After each inspection, a report shall be created. The second portion of the contract shall be for normal repair services (24 hour response) and emergency repairs (4 hour response). Moore air base has several critical programs located on site. The boilers on site are used for the production of Mexican fruit fly rearing and USDA critical experiments, ongoing experiments in environmental growth chambers. Failure in the boiler systems may have a national and international impact involving the loss of insects and DNA and RNA samples that cannot be replaced and could affect years of scientific research. Simplified procurement procedures will be used for this acquisition per Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13. This requirement is being offered as a Small Business Set-Aside. The NAICS code for this requirement is 238220 with a size standard of $15 million. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be posted in the next day.