Consolidated Receiving Point Services- U. S. Despatch Agency Seattle, WA

The Department of State has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for packing/crating, receiving, containerization, and storage services for the Department of State, U.S. Despatch Agency-Seattle, WA.  The primary function of the Department’s consolidated receiving contractor operation in the Seattle area is to provide warehouse services and receive items from U.S. sources being shipped to embassies and consulates overseas and consolidate them and prepare items for shipping in sea containers and air shipment to their onward destination. The required services will include but are not limited to: non-personal services for providing receipt, inspection, inventorying, consolidation, export packing, temporary storage, and delivery to pier and related services connected with the receiving and shipping of U.S. Government-owned furniture, furnishings, commissary items, supplies, personally owned and government owned vehicles, and equipment required by the Department of State for its Foreign Service Posts, and receiving/forwarding household effects (HHE) belonging to U.S. Government employees. Unless otherwise specified, all Contractor deliveries are (FAS) carrier Seattle/Tacoma, Washington Commercial Zones. A single award of a firm fixed priced (FFP) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for a one-year base period, plus four (4) one-year options is anticipated. For purposes of this contract, the Contractor's place of performance must be within a twenty - (20) mile commute of the U.S. Despatch Agency office in Seattle, Washington: located at 2800 S. 192 Street, Seattle, WA 98188. The contractor firm awarded the resulting contract will be required to be fully ready and capable to recieve and ship U.S. Government items, supplies, and HHE within 30 days of notice of award.

This acquisition is a 100% small business set aside. The National American Individual Classification Standard (NAICS) code for this procurement is 493110.

The RFP requires the electronic submission of a technical proposal (to include past performance) and a price proposal. Proposals responding to this solicitation, are to be a maximum of two emails, in separate parts. Each email is to be no larger than 8MB. One email is to contain the offerors technical proposal, the other email is to contain the offerors price proposal with completed Attachments B provided in Microsoft Excel.  Offerors assume the full responsibility of ensuring that proposals are received complete and on time. Offerors are strongly encouraged to submit their offers early and to not wait until the last minute prior to the proposal deadline. Waiting until the last minute to submit emails as large as 8 MB may overwhelm the Department’s servers and be delayed in being received into the necessary email inboxes. Proposals are due no later than 12:00pm EDT April 5, 2021.

Questions related to this RFP are due no later than 12:00pm EDT March 9, 2021, to ensure a timely response. Questions received after that date may not be answered prior to the date established for the receipt of proposals.

Amendment A0001: The purpose of this amendment is to incorporate a revised Attachment B. Previous Attachment B is hereby deleted in its entirety, and replaced with the revised Attachment B-Section B Pricing-A0001. The revision corrects the CLIN numbering on the Cumulative tab and corrects CLIN 014 unit to 'Each'. Proposal due date and time remain unchanged.

ALL PROSPECTIVE CONTRACTORS MUST BE REGISTERED IN THE SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM) IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR AWARD.