Diving Services

THIS IS A PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE ONLY.



This notice does NOT constitute a request for proposal, request for quote, or invitation for bid.



This contract will be a follow on contract for similar services awarded under contract number N40085-11-D-0035.



The contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, management, tools, materials, equipment, facilities, transportation, and other items necessary to provide diving services at Sewell’s Point, Norfolk, VA; Lambert’s Point, Yorktown, VA; Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA., and surrounding areas. The work includes, but not limited to, diving degaussing range, video diving, and general diving in support of port operations. Work may require the contractor to provide equipment such as barges, water jet/air lift equipment and dive boat(s).



The work identified is to be provided by means of an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).

Source selection procedures will be used to select the proposal that provides the lowest price and is technically acceptable to the Government. Offerors will be evaluated using the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Method.



The resulting contract award will be a performance-based service contract made to the responsible offeror whose proposal, conforming to the Request for Proposal (RFP), will be most advantageous to the Government, price other evaluation factors considered. The offerors’ proposal shall contain a response to each of the evaluation factors and shall be in the form prescribed by the solicitation. The solicitation requires the evaluation of price and the following non-price factors: Factor 1 – Technical Approach/Management, Factor 2 – Corporate Experience, Factor 3 – Safety, and Factor 4 – Past Performance.

NOTE: Offerors MUST be evaluated as technically ACCEPTABLE under factors 1, 2, 3 and 4 in order to be considered technically acceptable overall.



Offers shall be submitted for the performance of work for a period of one (1) year. However, the initial term of the contract may be for a period of less than one (1) year. The Government has the option to extend the term of the contract services for additional periods of one (1) to twelve (12) months. The total contract term, including the exercise of any options, shall not exceed sixty (60) months.



The proposed procurement will be set-aside for Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) set-aside. The North American Industry Classification Standard (NAICS) Code for this procurement is 561990 with a small business size standard of $10 million.





The solicitation will be available on or about December 19, 2013 in electronic format only and will be posted on the Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO) website at https://www.neco.navy.mil/. Estimated proposal due date shall be approximately thirty (30) days after the solicitation is posted. Notification of any updates or amendments to the solicitation will be posted on the NECO website. IT IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE OFFEROR TO CONTINUALLY VIEW THE WEBSITE FOR UPDATES. The Government will not provide hard copies, facsimile or CD-ROM copies or Plan Holders Lists.



The proposed procurement will be issued as a NAVFAC Electronic Support Contract with online ordering capability using DOD EMALL.

Acceptance of Government Purchase Credit Cards is required along with the purchase of DOD EMALL Encrypted Software.



All prospective contractors are required to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/.



Please direct questions to Shawna Mitchell via email at: shawna.mitchell@navy.mil.