Draft RFP for the U. S. Army Garrison-Redstone Command (USAG-Redstone)Installation Support Services

The attached DRAFT Request for Proposals (RFP), W9124P-12-R-A001, for the U.S. Army Garrison-Redstone Command (USAG-Redstone) is issued for informational purposes pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201.

The U.S. Army Garrison-Redstone provides a wide range of Installation Support Services (ISS) to the Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command and Program Executive Offices, as well as tenant and satellite offices all of which are located on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama or in the Huntsville, Alabama area. The purpose of this performance-based service acquisition is to satisfy recurring requirements for ISS consisting of mail pickup and distribution, warehousing, receiving/storing/moving/issuing classes I-X (except V), petroleum issue point, vehicle maintenance, motor pool operations, asset management, retail supply services, facilities maintenance, HVAC service, landfill operations, snow/ice removal/street sweeping, miscellaneous engineering, water.

The DRAFT RFP is intended to provide you with the anticipated solicitation requirements prior to issuance of the formal/final RFP. You are encouraged to review the attached DRAFT RFP and submit any questions and/or comments regarding the proposed solicitation for consideration prior to issuance of the formal solicitation.

Please submit questions and/or comments, in writing, for review and consideration prior to formal/final RFP issuance to the Contract Specialist, Lori Bradley, E-mail lori.a.bradley@us.army.mil.

A pre-proposal conference and site visit will be held for this acquisition on December 2, 2011 at Redstone Arsenal, AL (See Section L for more information). This will be the only pre-proposal conference and site visit.

The formal/final RFP will be issued on or about December 8, 2011. Please note, the DRAFT RFP is considered to accurately reflect the proposed process and parameters for this acquisition, the solicitation is subject to review and approval prior to release of the formal/final RFP. Changes as a result of the review and approval process or as a result of consideration of questions and/or comments from Industry may significantly alter the formal/final RFP requirements.
This requirement will be acquired as a total set aside acquisition for exclusive competition under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 561210 with a small business size standard of $35.5M.

The resulting hybrid Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)/Time and Materials (T&M) contract will encompass a potential five-year period of performance, a base period of one-year and four one-year option periods. There is no guarantee the options on the follow-on years will be exercised. The Performance Work Statement (PWS) and available historical workload data are sufficient to define the requirement on a FFP basis for the majority of the effort. T&M line items will be used for the portions of the PWS which cannot be sufficiently defined to solicit proposals on a FFP basis.
The government will select for award the proposal which represents the best value to the government using the Economical Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection process. The LPTA process is appropriate when best value is expected to result from selection of the technically acceptable proposal with the lowest evaluated price.