Fabrication of Fifth Class Foam-filled Unlighted Plastic Buoys for United States Coast Guard

The purpose of this amendment is to extend the Proposal Due Date/Close Date of the Solicitation to: July 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Pacific Time.

The purpose of Amendment 0001 is to address questions submitted by interested vendors. Please see attached.

This solicitation is scheduled to issue on or about May 15, 2014 with a planned closing date of June 16, 2014.

The purpose of this amendment is to replace Specification# 491A in the Attachments with the attached Specification# 491B.

This concludes all changes.

This is a Pre-solicitation Notice for contractor(s) to furnish all labor, material, transportation and equipment necessary to fabricate and deliver fifth class foam-filled, unlighted plastic buoys. These buoys will be used as aids to navigation in the navigable waters of the United States. The buoy shell shall be manufactured from medium density polyethylene using the rotational molding process. All Polyethylene used shall be composed of 100% virgin material meeting the requirements of ASTM D4976, Group 2, Class 2, Grade 3. Color Pigments shall be added to the medium density polyethylene plastic. The color shall be uniform throughout the thickness of the plastic and it shall conform to the Federal Color Numbers contained in FED-STD-595B: 11350 (red), 14193 (green), and 27875 (white). The interior of the buoys shall contain polyurethane foam, a radar reflector and a counterweight of steel shot which shall conform to the size standards of SAE J-444. First article testing and approval may be required. Please see the attachments of this Sources Sought Notice for additional specifications information.

The solicitation will be issued utilizing procedures in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation and FAR Subpart 19.5, Set Asides for Small Business. The solicitation is scheduled to issue on or about April 23, 2014 with a planned closing date of May 23, 2014. The estimated annual requirements are 1,000 5CPR (Can-Shaped, Plastic Radar-Reflector) and 700 5NPR (Nun-shaped, Plastic Radar-Reflector) buoys. The resulting contract will be a five year Requirements contract. The anticipated start date will be 01 October 2014 and requirement is anticipated to extend through 30 September 2019.

This will be a 100% Small Business Set Aside. The applicable North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) is 326199 (All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing). The Small Business Size Standard in number of employees is 750.

The solicitation will be available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website at Internet address http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested offerors are responsible for downloading the solicitation on FedBizOpps. Telephone requests for solicitation packages and amendments will not be accepted. No solicitation packages will be mailed. Please note that to be eligible for award of this contract your company must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at the SAM website at http://www.sam.gov. Interested offerors may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the SAM database accessed through https://www.acquisition.gov or by calling (866) 606-8220, or (334) 206-7828 for international calls.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jing Liu at (510) 437-3731 or via email at Jing.Liu@uscg.mil.