FY18 NETA Certification

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to award a sole source fixed-price purchase order to The InterNational Electrical Testing Association. This requirement will provide training, evaluation, and certification of competency of Soldiers of the 249th Engineering Battalion along with accreditation of the 249th Engineering Battalion organization. The contract will allow Soldiers to be certified in accordance with the ANSI/NETA ETT through NETA and shall be subject to the same rules, policies, and guidelines established by NETA that govern the examination and certification of NETA Certified Testing Technicians. NETA provides the infrastructure, tracking, administers support, and provides avenues for earning continuing technical development credits (CTD credits) through NETA. This contract will provide online technical training, electrical safety training, along with self-paced technical seminars, etc. No competition is being sought.

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE for the requirement is for three (3) years: 16 September 2017 - 15 September 2020.

This is a special notice prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.2 Synopses of Proposed Contract Actions. A solicitation will not be posted.

However, any firm that believes it can meet this requirement may give written notification to the Contracting Officer within 15 days from the date of publication of this announcement. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. NO RFP will be issued based upon this Notice of Intent. If no responses are received, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends on proceeding with awarding a firm-fixed purchase order to the InterNational Electrical Testing Association. Interested parties may submit any information for consideration by the Government to eunice.rose@usace.army.mil.

Point of contact for this requirement is Eunice Rose at eunice.rose@usace.army.mil.