Guam Harbor Tugs Time Charter

1.    Action Code:  Pre-solicitation
2.    Date:  10 November 2021
3.    Year: 2021  Fiscal Year:  2022
4.    Contracting Office Zip Code:  23511
5.    Classification Code:  488310
6.    Contracting Office Address:  471 East C Street, Building SP-48, Norfolk, VA 23511 
7.    Subject: Guam Harbor Tugs Extended-Term Time Charter
8.    Proposed Solicitation Number:  N3220521R4196
9.    Closing Response Date:  10 Dec 2021
10.    Contact Point or Contracting Officer:  Courtney Woodley (757) 443-3864
11.    Solicitation Number:  N3220521R4196
12.    Description:  MSC requests two U.S. flag tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling at Naval Base Guam, GU.  This contract is for the requirements that cannot be satisfied with government-owned, controlled vessels. 
The following is a list of the services to be performed but is not an all-inclusive list:
Towing, twisting, mooring, berthing, docking, streaming, shifting, assisting, pulling, and escorting various vessel types, barges, submarines, crafts, hulls, sleds, derricks, lighters, and objects of  whatsoever nature including anything carried thereon.  Government reserves the right to use Government-owned, controlled, or chartered Tugs or vessels separately or jointly with Owner's Tugs in the performance of any services listed in this Contract; Transfers of pilots and Government Personnel by Tug; Tug emergency support services, including responses to weather conditions, threatening vessels, piers, dry-docks, or shore facilities; shipboard fires; vessels aground; vessel equipment failures; downed aircraft; oil spills; missions of mercy; collisions; ammunition mishaps; search-and-rescue operations; shipboard casualty; and any national defense exigencies. Line handling; Providing personnel (other than a riding crew) to go aboard a tow; and Owner's Representative shall provide adequate staff and communications to promptly respond to Government's requests for services under this Contract on a 24-hour-day basis.
The place of performance shall be in the geographical region(s) of Naval Base Guam, GU and the surrounding navigable waters, including all of Guam Island.  Within this geographical region, the Tug may be ordered to any berth, dock, anchorage, wharf, place, open roadstead, submarine line, or alongside any vessel, barge, lighter, submarine, craft, hull, derrick, or object of whatsoever nature that the Government may direct, provided the Tug can lie always afloat except in harbors or waters where it is customary and safe in the port to work aground. The Government may reassign the Tug to a different berth within the Geographical Region on a temporary or permanent basis to meet emergent requirements. The Tug shall remain on site at the base assigned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week when not on mission, undergoing refueling, or required at a shipyard.
Unit of issue – N/A
Destination information:   Naval Base Guam, GU
Delivery schedule: On or about 01 March 2022
Procedures:  FAR 12 using FAR 15 procedures
Anticipated Award Date:   On or about 01 February 2022 
The solicitation will be made available on beta.sam.gov on or about 10 November 2021
13.    Set-aside Status:  Full and open competition.  The decision to not set-aside this procurement was made resulting from Market Research.  The Small Business Procurement Center Representative (PCR), LaTanya Dent, concurred with this decision to issue the RFP as full and open on 23 July 2021.