Amendment 0003 III Corps & Fort Hood Material Handling Equipment (MHE)

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Mission and Installation Contracting Command Fort Hood seeks Material Handling Equipment (MHE) services for III Armored Corps and Fort Hood, Texas under a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity task order contract, with proposals due June 8, 2026.

The procurement is a total Small Business set-aside. Place of performance is Fort Hood, Texas and surrounding areas within a 100-mile radius. The contract requires capability to provide 15K, 30K, and 36K forklifts with operational weight scales; container handling equipment; cranes with 180-ton and 300-ton lift capacity; heavy equipment transportation systems and removable gooseneck trailers with 80,000-pound-plus hauling capacity; and 40-foot flatbed trucks, all with certified operators and required permits. Services must support simultaneous upload and download of containerized equipment (quadcon to 40-foot containers not exceeding 58,000 pounds) and non-containerized armored military vehicles across multiple battalion footprints, motor pools, wash racks, line haul sites, Deployment Ready Reaction Fields, and Rail Operations Centers. Standard operating hours are Monday through Friday, 0730–1730 hours, excluding federal holidays, though 24-hour continuous operations may be required for mission-critical circumstances identified in individual task orders.

The base period runs July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, with four one-year option periods extending through June 30, 2031. The government intends to award up to five contracts. The NAICS code is 484110 (General Freight Trucking, Local) with a size standard of $34 million. Evaluation uses Lowest Price Technically Acceptable methodology, weighing price, technical acceptability, and past performance. Firm fixed-price proposals must be submitted electronically using the Exhibit B pricing workbook. Contractors must maintain EDWOSB status, active SAM.gov registration, and 30 percent minimum proposal submission compliance on subsequent Request for Task Order Proposals. Limitations on Subcontracting compliance applies: contractors may not pay more than 50 percent of government-paid contract performance amounts to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities, with penalties of the greater of $500,000 or actual amounts expended in excess of permitted levels.