Japan Scrap Contract

Added: Mar 31, 2011 9:13 pm The following are changes to the Pre-solicitation Notice posted on 9/30/10:

1. Delete the paragraph that reads, "For scrap recycling and disposing, the contractor will be required to provide and maintain containers at the site. After the Government fills the containers with segregated, scrap material, the contractor will be called upon to remove the full containers and replace them with empty ones."

Insert the following paragraph: "For scrap recycling and disposing, the contractor will be responsible for performing all services necessary in connection with management of scrap collection sites, transportation, removal, recycling and disposal of scrap material, including the provision and maintenance of containers. The contractor shall physically receive scrap material from Department of Defense scrap generators in Japan, offload generating activity conveyances, segregate, sort, and place material into contractor-provided containers. Management of scrap collection site services will be ordered on a full time (Monday to Friday) basis or on a limited time (Tuesday to Thursday) basis at each of the four DLA Disposition Services sites."

2.  The solicitaion is expected to be issued on or about April 29, 2011 with proposals due on or after June 10, 2011.

Added: Sep 30, 2010 5:00 pm Work includes removal, transportation, recycling and disposal of scrap material at DLA Disposition Services Iwakuni, Misawa, Okinawa, Sagami, Japan in an environmentally responsible and compliant manner.  Area of coverage also includes Forward Collection Sites Kawakami, Sasebo, and Draughon Range near Misawa.

Also included are de-militarizing of government property and de-manufacturing of government electrical and electronic equipment.  Demilitarizing is a government term used to define the requirement and process of destroying government surplus property.  The purpose is to eliminate the offensive or defensive capability inherent in the equipment and prevent further use for its intended purpose.  Demanufacturing means to render specified unusable or obsolete government-owned electrical or electronic equipment completedy unusable.  The equipment must be totally disassembled, shredded or destroyed.  The hazardous components must be recovered and properly disposed. 

For scrap recycling and disposing, the contractor will be required to provide and maintain containers at the site. After the Government fills the containers with segregated, scrap material, the contractor will be called upon to remove the full containers and replace them with empty ones.

There will be four price schedules, one for each DLA Disposition Services site. Offerors may bid on any one or more of the price schedules. When bidding on a price schedule, offerors must submit a price for all contract line items on the schedule. Incomplete offers will not be considered. In addition to recycling and disposal type contract line items, each price schedule will include a contract line item for de-militarizing and a contract line item for de-manufacturing.

The solicitation is expected to be issued on or after December 1, 2010 with proposals due on or after January 3, 2011. The solicitation will be available for download in the Federal Business Opportunities website at https://www.fbo.gov. The solicitation will result in one or more firm-fixed price, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts. An offeror may be awarded more than one schedule.  Each schedule will be awarded to only one offeror. The contract will have an 18-month base period with the Government's unilateral right to exercise two 18-month option periods. This project will be performed in its entirety in the country of Japan.  The contractor must possess all required permits, licenses and registrations necessary to perform the work in Japan.

Note that the issuing office for this solicitation will be DLA Disposition Services, J-762, located at 1025 Quincy Avenue, Suite 2000, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 96860-4512. Point of contact for this solicitation is Mr. Nolan Horimoto, Contract Specialist, Phone: 808-473-1476, Email: nolan.horimoto@dla.mil.