Land Management & Public Safety Services at Parker Dam

PRESOLICITATION NOTICE

SERVICES - Land Management and Public Safety Services

This is a Pre-Solicitation Notice with the intent of synopsizing a proposed contract action prior to issuance of the solicitation. Specific instructions on submitting your proposal will be contained in the solicitation documents to be issued on or about June 1, 2021, posted to the federal contract opportunities website at https://beta.sam.gov. No documents will be available until the solicitation is issued.

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Basin, Lower Colorado Dams Office at Parker Dam has a requirement for well-trained, highly capable, armed land management and public safety personnel. Parker Dam is a federally owned property located on the Colorado River, approximately twenty-five (25) miles south of Lake Havasu City, Arizona and approximately fourteen (14) miles north of Parker, Arizona. The work site is near La Paz County, Arizona, and San Bernardino County, California. The Government is considering satisfying this requirement with a 5-year term firm-fixed price, single award stand-alone contract.

Reclamation has determined Parker Dam requires a professional level of Land Management and Public Safety services with personnel capable of addressing public safety and unauthorized visitor activities at Reclamation assets. Personnel performing these duties shall be proactive in identifying, assessing, monitoring, and reporting public safety and land management violations as they occur or appear to be taking place at Parker Dam.

This requirement is limited to eligible 8(a) participants only.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code assigned to this project is 561612, Guard Services with a corresponding small business size standard of $22M.

This acquisition will be procured in accordance with FAR Part 15 - Contracting by Negotiation and in accordance with the source selection evaluation criteria included in the Request for Proposal (RFP). Award will be made using best-value, source-selection procedures incorporating tradeoffs between price and non-price factors. It is expected that the RFP will include evaluation factors for Relevant Experience, Technical Capability, Past Performance and Price.

The Government intends to award one (1) firm-fixed price stand-alone contract from this solicitation, but reserves the right to award more, less or none at all. The resulting contract will be a firm fixed price service type stand-alone contract. The contract performance period is a five (5) year period (one-year base period and four one-year option periods).

The solicitation and any amendments to the solicitation will be available only through the federal contract opportunities website (https://beta.sam.gov). All dates in this announcement are estimated and are subject to change. No other information will be available before the solicitation is posted.

Registrations: In order to be awarded a contract an offeror must be registered and active in the System for Award Management (SAM), http://www.sam.gov, and have completed their Online Representations and Certifications.

Point of Contact: Kathleen (Kathy) Berry, Contract Specialist, e-mail: kberry@usbr.gov. All contractual technical questions must be submitted in writing via e-mail to: kberry@usbr.gov. Telephone questions will not be accepted.