Operation and Maintenance of Hawthorne Army Depot

A Draft Request for Proposal has been posted to the Hawthorne Army Depot public website at http://www.aschq.army.mil/ac/aaisdus/Hawthorne.aspx
An Industry Day/Site Visit will be held at the Hawthorne Army Depot on June 18 & 19, 2010. An Industry Day Brief, one on one discussions with respondents, and tours will be conducted on Friday, June 18th. Tours will continue on Saturday, June 19th. A limit of three people from each company may attend. All attendees must be U.S. citizens.
The following information must be provided to Ms. Kelly Hansel, kelly.hansel@us.army.mil and Ms. Lorraine Geren, lorraine.geren@us.army.mil NLT June 11, 2010, in order to attend the Industry Day/Site Visit:
Name of Company
Names of Personnel attending
Place of Birth of each attendee
Citizenship Status

The Government is soliciting for a contractor to operate and maintain Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD). In order to ensure the continued affordability of operating and maintaining HWAD, which is a deep stow/demilitarization of conventional ammunition depot, the Government is currently undertaking a consolidation effort at the depot. There are currently 2,428 storage structures and 411 administrative buildings at HWAD. The intent of the consolidation is to reduce the operation and maintenance costs at the depot and to obtain more efficient storage of assets.

Offerors can access information regarding the consolidation effort and the upcoming Request For Proposal (RFP) for the Hawthorne Solicitation at the following site:
http://www.aschq.army.mil/ac/aaisdus/Hawthorne.aspx .
Offerors may access additional restricted information on a website called Interactive Business Opportunities Page (IBOP). To gain access to IBOP for the Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) Acquisition, vendors need to:

1. Register with the IBOP, directions are below (Vendors only need to register if they havent previously registered with IBOP):

A. Go to https://abop.monmouth.army.mil.
B. On the left hand side, click USER REGISTRATION.
C. Click the INDUSTRY icon.
D. Click the NEW USER icon.
E. Fill out the form and click SUBMIT (please note the password; this will not be e-mailed to you).
F. Follow the instructions as provided by the website.

2. Complete Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) Acquisition Application and submit request to the Contracting Officer at Rock-ACQ-HWAD-Acquisition@conus.army.mil. Application can be found at http://www.aschq.army.mil/ac/aaisdus/Hawthorne.aspx
(Listed under Miscellaneous, titled IBOP)


Upon approval from the Contracting Officer, requestors will receive notification of acceptance and be provided a link to the restricted document library on IBOP.

The Rock Island Contracting Center, in support of the Joint Munitions Command, intends to release a solicitation (W52P1J10R0155) on or about 7 May 2010 for the Operation and Maintenance of the Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD), Hawthorne, NV. The HWAD is located 130 miles southeast of Reno, NV and 300 miles north of Las Vegas, NV. The Operation and Maintenance contract is currently held by Day & Zimmermann-Hawthorne Corporation under a firm fixed price contract. In addition to numerous base operation support tasks such as grounds maintenance, fire and emergency protection, force protection/security, safety, and information technology, the Operation and Maintenance effort includes, but is not limited to, demilitarization of conventional ammunition, storage, receipt, packaging, crating, and handling of conventional ammunition, tenant support, life support of armed forces units conducting pre-deployment training missions at the depot, potential commercial use of the facilities under the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support (ARMS) Agreement, and storage of elemental mercury.
Solicitation W52P1J08R0017, which was previously released for the Operation and Maintenance of HWAD, has been cancelled. The Government intends to issue a new solicitation, as referenced above, due to receipt of unaffordable offers under the original solicitation resulting in a significant shift in the Acquisition Strategy.