Postal Services and Ground Transportation Operations

Purpose - This sources sought notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation, nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government will not pay for any effort expended in responding to this notice. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information from persons, companies, and organizations with a proven track record of success who are interested and capable of providing the services described as follows:  The Contractor shall operate Army Post Offices (APOs), Satellite Army Post Offices (SAPOs), Military Address Only (MAOs) in Afghanistan capable of providing support to United States Armed Forces and authorized customers on Bagram Airfield (BAF) (one APO and Warrior Retrograde Facility), Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Resolute Support Headquarters (RSHQ), New Kabul Cluster (NKC), and any other area where postal operations are required within Afghanistan. The Contractor is responsible for providing all labor, resources, vehicles, and other items necessary to support, manage and operate the safe transportation/movement of United States Postal Service (USPS) and Military Postal Service (MPS) items between BAF and the Kabul Cluster (RSHQ, HKIA, and NKC).  Operations shall be IAW USPS bulletins, manuals, and publications; DoD Postal Manual 4525.6-M, dated 15 August 2002; USCENTCOM policies and regulations; Postal Operations Division (POD) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and Army regulations.

 2. Information requested -  

a. Provide a capability statement identifying how your company has the capability to meet this equipment. To include; Specific examples of your recent experience as it relates to performance in Postal Operations per draft PWS or related types of contracts. Indicate the types of contracts utilized and document your organization's ability to work in a DOD environment, whether your firm acted as the prime vendor or a subcontractor on the effort, and number of contractor personnel engaged in the effort. 

b. Identify what type of additional information would you require in order to provide a complete and accurate technical and cost response to a Request for Proposal for these services?

3. Submission Instructions:

Information responses should be from U.S. Contractors only and should not exceed ten pages not including cover page.

b. The following is a suggested submission organization:

i. A cover sheet including the RFI number, company name, CAGE code, address, current Facility Security Clearance, Business status including any applicable socioeconomic category, and technical point of contact with email address and telephone number.

ii. Responses to the questions in Section 2 of this notice above.

iii. No cost or pricing information should be provided. Any cost or pricing information received will be deleted and destroyed.

c. Responses will be considered privileged commercial information and protected from disclosure under exemption (b) (4) of the Freedom of Information Act. Responses will not be shared outside the U.S. Government and U.S. Government support contractors.

d. Responses will not be returned.

e. No classified or FOUO information should be included in your response.

f. Please submit responses as a PDF attachment via email to: danny.l.hall@afghan.swa.army.mil and sherry.a.breton@afghan.swa.army.mil

g. Please place the RFI number for this announcement and only the RFI number in the subject line of your email. All relevant information is included in the PDF attachment; other information such as the body of the email message will be discarded and not reviewed. You will receive a confirmation that your message has been received. If there is a problem with the attachment submitted, you will be notified and provided an opportunity to re-send.

h. Responses should be received by the time posted.  Any response received after this date may be considered but may not be included in subsequent refinement of the requirement and development of a solicitation.

i. The Governments anticipates issuing a solicitation during the 3rd quarter of FY16

 Please see attached Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) for anticipated service requirements