Pre-solicitation Notice: Local National Personal Services to Support the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers - Iraq

This announcement is for the purpose of informing industry that the US Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District intends to release a Request for Proposal on a full and open basis to obtain proposals from qualified offerors interested in and capable of providing qualified Iraqi engineers and technical support personnel to perform quality assurance, warranty, material and equipment and onsite monitoring of geographically disbursed construction sites outside the confines of the military installations in the Iraq Area of Operations. The solicitation will be available in FEDBIZOPPS. Contracting Procedures: The solicitation will be a Request for Proposal (RFP). The contract resulting from this solicitation will be awarded to the responsive and responsible offeror submitting the lowest price technically acceptable offer. The Request for Proposal will contain complete evaluation criteria. The acquisition will result in a Single Award Task Order Contract award, as defined in FAR 16.504. Task orders will be FFP, but may include some low dollar, cost reimbursable CLINs. The preponderance of CLINs will be FFP. The period of performance will be for one base year and one 12-month option period. Offerors must register in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) at www.ccr.gov prior to submission of proposals. Solicitation will be issued o/a 16 August 2011.

Point of Contact for this pre-solicitation notice is Jean (Lana) Birdsell, Contract Specialist, email: jean.l.birdsell@usace.army.mil; postal address is: 210 Prince Frederick Drive, Winchester VA 22602.

THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF INFORMING INDUSTRY THAT THIS SOLICITATION WILL BE POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS O/A 16 AUGUST 2011. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND PROPOSALS RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED OR EVALUATED.