Protective Security Officer services throughout the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island

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AMENDMENT 0001 DESCRIPTION

Amendment 0001 is being issued to inform prospective offerors of the following:

This solicitation will be competed as a Total Small Business Set-Aside and NOT on a full and open basis.

The pre-proposal conferences for solicitations 70RFP118RE1000001, 70RFP118RE1000002 and 70RFP118RE1000003 will be held in conjunction on the specified date and time in the solicitation.  Order of conferences to-be-determined.

Potential offerors only need register for one of the three conferences in order to notify the government of attendance and a conference-phone line, for potential attendees, can be provided by the government upon request.

THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

The Department of Homeland Security, Office of Procurement Operations, Federal Protective Service Acquisition Division, East Consolidated Contracting Group has a requirement for armed protective security officer (PSO) services in various locations throughout the State of Connecticut. This requirement is being solicited as a commercial item in accordance with FAR Part 12. It is anticipated that a single award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity type contract with firm fixed unit prices will be established as a result of the solicitation. Resultant task orders under the contract will be firm fixed price. The contract will consist of a 12-month base period with four (4) consecutive 12-month options with an additional 6-month option in accordance with FAR 52.217-8.

The NAICS code for this acquisition is 561612, Security Guard and Patrol Services. The size standard is $20.5 Million. This procurement will be solicited under full and open competition. As an integral part of this security effort, the contractor shall provide and maintain all management, supervision, manpower, training, equipment, supplies, licenses, permits, certificates, insurance, pre-employment screenings, reports, and files necessary to accomplish this requirement in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW).

The RFP will require the submission of a technical proposal as well as a price proposal. All proposals received in response to the RFP will be evaluated using Best Value Trade-Off Procedures.

A Pre-Proposal conference is scheduled for Thursday, March 29, 2018, 10:30 AM at 701
Market Street, Suite 3200, Philadelphia, PA 19106. See the solicitation for further information.

For questions concerning this announcement, contact Gregory Portale at Gregory.portale@hq.dhs.gov.

All contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Register CCR (http://www.sam.gov). Further offerors are required to complete their Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA) at www.sam.gov.

In order to view the solicitation files contractors must request explicit access through fedbizopps.gov. By requesting explicit access contractors are consenting to the terms in DHS Form 11000-6 (08-04), "Non-Disclosure Agreement". Any questions regarding requests for explicit access should be addressed to the fedbizopps.gov help desk.