SAN diego call-out tugs

Description:

MSC request two (2) U.S. flag tugs to provide harbor tug services and ship handling for the San Diego, CA harbor area. The contract is for all tug requirements of the required Shaft Horsepower (SHP) or bollard pull that cannot be satisfied with government owned, controlled or time-chartered tugs (both current and follow-on contracts withessentially the same terms). The following list, is not all-inclusive in neither scope nor description, is illustrative of the services to be performed:

(a) Towing, twisting, mooring, berthing, docking, streaming, shifting, assisting, pulling, and escorting various vessel types, barges, submarines, crafts, hulls, sleds, derricks, lighters, and objects of whatsoever nature including anything carried thereon. Government reserves the right to use Government-owned, controlled, or chartered Tugs or vessels separately or jointly with Owner's Tugs in the performance of any services listed in this Contract.

(b) Transfers of pilots and Government Personnel by Tug.

(c) Tug emergency support services, including responses to weather conditions, threatening vessels, piers, drydocks, or shore facilities; shipboard fires; vessels aground; vessel equipment failures; downed aircraft; oil spills; missions of mercy; collisions; ammunition mishaps; search-and-rescue operations; shipboard casualty; and National Defense Emergency

(d) Line handling

(e) Providing personnel (other than a riding crew) to go aboard a tow.

(f) Owner's Representative shall provide adequate staff and communications to promptly respond to Government's requests for services under this Contract on a 24-hour-day basis.

The solicitation will be made available on www.fbo.gov on or about 19 April 2016. Set-aside status-full and open competition. The decision to not to set this procurement aside for small business was made resulting from market research. Previous procurements for this service has shown that there is not an expectation to receive quotes from two or more small businesses. The director for small business affirmed this decision on 22 December 2015.