Science, Engineering, Technical, and Assistance (SETA) Services in support of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Program Manager Special Programs (PMSP) Office, Fort Belvoir, VA - W911QY-17-R-0012

Amendment 4 is issued with this posting - the proposal due date and time remains unchanged.

Amendment 3 is issued with this posting - the proposal due date is changed to Sep 30, 2017 11:59 p.m. eastern time. A subsequent amendment will be issued as well to provide answers to questions received as of this posting.

Amendment 2 is issued with this posting - the proposal due date and time remains unchanged.  Further questions have been received and consideration is underway for another potential amendment.  Another posting will be issued at a minimum to keep all interested parties duly informed of the consideration rendered.

Amendment 1 is issued with this posting - the proposal due date and time remains unchanged.  There are plans to release another Amendment as further questions have been submitted and answers are being prepared

The United States Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Natick Contracting Division, Ft. Detrick, MD is providing notice that a solicitation will be issued on or about 3 July 2017 as a commercial purchase for Science, Engineering, Technical, and Assistance (SETA) Services in support of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Program Manager Special Programs (PMSP) Office, Fort Belvoir, VA.

Services anticipated under this effort are intended to support various projects and programs and will include research, analysis and studies, engineering support, assessment support, meeting support, report writing, as well as information technology services for the maintenance and operation of hardware and software infrastructure. The contractor support will provide services on systems that comply with agency policy and are under the direct management of government personnel only. There is no guarantee that requirements will exist for all labor categories listed in the subsequent solicitation.

All Contractor individual(s) supporting the resultant contract must have the required security clearance level at time of proposal submission and be able to maintain the required security clearance level throughout the contract period of performance. The successful Contractor will be required to develop an Operations Security (OPSEC) plan based on requirements identified by the supported customer.

Interested parties must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible to receive a government contract. Registration information can be obtained at the sam.gov website.

Award will be made to the offeror whose proposal represents the best value to the government considering a tradeoff of price and a non-price factor.

This acquisition is a Total Small Business Set-Aside and provides competition among Small Businesses utilizing he applicable North American Industry Classification Systems Code of 541330 with a Small Business Size Standard of $15.0 million. It is anticipated that a FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Items, Single Awardee Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) type contract, using hybrid Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Cost Type CLINs (for Travel and ODCs) will be awarded for a five (5) year ordering period in September 2017. The total contract maximum (for all Task Orders awarded) shall not exceed $47.5M.

All Parties interested in this action are invited to access and monitor the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) web site at https://www.fbo.gov.as all documents related to this acquisition will be available to download at this website on or about 3 July 2017. No paper copies of the RFP will be provided and no mailing list will be maintained because the acquisition will be posted on the above website.