Scientific and Engineering Support Services for the US Army Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) at Fort Huachuca, AZ

This notice is to advise prospective offerors that the anticipated release date of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for this requirement is on or about 06 February 2014. Proposals will be due 30 days after the release of the RFP.

All prospective offerors are responsible for retrieving updated information via ASFI or FedBizOpps, to include the solicitation with attachments and any amendments thereto.

The POC for this requirement is the Contracting Officer, Kate Wimmer, katrina.m.wimmer.civ@mail.mil.

No response to this notice is necessary.

The U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Huachuca Division, requires non-personal scientific and engineering services to support the United States Army Electronic Proving Ground (USAEPG). The mission of EPG is to plan, conduct, analyze, evaluate and report the results of developmental, operational, and integrated (DT/OT/IT) test and evaluation in support of Network, Electronic Warfare (EW) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR). To fulfill this mission, EPG must provide quality, efficient, timely, value added test services that support the acquisition process and provide comprehensive C5ISR system, System of Systems (SoS) and network performance information to its customers. The primary place of contract performance in support of this contract is Fort Huachuca, Arizona, with contingent support at Fort Hood, Texas, Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The types of services required are engineering, technical and scientific services to support test planning, test conduct, and test reporting. This support includes developing instrumentation software based upon customer test requirements and using instrumentation to collect and record test data, analyzing data, producing data reports, writing test reports, and repairing and troubleshooting instrumentation. It also includes operating and maintaining the motor pool vehicles used in the support of tests, the test-related facilities and all testing instrumentation required in performance of required services.

The Government contemplates the award a single-award, hybrid Cost-Plus-Award-Fee/Firm-Fixed-Price contract with a period of performance of five years. There will be a two-month phase-in period, a 22-month base period, one two-year option period and a final one-year option period.

This solicitation will be issued as an unrestricted procurement, NAICS Code 541330. The anticipated release date of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is on or about 31 January 2014. Proposals will be due 30 days after the release of the RFP.

All prospective offerors are responsible for retrieving updated information via ASFI or FedBizOpps, to include the solicitation with attachments and any amendments thereto.

MULTI-STEP OCI EVALUATION PROCESS - As previously posted, an advisory, multi-step OCI evaluation process in accordance with FAR 15.202 is being used for this requirement. In Phase I, a review of any potential OCI concerning contractor affiliation with DoD developmental testing was performed. Phase II will be the evaluation of each offeror's full proposal. Providing a Phase I OCI submission is a requirement for any company submitting a proposal in response to Phase II of this process. Phase I was completed on 19 November 2013. Phase II submissions will be accepted only from companies who participated in Phase I.

The POCs for this requirement are the Contract Specialist, Karen Flynn, karen.l.flynn5.civ@mail.mil and the Contracting Officer, Kate Wimmer, katrina.m.wimmer.civ@mail.mil.

No response to this notice is necessary.