Solicitation 70RFP323RE3000005 - PSO Services, NBACC Facility, Ft. Detrick, MD

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a requirement to acquire armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Ft. Detrick, Maryland.  The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). The Period of Performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. This requirement will be solicited as a commercial item in accordance with FAR Part 12. Services shall be furnished via an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with fixed hourly rates. This requirement will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. This requirement requires vendor to have a Top-Secret facility clearance. All offerors will be required have an active Top-Secret facility clearance (with documentation provided) at time of proposal submission. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price.  The submission requirements and evaluation criteria are defined in the solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 561612 with Small Business size standard is $29.0 million.  The Contractor is required to register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov.  No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with the System for Award Management. 

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be conducted via Microsoft Teams on Monday, 03/20/2023, at 11:00AM EST. All interested parties are invited to attend a briefing of this procurement. The briefing will cover items such as the statement of work, evaluation criteria, technical factors, post exhibit, pricing, teaming arrangements, etc. Attendance is not mandatory; however, it is strongly recommended. Contractors wishing to attend the conference should email Thomas Schrank (thomas.schrank@fps.dhs.gov) with the Point of Contact information and all attendee information not later than Thursday, 03/16/2023, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. The request shall include company information, such as the Company name, address, DUNS #, Cage Code, SAM UEID, Business Size designation, address, phone number, and email address of the planned attendees. Any vendor who has already submitted their request for attedance does not have to resubmit it. An invite to the meeting will be provided prior to 03/20/2023.This conference will be 100% virtual via MS Teams and there will be no dial-in provided for this conference. 

The solicitation document and attachments are now available as part of this this posting.

04/06/2023 - Amendment 0001 is issued to address the following:

1. Provide the Memo of Agreement to CBA-2023-80, incorporating the Juneteenth federal holiday under this CBA.
2. Provide a revised page 333 of the RFP, updating SOW Exhibit 11A.
3. Provide responses to questions submitted by industry for this solicitation.

The closing date of this solicitation remains the same.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a requirement to acquire armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Ft. Detrick, Maryland.  The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). The Period of Performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. This requirement will be solicited as a commercial item in accordance with FAR Part 12. Services shall be furnished via an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with fixed hourly rates. This requirement will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. This requirement requires vendor to have a Top-Secret facility clearance. All offerors will be required have an active Top-Secret facility clearance (with documentation provided) at time of proposal submission. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price.  The submission requirements and evaluation criteria are defined in the solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 561612 with Small Business size standard is $29.0 million.  The Contractor is required to register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov.  No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with the System for Award Management. 

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be conducted via Microsoft Teams on Monday, 03/20/2023, at 11:00AM EST. All interested parties are invited to attend a briefing of this procurement. The briefing will cover items such as the statement of work, evaluation criteria, technical factors, post exhibit, pricing, teaming arrangements, etc. Attendance is not mandatory; however, it is strongly recommended. Contractors wishing to attend the conference should email Thomas Schrank (thomas.schrank@fps.dhs.gov) with the Point of Contact information and all attendee information not later than Thursday, 03/16/2023, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. The request shall include company information, such as the Company name, address, DUNS #, Cage Code, SAM UEID, Business Size designation, address, phone number, and email address of the planned attendees. Any vendor who has already submitted their request for attedance does not have to resubmit it. An invite to the meeting will be provided prior to 03/20/2023.This conference will be 100% virtual via MS Teams and there will be no dial-in provided for this conference. 

The solicitation document and attachments are now available as part of this this posting.

For questions regarding this announcement, please contact Tom Schrank, at thomas.schrank@fps.dhs.gov. The due date for questions is Wednesday, 03/22/2023 at 12:00 PM, Eastern Time.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a requirement to acquire armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Ft. Detrick, Maryland.  The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). The Period of Performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. This requirement will be solicited as a commercial item in accordance with FAR Part 12. Services shall be furnished via an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with fixed hourly rates. It is anticipated that this requirement will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. This requirement requires vendor to have a Top-Secret facility clearance. All offerors will be required have an active Top-Secret facility clearance (with documentation provided) at time of proposal submission. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price.  The submission requirements and evaluation criteria are defined in the solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 561612 with Small Business size standard is $29.0 million.  The Contractor is required to register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov.  No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with the System for Award Management. 

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be conducted via Microsoft Teams (date and time TBD). All interested parties are invited to attend a briefing of this procurement. The briefing will cover items as the evaluation criteria, technical factors, post exhibit, pricing, teaming arrangements, etc. Attendance is not mandatory; however, it is strongly recommended. This conference will be 100% virtual via MS Teams and there will be no dial-in provided for this conference.

The solicitation documents will be posted as an attachment to this notice sometime in early/ mid March,. 

For questions regarding this announcement, please contact Tom Schrank, at thomas.schrank@fps.dhs.gov.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a requirement to acquire armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), Ft. Detrick, Maryland.  The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). The Period of Performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods. This requirement will be solicited as a commercial item in accordance with FAR Part 12. Services shall be furnished via an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with fixed hourly rates. It is anticipated that this requirement will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. This requirement requires vendor to have a Top-Secret facility clearance. All offerors will be required have an active Top-Secret facility clearance (with documentation provided) at time of proposal submission. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price.  The submission requirements and evaluation criteria are defined in the solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 561612 with Small Business size standard is $29.0 million.  The Contractor is required to register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov.  No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with the System for Award Management. 

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be conducted via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. All interested parties are invited to attend a briefing of this

procurement. The briefing will cover items as the evaluation criteria, technical factors, post

exhibit, pricing, teaming arrangements, etc. Attendance is not mandatory; however, it is

strongly recommended. Contractors wishing to attend the conference should email Thomas Schrank (thomas.schrank@fps.dhs.gov) with the Point of Contact information and all attendee information not later than Friday, 03/03/2023, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time. The request shall include company information, such as the Company name, address, DUNS #, Cage Code, SAM UEID, Business Size designation, address, phone number, and email address of the planned attendees. An invite to the meeting will provided once all attendee information has been received after 03/03/2023. This conference will be 100% virtual via MS Teams and there will be no dial-in provided for this conference.

The solicitation documents will be posted as an attachment to this notice on or about 03/01/2023. 

For questions regarding this announcement, please contact Tom Schrank, at thomas.schrank@fps.dhs.gov.