Washington DC Area Packing/Crating and Storage

Solicitation documents are attached. Response Date is 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time February 17, 2015.

Questions regarding the solicitation are due by close of business January 26, 2015.

Solicitation A001 documents and Questions and Answers are attached. Response Date is extended to 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time February 18, 2015. 
 

Solicitation documents are attached. Response Date is 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time February 17, 2015.

Questions regarding the solicitation are due by close of business January 26, 2015.

The Department of State intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Moving and Storage (to include Packing and Crating) of Household Effects and Privately Owned Vehicles (POVs) arriving in and departing from the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan area for certain U.S. Government employees. The RFP will require non-personal services for the provision of all necessary labor, materials and facilities for: pickup; receipt; weighing; preparation of packing list(s), inventories, or other appropriate documentation; placement into temporary storage; placement into non-temporary storage; placement into controlled storage; export packing; delivery to pier; delivery, unpacking and all related services; servicing of appliances associated with the to/from residence; and emergency storage of POVs (long term storage); of household and personal effects and POVs. For purposes of this ordering agreement, the contractor's place of performance must be within a fifty (50) mile radius of Washington, D.C. (eighty kilometer radius from the Washington Monument).

Solicitation package is anticipated to be issued on or around January 14, 2015.

This acquisition will be advertised as a partial small business set aside. It is anticipated that approximately ten (10) ordering agreements will be awarded for the requirements with several small business awards. The National American Individual Classification Standard (NAICS) code for this procurement is 484210, Van lines, moving and storage services. The requirements will be grouped together into four (4) groups: Export Storage; Controlled Storage; Inbound Storage; and POV (Emergency Long Term Storage), with offerors able to propose performing all of the groups or any number of the groups.

Further the Department of State seeks:

• Companies that are equipped to handle large volumes of tonnage on a daily basis with adequate staffing for all shipment types.
• Experienced companies that are familiar with the various requirements for handling all shipment types set forth in the ordering agreement. 
• Companies able to service a range in volume for the freight categories Export/Storage, Controlled Storage, Inbound Freight, and Privately Owned (POV) Vehicles on a daily basis. 
• Companies that have adequate warehouse space (Volume) for the freight categories Export/Storage, Controlled Storage, Inbound Freight, and Privately Owned (POV) Vehicles.

The Department will assign tonnage to companies based upon their pricing and technical acceptability as evaluated from their proposals submitted in response to the Request for Proposal.

Minimum capability requirements are as follows and in accordance with Line Item requirements:

• Daily requirement for preparation of outgoing unaccompanied baggage. Minimum daily requirement - ten (10) packing authorizations.
• Daily requirement for export packing of effects. Minimum daily requirements is 6,804 net kilos (15,000 lbs.)
• Minimum storage capacity of 24,020 net kilos (53,000 lbs.) for packed effects awaiting shipment.
• Minimum daily requirements for packing effects for storage are 6,804 kilos (15,000 pounds).
• Minimum requirement for storage of POV's is five (5).
• Minimum daily requirement for controlled storage is 1000 pounds

The RFP will require the submission of a technical proposal (to include past performance) and a price proposal. Evaluation and award will be on a lowest priced technically acceptable basis (LPTA). The solicitation will be issued via FEDBIZOPPS. NO PAPER COPIES will be mailed. Placement of a firm fixed priced (FFP) multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreements for a one-year base period, plus four (4) one-year options is anticipated.

In the event a pre-proposal conference is scheduled the solicitation will contain firm information regarding the time/date/location of the conference.

THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE IS FOR NOTIFICATION PURPOSES ONLY. DO NOT SUBMIT ANY INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE. OFFICIAL QUESTIONS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER THE SOLICITIAION HAS BEEN POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS.

ALL PROSPECTIVE CONTRACTORS MUST BE REGISTERED IN THE SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM) IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR AWARD.