Welding IDIQ Service

This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information only. This is NOT a Solicitation Announcement, nor is it a Request for Proposal. This request does not obligate the Government in any contract award.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, is conducting research to determine the market capabilities of potential contractors to perform Welding Services. It is the Government's intent to award a Firm Fixed Price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) for a base year of twelve (12) months and four (4), twelve (12) month option years. All work shall be performed in accordance with each statement of work incorporated upon issuance of each task order.

The Contractor shall provide one aluminum welder and one steel welder for onsite welding at the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Repair Yard or welding on one of the Corps vessels moored at the Engineer Repair Yard in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The Contractor shall provide individual welding qualifications and certifications with the quote submitted for review by the United States of Army Corps of Engineers.

Provide one welder for cutting and welding steel on-site at the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Repair Yard or for welding on one of the Corps vessels moored at the Engineer Repair Yard in Wilmington, North Carolina. Welder is to be certified to weld A-36 mild steel plate, common structural framing, pipe and pipe fittings, of various thickness and sizes. They must be certified to weld all types of Stainless Steel plate, structural framing, pipe and pipe fittings, of various thickness and sizes. Welder is to remove, with a gas cutting torch, old plate and structural framing and weld in new plate and structural framing. Welder is to fabricate and install new components.

The Government will furnish all supplies, materials, and equipment for work, EXCEPT for personal safety equipment. (Personal safety equipment is defined as gloves, helmet, faceshield, safety shoes, respirator and or breathing apparatus as required by MSDS sheets for material being welded.)

The Contractor shall be responsible for responding to task orders within 24 hours from time of task order issuance.

All interested firms with 336611 as an approved NAICs code have until 2 January 2019 at 4PM. to submit the following information:

- Name & Address of your Firm

- Point of Contact (Name/Phone/E-mail)

- Current SAM Record to included DUNS Number and CAGE Code

- Business Size, to include designation as HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Business, and Large Business. Any supporting documentation that confirms your socio-economic status should be provided, i.e., letter of certification from VA confirming SDVOSB status. The Government must be able to verify SBA certification of HubZone and 8(a) via SAM.

- Firm's capability to perform, to include required certifications, geographic span and project size.

The Government may not give credit to your socio-economic class if there is not sufficient documentation to support it or if the Government cannot verify through other means that your business is as such.

The requested information shall be submitted electronically to:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Attn: Andrea Green and Ros Shoemaker
E-mail: Andrea.m.green@usace.army.mil and Rosalind.m.shoemaker@usace.army.mil

The email should be titled: Welding Services

Do not send hard copies of advertising or promotional materials. Please ensure that all responses are comprehensive and provide a name and point-of-contact for your firm for follow-up by this office or the procuring contracting officer. If you have responded to any previous e-mail messages or had other communications with our office regarding preliminary market research for this project, please be advised that it will be necessary for you to respond to this e-mail and the questions contained therein. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the Prime Contractor and work accomplished by the teaming partner

All information is to be provided on a voluntary basis at no charge to the Government. There is no entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs related to or arising out of responding to this request for information. All information provided becomes property of the Government. There is no guarantee, expressed or implied, that the market research for this acquisition will result in any guarantee of award or acquisition strategy.

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