5-Month Bridge: Professional Energy Management Services

Description: This requirement is for enterprise energy support to the USCG’s operators, either on globally distributed USCG assets, or across the USCG’s vast facility footprint. Contractor Services will directly support the USCG’s centralized operational support customer service desk, which facilitates energy procurement and financial audit compliance using the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) requisition programs for tactical use fuels, including petroleum across USCG cutters, aircraft, boats, and installations. Contractor services will provide daily operational interface between key interagency partners like DHS, DLA, the General Services Administration (GSA), and USCG pilots, cutter personnel, and boat coxswains, to ensure tactical petroleum or energy needs are satisfied and requisition tools are provided in a rapid and cost-effective manner. Contractor Services will support civil engineering, operations, naval engineering, aeronautical engineering, environmental management, and various maintenance, design, and construction offices as they embark on executing energy reduction, energy resiliency, energy diversification, water efficiency, utility improvement, and performance contract activities. Contractor Services will facilitate analysis and reporting of annual energy spend and coordinate project description narratives, newsletters, and award submittals (e.g., energy programmatic outreach).

The services and supplies procured through these actions provide direct and essential support to statutorily required Coast Guard operations that are mission critical, including Border Security Operations ongoing as part of Operation River Wall, Defense Operations as part of Operation Epic Fury, and Search and Rescue operations worldwide. Specifically, these actions are required to maintain the operational readiness of entire cutter and aviation and deployable special capabilities for ALL excepted missions, including those associated with America 250, FIFA World Cup and border security, law enforcement and search and rescue missions. Annexes 1-4 of the Coast Guard Consolidated Lapse Guidance has the list of excepted activities for DCO, DCS, DCP, and CoS, and this contract support maintains all centralized customer support functions of all Defense Logistics Agency – Energy (DLA-Energy) acquisition and requisition programs for operational energy (e.g. fuel, fuel cards, fuel ordering online portals, and interagency fuel transfers). The services provided through this contract maintain over 1565 Accountable Officials (AO) – e.g. operator credentialling and certifications -to enable fuel purchases, receipting, reconciliation quality assurance and payment. This support includes 2,285 fuel cards Coast Guard wide, over 39 thousand transactions annually, and more than $215 million in annual spend. There are no active-duty personnel within DCS-3 nor elsewhere organizationally that provide these similar services, nor are poised to be inserted into the 4-month training pipeline and granted access to the multiple DLA-Energy systems that facilitate these transactions, one of which occurs approximately once every 13.2 minutes.