SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Sources Sought - Security Services
- Notice Date
- 7/25/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585
- ZIP Code
- 20585
- Solicitation Number
- DE-RI01-06SA00001
- Response Due
- 8/15/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/15/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance (SSA), is seeking qualified business sources (the department is considering small business including small business led teams or joint ventures) that can provide personnel , equipment and services necessary to operate, manage, train and maintain an armed and unarmed, uniformed security force to include Badging personnel; administrative support personnel, receptionist, canine explosive detector services, Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM) personnel and a Quality Assurance Program commonly referred to as the Protective Force. This work falls under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 561612. The planned contract will have a period of performance of five (5) years which includes one (1) base year and four (4) option years. The work will be performed at DOE Headquarters (Forrestal Building, Germantown Building, and other DOE sites in the Washington, D.C. area) for SSA. The mission of the Protective Force Contractor is the physical protection of critical security interests to include Classified and Sensitive Information, Property, Unclassified Facilities and personnel. Interested business sources capability statements shall include answers to the question below: 1. Provide a list of your firms??? previous contracts and experience for providing personnel, facilities, equipment, materials and services necessary to continue to operate, manage, train and maintain an armed and unarmed, uniformed security force to include: Technical Surveillance Counter Measures personnel ; Badging personnel; Canine Explosive Detection Team; and administrative support personnel as a total Protective Force. Please provide a description of the work and a contact point with phone number for whom the work was performed. 2. Provide a list of your firms three most recent Federal Contracts for any type of work. Please provide a description of the work and a contact point with phone number for whom the work was performed. 3. Provide a list of any contracts your firm has participated on valued at $10 million or above either as a prime contractor or a subcontractor. Please provide a description of the work and a contact point with phone number for whom the work was performed. 4. Provide a list of any contracts for which your firm was a part of that was either terminated for default or terminated for convenience. Please provide any circumstances surrounding the termination as well as a description of the work and a contact point with phone number for whom the work was performed. 5. Provide a statement as to how your company would be able to financially handle a contract potentially valued in excess of $20 million. Include a banking point of contact and telephone number for verification. 6. Provide a list of any firms that your firm has teamed or partnered with on any Federal contract in the past five years. 7. Please provide your average gross sales averaged over the last three years. What is your size designation? 8. Do you have existing staff and infrastructure to satisfactorily operate a contract with 250 to 350 personnel? If not, how would your firm specifically staff such a requirement? What subcontractor(s) does your firm have an arrangement that could assist in this type of effort? 9. Are you familiar with the term ???Design Basis Threat???? If so, could you please elaborate on the subject? 10. What is your corporate history and philosophy on retaining senior management and key personnel on a contract that your company would assume? 11. Please explain your corporate approach to recruiting, retention of personnel, labor relations and experience in dealing with a unionized protective force. 12. Please describe your corporate training policy and your knowledge of DOE???s training philosophy. Do you have access to local firing ranges (rifle and handgun capability) that meet DOE firing range requirements? Include a brief discussion of your on-site and off-site training facilities/capabilities. 13. Describe your general corporate approach to preventing cost overruns, overtime costs. 14. Discuss your employee benefit package provided to your current employees. This announcement is part of market research and responses are sought to identify sources that have the comprehensive knowledge, skills, and capability to meet the overall requirement as described in the DRAFT Statement of Work (SOW), DRAFT Position Descriptions (PD???s), and Historical Staffing Plan contained herein. The majority of contractor personnel will be required to have either a ???Q??? or ???L??? clearance at the time of contract award, or be capable of receiving a clearance within a reasonable time period after award. A current Department of Defense (DOD) Top Secret or other clearance based upon a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) is acceptable if the background investigation is less than 5 years old. The Government funding for this effort over the past several years has averaged $17-$20 million per year. Interested business sources, including small business sources and small business-led teams and joint ventures are hereby invited to submit a capability statement of no more than 25 pages to demonstrate their Protective Force capability to provide the requested services. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A REQUEST FOR A FORMAL PROPOSAL OR A PRESOLICITATION NOTICE. This notice is provided as information to the marketplace and is an invitation for an expression of interest and demonstration of capability to perform the anticipated work. The Government will not pay for the provision of any information nor will it compensate any respondents for the development of such information. The DRAFT PWS, DRAFT PD???s, and Historical Labor Mix is available to download from this site, which is the official point of notification to the public. Businesses responding to this market survey must submit their responses via the DOE IIPS at http://e-center.doe.gov no later than 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time, August 15, 2006. Interested parties must register via the IIPS web site prior to responding to this market survey. Instructions on how to submit your response can be found in the help document located on the IIPS web site listed above. For technical assistance, firms should call 1-800-683-0751 or e-mail the IIPS administrator at iips_helpdesk@e-center.doe.gov. All responses must provide the return e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number, and facsimile (fax) number. TELEPHONE RESPONSES AND INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS MARKET SURVEY SHOULD BE SENT VIA DOE IIPS. It is also the responsibility of the respondent to monitor this site for the release of any additional information, amendments to this notice, solicitation, or other related documents. To assist in this process, it is suggested after interested parties have registered on IIPS to click-on the button entitled, ???Join Mailing List??? and fill-out the required information to receive automated notifications. **PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT ALL INFORMATION SUBMITTED WILL BE CONSIDERED procurement sensitive. Information which the Contractor considers ???Bid and Proposal Information??? or ???Proprietary Information??? pursuant to existing laws and regulations must be marked accordingly [see FAR 3.104-1 (3) & (4)].
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