SOURCES SOUGHT
F -- Region 3 Call When Needed Type III Helicopter Services Sources Sought - Sources Sought Notice
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 481212
— Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation
- Contracting Office
- U.S. Forest Service, Contracting, Owyhee Building - MS 1100, 3833 S. Development Avenue, Boise, Idaho, 83705-5354, United States
- ZIP Code
- 83705-5354
- Solicitation Number
- SN-2011-06
- Point of Contact
- Marge S. Schafer, Phone: 406-251-1238, Julie B. Uhrig, Phone: (208) 387-5631
- E-Mail Address
-
msschafer@fs.fed.us, jbuhrig@fs.fed.us
(msschafer@fs.fed.us, jbuhrig@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice The USDA Forest Service is issuing this sources sought notice as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for Type III Call-When-Needed Helicopter Services with companies holding 133, 135 and 137 Certificates in Southwest Region 3 which includes the states of New Mexico and Arizona. Type III Helicopters furnished will be used for incident support and may also be used for project, law enforcement and administrative flights and a call-when-needed basis. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes assigned to this procurement are 481212 Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation US and 481211 Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation US both with a size standard of 1,500 employees. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; 2) List of Type III Helicopter resources available, and location of your principle base of operations; and 3) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of available resources to be offered and organizational and staff capability. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform this requirement; 3) determine if a contract term of one base year with with options to extend for four additional years is acceptable; 4) determine Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), 8(a) Program, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Woman Owned Small Business Business (WOSB) interested parties to provide services under a blanket purchase agreement or basic ordering agreement acquisition arrangement. The capability statements will be used to determine appropriate procurement strategy, in particular whether a set-aside or an alternate procurement strategy is warranted. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. When it is determined that a formal solicitation will be issued, a pre-solicitation notice will be posted on Federal Business Opportunities web site at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/ Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by May 25, 2011; 3:00 p.m. MST. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be either mailed to Marge. Schafer, 4317 Nicole Ct., Missoula MT 59803 or emailed to Marge Schafer at msschafer@fs.fed.us.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/024B/SN-2011-06/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: US Forest Service Region 3, United States
- Record
- SN02443827-W 20110512/110510234332-90bb49dd1d3323d518b62f16caa2e15c (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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