SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Bone Preparation for Articulation & Display of Humpback Whale Skeleton
- Notice Date
- 6/25/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- ARO - ALASKA Regional Office** 240 West 5th Avenue, Room 114 ANCHORAGE AK 99501
- ZIP Code
- 99501
- Solicitation Number
- P12PS00972
- Response Due
- 8/8/2012
- Archive Date
- 6/25/2013
- Point of Contact
- Christie L. VandenDries Contract Specialist 9076443317 Christie_vandendries@nps.gov;
- E-Mail Address
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Point of Contact above, or if none listed, contact the IDEAS EC HELP DESK for assistance
(EC_helpdesk@NBC.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- SOLICITATION NUMBER: P12PS00972 SUBJECT: Bone Preparation for Articulation & Display of Humpback Whale Skeleton at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska PLACE OF CONTRACT PERFORMANCE: Gustavus, Alaska THIS IS ONLY A PRE-SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. NO RESPONSE IS REQUESTED OR DESIRED FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. THE SOLICITATION PACKAGE WILL BE POSTED ON OR AFTER JULY 9, 2012. NO OTHER DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THIS SOLICITATION WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE PRIOR TO THE ABOVE REFERENCED DATE. THIS IS A PRESOLICITATION NOTICE TO ANNOUNCE that the Department of Interior, National Park Service, Alaska Region Office intends to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to clean, repair, fabricate, and preserve Whale #68's bones in preparation for re-articulation and installation of an outdoor, educational exhibit. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT: In July 2001, a long time documented 45 year old humpback, Whale 68, died after being struck by a cruise ship and was towed to shore for examination. Glacier Bay National Park (GBNP) collected, cleaned, and preserved the bones of her 45 foot adult skeleton between 2001 and 2011 in anticipation of creating an educational exhibit. Contractor shall provide all tools, equipment, materials, labor, supervision, personnel and shall do all things necessary to clean, repair, fabricate, and preserve Whale #68's bones in preparation for re-articulation and installation of an outdoor, educational exhibit. The overall intent is for this project to result in bones that are clean, strong and visually attractive enough to comprise the whale's complete 45.5 ft skeleton to last 30-50 years in an outdoor display. Completion date for this project is March 15, 2013. This project is subject to the Service Contract Act. Be advised that this requirement may be delayed, cancelled, or revised at any time during process based on decisions related to Department of the Interior (DOI) and National Park Service (NPS) changes. If the requirement is cancelled, all offeror preparation costs will be borne by the offeror. OPTIONAL SITE VISIT: An optional organized site visit will be provided after issuance of the solicitation. At the time of this presolicitation announcement, the site visit is planned for Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m and 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. at the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Headquarters in Gustavus, Alaska. Potential offerors may, at their own expense, travel to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve to investigate and research the current condition of the bones. Where feasible, potential offerors will notify the contracting officer in advance their intent to attend the site visit. GENERAL INFORMATION: SET ASIDES: TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE (IAW FAR Subpart 19.5) NAICS Code: 711510 Small Business Size Standard: $7.0M CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Contractors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) government system prior to award in order to be eligible for a government contract - the link can be found at http://www.ccr.gov. We advise potential offerors to begin the registration process when they prepare their offer to ensure the registration in the CCR database is complete and in-place should they be selected for the award. In the event an offeror is not registered in CCR at the time the contracting officer is ready to award the contract, the contracting officer will proceed to the next eligible successful offeror. Refer to FAR 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration, "If the Offeror does not become registered in the CCR database in the time prescribed by the Contracting Officer, the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered Offeror." ONLINE REPRESENTATIONS &CERTIFICATIONS APPLICATION (ORCA): Prospective contractors shall complete the electronic annual representations and certifications at https://orca.bpn.gov in conjunction with required registration in the Central Contractor Registration database (see FAR Subpart 4.12 and FAR 52.204-8) RFP ISSUANCE DATE: The anticipated issuance date of the RFP is on or about July 9, 2012 (subject to change) with an anticipated closing of August 8, 2012 2:00 PM Alaska Local Time (subject to change). The RFP will be posted and available for download at the National Business Center (http://ideasec.nbc.gov) on or about July 9, 2012. In addition, general information and links to the solicitation will be provided at the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fbo.gov). Any amendments issued to the solicitation will also be available at the websites mentioned above. NO HARD COPY DOCUMENTS WILL BE ISSUED. Point of Contact: Ms. Christie VandenDries Phone: (907) 644-3317 Email: Christie_VandenDries@nps.gov
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Gustavus, Alaska
- Zip Code: 99826
- Zip Code: 99826
- Record
- SN02784695-W 20120627/120625234524-ff1b3f0fcdc8621b83c04d267eef8c20 (fbodaily.com)
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