MODIFICATION
99 -- ESG-Civil Engineering Rapid Global Equipment FY13 (CERGE13) - Attachments
- Notice Date
- 4/18/2013
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 339999
— All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, 772 ESS/PKH, 139 Barnes Drive, Suite 1, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, 32403, United States
- ZIP Code
- 32403
- Solicitation Number
- FA8051-FY13_RFI
- Point of Contact
- Joseph R. Willard, Phone: 8502836983, Jared David Dwyer, Phone: 8502836273
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.willard.1@tyndall.af.mil, jared.dwyer@tyndall.af.mil
(joseph.willard.1@tyndall.af.mil, jared.dwyer@tyndall.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 4F9WL 4F9AL 4F9AP 4F9EE 4F9EF 4F9EH 4F9ET 4F9X1 4F9X3 4F9X5 4F9X6 4F9X7 4F9K5 4F9S6 FES Equipment UTCs UTC Sustainment Baseline Amount of JIT UTC Packages Revised UTCs SUBJECT: Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) Equipment Unity Type Codes (UTC) Requirement REQUIREMENT SYNOPSIS: This serves as an amendment to a previous Source Sought posted on FedBizzOpps (www.fbo.gov) on 29 November 2012. The original sources sought solicitation number was FA8051-FY13_RFI. Additional information has been obtained to help clarify the requirement. In addition, new concerns have been identified and require input from the industry to help determine if there are companies that have the capabilities to meet the needs of the Air Force Civil Engineer (AF CE). It is imperative that all companies who previously responded to the Source Sought, or new companies who are interested, address all questions listed within this amendment. In addition to answering the questions below, all interested parties are requested to fill out the questionnaire that was provided as an attachment to the original Sources Sought. To provide additional clarity on the items that may be required for the Prime BEEF UTCs, multiple spreadsheets will be attached to this sources sought listing items required. These spreadsheets are only a DRAFT. The final change is that the submission from each contractor is allowed to be up to 20 pages (to include the required questionnaire). Submissions after the 20th (twentieth) page will be disregarded. Due to the short suspense (COB 22 Apr 2013), if you are unable to answer all the questions or provide all the supporting documentation by the deadline, please provide what you can. It will be sufficient to notify the Government you are able to fulfill the requirement and send in the remaining documentation as soon as possible, no later than 29 Apr 2013. The AF CE has a requirement for 22 different equipment UTCs supporting 10 Air Force Specialties (AFSs), categorized as 1) Traditional Engineering, 2) Emergency Management/CBRN, 3) Fire and Emergency Services and 4) Explosive Ordnance Disposal. During contingency operations, the civil engineering community is responsible to ensure serviceable equipment is provided to accomplish the mission according to the timelines established in the designed operational capability statements. Air Force civil engineer personnel expend significant resources to acquire, maintain, store inventory and report on Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) equipment unit type codes (UTC) at 193 locations worldwide. The current configuration of UTCs at the installation creates redundancies and inconsistency in handling, tracking and capability reporting. In addition, equipment with limited shelf-life is being inefficiently maintained at the installation requiring excessive disposal and replacement costs. To address this situation, an AF CE initiative is underway to establish an equipment optimization strategy that saves resources and manages a level of acceptable risk while supporting future equipment requirements.. The equipment optimization strategy is based on storing the minimum amount of UTC equipment necessary to meet initial capability requirements during a contingency event. This strategy is comprised of several initiatives, but for the purposes of this requirement, includes 3: 1) Day-to-day purchasing of home station and UTC equipment (See attached Equipment Supply Lists (ESL) spreadsheets); 2) Just-in-time (JIT) purchasing of specific expendable/shelf-life limited equipment (effects 11 of 22 UTCs) and shipment meeting a 24/48/72 hour delivery timeline (See attached CFM JIT REVIEW spreadsheet); 3) Day-to-day and contingency purchase, packing and shipment of entire UTC packages meeting a 30/60/90 day delivery timeline.Regarding the requirement for purchase of entire UTC packages under "Contingency" situations meeting a 30/60/90 day delivery timelines: There is a requirement to purchase the difference between the currently postured amount of UTC packages and the future requirement of UTC packages, to be delivered in no more than 30 days (worst case) from identification of an established need. See attached JIT UTC REQUIREMENT (17 Apr 13) spreadsheet needed for this analysis. For example: 4F9WL, CBRN Response Package; the current postured amount of these packages is 30, however the future requirement is 79. Therefore, the contractor must guarantee that they can procure, pack and ship from 1 to 49, 4F9WL UTC packages to any designated location(s) in the world. During a contingency some packages contain equipment that the government believes may be difficult to procure in a 30 day time period. Therefore, suitable subs or descriptions for proposal of suitable subs will be provided in the initial solicitation that can be supplemented into UTC packages when necessary in a contingency. Just-in-time purchasing, the posturing of only a percentage of required UTCs to meet future requirements, coupled with the posturing of only that equipment yielding a long purchase time, a defined maintenance schedule and/or requiring calibration and testing will provide the cost reduction necessary to create a cost effective optimization strategy. However, risk is created by the posturing of only a portion of UTC equipment. Therefore, risk mitigation drives the requirement for a method or vehicle to quickly purchase, package and ship large amounts of equipment to meet contingency operations. Concerns to Be Addressed By Industry: 1) What is the industry going to do to ensure that we receive all of the items needed for the JIT requirements when we need them? Will long term contracts need to be set up with manufacturers or will the vendors need to store some of these items on hand with the potential that we will never need them? 2) What is the industry going to do to ensure that entire UTC kits can be packaged and delivered when we need them? We do not want bits and pieces of kits sent to the Air Force to be assembled by our people. The entire kits need to be delivered ready to go. 3) What will industry do to make sure that the Government does not receive items that are expired or are about to expire? 4) Please identify which items would require the identification of acceptable substitutes due to market constraints which could make it difficult to deliver those items within the required timelines. 5) Identify how you will be able to handle hazardous equipment so you can include them into the required packing for a UTC kit. 6) What are the additional costs (ROM) associated with being able to guarantee delivery of the items/packages within the required timeframes (24/48/72 hour delivery timeline and 30/60/90 day timeline)? 7) Most important concern: Can industry do this? If not, why not/what are the show stoppers/barriers? Attachment: Potential Items Required Spreadsheets
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