SOURCES SOUGHT
V -- Vessel Services to Retrieve Two (2) NOAA Buoys - Statement of Work (SOW)
- Notice Date
- 2/13/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 483111
— Deep Sea Freight Transportation
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region-National Data Buoy Center, National Data Buoy Center, Building 1007 - Procurement Team, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, 39529-6000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 39529-6000
- Solicitation Number
- NWWG9502-14-RFI-0001
- Point of Contact
- Kurt Charles Weilbaecher, Phone: 228-688-2825, Brendon Johnson, Phone: 757-441-3344
- E-Mail Address
-
kurt.weilbaecher@noaa.gov, brendon.johnson@noaa.gov
(kurt.weilbaecher@noaa.gov, brendon.johnson@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SOW (Rev 1) This sources sought notice is for planning purposes only and is issued in accordance with FAR Provision 52.215-3 provided at: http://www.acquisition.gov/far/current/html/52_215.html#wp1144503. No solicitation document exists at this time. Issuance of this notice does not constitute any obligation on the part of the Government to procure these items or services to issue a solicitation. In addition, the Government is under no obligation to pay for information submitted in response to this notice, and responses to this notice cannot be accepted as offers. Any information that the vendor considers proprietary should be clearly marked as such. The Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Data Buoy Center (NOAA-NDBC) is searching for interested vendors who have the capability to provide towing vessel, crew, fuel, consumables, additional hawser, additional tag lines, and all materials required to disconnect two (2) buoys from their moorings at sea, tow them into port and secure them to a dock. Background Information: NOAA buoys 12D12 and 12D13 were deployed at stations 42055 and 42056, respectively, in May 2005. They have both been decommissioned as weather stations and now contain only obstruction lights and position transmitters. Upon being decommissioned, they were designated as 42A55 and 42A56, though their towers are still marked with their original station numbers. 42A55 is at 22° 1'2"N, 94° 2'45"W, and 200 nautical miles Northeast of Heroica Veracruz, Mexico. 42A56 is at 19°52'27"N, 85° 3'33"W, 120 nautical miles Southeast of Cancun, QROO, Mexico. On April 19, 2012, NOAA removed all equipment and batteries from 42A55 and installed and GPS tracker and solar powered flashing light (Carmanah 702). On March 28, 2013, NOAA removed all equipment from 42A56 and installed a GPS tracker and solar powered flashing light (Carmanah 702). The buoy still contains 420 air-alkaline batteries (Cegasa AS10-2, approximately 20 pounds each). The tracker normally reports position every 12 hours. NOAA no longer uses this type of buoy and no longer needs these hulls, so their ownership can be transferred to the vendor, and they can be salvaged for scrap metal. Within 5 days of the buoys' arrival at the dock, NOAA will send two technicians to the docking location to check all buoy compartments for hazardous atmosphere (oxygen and explosive gases) and make the compartments safe to open and enter. NOAA personnel will also remove the obstruction lights and position trackers. See attached Statement of Work (SOW), dated February 13, 2014, for additional information. Also, additional background information can be found on our website at: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ Capability Statement Objectives and Requirements: This request is issued for the purpose of exchanging information to improve the understanding of industry capabilities, thereby allowing potential offerors to judge whether or how they can satisfy the Government's requirements, and enhancing the Government's ability to obtain services, at reasonable cost and price, and increase efficiency in proposal preparation, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and contract award. The NOAA-NDBC is seeking the following information: 1. Experience: Potential respondents shall include in their response relevant experience that is of the same or similar scope, magnitude, and complexity to that which is described in this sources sought notice. 2. Technical Approach: Potential respondents shall provide capability statements that describe how they would successfully provide the towing vessel, crew, fuel, consumables, additional hawser, additional tag lines, and all materials required to disconnect both buoys from their mooring, bring back in tow at sea, tow them into port and secure them to a dock. Respondents shall include detailed specifications of the vessel/vessels, its equipment and condition offered along with information that demonstrates it meets the requirements in the Statement of Work (SOW), to include the vessel description, including overall length and brake horsepower. 3. Business Size: A statement regarding current size of the company under the North American Classification System Code (NAICS) 483111, Deep Sea Freight Transportation, and the small business size standard if 500 employees. The applicable NAICS of 483111 must be included in the vendor's NAICS listing within the System for Award Management (SAM) for NOAA to verify your size status. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government as to how best to solicit (small business set aside or unrestricted) for the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. It is, however, anticipated that a solicitation containing this detail will be issued in early to mid April 2014. Responses to this source sought notice are due via email to kurt.weilbaecher@noaa.gov no later than February 27, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). Provide all responses in MSWord 2000 (or later version) or Adobe.pdf. Should you have any questions, please contact Kurt Weilbaecher, Contract Specialist, at (228) 688-2825/fax number (228) 688-3153, or Brendon Johnson, Contracting Officer, at (757) 441-3344.
- Web Link
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NOAA/NDBC/NWWG9502-14-RFI-0001/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Bldg 3205, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, 39529-6000, United States
- Zip Code: 39529-6000
- Zip Code: 39529-6000
- Record
- SN03288655-W 20140215/140213234358-e0cc378b124cc4e0aa9dfc2a482381f3 (fbodaily.com)
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