SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Request for Information (RFI) for C4ITSC Remote Rescue 21 (R21) Sustainment Systems Ops and Maintenance (O&M) Services
- Notice Date
- 6/3/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 517919
— All Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commandant (CG-912), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2703 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AVE SE, STOP 7828, Washington, District of Columbia, 20593-7828, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20593-7828
- Solicitation Number
- HSCG79-14-I-R21SSS
- Archive Date
- 7/18/2014
- Point of Contact
- Cherish D Driver, Phone: 703-313-5382
- E-Mail Address
-
cherish.d.driver@uscg.mil
(cherish.d.driver@uscg.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- UNITED STATES COAST GUARD COMMAND, CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CENTER (CG-C4IT SC) REMOTE SITE RESCUE 21 (R21) SUSTAINMENT SYSTEMS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES HSCG79-14-I-R21SSS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE (REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)) THIS IS A PRE-SOLICATION NOTICE (RFI) BEING RELEASED PURSUANT TO FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) PART 10: MARKET RESEARCH AND FAR PART 12: ACQUISITION OF COMMERCIAL ITEMS. THIS RFI IS ISSUED SOLELY TO GARNER INTEREST FROM THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY AND WILL BE SOLICITED AS A FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. This RFI does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) is not at this time seeking proposals, and will not accept unsolicited proposals. Respondents are advised that the United States (U.S.) Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the responding party's expense. At this time, proprietary information is not being requested, and respondents shall refrain from providing proprietary information in response to this RFI. Responses to the RFI will not be returned. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future Request For Proposal (RFP), when issued. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S. Government to form a binding contract. It is the responsibility of the interested parties to monitor this site for additional information pertaining to this RFI and any future RFP. The following is a brief scope of the commercial products/services seeking interested sources under this Pre-Solicitation Notice (RFI): CG-C4IT SC has a requirement and intends to award a 10-year Single Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract (ID/IQ) [120 month ordering period] for the Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Information Technology Service Center (CG-C4IT SC), for the Coast Guard Remote Mission System Product Line to deliver Operations and Maintenance activities for Rescue 21 (R21), Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS), Differential Global Positioning (DGPS), and Vessel Traffic Safety (VTS), Operations and Maintenance systems. These activities include organizational level maintenance (i.e. corrective and preventive maintenance, etc.), spare parts supply support (i.e. warehousing, inventory management, etc.), and limited sustainment engineering (i.e. obsolescence management, DMSMS, etc) of Motorola Quantar or similar VHF/UHF radios, operator work stations, computer servers, AC power generators, network switches, uninterrupted power supplies (UPS), power generators, remote site facilities (i.e. antenna maintenance, grounds maintenance, minor hut maintenance, etc.) as well as ancillary system components. Additionally, this contract effort will include activities related to management of fielded government property, maintenance reporting, maintenance/exercise of transportable VHF/UFF disaster recover assets, and work separately directed under approved system engineering changes for technical refresh, system recapitalization, and asset relocations. Place of performance includes system components located at approximately 37 Coast Guard Sectors, 175 Coast Guard Stations/Marine Safety Units, approximately 500 Remote Fixed Facilities (RFF's) distributed throughout Alaska, Hawaii, the continental United States and its possessions. All contractor employees must be U.S. citizens and must be able to pass a background security investigation. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) number is 517919 - All Other Telecommunications and the business size standard is $30M. The government intends to award a 10-year Single Award Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) and Time & Materials (T&M) ID/IQ contract resulting from a future solicitation (RFP) to the most responsive, responsible offeror whose proposal conforms to the combined synopsis/solicitation, Performance Work Statement (PWS) and is the most advantageous to the government, technical, price and other factors considered. All responsible IT firms may submit their interest to this RFI, which shall be considered by the agency. If your company is interested in this RFI, please include a capabilities briefing to include the Name of your company, address, phone, Point of Contact (POC) Name, email and phone, DUNS #, NAICS code, size of business, and any other pertinent information as to your company's capabilities to meet this requirement. The USCG C4ITSC will entertain meeting with industry prior to issuance of any RFP in order to gauge how best to solicit this requirement and define our requirements. Please include whether your company would be interested in attending an industry meeting to discuss the particulars of this acquisition. RESPONSES: Please submit your interest via email to Ms. Cherish Driver, Contracting Officer, at Cherish.D.Driver@uscg.mil, or Cynthia Valdes, Contracting Officer, at Cynthia.Valdes@uscg.mil. This Pre-Solicitation Notice (RFI) will be open for a period of 30 days.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Place of performance includes system components located at approximately 37 Coast Guard Sectors, 175 Coast Guard Stations/Marine Safety Units, approximately 500 Remote Fixed Facilities (RFF’s) distributed throughout Alaska, Hawaii, the continental United States and its possessions, United States
- Record
- SN03384271-W 20140605/140603235411-6c0e26450d34390a67acd055825c7347 (fbodaily.com)
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