99-- National Ice Contract for Emergency Response

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Savannah Regional Contracting Center, Charleston Office, Charleston, South Carolina, has a requirement under the Advanced Contract Initiative for the delivery of packaged ice and necessary supporting items an d services, to include refrigerated storage units (reefers), transportation, loading and unloading of shipments, drayage, operation and maintenance of reefers, participation in Partnering activities and provision of Strategic Planning Services, etc., in th e Continental United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Federal States of Micronesia and Republic of the Marshall Islands. This contract is being issued in support of the National Respo nse Plan (NRP), which is a signed agreement among 27 federal departments and agencies, including the American Red Cross. The NRP organizes the types of federal response assistance that a state or local government is most likely to need fewer than 15 Emerg ency Support Functions (ESFs), each of which has a designated primary agency. The Department of Defense shares the responsibility with FEMA for ESF #3, Public Works and Engineering, and has designated USACE as its operating agent for ESF #3 planning, pre paration and response. USACE fulfills requirements for ice at disaster locations first by using ice stored from previous disasters, donated ice, and ice supplied by other federal agencies and requirements for refrigerated storage first by utilization of d onated reefers or Government-owned reefers. If ice and/or refrigerated storage from those sources are inadequate to meet the required quantities, USACE purchases additional ice and/or rents mobile refrigerated storage units. The North American Industry C lassification System (NAICS) code is 312113, Ice Manufacturing, with a small business size standard of 500 employees. This requirement is Unrestricted. All firms regardless of size shall be eligible and encouraged to compete for this project. The Govern ment intends to award one Firm Fixed-Price Indefinite Delivery Requirements Contract with a base year and two (2) one-year option periods. The contract base period will be from contract award through 31 December 2007. The period of any option will be 365 days from the effective date of the modification signed by the Contracting Officer to exercise the option. This contract will be solicited and procured using a Request for Proposals (RFP) Best Value Trade-Off process in accordance with FAR Part 15.101. C ontractor much be registered in the DOD Central Contractor Registration (CCR) prior to award of this solicitation. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. The solicitation and any subsequent amendments will only be available in electronic format, downloadable from the internet. No CD-ROMs or hardcopy documents will be distributed. Offerors must register on the website below in order to view or download the solicitation documents. It is the responsibility of th e offeror to monitor the website for notices and amendments. Any prospective Offeror interested in proposing for this solicitation may view and/or download this solicitation and all amendments from the Federal Technical Data Solution (FedTeDS) Homepage (h ttps://www.fedteds.gov/). Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via FedTeDS and will require registration for access. Registration instructions can be found on the FedTedS website by clicking on the Register with FedTed S hyperlink. Interested bidders should select the Begin Vendor/Contractor Registration Process option. When Solicitation documents have been issued and posted to FedTedS, the synopsis or pre-solicitation notice in FedBizOpps will be amended and a link provided to access FedTedS. The solicitation will be posted on or about 16 August 2006 with proposals due on or about 15 September 2006. For additional informa tion or assistance, please contact Rose M. Smalls at +1 (555) 000-0000 or via email at contact@example.gov .