The Government intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), located on 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60616-3799, to provide Guard Services for the FDA at Moffett Center to protect government's assets against injury, molestation, loss or damage from any preventable cause including, but not limited to fire, theft, sabotage, espionage, trespassing, demonstration, civil disturbance, and other hostile acts against the Government and /or its subcontractors. In addition, the contractor shall discover and detain persons attempting to gain unauthorized access to the property and prevent security breach that could endanger the welfare of the employees and/or the facility itself. FDA has a binding lease agreement with the lessor at the Moffett Center. The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is the lessor that is caring Ten (10) Years lease agreement with GSA under Contract Number GS-05B -17071, and this lease is expiring 03/31/2014. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals/bids are not being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Period of Performance: April 01, 2008 through March 31, 2009 with Two (2) option years as follow. Base: December 01, 2009 through November 30, 2010 Option Yr-1: December 01, 2009 through November 30, 2010 Option Yr- 2: December 01, 2011 through November 30, 2012 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services, (Nov. 1999) 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract, (Mar 2000) This award will be made 7 days after the date of this notice. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 561612 and the Business Size Standard is 17.0 Million dollars in assets. The FDA office building is located at 3300 South Federal Street, Main Building, Room 301, and Chicago, Illinois 60616-3793. Acceptance shall be performed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the address listed above. Vendors may identity in writing their interest and capability in response to this requirement or submit a proposal. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all interested parties that submit their responses no later than the closing date of this announcement will be considered by the government. Responses are due either in person or by fax on Friday November 26, 2009, by 10:00 AM Eastern Standard time, at Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. For information regarding this solicitation, please contact Jeankite Joseph at (301) 827-5095, FAX (301) 827-7106 or email Jeankite.joseph@fda.hhs.gov.
