EASTERN GREAT LAKES WATER LEVEL GAUGING NETWORK SUPPORT

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Acquisition & Grants Office, Eastern Region Acquisition Division, Norfolk, VA is seeking qualified sources to provide maintenance and repair services of the National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Eastern Great Lakes Water Level Gauging Network. The network is located in the eastern Great Lakes region and consists of fifteen real-time water level monitoring systems. The contractor will be responsible for emergency and unscheduled maintenance to systems and sensors to correct problems or to repair failures between regularly scheduled NOS preventative annual maintenance visits to the stations. The contractor shall provide all necessary vehicles, vessels, labor and tools that are not Government furnished equipment (GFE) for the installation and deployment of new sensors, to include safety equipment necessary to work on electronic equipment, install data collection platforms, sensors, both water level and meteorological, and equipment to climb towers. The anticipated Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract will have a 12-month base period with three 12-month option periods. Time-and-material task orders against the contract are anticipated. This requirement is for services for which the government intends to acquire under the guidelines of FAR Subpart 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. Request for Quote (RFQ) solicitation number EA133C-11-RQ-0628 will be available on or about June 15, 2011 through the Government's website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. The estimated due date for quotes will be July 6, 2011. This procurement is a 100% Small Business Set Aside. The applicable NAICS code for this acquisition is 811219 with a size standard of $19 million. This RFQ requires separate technical and cost quotes to be evaluated for award. Quotes will be evaluated based on the following evaluation factors, listed in descending order of importance: Technical Approach and Past Performance. Price will be evaluated but not rated. Technical factors are significantly more important than price. The Government intends to award a single contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible quoter whose quote represents the best value after evaluation in accordance with the factors listed in the solicitation. All contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR), www.ccr.gov, to be considered for award of a Federal contract. In addition, completion of the online representations and certifications application (ORCA) is required. Interested parties should use the FedBizOps register to receive notification feature which provides notification when the RFP becomes available for download and all postings associated with the solicitation. Each potential offeror is responsible for checking this website to obtain all the updates/amendments to any and all documents. No paper copies of the solicitation will be issued and no telephone, facsimile, or written requests will be accepted. All responsible, responsive sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the Agency. Questions regarding this solicitation should be addressed to Lynne.B.Phipps@noaa.gov.