Enterprise Server Support and Sustainment

This is a pre-solicitation notice only for Enterprise Server Support and Sustainment for the Communications Directorate, 78 ABW/SC, Robins AFB GA. The awardee (contractor) shall provide server, database, enterprise backup and enterprise storage related services to the Communications Directorate. The contractor shall be responsible for the day to day creation, sustainment and deletion of configurable items such as, but not limited to physical servers, virtual servers/desktops, User Home Directory (UHD) shares, organizational file shares and back up jobs. The contractor will provide sustainment support services consisting of the day-to-day activities necessary to ensure associated hardware and software are operational; including administration, management and troubleshooting break/fix issues. The contractor will also be responsible for formal configuration management, configuration documentation and periodic system health assessments/reporting. The anticipated contract will be a Requirements type contract and will include Cost Reimbursement No Fee for Travel. The basic period of performance will be 12 months, with four 12-month options. The total period of performance, including options and the possible Extension of Services, will not exceed 5.5 years. This effort will be an 8(a) competitive acquisition and participation at the prime contractor level is limited to eligible 8(a) concerns. The NAICS code for this effort is 541511 and the size standard is $25,000,000. The Request for Proposal (RFP) is expected to be issued on or after 14 Jan 2013 (tentative date). Prospective offerors shall be required to provide fully loaded hourly rates for the Server Administrators and Database Administrators. This acquisition is being issued in accordance with FAR 9.104-2(a), Special Standards of Responsibility (SSR), and shall apply to all offerors. Therefore, the contracting techniques under FAR part 15.3 do not apply. As such, the government is not obligated to determine a competitive range, conduct discussions with contractors, or solicit final revised proposals. Award will be made on the basis of the lowest Total Evaluated Price (TEP). This is a competitive solicitation and offerors should submit their best pricing in their initial proposal. Special standards will be identified in the RFP, and documentation of meeting these standards shall be provided by the offeror who proposes the lowest TEP (once the lowest TEP offeror is notified). A copy of the DRAFT Performance Based Work Statement is attached.