Fire Extinguisher maintenance/repair BPA

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR OFFERS OR PROPOSALS. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. FUNDS ARE NOT PRESENTLY AVAILABLE. THIS SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. Responses in any form are not offers and the government is under no obligation to award a contract as a result of this announcement. This is a request for information ONLY and any information provided is voluntary. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. All interested parties must respond to the solicitation announcement separately from the response to this notice and are responsible for monitoring Beta.Sam.gov website for the posting of any solicitation or subsequent updates. The 439th Contracting Flight located at Westover Air Reserve Base (WARB), Chicopee, Massachusetts is seeking capabilities packages of potential sources to perform scheduled inspections, routine maintenance, unscheduled maintenance, and other miscellaneous upkeep of the halon fire extinguishers owned by 439 AMXS. These include: 150 pound flight line wheeled fire extinguishers, 17 pound portable fire extinguishers, and 5 pound portable fire extinguishers. This sources sought is for planning purposes only. The Service Provider (SP) shall be located within 100 natical miles of Westover ARB, MA and shall also provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, vehicles, supervision, and other items and services to perform an annual inspection, six-year inspection, twelve-year inspection, and hydrostatic testing on the halon fire extinguishers. All inspections and services shall be in compliance with the Time Compliance Technical Orders (TCTO) listed in the performance work statement dated 22 March 2023. The PWS regarding the services sought is attached. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Our intent is to award this project as a 100% Small Business Set Aside. This announcement is to all Small Business, 8(a) Small Business, HUBZone Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Women-Owned Small Business concerns that may be interested in this requirement. Based upon the responses to this announcement, the Government may set aside this acquisition as a specific small business set aside. Contract type will be Blanket Purchase Agreement. The anticipated performance base period is June 1, 2023 to 31 May 2028. The NAICS Code assigned to this acquisition is 811310 - Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance with a small business size standard of $12,500,000.00 in sales. NOTE: If this requirement is set-aside, FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting will apply. This clause requires by submission of an offer and execution of a contract, the Offeror/Contractor agrees that in performance of the contract at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern. All interested contractors are asked to submit a written response. Please e-mail your response by 5pm EDT 14 April 2023 advising if the requirements stated above can be met to the following addresses: contact@example.gov. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION SHOULD BE INLCUDED IN RESPONSE: (a) Business name, address, cage code, EUI number, size classification based on NAICS size standard, socioeconomic classification (i.e. HUBZone, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB etc.), and a point of contact; (b) Evidence of your experience performing work similar in type and scope of work in this announcement within the last five years. The evidence should include: contract numbers, project titles, dollar amounts and point of contacts with telephone numbers. Contractors that are Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment are excluded from receiving contracts. Agencies also shall not consent to subcontract with such contractors. Proposals prepared by Debarred, Suspended, or otherwise ineligible contractors are at the risk and expense of the contractor. All contractors must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) system-- https://www.sam.gov/SAM/--at the time of submission in order to be eligible for an award. Only a warranted Contracting Officer is able to enter into, administer, modify, or terminate contracts on behalf of the government.