Heat Treatment Services

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. ALL CAPABLE LARGE AND SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE INTERESTED ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND IN A CAPABILITY PACKAGE. Response deadline: 1200 pm EST on 19 October 2024. This Sources Sought RFI is hereby synopsized pursuant to FAR Subpart 5.2 and FAR Part 10 to ensure the pending solicitation enhances competition. Responses will be utilized to determine if any competitive Small Business Set-aside opportunities exist. All Small Business Set-aside categories will be considered. This market research tool is being used to identify potential and eligible firms, of all sizes, prior to determining the competitive method of acquisition and issuance of a solicitation. Any resultant solicitation(s) will be released on SAM.gov. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor this website for additional information as the direct method of communication with the Government. A pre-solicitation notice will be issued pursuant to FAR Subpart 5.204, and the Government intends to issue a draft solicitation, if time allows. BACKGROUND & CLASSIFICATIONS Historical Contract N6883620D0001 (awarded to Braddock Metallurgical, Inc) Product Service Code (PSC) J016 Maint./Repair/rebuild of Equipment - Aircraft Components and Accessories North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 332811 Metal Heat Treating (size standard 750) Place of Performance Jacksonville, Florida USA REQUIREMENT: Commander, Fleet Readiness Centers, Procurement Group, Patuxent River, MD is seeking potential business sources to provide off-site heat treatment services to support these operations at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE), Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, FL. The Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE), located in Jacksonville, FL, is an industrial facility that reworks, repairs, and overhauls various aircraft, engines, and components. The contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, tools, equipment, supplies, and any other necessary items required to properly process the items FRCSE identifies as requiring heat treatment processing. The Contractor shall be responsible for pickup and return of the Items to FRCSE. Heat treatment orders will be placed based on an as needed basis.?? The government Technical Point of Contract (TPOC) on site will assist the contractor's understanding of tasks as needed. All services shall be performed by skilled/qualified contract employees, hereinafter called the contractor. The contractor shall provide Heat Treat Services, Inspection/Hardness/Conductivity Testing, Certification of Conformance, and Furnace Charts in accordance with the certifications and standards?Aerospace Material Specifications (AMS), American Society for Testing and Material (ASTM), Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE), and Local Process Specification LPS 1020?Heat Treatment Services: FRCSE shall determine items in need of Heat Treatment services.? The TPOC shall contact the vendor to arrange pick up of items needing off-site heat treating at the contractor facility. Items will be picked up and dropped off at NAS Jacksonville, FL, If the contractor is unable to pick-up the same day items marked as Expedited that the government has ready for pick-up before noon, the government reserves the right to deliver the item to the contractor facility for heat treatment.? Heat treatment services include:??? Aluminum/Steel/Titanium/Beryllium Copper heat treating??? Precipitation and Age hardening??? Vacuum heat treating (tempering, hardening, high pressure quenching)??? Hot oil quenching??? Solution heat treating??? Water quenching??? Neutral hardening??? Hardening and tempering?? Carburization? The contractor shall provide Inspection/Hardness testing in accordance with ASTM E18 (Standard Test for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials). The contractor shall provide Conductivity Testing with ASTM E1004 (Electromagnetic (Eddy-Current) measurements of Electrical Conductivity), MIL-STD-1537 Electrical Conductivity Test for measurement of heat treatment of aluminum alloy, (Eddy-Current method), AMS 2658 Hardness and Conductivity Inspection of wrought Aluminum parts, LPS 1025 Heat Treatment of Low Alloy Steels and LPS 1030 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloys.? A Certificate of Conformance will be required for all items sent to contractor under this contract.? The contractor shall provide the following information for each Item furnished to the contractor for services:?? Government Supplied Heat Treatment Processing Form will be provided for each item to be heat treated. The form will be signed by the contractor's courier upon picking up each item at FRCSE for treatment and delivering each item when treatment is complete.???? Inspection/Hardness/Conductivity test results? Certifications of Conformance?? Furnace Charts-which include Copy of the heat treatment recipe, Process temperature chart from start to finish, Heat treatment process logs (Equipment used, Temperature, Soak Time, Quench (Air, Oil, Water, Furnace, Gas))? CAPABILITY STATEMENT SUBMISSIONS: Responses to this notice should describe the Contractors capability and experience with performing Heat Treatment services and other contracts of this type of work. Respondents may also present any potential plan to team with other capable companies as a Joint Venture, or Prime-Sub relationship. It is requested that respondents include its facility address, major products/service capabilities, primary customer base, number of employees, annual revenue history, office location, CAGE Code, and a statement regarding its current Small Business Administration (SBA) business size and socio-economic classification under NAICS code 332811 to help the Government ascertain competitive capability. Again, the purpose of this phase is to determine viable competitive capabilities. Again, the deadline for responses is 1200 pm EST on 19 Oct 2024. POINT OF CONTACT - COMMUNICATION & QUESTIONS: Contract Specialist / Primary Point of Contact: Nancy T. Morris Email: nancy.t.morris.civ@us.navy.mil Secondary Point of Contact: Jessica McGee Email: jessica.l.mcgee14.civ@us.navy.mil Procurement Group Office Address: Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Commander, Fleet Readiness Centers (COMFRC) N68520 47038 McLeod Rd, Bldg. 448 Patuxent River, MD 20670 United States DISCLAIMER THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AS A MARKET RESEARCH TOOL BEING USED TO DETERMINE THE COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION STRATEGY. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS. ISSUANCE OF THIS NOTICE SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS OBLIGATING THE GOVERNMENT, IN ANY WAY, TO ISSUE A SOLICITATION OR TO AWARD A CONTRACT IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTIVES DISCUSSED HEREIN. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARING RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE. THE GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVIEW AND USE DATA AT ITS OWN DISCRETION. ALL DATA RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT RFI THAT IS MARKED OR DESIGNATED AS CORPORATE OR PROPRIETARY WILL BE FULLY PROTECTED FROM ANY RELEASE OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT. NO CLASSIFIED DATA SHALL BE SUBMITTED. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.