Hoist Maintenance

This presolicitation notice is an announcement of a requirement Hoist Maintenance beginning on or about 1 December 2014. This acquisition will be fixed price. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Hoist/crane services are conducted to provide on-site annual load testing, certification, scheduled maintenance, preventative maintenance and unscheduled repairs for all 129 HAFB hoist/cranes. Operations include inspection, testing, and maintenance, repair, certification of cranes and hoist, and components of the equipment meeting the manufacturer's specifications and recommendations. Includes mobile, operated units. All operations are accomplished in accordance with operation manuals and applicable Federal, State, local guidance and operational instruction. DELIVERY DATE: The base year of this contract will begin 1 December 2014 and end 30 November 2015. There will be four option years that will begin on 1 December 2015 and end on 30 November 2019. IMPORTANT NOTICES: This acquisition will be competitively set-aside for Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). An offeror must be considered EDWOSB under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 811310 with a size standard of $7.0 Million. All offerors must have an active account, before contract award, in the System for Acquisition Management (SAM), which is a Government owned and operated free web site that consolidates the capabilities in Central Contractor Registration (CCR), the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) and the Excluded Parties Listing System (EPLS) at the website: https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM. You are required to create a user account to register and/or update your entity records (i.e., Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code, DUNs number, etc.) in SAM which were previously located in separate CCR and ORCA websites. This information is necessary in order to receive award consideration. All questions concerning this notice should be submitted electronically via facsimile or email to the Points of Contact as indicated in this announcement. All information pertaining to this announcement, questions and answers will be provided to/through the Contracting Officer ONLY to ensure equal distribution of information to interested parties via Federal Business Opportunities (FebBizOpps) at https://www.fbo.gov . OTHER DETAILS: The solicitation and other attachments will be posted on or about 01 October 2014 and MUST be downloaded from FedBizOpps website: www.fbo.gov. DO NOT REQUEST VIA MAIL OR FAX as no paper copies will be issued. It is important to check this site frequently for any updates/amendments. When the solicitation and all associated documents have been downloaded, it is important to read the solicitation in its entirety because there are dates, terms and conditions that must be met by the prospective offeror in order for the proposal to be considered responsive. Holloman AFB is located about 9 miles west of Alamogordo, New Mexico on Highway 70/82; 90 miles north of El Paso, Texas, and 60 miles east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Holloman AFB resides in Otero County. Points of Contact SSgt Garriet Canteen, Contracting Specialist, Phone 575-572-7155, Fax 575-572-7333, Email Garriet.Canteen@us.af.mil; Ricky McLellan, Contracting Officer, Phone 575-572-5299, Fax 575-572-7333, Email Ricky.McLellan.1@us.af.mil. Contracting Office Address: 490 First Street, Suite 2160.