Interior/Exterior Maintenance & Moving Services, Amelia Earhart Center

Interior/Exterior Maintenance & Moving Services, Amelia Earhart Center PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: This is a market survey for information and planning purposes. The US Government intends to solicit and acquire services as described within this announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to help determine the interest and capability of potential contractors to perform these services. The US Government intends to use information obtained in response to this announcement to make important acquisition planning decisions including but not limited to: Contract type Number of contracts Scope, magnitude, and geographical coverage of resulting contracts (Technical and Geography) This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the US Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERVICES TO BE PROCURED: USACE Europe District intends to issue a solicitation to provide minor facility installation, de-installation, up-keep of the exterior property and grounds and repairs throughout the Amelia Earhart Center facility and area of responsibility. There maybe Security Requirements for access associated with this procurement. The Contractor is responsible for providing the necessary staff, equipment, tools, materials, vehicles, supervision and quality control and other items and services necessary to perform the service. The most pertinent NAICS code associated with this work is primarily 561210 Facilities Support Services PLACES OF PERFORMANCE / LIST OF SITES: The geographical area covered by this contract may occasionally vary throughout the Europe District Corps of Engineers (COE) area of responsibility (AOR) (Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Turkey), to include removing excess furniture and equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Disposition Services, etc. PLANNED SOLICITATION INFORMATION: One pre-solicitation announcement will follow this market survey, and the solicitation announcement will follow no sooner than 15 days later. Currently it is estimated that the formal solicitation could occur anytime in early 2020 PLANNED CONTRACT INFORMATION: The Government intends to issue one firm-fixed price commercial services contract. The anticipated duration are a base period comprised of one (1) year and four (4) option periods of one (1) year each, for an overall possible period of performance of 5 years. The contract may expire after one year or when capacity is reached, whichever comes first. REQUIREMENTS TO RESPOND TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT Prospective Offerors are encouraged to respond to this announcement in order to express interest performing this type of work and describe their capabilities. The firms capabilities should be no more than six (6) pages in length and at a minimum, responses should include: Offeror's Name, address(es), English speaking point of contact, phone number and e- mail address Offeror's interest in proposing on the solicitation when it is issued Offeror's Cage Code and DUNS number. (See special SAM notice below) Experience doing similar work Does your firm have the staffing available to handle emergency service calls 24 hours per day/7 days per week? Can your company support more than one move at the same time? Does your company possess previous experience with working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers? Does your company possess previous experience with working on a military installation? Firms responding to this sources sought synopsis, who fail to provide ALL of the required information requested, will not be used to assist the Government in the acquisition decision, which is the intent of this sources sought synopsis ALL RESONSPONSES MUST BE IN ENGLISH NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR THESE PROJECTS WHEN FORMALLY ADVERTISED FOR SOLICITATION, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT HOW TO SUBMIT RESPONSES Interested parties may submit responses via email to Ms. Sheila Welsh, Contract Specialist, at shelia.a.welsh2@usace.army.mil. If submitting over email, to ensure your submission is received and processed appropriately, please utilize the following verbiage for the subject of your email - SS RESPONSE: W912GB-20-R-0008 FIRM NAME HERE DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES: Responses will be actively accepted until 5 Dec 2019 following the posting of this announcement and important acquisition planning decisions will be made shortly thereafter. Late responses may be submitted for consideration via email, however interested parties are advised that acquisition planning decisions will be approved as soon as possible after the stated deadline, and as such the US Government reserves the right to disregard late responses. SPECIAL NOTICE, SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM, www.sam.gov): In order to eligible for the contract award(s) resulting from any solicitation(s) that follow this announcement, Offerors are advised to take immediate action to ensure their SAM entity registration is current and/or will be current before any proposal deadlines. Any solicitation(s) following this announcement will include the provision FAR 52.204-7 SAM or FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items, and the resulting award(s) will include the clause FAR 52.204-13 SAM Maintenance or 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items. These provisions/clauses require all contractors to register and maintain an active SAM entity registration in order to be eligible for contract awards, as prescribed by the regulation at FAR Subpart 4.11. Please take notice that the SAM has a new entity registration requirement that firms submit an "original, signed notarized letter identifying the authorized Entity Administrator for the entity associated with the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number before the registration will be activated." This applies to all new entity registrations and all entity registration renewals, effective 29 April 2018. Further information behind this new requirement is posted to the General Services Administration's (GSA) announcement page at https://www.gsa.gov/samupdate. Please also refer to Federal Service Desk's (FSD) instructions on how to comply with this new requirement. NOTE: the instructions are different for domestic (U.S. based) and international (not U.S. based) firms. Instructions for domestic entities (located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=d2e67885db0d5f00b3257d321f96194b&sysparm_search=kb0013183. Instructions for international entities (not located in the U.S. or its outlying areas): https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/answer.do?sysparm_kbid=dbf8053adb119344d71272131f961946&sysparm_search=KB0013221 ****SOURCES SOUGHT FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY****