Laboratory Trailer Equipment Inspection Services

Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFL) in Lakewood, CO is a part of the Office of Federal Lands Highway (FLH), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The FLH provides planning, design, and construction engineering services for more than 90,000 miles of roads on lands administered by Federal Land Managing Agencies such as the National Park Service, Forest Service, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. The CFL is seeking proposals for the performance of inspection services of equipment used in mobile laboratories (trailers) for testing highway construction materials, i.e. soils, aggregate, asphalt, and concrete. This equipment is the property of the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD). Inspection services are required for equipment in mobile testing trailers located at project construction sites throughout 14 western states including: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming, or in mobile testing trailers located at 12305 W. Dakota Avenue, Lakewood, Colorado, or in stock at the CFLHD Equipment Depot located at 12305 W. Dakota Avenue, Lakewood, Colorado. The contractor shall furnish all personnel, equipment, materials, hardware, and software to fully execute the tasks described in the SOW. Proposals shall address the offeror's demonstrated understanding of the statement of work, Offeror's qualifications to perform the work, and past performance on similar projects. This is a best value negotiated type procurement to perform the work that is more fully stated in the RFP which is available as noted below. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price, technical, and other factors considered. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation DTFH68-10-R-00003 which is an attachment to this synopsis is advertised on an unrestricted basis and will be awarded as a firm fixed-price contract. The award is anticipated to be a fixed price award with three one year options. Price range is from $25,000 to $50,000. Responses to this RFP are due on January 6, 2010 at 3:00pm. Written requests for clarification and questions concerning this solicitation are to be submitted electronically to John Hunt, e-mail: john.hunt@dot.gov.