Privatization of the Electric, Water, and Wastewater Utility Systems at Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida

Descriptions: This is a Sources Sought Notice (hereinafter "Notice"). This Notice is an essential step in determining market interest and feasibility in accordance with FAR Part 10 and is for information and planning purposes only. This Notice is solely for the Government's use as a market research tool. This Notice does not constitute a request for proposals, a solicitation or a request for quotes. If determined appropriate, then both a synopsis and a solicitation may be anticipated in April 2019 timeframe. All responsible sources are encouraged to submit a response to this Notice. All information received will be considered. Failure to respond to this Notice does not preclude a firm from offering on any resultant solicitation; however, a lack of interest in this requirement may keep this effort from moving forward competitively. The potential opportunity for set-asides for small businesses and small disadvantaged businesses will be considered on the basis of the responses received. This Notice shall not be construed as a commitment or authorization to incur costs in anticipation of an award. The Government is not bound to make any awards under this Notice. Interested parties should provide a statement of interest on company letterhead by no later than 4:00 pm ET on February 08, 2019. Responses are preferred via email, but hard copies will also be accepted. If the statement of interest will be provided via hard copy, please notify the primary or secondary point of contact identified herein. At a minimum, the statement of interest shall address the following criteria: (1) capability and experience in the ownership and/or leasing, operation and maintenance of electrical distribution, potable water distribution, and/or wastewater collection systems; (2) financial capacity with regard to leasing or ownership interest, expansion, and operation of a utility system; (3) understanding of any applicable state or local utility law or franchise requirements and capability of complying with such requirements; (4) understanding of the federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations and its familiarity and experience with environmental compliance procedures and regulations for the state in which the utility is located; (5) a primary point of contact, including phone number and email address; (6) business size (other-than-small, small, or any subcategory of small business) relative to the NAICS code 221122, 221310, and 221320; and (7) status as a regulated or non-regulated utility. If you are interested in this effort, please provide the information requested above to the DLA Energy Contracting Office. Requirement The Defense Logistics Agency Energy (DLA Energy) seeks to identify and obtain information from responsible sources in connection with the acquisition of utility services for the privatization of the electric (NAICS 221122), water (NAICS 221310) distribution and wastewater (NAICS 221320) collection systems at Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. Privatization is defined as the conveyance of a utility system to a municipal, private, regional, district or cooperative utility company or other entity. The conveyance may consist of all right, title and interest of the United States in the utility system(s). Utilities Privatization (UP) will be accomplished in accordance with 10 U.S.C. - 2688 - Utility Systems: Conveyance Authority. It is intended that privatization will reduce the Government's life cycle costs. The resulting privatization will include ownership, operation and maintenance of the system(s). The new owner shall operate and maintain the system(s) and provide utility services to the Government. The Contractor/System Owner shall furnish all management, supervision, permits, equipment, supplies, materials, transportation and any other incidental items or services required for the complete ownership and provision of utility services by the use of these utility systems being privatized, including operation, maintenance, repair, upgrades and improvements to the utility systems. All responsibility for maintaining reliable service, including such items as environmental compliance, maintenance costs, major system renovations, construction, equipment, manpower and overhead costs shall become the responsibility of the new utility system(s) owner. Installation Description PAFB is an Air Force installation located in Brevard County, Florida, on a barrier island on the central East Coast. The City of Satellite Beach is south of the installation and the City of Cocoa Beach is north. Brevard County comprises an area of 1,557 square miles; about 20 miles wide and 72 miles long along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The county is low lying and ranges from 6 feet above sea level at Merritt Island to the west to 26 feet above sea level within the City of Cocoa to the northwest. Approximately 3,100 Air Force military personnel, 1,700 Air Force civilian personnel, and 5,700 contractor personnel work at PAFB and CCAFS. No personnel live on CCAFS as housing for military personnel is available at PAFB, together with other personnel support functions. Area demographics indicate that in 2008 approximately 14,000 military retirees lived in Brevard County. Brevard County's 2009 estimated population was 555,657. The primary function of PAFB is to assure access to space through administration of space launch operations at CCAFS. Base operational areas include the airfield with 9,000-foot primary and 3,700-foot crosswind runways and related apron and taxiways serving military and governmental tenants, an administrative center, three residential areas, base operational and maintenance support areas, a retail/medical community support area, and numerous recreational facilities including a golf course, marina, campground, beach facilities and trails. In 1940, the U.S. Navy activated the installation as the Banana River Naval Air Station. The installation served as a base for World War II anti-submarine patrol planes. In 1947, the installation was deactivated and subsequently transferred to the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1948. The installation was renamed Patrick Air Force Base in 1950 in honor of Major General Mason M. Patrick, who served as Chief of the U.S. Army Air Service from 1921 to 1927. The Air Force began developing the Eastern Test Range beginning in 1950 with PAFB as its headquarters and support base of operations. Air Force Space Command, (AFSPC) assumed responsibility for USAF space launch operations in October 1990. The Eastern Test Range has since been re-designated the Eastern Range, with the 14th Air Force at Vandenberg AFB CA, overseeing the 45 SW. The Eastern Range extends over 10,000 miles from the Florida mainland through the south Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. The Eastern Range includes the launch head at CCAFS and a network of downrange instrumentation stations - Malabar and Jonathan Dickinson Missile Tracking annexes, Antigua Air Station and Ascension Auxiliary Air Field. The 45th Space Wing (45 SW) is the host organization for the installation; tenant organizations include US State Department, Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Air Force Technical Applications Center, US Army Corps of Engineers, Civil Air Patrol, and many others. CCAFS is an Air Force installation located along the Atlantic Coast of Brevard County, Florida and adjacent to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center (KSC). CCAFS is situated on the Canaveral Peninsula, which is a barrier island approximately 155 miles south of Jacksonville, 210 miles north of Miami, and approximately 60 miles east of Orlando. The northern boundary of CCAFS abuts KSC and the southern boundary abuts Port Canaveral. CCAFS is bounded to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and to the west by the Banana River Lagoon. CCAFS occupies approximately 15,800 acres of land. Approximately 3,100 Air Force military personnel, 1,700 Air Force civilian personnel, and 5,700 contractor personnel work at the PAFB and CCAFS. No personnel live on CCAFS as housing for military personnel is available at PAFB, together with other personnel support functions. Area demographics indicate that in 2008 approximately 14,000 military retirees lived in Brevard County. Brevard County's 2009 estimated population was 555,657. CCAFS provides space launch capability for government, civil, and commercial satellites. CCAFS also provides launch facilities, property and services to support NASA, commercial space operations, and Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU). CCAFS is within a Commercial Launch Zone and this designation promotes the development of national and international aerospace business in Florida. The 45th Space Wing (45 SW) is the host organization for the installation; major tenant organizations include Customs and Border Protection, Military Sealift Command, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, NASA, NOTU. Non-Federal tenants include Space Florida, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance. CCAFS also serves as the control area and launch head for the Eastern Range as well as being a major part of the 45 SW Major Range and Test Facility Base, of which NOTU is a major DoD user. The Eastern Range consists of CCAFS, PAFB, Ascension Auxiliary Airfield, Antigua Air Station, the Florida Annexes and off-base meteorological instrumentation sites. The Eastern Range operations are directed through the Morrell Operations Center, which supports flight safety, weather, scheduling and instrumentation operations for each missile and space launch on the Eastern Range. The Long Range Proving Ground on Cape Canaveral was established in 1949 under jurisdiction of the Air Force. In the same year, the Naval Air Station, located 20 miles to the south of the Cape, was reactivated and renamed PAFB. Since then, the test range and its management agent have undergone several name changes from the Air Force Missile Test Center to the Air Force Eastern Test Range, the Eastern Test Range, the Space and Missile Test Center, and the Eastern Space and Missile Center. On 1 October 1990, AFSPC assumed responsibility for USAF space launch operations. On 12 November 1991, the ESMC was inactivated, and the 45 SW was activated as a result of restructuring throughout the Air Force. The Eastern Test Range has since been re-designated as the Eastern Range. AFSPC oversees the 45 SW ER, the 14th Air Force at Vandenberg AFB, CA and the 30th SW Western Range. Additional information is available at: https://www.patrick.af.mil/ Secure Documents If sufficient interest is identified and this requirement proceeds in a competitive action, several of the solicitation documents will be posted as "secured" on the Federal Business Opportunity ("FedBizOpps" or "FBO") website. In order to view those documents, vendors will need to obtain special access. The process of obtaining access is somewhat lengthy, therefore all interested vendors are encouraged to begin that process as soon as possible. Instructions for obtaining access are provided below. Instructions for access to the FBO Secure Site To access the secured, but unclassified, documents in the FBO system, vendors must follow these instructions: 1. Register in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov/SAM/. For assistance with SAM, please contact the SAM help desk. Contact information is available at https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/home.do . 2. Once registered in SAM, go to the FBO website at https://www.fbo.gov/ and log in. Verify your SAM registration within the FBO system. For assistance with FBO, please consult the FBO Vendor Guide, which is available at https://www.fbo.gov/downloads/FBO_Vendor_Guide.pdf . 3. After your SAM registration is verified in the FBO system, please follow the steps as outlined below: a) Begin by clicking on the secured document link, which should then provide you with the corresponding link for the DD Form 2345, Military Critical Technical Data Agreement. The DD2345 is also available at http://www.dla.mil/HQ/InformationOperations/Offers/Products/LogisticsApplications/JCP/DD2345Instructions.aspx . b) Fill out the DD 2345 and submit a hard copy of the original form, together with all required documentation, to the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS), U.S./Canada Joint Certification Program (JCP), at the address listed on the form. c) JCP will return an approved and signed certified form, which will include your certification and expiration date. Please note that delays may be incurred if forms and/or required documentation are incomplete or incorrect. d) For assistance with the DD2345 or to inquire about the acceptability of electronic provision of documentation, please contact the U.S./Canada Joint Certification Office, DLIS. Contact information is available at http://www.dla.mil/HQ/InformationOperations/Offers/Products/LogisticsApplications/JCP/ContactUs.aspx . DLA Energy is not involved in the approval process and cannot provide assistance with processing. e) Once approval is received, it can take up to 24 hours for the JCP information to reach all systems. 4. Once you receive the approved DD2345 from JCP and have verified your status on the JCP website, enter the FBO system and click on the secure document link. The FBO system will require you to enter your MPIN. If you are not prompted to enter a MPIN, please contact the FBO help desk. Contact information can be found at https://www.fsd.gov/fsd-gov/home.do . a) The MPIN is a mandatory data element created by the SAM registrant which must have nine characters [consisting of at least one letter (upper or lower case) and one number, with no spaces or special characters permitted] b) The MPIN allows access to related acquisition systems (i.e. ORCA and PPIRS). It also validates access to sensitive, but unclassified, documents associated with a notice posted to FBO. 5. Following verification of the MPIN in FBO, vendors must then submit a request for explicit access to the secure documents through the FBO system by clicking on the secure document line, then clicking the "Request Explicit Access" button. Upon requesting explicit access in the FBO system, vendors should send an email notification to the DLA Energy personnel assigned to the procurement, so that they can approve the request in the FBO system. Vendors will receive an email once the access request has been approved by DLA Energy. Once the MPIN has been verified in the FBO system and explicit access has been granted, vendors will be able to enter the system and view the secure documents.