Q -- DRUG TESTING SERVICES

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) solicitation to acquire drug testing services for employees of NGA. All contractor personnel shall have a Top Secret Clearance/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Access. The anticipated contract will be firm-fixed price and will include a base year plus four (4) one-year option periods. The period of performance will be from date of contract award (estimated to be February 2006) through February 2011, including options. This acquisition will be solicitated and awarded utilizing FAR subpart 12, Commercial Acquisitions, procedures. Drug test services provides NGA with the full range of services needed for drug testing of all applicants and random testing for all civilian NGA employees, both CONUS (to include a variety of different geographic sites) and OCONUS. 100% testing of all employees is required each year. This requirement is a 100 % small business set-aside. The applicable North American Industry Classification code is 621511, size standard is $11,500,000. Proposals received from other than small business concerns will not be accepted. The Government intends to award without discussion but reserves the right to hold discussions if deemed necessary in making the award decision. Offerors are highly encouraged to submit their best proposals, ensuring full compliance with solicitation requirements (e.g., required fill-ins, Reps & Certs, instructions to offerors, etc). Award will be made to the technically acceptable offeror determined the most advantageous to the government considering past performance, price and price-related factors. Techniques utilizing past performance information and price will be evaluated; therefore, award may be made to other than the lowest priced offeror. Solicitation HM1576-06-R-0005 is scheduled for release on or about 18 January 2006, with a closing date of 10 February 2006. No telephone, fax, email or mailed requests for the RFP will be honored. The solicitation (and any amendments) will be available for downloading on the Federal Technical Data Solution (FedTeDS), website at https://www.fedteds.gov for all interested parties. It is the responsibility of each offeror to review web pages at Federal Business Opportunities (FBO), (http://www.fbo.gov) and FedTeDS (https://www.fedteds.gov) for notice of amendments, updates or changes to current information. Any prospective offeror must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) in order to be eligible for award. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) now requires the use of the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) in Federal solicitations as a part of the proposal submission process. With ORCA, you now have the ability to enter and maintain your representation and certification information, at your convenience, via the Internet at http://orca.bpn.gov. In addition, rather than receiving and reviewing paper submissions, government contracting officials can access ORCA and review your information online as a part of the proposal evaluation process. You will no longer have to submit representations and certifications completed in ORCA with each offer. The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, whether before or after RFP closing, with no obligations. Proposal preparation cost will be borne by offerors submitting proposals in response to the solicitation. Solicitation will include Statement of Work (SOW).