R -- Accreditation Services Support for MDA/MS

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking potential sources for Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistance (SETA) support services in the area of Accreditation Services for the Modeling and Simulation Directorate (MDA/MS). MDA intends to utilize its Basic Support Services Program General Services Administration (GSA) ordering procedures to acquire the services described in this notice. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 541710 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering and Life Sciences with a size standard of 1,000 employees. This requirement is reserved for only 8(a) Small Business. All respondents shall confirm that their size status is (1) small as of this FedBizOpps notice date, (2) small on their applicable GSA FSS contract and (3) small under the NAICS code size standard. All three of these confirmations must be affirmative. Only interested GSA schedule holders judged best qualified to compete for the work will be sent a Request for Quotations package approximately (2) two weeks after this announcement's due date, with offers due approximately two (2) weeks later. The Accreditation Services Support requirement is for (4) Senior Level Engineers. The resultant order will consist of firm fixed price contract line item for the labor and a cost contract line item for other direct cost. The term of the order with options is anticipated to be 1 base year and 2 1-year options. Services will be performed on site at a MDA facility in the National Capital Region and require SECRET clearance. Interested business firms are invited to submit to the contracting office as early as possible, but not later than August 18, 2005, a three page Capability Statement summarizing the corporate strengths in relation to the following criteria: 1) Specific, related past/current DoD experience related to this requirement; 2) Management approach in managing on-site staff, retention/replacement, authority, responsibilities, and quality control; and 3) personnel qualifications and experience. If planning to subcontract, identify the firm(s) and their size status. Segregate this information on the Capability Statement by firm. Also, please specify by name one primary and one alternate Point of Contact within your firm, including the respective telephone numbers and email addresses of those individuals. All information must be contained within the three-page capability statement limit. Responses must be provided electronically to Ms. Elizabeth Hoshaw, contact@example.gov. Acceptable sources must hold a GSA Schedule, qualify under the applicable NAICS, and be able to provide 75% of personnel with SECRET clearances at task order start date, which will be approximately 15 days after award date. Attached is a draft of Statement of Work and Labor Qualifications Rate. This requirement will be performed in accordance with Department of Defense Instruction NUMBER 5000.61, DoD Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A), dated May 13, 2003, which may be found at: http://www.mda.mil/barbb/cssss.html