R--Fast Access Project, Fort Lewis, Washington

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES: The Fort Lewis Contractor Fast Access Project is designed to maintain installation security and provide contractors and other agencies servicing Fort Lewis a method to more quickly gain access to the Fort Lewis cantonment ar ea to conduct official business. Approximate number of requests each month is 150. A key component of this Project is the completion of background checks on participating companies and their employees. Participation in this Project is voluntary. As part of the Project, the contractor shall conduct background checks on participants and their employees for whom an identification badge is requested. Background checks on participant employees shall be conducted at the time of the employees registration and annually thereafter, for as long as enrollment continues. Payment for participation in the Project, including setting up the account and performing the background checks, shall be by the participants. There shall be no charge to the Government by the c ontractor for the performance of this contract. The contractor shall provide a method for participant companies to enroll in the program. The contractor shall provide identification (ID) badges to all participant personnel for whom background checks have been conducted and who have met the Governments criteria as set forth below. The identification badge shall be of common ID card size and use radio frequency identification technology (RFID), or a similar technology that is capable of tracking the ingres s and egress to Fort Lewis by participating cardholders. The contractor shall provide all equipment and necessary communications connections to establish a system to remotely detect and record issued participant ID cards entering or departing the Fort Lew is cantonment area. It shallbe capable of displaying for ACP personnel, at his or her location, a photo of the participant cardholder separate and independent from that on the ID card. Other than a single identification number, no electronic data concern ing the participants identity shall be stored on the participants ID card. Participant data may only be stored on medium under the control of the contractor or Fort Lewis. Fort Lewis personnel (including any contracted guards) may safeguard data storage equipment but the contractor shall ensure that such Fort Lewis personnel do not have access to participant data, except data transmitted to ACP personnel used to verify the participants ID card. The contractor will not be allowed to connect or access an y of its equipment to any Government communications equipment or networks. The contractors system must be a stand-alone system. The contractor shall provide reports on a monthly basis. DESCRIPTION OF SOLICITATION: This Contract is to be awarded as a multiple year, base plus 4 options years. The initial Period of Performance is expected to be 1 May 2005 through 30 April 2006, with each option, if exercised to begin on 1 May of each year. The proposed procurement listed here is 100 percent set-aside small business concerns. NAICS Code: 561611, The size standard for a small business is defined as any concern including its affiliates with an average annual sales or receipts for its precedi ng three fiscal years not in excess of $10.5 million per year. Telephonic requests for the solicitation resulting from this notice will not be accepted. All requests for the solicitation must be faxed to +1 (555) 000-0000 Attention: Shauna Hull or emailed to contact@example.gov providing Company Name, Address, Dun & Bradstreet number, CAGE Code, point of contact, telephone/fax numbers, and an email address. The solicitation will be issued and available for download on the Fort Lewis Web site located a t http://www.lewis.army.mil/doc on the issue date of the solicitation. The anticipated issue date for this solicitation is 15 Dec 2004.