R -- State Legislative and Regulatory Tracking

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT, a Market Survey for written information only. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a bid package or solicitation. There is no bid package or solicitation in order to protect the procurement integrity of any future procurement, if any, that may arise from this announcement, information regarding the technical point of contract will not be given and no appointments for presentations will be made.The Naval Facilities Engineering Services Center (NFESC), Port Hueneme, CA is seeking sources for State-level legislative and regulatory monitoring, analysis, and tracking services, including assistance with information technology for organizing and managing follow-up on individual monitored items. Monitoring services will be required to cover proposed state-level environmental legislative and regulatory actions which may have an impact on Department Of Defense operations in 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Interested sources should respond with brief documentation showing the company?s ability to fulfill the requirements described below. Interested sources will indicate whether they offer the capability for full text searching of proposed state legislation and regulations. Interested sources will briefly summarize their corporate history, level of experience with state legislative and regulatory process, and familiarity with U.S. environmental laws and regulations. Interested sources will indicate whether their services also include consulting. Interested sources will briefly summarize relevant information technology (IT) capabilities, in particular any already existing websites or tools you have to assist commercial clients in management of information, and your level of corporate experience in customizing or modifying such items to meet customer needs. The principal recipients of the monitoring information are Regional Environmental Coordinators (RECs) within the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and DOD agencies. To accomplish their designated work functions, RECs need tools to quickly distribute workload to various media and legal experts who are not co-located, review proposed state-level legislative and regulatory changes, classify and prioritize actions, generate detailed reports and archive related materials. These tools will need to be web-based, to work around the issue of separate networks within DOD, and restrictions against installing software on client-side computers. The NFESC is particularly interested in identifying providers that in addition to monitoring, can offer existing or cheaply implementable advanced information management systems that could be used to streamline the process of timely and systematic monitoring of emerging legislative and regulatory issues. Specifically, NFESC is interested in organizations that perform legislative and regulatory monitoring and also have the ability to implement information management tools such as wikis, online Internet accessible databases, electronic reporting systems and full text searching of proposed legislation and regulations. Monitoring of ?environmental issues? should include laws, regulations, rules, and ordinances that relate to such issues as air pollution, water pollution, drinking water quality, solid and hazardous waste management, resource conservation, recycling, water conservation, energy conservation, noise pollution, protection of cultural and natural resources, land use planning, hazardous materials transportation, toxic substances control, site remediation, spill contingency planning, worker health and safety, sustainability, environmental policy act programs, and encroachment. ?Encroachment? includes any governmental action (of an environmental or land use nature) that could limit the ability of a client to operate. Examples of encroachment include: land use restrictions, habitat protection requirements, cultural resource protection, and new land development authorizations, zoning, or land use plan changes to permit such authorizations, that could limit operations. Interested sources must submit any information relating to this announcement in writing via e-mail to contact@example.gov Responses received after this deadline may not be considered. Since this is a sources sought announcement, no evaluation letters will be issued to the participants.