Substation Maintenance (1 Year)

Substation Maintenance - Sources Sought This is a Sources Sought Notice only. No solicitation is being issued at this time. 30 CONS/LGCB is seeking commercial sources to provide all management, personnel, tools, supplies, equipment, materials, and labor necessary to manage and maintain at minimum nine (9) similar substations in one given period at Vandenberg AFB, CA. It is anticipated that the contract performance period will have one basic period with four one-year options, anticipated start date of Mar 2012. The Government has not made a decision on business size for this requirement. Both large and small businesses are encourage to respond to this announcement. This proposed contract is being considered as a set-aside under a small business set-aside program. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code proposed for the requirement is 811219. The size standard for NAICS 811219, size standard $19M. The Government is interested in all small businesses including 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses that are interested in performing this requirement. The Government requests interested parties submit a brief description of their company's business size (i.e. annual revenues and employee size), business status (i.e. 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, or small business), anticipated teaming arrangements, and a description of similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers. Any responses involving teaming arrangements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners. The Government will use this information in determining its small business set-aside decision. Interested firms are requested to provide the aforementioned information, along with interest and capability statements NLT 8 April 2011 by 2pm P.S.T. This Sources Sought Notice is also issued for the purpose of market research in accordance with FAR Part 10. The draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) is posted with this notice and interested parties are encouraged to submit industry comments and/or suggested changes to the PWS. Respondents are also encouraged to submit information regarding commercial practices that the Government should consider implementing for this acquisition. Industry comments, suggested changes for the PWS, and/or submittal of commercial practices for the Government's consideration (please limit to no more than five pages) are requested to be submitted in writing with the capabilities statement due on 8 April 2011 by 2pm P.S.T. Additional information regarding this requirement will be posted for viewing on FedBizOpps at https://www.fbo.gov/ as it becomes available. Interested parties are cautioned that the draft PWS posted with this notice is subject to change; the formal version of the PWS will be released with the solicitation on a future date. All potential offerors are reminded that in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration (CCR), lack of registration in the CCR will make an offeror ineligible for contract award. NOTE: It is the responsibility of all potential offerors to monitor the FedBizOpps web site for release of any future synopses or release of the solicitation. Submissions to this notice may be mailed to Vanessa Lech'n, 30 CONS/LGCB, 1515 Iceland Ave Room 150, Vandenberg AFB, CA 93437-5212, faxed to (805) 606-5193, or sent via email (preferred) to vanessa.lechon@vandenberg.af.mil. If emailing your response, please note that due to increased firewall protections some emails may be blocked; therefore, follow-up via telephone (if an acknowledgement is not received back via email) is strongly recommended to ensure receipt of your submission by the Government.