Sutron Equipment Repair, Maintenance and Upgrade Services

This Request of Information and Sources Sought is for Planning Purposes. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of the sources sought notice or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. Your response to this Request for Information will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal. This request is issued for the purpose of exchanging information to improve the understanding of industry capabilities, thereby allowing potential offerors to judge whether or how they can satisfy the Government's requirements, and enhancing the Government's ability to obtain services, at reasonable cost and price, and increase efficiency in proposal preparation, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and contract award. The Government requests capability statements from small businesses who qualify as small for the 334513 Instruments and Related Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying and Controlling Industrial Process Variables North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. Capability statements shall address the small business company capabilities to provide repair, upgrade and maintenance services of Sutron equipment to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). The interested Contractor response should include how the Contractor could provide repair, upgrade and maintenance services of Sutron equipment for the NOS/CO-OPS. Please include in the response relevant past performance. Relevant past performance is performance under contracts or efforts (within the past 3 years) that is of the same or similar scope, magnitude, and complexity to that which is described in this sources sought notice. Include a list of a minimum of three (3) current or previous contracts performed within the last three (3) years that are of a similar nature to this request and include: contract number, name and address of the Government agency or commercial entity, description of work and services provided, point of contact with current phone number and e-mail address, date of contract award, period of performance, initial and current contract value, and the extent of subcontracting. Responses to this RFI are due no later than 12:00 p.m. August 14, 2014. Responses shall be sent via e-mail in to Cory.Worley@noaa.gov. The electronic copy of your response must be in ".pdf format" and readable by the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Questions pertaining to this notice may be emailed to the Cory.Worley@noaa.gov or Timothy.Wampler@noaa.gov. NOTE: This RFI is being issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute an Invitation for Bids (IFB), a Request for Proposals (RFP), a Request for Quotes (RFQ) or an indication that the Government will contract for any of the items and/or services contained in this notice. All information received in response to this notice that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. Responses to this notice will not be returned. In submitting a response, you are solely responsible and accountable for all of the expenses associated with your response.