U.S. Army Force Management Professional Services

INTRODUCTION The Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) - Fort Knox, KY is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for professional support services in support of the U.S. Army Force Management Support Agency (USAFMSA). The intention is to procure these services on a competitive basis A continuing need is anticipated for these services, which was previously fulfilled through contract #W9124D-15-C-0028. BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES (IN FULL OR IN PART) OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. All Small Business Set-Aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE Location Fort Belvoir, Virginia Fort Lee, Virginia Fort Leavenworth, Kansas DISCLAIMER "THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A "REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)" TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. RESPONSES WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF ANY ISSUED. IF A SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO MONITOR THE GPE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT." PROGRAM BACKGROUND The contractor shall provide all analytic, data management, document integration, and facility management support to accomplish statutory, regulatory, and policy functions and tasks assigned to the USAFMSA as defined in the attached DRAFT Performance Based Statement of Work (PBSOW). USAFMSA is a unique and essential player in the Army's transformation imperative. USAFMSA, a field-operating agency of Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) G-3/5/7, is a highly specialized Army resource. Our organization develops, maintains and distributes the Army's organizational requirements and authorization documents and data: Tables of Organization and Equipment (TOEs), Modified Tables of Organization and Equipment (MTOEs), Tables of Distribution and Allowance (TDAs), Basis of Issue Plans (BOIPs), Joint Tables of Allowance (JTAs) and Common Tables of Allowance (CTAs). The Agency maintains the Army's documentation data production and distribution systems. No other organization is designed to perform or capable of accomplishing this unique and essential mission for the Army. All MTOEs and TDAs are synchronized with HQDA G-3/5/7 Force Management (FM) Directorate's Structure and Manpower Allocation System (SAMAS), enabling complete and accurate accounting for all Army force structure. USAFMSA's documents and databases provide the detailed force structure data that feeds many Army systems. This force management support contract is critical to ensuring that the HQDA G-3/5/7 can perform this broad portfolio of work by providing the requisite knowledge and expertise to augment its authorized structure of 153 Department of the Army Civilians and six military officers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas locations. Objectives for this contract is to provide full range of subject matter expert and functional area expertise in documentation and documentation integration; technical support for Information Technology (IT) and automation; technical support for Global Force Management Data Initiative (GFM-DI) analysis and management; resource library management; analytical support, agency integration and support. Work shall be performed at a Government-directed site, at the contractor's facility, or at other locations as determined by the Contract Officer Representative (COR). Travel will be required to other Government-directed sites as necessary to meet USAFMSA requirements. Access to Government facilities will be granted as required and are subject to DoD, Army, HQDA G-3/5/7, USAFMSA, and Fort Belvoir, Fort Leavenworth, or Fort Lee security requirements. The contractor shall possess and maintain a TOP SECRET facility security clearance from the Defense Security Service. Contractor employees performing the work in support of this contract shall have been granted at least a SECRET and a TOP SECRET facility security clearance will be needed for specific tasks. REQUIRED CAPABILITIES The Contractor shall provide Professional Support Services in support of the areas specified in Program Background (above). Further detail is provided in the draft Performance Based Statement of Work (PBSOW) attached to this announcement (Attachment 1). If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract. ELIGIBILITY The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 541611, Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services with a Small Business Size Standard of $15M. The Product Service Code is R499, Other Professional Services. Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (CAPABILITIES STATEMENT) A draft Performance Based Statement of Work Statement (PBSOW) are attached for review. (Attachment 1) Interested parties are requested to submit a brief capabilities statement. The deadline for response to this request is no later than 9:00 AM, EST 15 August 2018. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be e-mailed to the Contract Specialist, Dremayne Doyle, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email at Dremayne.t.doyle.civ@mail.mil. This documentation must address at a minimum the following items: 1.) What type of work has your company performed in the past in support of the same or similar requirement? 2.) Can or has your company managed a task of this nature? If so, please provide details. 3.) Can or has your company managed a team of subcontractors before? If so, provide details. 4.) What specific technical skills does your company possess which ensure capability to perform the tasks? 5.) Please note that under a Small-Business Set-Aside, in accordance with FAR 52.219-14, the small business prime must perform at least 50% of the work themselves in terms of the cost of performance. Provide an explanation of your company's ability to perform at least 50% of the tasking described in this PBSOW for the base period as well as the option periods. 6.) Provide a statement including current small/large business status and company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history, office locations, DUNs number, etc. 7.) Respondents to this notice also must indicate whether they qualify as a Small, Small Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, HUBZone, or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern. 8.) Include in your response your ability to meet the requirements in the Facility and Safeguarding requirements. 9.) Does your company possess a TOP SECRET facility security clearance from the Defense Security Service? The estimated period of performance consists of a base year with four option periods with performance commencing in March 2019. The contract type is anticipated to be firm fixed price. The proposed contract is anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by labor categories that are subject to the Service Contract Act or a collective bargaining agreement. All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government. No phone calls will be accepted. All questions must be submitted to the contract specialist identified above. The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought. Identify any condition or action that may be having the effect of unnecessarily restricting competition with respect to this acquisition. Please contact the MICC Advocate for Competition, Scott Kukes, at scott.d.kukes.civ@mail.mil or 210-466- 2269, if you believe that this action is unreasonably restricting competition. Include the subject of the acquisition, this announcement, and the MICC POC information from the FedBizOpps notice. Provide the specific aspects that unreasonably restrict competition and the rationale for such conclusion.