V -- Eglin Packing and Crating

The 96th Contracting Squadron intends to solicit, negotiate, and award an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity type contract for packing/containerization and drayage of personal property services in the vicinity of Eglin AFB, Florida. The NAICS code is 488991. The Small Business Size Standard is $23.5 million. The Contractor shall provide labor, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and services necessary in connection with delivery, service, pick-up, and transportation to perform this requirement. Services may include premove survey, servicing of appliances, disassembly of furniture, if required, packaging, inventorying, tagging, wrapping, padding, packing and bracing of household goods in government-owned and furnished shipping containers at owner?s residence, or at contractor?s facility when ordered by the contracting officer, properly securing and sealing for shipment, weighing, obliterating old markings, marking, strapping, and drayage of the container within the area of performance. Service shall also include loading of shipments on line-haul carrier?s equipment. Outbound house-hold goods, Inbound house-hold goods, and intra-area moves for the Eglin AFB area which consists of the Main Base, auxiliary fields, ranges and test sites as well as Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, and Santa Rosa Counties. The anticipated contract performance period will be 1 July 2008 through 31 December 2008, with four one-year options, if exercised. This acquisition will be solicited as 100 percent set aside for small businesses. The proposed solicitation number is FA2823-08-R-0009. The entire solicitation will be made available on or about 1 April 2008, via the Federal Business Opportunities web page at www.fbo.gov. No paper copies will be issued. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for release of the solicitation package and any amendments. All Offerors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registry (CCR) per FAR 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration. Offerors must also complete Offeror Representations and Certifications on-line at www.bpn.gov prior to submitting an offer. Submit all questions electronically, NO VERBAL REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program director or Contracting Officer, but communicates Contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman shall maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Matters of a routine or administrative nature concerning this acquisition should not be addressed to the Ombudsman but rather to the Contracting Officer, Contract Specialist, or the Program manager previously identified. AAC Ombudsman; Brigadier General Michael N. Wilson at (850) 882-5422, AAC/CR, 101 West D Avenue, Suite 116, Eglin AFB Fl 32542-5495. Any questions regarding this notice should be directed to 2nd Lt. Dwight Hearn at dwight.hearn@eglin.af.mil or TSgt Maya Hemingway at maya.hemingway@eglin.af.mil *Numbered Note 1 applies