National Marine Maintenance Program

This contract is awarded in support of the US Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Office. The goal of this contract is to have an enhanced logistics and maintenance program that ensures timely and effective vessel maintenance and logistics support so that operational and training requirements are met with mission-capable vessels. The contractor shall provide services that range from complete vessel overhaul (depot level maintenance) to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. This is a hybrid firm fixed price, cost plus award fee/award term contract. The Contracting Officer has determined it is neither feasible nor effective to devise predetermined objective incentive targets applicable to cost, schedule and technical performance because the operations will depend greatly on CBP Air & Marine (A&M) operational requirements and vary as to the requirements of the different Areas of Responsibility. There's great possibility services will require adjusted work schedules, over time and/or travel- all relative to the CBP A&M Marine operations requirement. In addition, the number of supported locations and staffing may increase or decrease significantly during the period of performance. The likelihood of meeting acquisition objectives will be enhanced by using a contract that effectively motivates the contractor toward exceptional performance and provides the Government with the flexibility to evaluate both actual performance and the conditions under which it was achieved; and the flexibility to adjust evaluation plans quickly to reflect changes in Government management emphasis or concern. Responsiveness to changing customer requirements and programming needs can be difficult to quantify. A CPAF contract would allow the Government the ability to subjectively evaluate elements of service quality during contract performance. It also allows for gradations of scoring that would be impossible in a purely objective approach.