West Desert Test Center Industry Day Notice

SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS WEST DESERT TEST CENTER MISSION SUPPORT SERVICES INTRODUCTION The Mission Installation Contracting Command located at Fort Hood, TX 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 West Desert Test Center Mission Support Services. The intention is to procure these services on a competitive basis. 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. 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 % On-Site Government % Off-Site Contractor US Army Dugway Proving Grounds, UT 100% 0% 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 INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT." PROGRAM BACKGROUND The West Desert Test Center (WDTC) located on U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah, plans, conducts, evaluates, and reports on developmental, operational tests and support Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) development, training to assess the military value of Chemical and Biological (CB) defense systems, incendiary smoke/obscuration munitions systems, and related operational concepts. WDTC plans, conducts, evaluates, reports, and supports Chemical/Biological (CB) and non-CB testing efforts for the Department of Defense (DoD), other federal agencies, private industries and foreign Governments (e.g., environmental assessment/impact evaluations, weapons and munitions, demilitarization, chemical energetics/homemade explosive testing, unmanned systems testing, direct and indirect fire weapons testing, hazard assessments, and technical/logistical support of operations at DPG). WDTC programs include CB detection, decontamination, and protection devices, evaluation of munitions, testing to determine Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) contamination and decontamination survivability of various DoD materiel and equipment along with a wide range of developmental testing and applied research related to TTP. Test procedures involve energetic and non-energetic indirect fire systems, physical and environmental stress testing, human factors engineering, methodology development and implementation, accelerated climatic storage, contamination/decontamination evaluations, and performance and reliability testing of items in the field or within enclosed chambers. WDTC supports the following Divisions: (1) Operations Division, (2) Chemical Test Division, (3) Special Programs Division, (4) Data Management Division, (5) Test Support Division, (6) Meteorology Division, and (7) Bio Testing Division (BTD)/Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC). REQUIRED CAPABILITIES The Contractor shall provide services necessary to support and perform field, chamber, and laboratory test services in support of the areas specified in Program Background (above). Further detail is provided in the draft Performance-based Work Statement (PWS) attached to this announcement as (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, cage code, website address, telephone number, and size standard and type of ownership for the organization. 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 arrangements are anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. ELIGIBILITY The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 541380, Testing Laboratories with a Small Business Size Standard of $15,000,000. A Sources Sought Notice was posted for this requirement to FBO in December 2017 using NAICS 541715 and has since been changed to the before mentioned NAICS. The Product Service Code is AJ55, General Science / Technology: Life Sciences (Operational Systems Development). Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement. CAPABILITIES STATEMENT A draft Performance-based Work Statement (PWS) including Personnel Qualifications Description are attached for review. (Attachment 1) Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten (10) pages in length in Times New Roman font 10 pitch. The deadline for response to this request is not later than 4 pm, CST, 13 June 2018. This documentation must address at a minimum the following items: 1. Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) operates in a Zero-defect environment in safety that is highly scrutinized, regulated, and inspected. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities in safely handling, monitoring, and protecting workers from exposure to toxic industrial chemicals, toxic industrial materials, chemical weapons agent, infectious agents and toxins, and biological select agents and toxins. 2. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities in simulated chemical and biological developmental and operational testing to include design, modeling, set-up, planning, implementing and capitalizing on meteorological conditions, dissemination, sampling and data collection and analysis. 3. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities to provide reach back capabilities in support of specific scientific, physical chemistry, organic/inorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biophysics, virology, biomedical science, molecular genetics, chemical engineering, structural engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, computer programming, software design, and computer networking Subject Matter Expertise (SME) or support when requirements exceed organic company (Prime and Subcontractor) capabilities located at Dugway. 4. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities to temporarily surge non-professional labor categories to accommodate fluctuating demands for outdoor field testing during peak testing season (April through September) or in support of large test programs. 5. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities to support conventional and homemade explosive testing and training using the following compounds: acetylides, fulminates, nitro, nitrates, amines, peroxides, oxides, and other fuel oxidizer (FOX) mixtures. Identify your methods for detecting, synthesizing, safely handling, mitigation, and sampling of conventional and homemade explosives. 6. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities of operating still photography, high-definition video cameras, high-speed video cameras, thermal video cameras, infra-red video cameras, lidar, and techniques for collecting, storing, and processing of data in support of developmental and operational testing. 7. Describe and demonstrate your company's capabilities in airfield operations to include: flight line safety, fueling operations (F24 and AVGAS), aircraft hangar support, runway and taxiway inspections, monitoring flight operations and airfield ground operations in support of UAS and conventional aircraft. The anticipated period of performance consists of a 12 month base period plus nine (9) 12 month option periods, with a Phase-In Period commencing on 24 January 2019 followed by performance commencing on 24 March 2019. Specifics regarding the number of option periods will be provided in the solicitation. The anticipated contract type is Cost Plus Fixed Fee. The proposed contract is anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by professiona and labor categories that are subject to the Service Contract Act. Upon evaluation of the capability statements, if it is determined that this requirement will be an unrestricted competition, the Government intends to evaluate the Small-Business responses and conduct further market research to identify a subcontracting goal. Your response to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email to belinda.woods.civ@mail.mil and denitra.i.foy.civ@mail.mil. 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 Denitra I. Foy, email address 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.