SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Fire Life Safety Consulting Support
- Notice Date
- 8/2/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 55 Broadway; Cambridge, MA 02142
- ZIP Code
- 02142
- Solicitation Number
- DTRT57-06-R-20027
- Response Due
- 9/30/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/31/2006
- Description
- The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), in support of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other transportation-related sponsors, intends to issue a single-award indefinite delivery - indefinite quantity contract with cost plus fixed fee provisions. This is a pre-solicitation synopsis for a full and open competition to be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15. Individual Task Orders (TOs) under this contract will be issued on the basis of Firm Fixed Price, Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) term form or CPFF completion form. Whenever possible, performance-based TOs will be issued. This is a re-procurement of an ongoing contract with Hughes Associates, Inc. of Baltimore, MD, which will end soon. The resulting contract will provide approximately 44,000 professional hours of technical support over a period of five years. Typical work activities will be field inspections, surveys, engineering designs, engineering policy evaluations, design reviews, system inspections, engineering studies, technical project management support, risk assessments, small scale fire testing, materials assessments, egress analyses, performance-based designs and computer model analyses. Based on history, the majority of work will relate to the FAA?s Fire Life Safety Program (FLSP), supporting most of the FAA?s regions. For FLSP tasks, the Contractor shall be required to respond quickly to work located anywhere in the U.S.A. The Contractor will provide Professional Engineer-licensed fire protection engineers and subject matter experts in the areas of airport traffic control towers and related facilities. Fire safety transportation-related expertise useful to other Volpe Center customers (i.e., Maritime Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, United States Coast Guard) is desirable. The applicable NAICS Code is 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services). The Size Standard is $6 million. Detailed specifications and minimum requirements will be set forth in the solicitation. Proposals will be due approximately 30 days after the issuance of the solicitation. The solicitation and related documents will be available in electronic format only on the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page on the World Wide Web (www). Paper copies of these documents will not be available. These documents will be available in text format and will reside on a server which may be accessed using www browsers. The www address is: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors desiring to receive a copy of the solicitation and any related documents must register at this site to receive electronic notification of the solicitation posting and availability for downloading. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments, and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete email address lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the email address provided. Telephone requests will not be honored. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $750,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning this acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above.
- Web Link
-
Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page
(http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html)
- Record
- SN01104113-W 20060804/060802220612 (fbodaily.com)
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