SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- GPS Engineering Analysis Remote Site Sustainment GEARSS - Synopsis
- Notice Date
- 1/7/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517919
— All Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Space Command, SMC - Space and Missile Systems Center, 483 North Aviation Blvd, El Segundo, California, 90245-2808
- ZIP Code
- 90245-2808
- Solicitation Number
- SMC15-021GEARSS
- Archive Date
- 2/6/2015
- Point of Contact
- Amy E. Titcombe, Phone: 719-556-0643, Robert M. Chernoff, Phone: 3106539703
- E-Mail Address
-
amy.titcombe@peterson.af.mil, robert.chernoff@us.af.mil
(amy.titcombe@peterson.af.mil, robert.chernoff@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Synopsis •1. Action Code: R - Sources Sought Synopsis •2. 7 January •3. 2015 •4. Contracting Office Zip Code: 80914 •5. Classification Code: D-Information Technology Services (including telecommunication •6. services) •7. Contracting Office Address: 1050 E. Stewart Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80914 •8. Subject: Global Positioning System (GPS) Engineering, Analysis & Remote Site Sustainment (GEARSS) •9. Proposed Solicitation Number: FA8823-15-R-0001 •10. Closing Response Date: 22 January 2015 •11. Contract Point or Contracting Officer: Ms. Amy Titcombe/Mr. Robert Chernoff •12. Contract Award and Solicitation Number: TBD •13. Contract Award Dollar Amount: TBD •14. CLIN: TBD •15. Contract Award Date: TBD •16. Contractor: TBD •17. Description: This sources sought notice is for the Government to determine interested offerors to compete for the acquisition of the GPS Engineering, Analysis & Remote Site Sustainment (GEARSS) contract. The GEARSS contract will be awarded in a full and open competition and is contemplated to be a competitive firm fixed price (FFP) acquisition. The scope of this effort includes technician support at GPS Control Segment remote sites at Kwajalein (KWAJ), Ascension Island (ASCN), Diego Garcia (DIEGO), Colorado Springs Monitor Station (COSPM) and Cape Canaveral FL (CAPE). The scope also includes Network Administrator Officers (NAO) and operations support at the GPS Master and Alternate Control Stations at Schriever AFB CO and Vandenberg AFB CA respectively. The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) GPS Directorate (SMC/GP) intends to award the GEARSS contract from 1 October 2015 through 31 December 2018, with a possible six month extension of services through 30 June 2019. Contractor management and execution of GEARSS shall be located in El Paso County, CO. The following are basic GEARSS tasks: 1) Perform Remote Site maintenance and operations support per maintenance TOs for ASCN, KWAJ, DIEGO, COSPM and CAPE, to include but not limited to, providing maintenance manning on-site for a minimum of 8 hours per day, five days per week. 2) Provide mission essential Network Administration Officer (NAO) support to include, but not limited to, trained NAO personnel and performing NAO crew member duties and responsibilities 24/7 in accordance with the technical orders and maintaining required NAO proficiency. 3) Provide operations support and engineering and analysis technical expertise for daily ground system, on-orbit and launch activities, crew proficiency and system simulation for a minimum of 12 hours per day, five days per week (0600-1800, Monday-Friday) with 24 hour on-call support 4) The necessary program management, supplier/subcontract management, and contracts and pricing for the GEARSS contract. •18. Place of Contract Performance: Schriever Air Force Base, CO; Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA; Colorado Springs, CO; Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL with maintenance activities performed at the remote sites of Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, and Kwajalein. Interested parties must be able, and prepared, to begin these tasks at all remote sites ( ASCN, KWAJ, DIEGO, COSPM and CAPE ) and operational locations (MCS and AMCS on 1 October 2015. These tasks are mission critical and interested parties that cannot meet the start date will not be considered. Responses from small business and small, disadvantaged business firms, are highly encouraged. The NAICS code applicable to this Sources Sought posting is NAICS 517919 ($32.5M), All Other Telecommunications. Any persons or companies interested in this notice are to respond to the requirement(s) and submit their capabilities to the Contracting Officer. Responsible sources may submit a Statement of Capability (SOC) which shall be considered by the Government. The date of response to this synopsis for GEARSS is sixteen (16) calendar days after the date of publication of this synopsis and must conform to 8.5 x 11-inch pages, font no smaller than 12-point, 1" margins and a maximum of 10 pages. The SOC must include the following information: 1) Company name, mailing address, points of contact, and telephone numbers; 2) Business size classification (large, small, or other); 3) Description of experience, if any, in commercial or non-commercial Control Segment sustainment; 4) Description of ability to satisfy the Government's performance requirements described above. SOC must be completely unclassified. All responsible sources may submit a SOC. Persons/entities debarred and/or suspended will not be considered, therefore are not requested to respond. Communicate questions/concerns regarding this acquisition to Amy Titcombe, Contract Specialist, (719) 556-0643 or Robert Chernoff, Contracting Officer, (310) 653 ‐ 3128. An Ombudsman has been appointed to address concerns of offerors or potential offerors. The Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program manager or contracting officer, but communicates contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government personnel. When requested, the Ombudswoman shall maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of concern. The Ombudswoman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Matters of routine or administrative nature concerning this acquisition should not be addressed to the Ombudswoman, but rather to the Contracting points of contact identified above. The Ombudswoman is Ms. Olalani Kamakau, (310) 653 ‐1185, olalani.kamakau@us.af.mil.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFSC/SMCSMSC/SMC15-021GEARSS/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80914, United States
- Zip Code: 80914
- Zip Code: 80914
- Record
- SN03610654-W 20150109/150107234537-1b73d1aab1476622fb737680d46824ed (fbodaily.com)
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