SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Air Traffic Engineering and Program Support (ATEPS) Full and Open (F&O) - Draft RFP and Attachments
- Notice Date
- 9/11/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary (OST) Administration Secretariate, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02142-1093, United States
- ZIP Code
- 02142-1093
- Solicitation Number
- DTRT5715R20014
- Point of Contact
- Robert P. Robinson, Phone: 6174943433
- E-Mail Address
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Robert.Robinson@dot.gov
(Robert.Robinson@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Labor Category Descriptions Task Order 0001 Cost and Pricing Schedules TMIS SOW and Task Order SOWs Master Contract Cost and Pricing Schedules List of TMIS Prime Contractors and Subcontractors Draft RFP The U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), Cambridge, MA, intends t o issue a solicitation for services for Air Traffic Engineering and Program Support (ATEPS). This support is being provided to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Program Management Organization (PMO) for the development and implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The solicitation will be competed on an unrestricted, full and open basis to all qualified offerors. A single contract award will be made from this solicitation. This procurement will be conducted in accordance with FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation and the solicitation will be issued on an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) basis with the ability to issue firm fixed price, cost-plus-fixed-fee completion, and cost-plus-fixed-fee term task orders. The term of the ordering period of the resulting contract will be five (5) years from the date of award. A Draft RFP is being issued concurrently with this pre-solicitation notice. The Government encourages all interested parties to respond to this Draft RFP with questions, comments, and/or suggestions in accordance with the instructions provided in the Draft RFP Executive Summary. This Draft RFP consists of only the sections determined necessary to achieve the Government’s purposes. The Government will respond to all questions but reserves the right not to incorporate comments and/or suggestions into the Final RFP. A Pre-Solicitation Conference will be held as a webinar on Wednesday, September 30, 2015, at 10:00 AM EDT. The pre-solicitation conference will provide an overview of the Government’s technical requirements. All parties interested must register for the pre-solicitation webinar by sending an e-mail, no later than 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, September 25, 2015 to the Contracting Officer (CO): robert.robinson@dot.gov Offerors may also send in questions prior to the pre-solicitation webinar via e-mail to the Contracting Officer no later than 11:59 PM EDT on September 25, 2015. The Government may provide response(s) to these questions during the webinar. All Questions from Industry and Government Responses will be posted online at the Federal Business Opportunities website prior to the release of the Final RFP. Follow-up questions will not be answered. The successful contractor will provide services in the following work areas of ATEPS: 1. Program Management; 2. Financial Management; 3. Standards and Rulemaking; 4. Systems Engineering; 5. Operations Support; 6. Field Engineering & Systems Implementation; and 7. Flight Test, Data Collection & Performance. A complete Statement of Work will be set forth in the final solicitation. The ATEPS contract will be the successor to the Transportation Management Infrastructure Systems contracts (TMIS) Support contracts awarded by the Volpe Center in 2011. The small business size standard associated with the designated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541330 Engineering Services is $15 million. The estimated release date of the final solicitation will be on or about November 30, 2015. Proposals will be due approximately 60 calendar days following the issuance of the solicitation. It is anticipated that a pre-proposal conference will be held in early December 2015. Complete details of the pre-proposal conference will be provided in the final solicitation. I n acco r dan c e w i t h F A R S u bpa r t 16.3 0 6 ( c ), a Prime C on t r ac t or i s n o t e li g i b l e t o r ece i v e a cost reimbursement co n tr a ct o r a t ask o r d er a w a r d u n l e ss it s accou n t i ng s y s t em has been r e v i e w ed by a G o v e r n m ent aud i t a g ency and de t e r m i ned by t he C O t o be adeq u a t e f o r d e t e r m i n i ng c os t s und e r a c ost r e i m bu r se m ent con t r a c t. The sole responsibility rests with the Offeror to perform whatever prepatory work is required so that its accounting system will be approved should the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) be engaged to perform the review. There is considerable information available which outlines the accounting system requirements and audit. The DCAA website http://www.dcaa.mil includes information on the DCAA audit program describing the audit process and it includes helpful references. Go to "Guidance" and "Checklists and Tools" for information on accounting systems. The Volpe Center uses electronic commerce to issue request for proposal (RFP) and amendments to RFP. Paper copies will not be made available. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website: http://www.fbo.gov. Paper copies of these documents are not available and no hard copies will be mailed. The Government will not pay for any documentation provided in response to this synopsis and any documentation received will not be returned to the sender. Prospective Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation posting and availability for downloading must register on the FBO website. Offerors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments, and other notices, it is their responsibility to provide an accurate and complete email address to the Government. The Government will make no additional effort to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the email address provided. For questions regarding the final solicitation, contact the Contracting Officer in writing by email at robert.robinson@dot.gov. ANY INQUIRIES VIA TELEPHONE WILL NOT BE HONORED. All contractors are reminded that all entity records from the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and Online Representations and Certifications (ORCA) were moved to the System for Acquisition Management (SAM). All contractors must be registered in SAM in order to receive an award from a DOT Agency. Contractors may access the site at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ to review and obtain information about the registration process. ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of the Representations and Certifications required by the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Potential offerors are highly encouraged to complete the online provisions within the Representations and Certifications at the earliest within SAM and must be completed in order to receive an award from a DOT Agency. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-owned, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs); The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $750,000. The STLP loan has a variable rate which is tied to the Prime Rate published in the Wall Street Journal. For further information, call (800) 532-1169. Internet address: http://osdbu.dot.gov/.
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