SOURCES SOUGHT
X -- Firing Range Services - Edina MN
- Notice Date
- 10/4/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 713990
— All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, Headquarters TSA, 601 S. 12th Street, TSA-25, 10th Floor, Arlington, Virginia, 20598, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20598
- Solicitation Number
- 70T05019F1NMED004
- Archive Date
- 11/9/2018
- Point of Contact
- Kevin Newton,
- E-Mail Address
-
kevin.newton@tsa.dhs.gov
(kevin.newton@tsa.dhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- INTRODUCTION The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is conducting market research to determine interest, capability, and socio-economic category of potential sources for Firing Range Services to support the Edina, MN Field Office within the Office of Law Enforcement at TSA. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone; service-disabled veteran-owned, woman-owned, 8(a), etc.; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. Note: If you are submitting a capabilities statement and your firm does not own/operate the proposed range facilities, your capabilities statement must address how your firm will meet performance requirements/Limitations on Subcontracting. See Federal Acquisition Clauses 52.219-3, 52.219-14, 52.219-27, or 52.219-29 for information concerning performance requirements/limitations. BACKGROUND The use of commercial or Governmental firing ranges are required to allow agency personnel to train and qualify on various weapons used in the performance of their duties. SCOPE The requirements for an acceptable range are included in the DRAFT REQUIREMENTS section below. The intent of the acquisition is for the rental/usage of existing ranges meeting all specifications outlined in the DRAFT REQUIREMENTS. RESPONSE INFORMATION In order for the TSA to improve its understanding of market capabilities and identify qualified vendors that are capable of providing the required services, a Contractor's Capabilities Statement is requested. This statement must identify your company's capabilities to meet the requirements identified in the attached DRAFT Statement of Work (SOW), Full Company Name, DUNS Number, Company Point of Contact, mailing address and phone number, Current Business Size (i.e., small business, 8(a), woman owned, veteran owned, etc.), and what experience you have providing similar and/or same services. The capabilities statement shall not exceed four (4) pages in length and shall be in either PDF or MS Word Format. Please send responses with a subject heading of "Firing Range Services - Edina, MN" Send your capability statements to Kevin Newton at kevin.newton@tsa.dhs.gov by 10:00 AM Eastern Time on October 25, 2018. Please send any questions to the same e-mail address. Telephone responses will not be accepted. Future information about this acquisition, including issuance of a solicitation and/or applicable amendments, will be issued through FedBizOpps (www.fbo.gov). Interested parties are responsible for ensuring they have the most up-to-date information regarding this acquisition. This Sources Sought Notice is issued solely for informational and planning purposes only and is not a solicitation. A Government requirement for this service is being developed, and a contract may or may not result. This notice does not constitute a commitment by the Government. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary, and the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. Please note: All contractors doing business with the Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. The website for registration is www.sam.gov. DRAFT REQUIREMENTS The range must be within a ten mile radius of the intersection of Interstate 494 miles and U.S. Highway 169 located in Edina, Minnesota. The proposed range must meet various standards to qualify. The contractor must make the range available exclusively to DHS; it must be closed to the public during the corresponding hours, and designated training staff must be granted 24-hour unimpeded access to the range facilities. Because of the unique weather patterns specific to Minnesota, the range may be indoors or outdoors during the summer months and exclusively indoors during the winter, early spring and late fall months. The range must possess a minimum of five (5) firing points. The range must be able to accommodate a qualification course distance minimum of 1.5 yards and a maximum of 25 yards. The range must possess a public address system available during firearms training. The range must possess movable barricades for the 25-yard and 15-yard course of fire. The range must possess some type of classroom facility with chalkboard or maker board. The range must be able to accommodate all handgun calibers. The range must have reduced-light or no-light firing capabilities. The range rules cannot disallow movement between firing points or restrict movement-oriented firearms training firing points by students (i.e. standing to kneeling transitions). The range cannot disallow students from drawing and firing from the holster. The range rules cannot disallow a student from moving in front of the firing points with an instructor present (i.e. tactical move and shoot type drills where instructor/student ratio would be too restrictive). The range cannot disallow the shooting of DHS/TSA/FAMS approved steel targets, provided frangible ammunition is used and the shooter is at least 15 yards away from the steel targets. The range rules must allow shooters to utilize weapons on fully automatic fire drills. The range must possess a storage area dedicated to DHS use that would allow storage of up to 5000 rounds of ammunition and 150 cardboard target backers. Indoor ranges must possess a ventilation system that conforms to existing OSHA standards. The range must have a dedicated weapon cleaning room and suitable waste disposal bins/equipment available for use by DHS employees. The range must have means to discard expended cartridges. The estimated days of range usage are 260 per year at approximately four (4)hours per day. The estimated number of rounds fired per quarter is 60,000 rounds.
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