Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

This is a Sources Sought notice for market research to identify capable prime contractors interested in a future commercial services contract for the Operation and Maintenance of the Central Utility Plant at the NIST campus in Boulder, Colorado, with additional work at field sites in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and Kekaha, Hawaii. The planned acquisition is for a Firm-Fixed-Price contract under NAICS code 811310, which has a small business size standard of $12.5 million. The notice requests capability statements and comments on a draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) but explicitly states this is not a solicitation and no bid or submission deadlines are to be inferred from this description. Interested contractors must review the attached PWS and related documents and submit a capabilities statement of no more than twenty pages, including specific details about past similar projects. The government will not reimburse any costs associated with responding to this market research request.