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The purpose of this Sources Sought is to conduct market research to determine if responsible sources exist and to assist in determining if this effort can be competitive and/or a total Small Business ... The purpose of this Sources Sought is to conduct market research to determine if responsible sources exist and to assist in determining if this effort can be competitive and/or a total Small Business Set-Aside. A statement of work will be included, but may be modified by time of solicitation. The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 611519 which has a corresponding Size standard of $16.5M. The Government will use this information to determine the best acquisition strategy for this procurement. The Government is interested in all small businesses to include 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Hubzone, and Women-Owned small business concerns. The Government requests that interested parties respond to this notice if applicable and identify your small business status to the identified NAICS code. The Underwater Construction Team Two, located in Port Hueneme, California has a requirement for qualified Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat operators to support deployment requirements. The requirements under this procurement supports the UCT-2’s Training Department in providing Technical Training Support Services on an interim basis for deploying personnel. Specifically these services shall be to conduct two Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) Operator Training courses and two Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) Heavy Weapons Live-Fire courses. Currently no formal Navy owned training programs exist to properly train and qualify Boat Operators assigned to UCT-2. The option of contracting a firm who specializes in the proper tactical use of the assigned UCT-2 RHIBs would be the best method to fill the current training gap. These courses of instruction will provide basic and advanced boat operator skills-sets, tactics, techniques, and procedures, standard operating procedures, technical knowledge, and experience of assigned RHIB engineering systems, small boat mission planning, navigation, operations, weapon systems, weapons manipulation, safety, seamanship, casualty control, and communications. This is a Sources Sought for market research purposes only. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a follow-on effort, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. This is not a Request for Quotation, a Request for Proposal, an invitation for Bid, or any other commitment by the US Navy to contract for the items contained in the Sources Sought. The Government will not reimburse costs incurred while developing a response to this Sources Sought. Refer to attachments for full details.