Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. PSC Code: U008 Education/Training – Training/Curriculum Development NAICS Code: 611430 Professional and Management Development Training COMFRC-Procurement... THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. PSC Code: U008 Education/Training – Training/Curriculum Development NAICS Code: 611430 Professional and Management Development Training COMFRC-Procurement Group has been tasked by the Fleet Readiness Center, Southeast (FRCSE) to procure Virtual Workplace Aviation Maintenance Simulation training to support the workforce. This training is required in order to provide FRCSE leaders hands-on, reality-based training with a focus on aviation, where participants will learn theory in a classroom and immediately and repeatedly apply it in a factory simulation. FRCSE requires the contracting support that provides specialized training to assist the command in achieving real maintenance and production-minded operational improvements by enhancing workforce understanding to develop stable and consistent operations, self-directed improvement, and self-stabilization in support of FRCSE’s Aviation MRO & Manufacturing Programs Organization and Operation Development. This training was developed by Pendaran, Inc. The Government is seeking Offerors who are capable of providing this training or equivalent. See attached draft Statement of Work (SOW) for full requirement details. RESPONSES Please answer the following questions/provide the following feedback in your response to this RFI: Please identify your company's small business size standard based on the primary NAICS code of 611310. The small business size standard for this NAICS code is 1000 employees. For more information refer to http://www.sba.gov/content/table-smallbusiness- size-standards. Please identify, if your business is categorized as a small business by the SBA, or any of the following subcategories: Small Business (SB) Concern, 8(a), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Woman-Owned Small Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), Veteran-Owned Small Business, or a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Under the current SB recertification regulations, do you anticipate your company remaining a small business, under the primary NAICS code? If you are a SB please answer questions 2a & b. (a) What percentage of this requirement do you plan to perform in house (not sub-contract out)? Also indicate (with supporting rationale) if/how your company would be compliant given the restrictions identified in the Defense Authorization Bill 2013, which states that at least 50 percent of the total contract cost will be performed by the small business prime contractor or small business similar situated entities. (b) If you are a small business, does your company have adequate resources, financial or otherwise, to perform the requirement? Provide confirmation that your company is capable of providing all training requirements as stated in the attached SOW. Interested parties shall respond to questions 1-3 by 12:00 pm on 28 December 2023. All information submitted should support the offeror's capability to provide the items required, and shall be furnished at no cost or obligation to the Government. Responses must be in writing and must provide clear and concise documentation indicating an offeror's bona fide capability to provide these items and sent to LT Patrick Glynn, Patrick.d.glynn.mil@us.navy.mil. Verbal responses are not acceptable and will not be considered. DISCLAIMER This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes - it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This is a sources sought market survey. This request for information does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, the Government is not seeking proposals at this time and will not accept unsolicited proposals. There is no RFP available at this time. Any information submitted by respondents to this RFI is strictly voluntary. Responders are advised that the United States Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI; all costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party's expense. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued. If a RFP is released, it will be synopsized on the SAM.gov website. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this requirement.