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This ammendment is to provide answers to questions that have been asked. Please see attached spreadsheet. This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information only. This is NOT a Solicitation Announcement... This ammendment is to provide answers to questions that have been asked. Please see attached spreadsheet. This is a Sources Sought/Request for Information only. This is NOT a Solicitation Announcement, nor is it a Request for Proposal. The submission of this information is for planning purposes only. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to procure any services, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (HECSA) does not intend to award a contract based on this request for information. The USACE HECSA, is expecting to issue a solicitation for Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Essential Network Infrastructure (ENET) contract. The USACE HECSA is conducting market research to facilitate a determination of acquisition strategy for this procurement to gather industry comments, suggestions, or questions before the release of the RFP solicitation. The determination of the acquisition strategy for this procurement lies solely with the Government and will be based on market research and information available to the Government from other sources. A market survey is being conducted to accomplish the following: To determine the market capabilities of potential contractors ; To determine if there are a reasonable number of firms, large or small businesses, interested in performing the required work in the required location(s); To gather industry comments, suggestions, or questions before the release of the RFP solicitation. A decision as to whether the work will be set-aside for specific socio-economic category businesses is pending. Therefore, the Government is particularly seeking responses from small businesses, small, disadvantaged businesses: 8(a) concerns, HUBZONE concerns, woman-owned small businesses, veteran or service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Large businesses should also respond. This notice is for market research purposes only, with the intent to identify vendors that are interested and capable of performing the requirements listed in the attached draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) for the MCBH ENET contract. The proposed contract type is expected to be a Firm-Fixed-Price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite quantity (IDIQ)/Single Award Task Order Contract (SATOC) with a five-year ordering period. The first task order(s) will be issued with the award of the SATOC and satisfy the minimum guarantee. Award of the SATOC and first task order(s) is anticipated in April 2025. The estimated ceiling of the SATOC is $35M and the estimated guaranteed minimum is $10,000 for the base period only. The contractor shall provide all parts, labor, plan, equipment, material, supplies, supervision, management, transportation, and all other requirements to successfully perform all IDIQ projects. Work shall be performed in strict accordance with all terms and conditions of the IDIQ and resulting TO (Task Order), to include but not limited to the TO, PWS and all other documents incorporated into the TO. TOs shall vary in size ranging from $50,000 to approximately $2.5M, with the majority being between $100,000 and $600,000 (See PWS). The Government intends to award a commercial, firm-fixed price SATOC for this requirement. The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 517810 All Other Telecommunications, with a size standard of $40M. All business sizes are welcome to respond, however, small business vendors with the aforementioned NAICS are highly encouraged to submit capability packages. In response to this email, please provide the following information: Name of the firm point of contact, phone number, email address, CAGE code, SAM UEI number, small business status as listed in the System for Award Management and the corresponding NAICS code. Note: Any supporting documentation that confirms socio-economic status should be provided, i.e., letter of certification from VA confirming SDVOSB status. The Government must be able to verify SBA certification of HUBZONE and 8(a) via SAM and VA certification of VOSB and SDVOSB’s through the Vendor Information Pages at https://vip.vetbiz.va.gov. Company's technical capability to perform a contract of this scope and complexity to include, but not limited to: Comments on the attached draft PWS. Demonstrate your company has the resources, personnel, and equipment necessary to perform the required services described in the draft PWS. Additionally, discuss any services or supplies that would be subcontracted to fulfil the remaining portion of work and briefly discuss their technical ability and resources. Provide 3 examples of similar projects in terms of scope, size and complexity provided to any Federal Government customer and brief description for each example. These projects should demonstrate your company’s experience as a prime contractor on projects that are substantially complete or completed within the last five (5) years which are similar to the projects in size, scope, and complexity. For each of these three examples provide the following: Project name and contract number. Customer. Summary description of the key elements/salient work features of the project your company's level of involvement in the project, i.e., subcontractor (type), prime, GC, etc. and your specific role. Location where the work/project was completed. Contract amount. Brief description of how the experience relates to the general work description in this notice. Identify challenges and risks associated with meeting the requirements listed in the draft PWS and how your organization would minimize those risks. Can your company provide corporate/commercial experience references that maps back to similar scope, complexity, and magnitude? Does your company currently hold or in the process of obtaining any accreditations such as the following commercial certifications? International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 (Quality Management), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management), and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) in Development at Level 3. Does your company hold an active Facility Security Clearance Level (FCL) at the Secret level? Discuss your current facility clearance status. Describe your company’s ability to manage engineering resources in occasions where you will have to support additional resource loading due to multiple and conflicting requirements in a short period of time. We are currently anticipating multiple awards of Indefinite Quantity/ Indefinite Delivery contracts with Firm Fixed Price Task Orders for this action. Following contract award, what transition period do you feel would be adequate to start processing task orders? The Government is anticipating providing a Sample Task Order for pricing the action with the solicitation. Does this strategy sound adequate to provide a firm fixed-price effort? The Government is anticipating issuing Requests for Task Order Proposals using a SATOC IDIQ support services PWS. What risks do you foresee with this approach and how would you mitigate those risks? Are there currently any concerns with the stability of the market (supply chain concerns) or labor conditions which could impact the performance on this contract? Does the contractor have on-island storage and resources prepared for future task orders, or would materials need to be shipped to the island for each task order? Describe any potential issues the contractor expects in meeting the response time requirements outlined in the PWS and how the contractor will mitigate those issues. A rough order of magnitude estimates for the entire project. Other Considerations: If there anything else your company believes the Government should consider prior to releasing a formal solicitation? Do you consider this action is unreasonably restricting competition? Please provide the specific aspects that unreasonably restrict competition and the rationale for such conclusion. Please respond to this request no later than 1:00 PM ET on 3 September 2024. Responses must be submitted via email to Mrs. Giorgiana Chen, Contract Specialist Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil , Ms. Jordan Baker, Contract Specialist Jordan.D.Baker@usace.army.mil and Mr. Douglas Pohlman, Contracting Officer Douglas.E.Pohlman@usace.army.mil. RFI questions are due by 1:00 P.M. ET on 20 August 2024. Please submit your questions via email to Mrs. Giorgiana Chen, Contract Specialist Giorgiana.Chen@usace.army.mil , Ms. Jordan Baker, Contract Specialist Jordan.D.Baker@usace.army.mil and Mr. Douglas Pohlman, Contracting Officer Douglas.E.Pohlman@usace.army.mil. IF A SOLICITATION IS ISSUED,IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE. All interested parties shall respond to that solicitation announcement separately from this sources-sought announcement. No award will result from this sources-sought announcement. No reimbursements will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement. This notice does not constitute any commitment by the Government.