R -- COST OF CAPITAL

REVISION- (3) 09/08/2004The purpose of this Pre-Solicitation Revison (3) is to change the Point of Contact (POC) for the issuance of the actual RFP pertaining to this Solicitation when issued from Mr. Jeff Cornell to Ms. Rita Palmore, at (202) 433-5313. Please do not contact Mr. Jeff Cornell, or Ms. Rita Palmore at this time. The Solicitation will be posted electronically on the NAFI website when ready for issuance which should be on or about Oct 01, 2004. This solicitation is for the purchase of Professional Services pertaining to Cost of Capital in support of the Utilities Rates and Studies Office. The service will pertain to the Utility Rates and Studies Office in the ratemaking process before various federal, state, or local authorities. Due to substantial changes in the utilities industries, the regulatory environment, and actions within the Department of Defense (DoD), many new issues such as deregulation, unbundling of cost of capital, asset securitization, rate freeze, post rate freeze rate design, privatization and other similar issues may also be involved and require support under the resultant contract. The contract will be a Firm Fixed Price, Requirements Type, with work ordered by the issuance of delivery orders. The term of the contract will be one (1) year, with four (4) one year options. This acquisition is 100% set aside for small business firms, accordingly only proposals from small business will be considered. Contract award will be made to the responsible offeror whose proposal is compliant with the solicitation and is determined to be the best value to the Government, technical, price and other factors considered. Evaluation of the following factors will form the basis for award: Technical, Past Performance Information (PPI), Price, Subcontracting.