S -- Professional Armed and Unarmed Guard Services

The U. S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Federal Protective Service (FPS), has a requirement for armed and unarmed guard services at federally owned and leased facilities throughout the States of Rhode Island, Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. It is the government’s preference to ultimately select two different contractors to provide these requirements. Contract HSCEBW-06-R-F00005 will be issued for the Rhode Island/ Western Massachusetts requirements and a second contract; HSCEBW-06-R-F00006 will be issued to cover the requirements for the State of Connecticut. Eligible Contractors may submit proposals for either one or both of the requirements. Although it is the governments’ stated preference to make an award to two distinct contractors, the government reserves the right to award both contracts to the same firm should this be in the best interest of the government. Award will be made using best value source selection procedures incorporating tradeoffs between price related and non-price related factors. It is the government’s intention to issue Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contracts with fixed unit pricing. The contracts will have a base period of one year and four option periods of one year each. The estimated start date is on or about August 1, 2006. The procurement will be issued as a 100% Small Business set aside. The successful offeror(s) and its work force must be able to obtain secret security clearances. A Pre-Proposal Conference is scheduled for March 30, 2006 at 10:00AM at the Federal Protective Service Region 3 Office, located at Independence Mellon Center, 701 Market Street, Suite 4200, Philadelphia, PA. 19106. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 561612, Security Guard Services. The small business size standard is $11.5 million. The solicitation will be available on or about March 17, 2006. Interested parties may access and download the solicitation through the Federal Business Opportunity website at http://www.fbo.gov. (DHS-BT). Questions regarding this procurement may be directed to George Shirley at (215) 521-7824 or via fax at (215) 521-2169.