R -- Bird Management and Control

This acquisition is for a firm fixed-price contract consisting of a one-year base period, plus four pre-priced one-year options. The base period will run from 01 October 2005 to 30 September 2006. Option Year One is from 1 October 2006 through 30 September 2007. Option Year Two is from 1 October 2007 through 30 September 2008. Option Year Three is from 1 October 2008 through 30 September 2009. Option Year Four is from 1 October 2009 through 30 September 2010. The requirement is for bird management and control services to eliminate or minimize bird hazards for safe air and ground support operations at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. These measures may include, but are not limited to, the use of border collies, radio controlled model airplanes, harassment, trapping, relocation, depredation, airfield/airdrome patrol, and perimeter fence monitoring. The Government will provide an on-base facility and two government-owned transceivers for communication with Control Tower and Airfield Management. National Agency Checks will be required for employees requiring access to the Local Area Network. The NAICS code is 561710 with a corresponding small business size standard (not to exceed) $6,000,000.00. In accordance with FAR 19.1300, this solicitation will be issued as a 100% HubZone set-aside. Evaluation for award will be Price-Performance Tradeoff (PPTO). Issuance of the solicitation will be on or about 13 April 2005 and will close on or about 16 May 2005. The solicitation will be available over the Internet only. NO HARD COPIES will be sent. Follow the links on the EPS website to access the solicitation: USAF Offices, Air Mobility Command Locations, and 436 CONS, Dover AFB, DE. Once the solicitation is posted, it is incumbent upon the interested parties to review this site frequently for any updates/amendments to any and all documents. All prospective contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) in order to be eligible for award. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CONTRACTORS: Any award resulting from the solicitation will include DFARS Clause 252.237-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests. Section 1008 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 requires any claims for payments (invoices) under DoD contract to be submitted in electronic form. Wide Area Workflow-Receipt and Acceptance (WAWF-RA) is the DoD system of choice for implementing this statutory requirement. Use of the basic system is at NO COST to the contractor and training will be provided. Information available at no cost is located at http://www.wawftraining.com. Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal AcquisitionRegulation (FAR) will require the use of the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) in Federal solicitations as a part of the proposal submission process. ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of many of the FAR required representations and certifications previously found in solicitations. With ORCA, you now have the ability to enter and maintain your representation and certification information, at your convenience, via the Internet at http://orca.bpn.gov. In addition, rather than receiving and reviewing paper submissions, government contracting officials can access ORCA and review your information online as a part of the proposal evaluation process. You will no longer have to submit representations and certifications completed in ORCA with each offer. Instead, a solicitation will contain a single provision that will allow you to either certify that all of your representations and certifications in ORCA are current, complete and accurate as of the date of your signature, or list any changes. To prepare for this requirement and to register in ORCA, you will need to have two items: an active Central Contractor Registration (CCR) record and a Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN) identified in that CCR record. Your DUNS number and MPIN act as your company’s ID and password into ORCA. (Visit www.ccr.gov for more information on creating and entering your MPIN).The basic information provided in your CCR record is used to pre-populate a number of fields in ORCA. Vendors are reminded to protect their MPIN from unauthorized use. Once in ORCA you will be asked to review pertinent information pre-populated from CCR, provide a point of contact, and answer a questionnaire that contains up to 26 questions. The questionnaire is to help you gather information you need for the clauses. The questionnaire is not the official version. Be sure to read the provisions carefully. The answers you provide are then automatically entered into the actual FAR provisions. You are required to review your information, as inserted, in context of the full-text provisions for accuracy; acknowledge three additional read only provisions; and click a time/date stamp before final submission. You will need to review and/or update your ORCA record when necessary, but at least annually in order to maintain its active status. Detailed information regarding ORCA, how to submit your record, and whom to call for assistance can be found on ORCAs homepage at http://orca.bpn.gov under Help. The POC for this acquisition is Chuck Peck (302) 677-3744, Fax (302) 677-2309, E-Mail at [email protected].