Vessel Maintenance and Logistics Services”.

Amendment 1: The purpose of Amendment A0001 to RFP 70B02C20R00000028 is to provide answers to questions received in response to the solicitation. See A0001. ------------------ The Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is issuing this Request for Proposal to procure National Marine Vessel Maintenance required for the Office of Air and Marine Operations. The Contractor shall services as specified in the attached Performance Work Statement and all terms and conditions of this Request for Proposal. This procurement action is being solicited as a Small Business Set-Aside through beta.sam.gov website for Contract Opportunities. The Acquisition Title is “Vessel Maintenance and Logistics Services”. The principal nature of the requirements described in this solicitation is consistent with services performed by industries in the 336611 Ship Building and Repair with a size standard of 1,250 employees. The services in this solicitation are best represented by PSC Code: J020 Maintenance and Repair of Ship and Marine Equipment CBP invites your company to submit a technical and separate full pricing proposal for the efforts described in this RFP including the terms and conditions, the Performance Work Statement and all other attachments. CBP will select for award the most responsible Offeror whose proposal contains the combination of those evaluation criteria offering the best value to the Government using the trade-off process. “Best value” is defined as the procurement process that results in the most advantageous acquisition decision for the Government and is performed through an integrated assessment and trade-off analysis among price and non-price factors. The basis for the award will be a detailed, integrated evaluation by the Government on the basis of how well the proposal achieves solicitation requirements and satisfies the evaluation criteria specified herein. Accordingly, the Government may award any resulting contract to other than the lowest priced offeror or other than the offeror with the highest technical merit rating. In making this comparison, the Government is concerned with overall merit of the capability of evaluation factors stated within this solicitation. The Government may make award without discussions with Offerors (except communications conducted for the purpose of minor clarification); hence, all offer(s) should be submitted on the most favorable terms that the offering firm is able to submit to the Government. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if they are later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. Questions or concerns regarding any aspect of this RFP shall be forwarded to [email protected] with “VESSEL MAINTENANCE” in the Subject Line on or before 12:00PM (Washington DC local time) 5 calendar days after RFP receipt. You are strongly encouraged to ask questions and convey exceptions to the requirements during this time.