The U.S. Coast Guard intends to issue a solicitation for maintaining the Integrated Bridge System on board the USCGC MACKINAW (WLBB 30). The Integrated Bridge System installed aboard the vessel was installed by Kongsberg and they are a sole source company for the Integrated Bridge System. The U.S. Coast guard intends to procure the requirements from Kongsberg. All responsible sources are encouraged to identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement. The maintenance and support the US Coast Guard requirements include: Annual on-site grooms, Annual participation in dockside and underway performance test, evaluation and validation; Technical consultation for troubleshooting; technical representative's on site visits; hardware, software, and technical documentation configuration management; tools. The core components of the system are: Integrated navigation system, electronic chart display (ECDIS), ECDS (Slave Unit), Remote Planning, Dynamic Positioning system, Flux Grate Compass, Remote conning Station(Stern Control), Band Radar, S Band Radar, Radar Display, Doppler Speed Log, Auto Pilot, Voyage Data Recorder, Sound Reception System, Bow Thruster Panel, Sonar, Gryocompass, wind, speed and direction indicator sensor syste, Loran C, Global Position Sytem (GPS), differential GPS, MF/HF Automatic Direction Finder, VHF automatic direction finder, depth sounder. Kongsberg is the OEM of the equipment. The government contemplates to solicit a one year requirements contract with up to four (04) additional twelve (12) month periods to be exercised at the government's discretion. At the present time, this acquisition is expected to be issued as a sole source to Kongsberg. The interfaces for the components were designed by Kongsberg and they consider the system interfaces proprietary. Under the authority of 10 USC 2304 (a)(1) FAR 6.302-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will the satisfy agency requirements. In response please include the following: (a) a positive statement of your intent to submit a bid for this solicitation as a prime contractor; (b) evidence/capability statement that sufficiently demonstrates qualification capabilities of experience in work similar in type and scope to include contract numbers, project titles, dollar amounts, points of contact and telephone numbers; and (c) capability statement shall include evidence that the company has access or will have access to Kongsberg's proprietary components, i.e. signed agreement with Kongsberg, licensing agreement, etc (d) past performance references with points of contact and phone numbers. THE INTENT OF THIS NOTICE IS TO CONFIRM IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER COMPANIES CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THESE SERVICES. IN THE ABSENCE OF RESPONSE FROM ANY FIRMS THAT BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PERFORM THIS REQUIREMENT, THE US COAST GUARD INTENDS TO NEGOTIATE WITH KONGSBERG FOR THE REQUIREMENT. NO OTHER NOTICE WILL BE PUBLISHED UNTIL AWARD IS MADE. In addition, the U.S. Coast Guard is seeking in accordance with FAR 19.1305, if your firm is HUBZone certified or FAR 19.1404 if you firm is SDVOSB and intends to submit an offer on this acquisition, please respond by e-mail to HYPERLINK mail to :
[email protected] or by fax (757) 628-4676. Questions may be referred to Sandra Martinez at (757) 628-4591. At least two references are requested, but more are desirable. Contractors are reminded that should this acquisition become a HUBZone set aside, SDVOSB Small Business or Small Business set aside, FAR 52.219-3, Notice of Total HUBZone Set-Aside or 52.219-27, Notice of Total Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside or 52.214-6, will apply, which requires that at least fifty (50) percent of the cost of personnel for contract performance be spent for employees of the concern or employees of other HUBZone small business concerns. Your response is required by the close of business on March 15, 2013. All of the above must be submitted in sufficient detail for a decision to be made on a HUBZone or Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Business set aside. Failure to submit all information requested may result in a small business set-aside. A decision on whether this will be pursued as a HUBZone or SDVOSB small business set aside, or a Small Business set aside, will be posted on the FedBizOps website at: http://www.fbo.gov.