THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY TO PRE-QUALIFY VENDORS. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME AND THIS IS NOT A FORMAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. The United States Senate Sergeant at Arms (SAA) requires new television studio sets for the Senate Recording Studio (SRS) facility to be located in the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC). The SRS provides television studios to the United States Senate, broadcasts committee hearings, and interconnects with the Senate TV facility, which disseminates live feeds from the Senate. This SAA requires a vendor with demonstrated experience in the design, fabrication, delivery, and installation of high-definition television studio sets. The vendor shall: analyze requirements; develop draft set designs; upon draft set designs approval, develop detailed set designs; construct, deliver and install the sets; and provide lighting assistance to enhance set pieces. The time frame for completion of the sets will be August 2008. Requirements: The SAA invites all qualified sources to respond to this sources sought notice. The vendor response to this sources sought notice shall specifically address the three (3) evaluation criteria below. The evaluation criteria for selection, listed in descending order of importance, are as follows: (1) Firm experience and past performance: The primary firm and sub-contractors must have specific experience, within the last five years, involving the design, fabrication, delivery and installation of sets for high-definition television facilities. The projects shall be listed and include any other supplemental information necessary to address this criteria. Firms are encouraged to provide any available documentation that would indicate the capability to complete this project on time and within budget, their ability to respond to changing workload requirements and schedules, and the overall satisfaction of past customers with their work. Responses must include complete and current contact information of past customers; the Senate will check references as necessary to evaluate past performance. Experience and past performance will be evaluated on the basis of its breadth and depth, its similarity to the Senate project as well as the satisfaction of clients and overall quality of services represented by the projects described; (2) Assignment of Personnel: The firm must identify principals and individuals to be assigned to work on this project. Designated employees shall have specific experience, within the last five years, with similar projects involving the design, fabrication, delivery, and installation of sets. Specialized experience of the team members individually, and collectively as a team, in the design, fabrication, delivery and installation of sets; and (3) Computer capabilities - AutoCAD 2000 system; Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project. Failure to provide information on criteria 1 through 3 above may result in disqualification of the vendor from consideration. Instructions: Responses to this sources sought request are due no later than December 5, 2007 at Noon EDT, and shall be submitted electronically via email only, to the attention of Kathleen M. Haddow at
[email protected]. The subject line of the email message shall be SSN 2008-S-007 Television Studio Set Design. No other method of transmittal will be accepted. The response shall not exceed ten (10) pages (excluding resumes). Pages over the page limitation may be discarded. Access by the SAA to information in any files attached to the response is the responsibility of the submitting party. Neither the SAA nor the Senate is responsible for any failure to access vendor information. The information supplied in response to this sources sought notice will be used to pre-qualify firms that may be invited to submit proposals. Vendors responding to this sources sought notice and deemed qualified by the SAA will be requested to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation or request for quotation. Only pre-qualified firms will be permitted to submit proposals. If suitable responses are received from qualified sources, the SAA anticipates release of a solicitation or request for quotation in January 2008. Neither the SAA nor the Senate will be responsible for any costs for the preparation of responses to this request. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES THE ENTIRE SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND IS THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SAA OR SENATE. ANY TELEPHONE OR E-MAIL REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE HONORED