Verbatim/Court Reporting Services

THE U. S. NUCLEAR REGUALTORY COMMISSION (NRC) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) as a means of conducting a market survey to determine the availability and the potential technical capability of the HUBZone business community to provide all management, supervision, administration as well as labor and equipment for court reporting services for a variety of depositions, hearings, investigations, meetings and oral arguments throughout the United States including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, any U.S. protectorate, and the countries of Canada and Mexico for the NRC headquarters and regional field offices. Some of these hearings, depositions or investigations may require the handling of sensitive unclassified or classified material. However, most instances requiring the handling of sensitive unclassified or classified material, including safeguards will be held at NRC headquarters. Specific court reporting services include: 1) Provide professional personnel competent in the technique of court reporting and equipment as necessary for the furnishing of accurate transcripts, diskettes, CDs and copies, all inclusive; 2) Provide full and complete transcribed verbatim record, which encompasses a record verbatim of everything spoken or presented during a session and incorporate it where indicated into the transcript unless otherwise directed by the Presiding Official; 3) Furnish complete transcripts, minuscripts, electronic files, audio or video tapes, CD ROMs, all inclusive, as ordered to accurately reflect the full and complete verbatim record of the hearings; 4) Provide duly authorized notaries and reporters who are empowered to administer oaths in the state in which the proceeding is being held; 5) Transcribe standard audio cassette tapes, micro tapes or video tapes, CD’s, and other prescribed material furnished by the NRC; 6) furnish a CD, or other electronic media with identical pagination and content as the original printed transcript; 7) provide an electronic version of the transcript in Portable Document Format (PDF) format; and 8) provide an electronic relative time-coded ascii text file. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this acquisition is 561492, Court Reporting and Stenotype Services, with a size standard of $7.0 Million Dollars. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposal; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the potential capability and capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) organization name, address, email address, Web site address and telephone number as well as size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability; 3) Describe experience your company has had in supporting court reporting services relating to same or similar work as noted in this RFI; 4) published price list that breaks down court reporter services by both an hourly rate and per page rate; 5) List any companies or government agencies your company either plans to or has performed work for related to court reporting services; 6) If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability capacity, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements and how the small firm could meet the limitations on subcontracting that applies to HUBZone set-asides; and 7) Although no geographic restriction is anticipated, if responding organizations are located outside the Washington Metropolitan area, indicate how the organization would coordinate with the NRC Headquarters located in Rockville, Maryland to provide support to multiple agency sites and locations. The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain market capability and capacity to 1) potentially provide the professional support services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) potential capacity to secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) potential capability to implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; and 4) the scope and breadth of corporate experience with similar Federal contract requirements. Interested firms responding to this RFI are encouraged to structure capability statements in the order of the areas of consideration noted above. Responding firms should send tailored capability statement electronically to [email protected] within ten(10) days from the date of publication of this notice. This market survey is being conducted through the FedBizOpps to reach the widest possible audience and to gather current market information.