Request for Information-Security Guard Services

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is conducting market research to receive comments and questions to the attached Draft Statement of Work for Security Guard Services located in Hamilton, Montana. THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT COMMITTED TO AWARD A CONTRACT PURSUANT TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME AND REQUESTS FOR SOLICITATION PACKAGES WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. The applicable NAICS code is 561612 and the Size Standard is $18,500,000. The Small Business Administration has accepted this requirement into the 8(a) Program. The solicitation for this requirement will likely be released mid to late March under solicitation number NIHOD2009109. A preproposal conference will also be held in early April at Hamilton, Montana and attendance is highly recommended. Vendors will only be able to have two attendees due to the limited amount of space. Lastly, the solicitation will have mandatory criterion requesting a copy of the offeror’s Montana Board of Private Security, Contract Security Company License with its technical proposal. Any offer that is received without such a license will be deemed unacceptable and be ineligible for award. Please send comments and questions concerning the Draft Statement of Work as well as your company’s interest in the requirement to Mr. Zedekiah J. Worsham at [email protected] by March 3, 2009 at 3PM EST with the RFI Number of 263-2009-M(GO)0309 in the subject line of the email. Comments and questions will not be responded to but will assist the NIH in finalizing its Statement of Work and improve upon it.