The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) intends to issue a competitive solicitation, set aside for 8(a) eligible business concerns, under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)), for Site Security Services for the NETL located in Morgantown, WV and Pittsburgh, PA and the Albany Research Center (ARC) located in Albany, OR. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this effort is 561612 with a size standard of $10.5 million. The contractor shall provide all supervision, personnel, equipment, and services (excluding those items identified under the Government-Furnished section of the solicitation document) to perform the contract requirements. NETL has initiated an electronic reading room as part of the strategy to provide information that may benefit potential offerors in preparing their proposals. The information is provided to assist the reader in gaining an enhanced understanding of the requirements. The reading room is under construction and changes should be expected throughout this process and up to the issuance of the solicitation. The reading room may be accessed at http://www.netl.doe.gov/business/solicit/ssc2005/index.html . It is anticipated that the solicitation will be made available for downloading from the IIPS Internet page in early March, 2005. The IIPS page is located at http://e-center.doe.gov . At this Internet site you will be able to register with IIPS, enabling you to download the solicitation, join the mailing list for the solicitation, and to submit a proposal. If you need technical assistance in registering or for any other IIPS function, call the IIPS Help Desk at (800) 683-0751 or email the Help Desk personnel at
[email protected] . Questions relating to the solicitation SHALL be submitted electronically through the question submittal option of the IIPS program. All responses to solicitation questions will be released on the IIPS Internet page. The solicitation will only be made available in IIPS, no hard (paper) copy of the solicitation and related documents will be made available.