The U. S. Army RDECOM Contracting, Natick Contracting Division, Natick, MA on behalf of the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) has a requirement for Naval Medical Research & Development Area of Responsibility (Omnibus 2) Contract for Support Services. Contractor support services will include project management, subject matter expertise (e.g., scientific, engineering, or analytical), technical support (e.g. lab technical) and administration (e.g. clerk or fiscal) Services include both on-site and off-site. Facility clearance will be required. The mission of the Naval Medical Research & Development AOR is to conduct research, development, tests, and evaluations to enhance the health, safety, and readiness of Navy and Marine Corps personnel in the effective performance of peacetime and contingency missions and to perform other functions as directed by higher authority. The Naval Medicine Research & Development AOR includes various elements of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), Washington, DC, requiring R&D support; Naval Medical Support Command (NMSC), Jacksonville, FL; Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, MD; Biological Disease Research Directorate, Rockville, MD; Bone Marrow Research Directorate, Rockville, MD; Naval Institute for Dental and Biomedical Research (NIDBR), Great Lakes, IL; Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) Jakarta, Indonesia and Cairo, Egypt; Naval Medical Research Command Detachment (NMRCD) Lima, Peru; Naval Health Research Center (NMRC), San Diego, CA; Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSRML), Groton, CT; Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL), Pensacola, FL; Environmental Health Effects Laboratory (EHEL), Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and Direct Energy Bioeffects Laboratory (DEBL), Brooks City-Base, TX. Place of performance will be at those agencies listed above. The Government envisions contracts which include the following contract types: Firm-Fixed-Price and Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee. Contracts will be Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ), in which Delivery Orders may be issued. Contracts will be for a base year, with 4 one-year options. The guarantee minimum is anticipated to be $2,500.00 for the length of each contract, while the maximum would be $20,000,000.00 for each contract. The Government envisions that multiple awards would be made; however, it reserves the right to make no award or to make a single award, if in the best interest of the Government. If for any reason, there are no successful proposals, or only one successful proposal, the Government reserves the right to re-open the solicitation. Offerors are hereby notified that NHRC support contractors (not competing for this requirement and not a current holder of an Omnibus contract) may be advisors to the evaluation panel, and by submitting a proposal, the offeror is consenting to such. This procurement will be issued as a partial small business set-aside for small business concerns for level II and Level III labor categories. Level I labor categories will be addressed as unrestricted. The small business size standard for this procurement is a firm with average annual sales or receipts, including all affiliates, for the preceding three years not in excess of $7.0 million under NAICS Code 541990. The solicitation has been posted to the Natick Contracting Divisions website, located at https://www3.natick.army.mil (Select Current Acquisitions, then to the solicitation number). Proposals shall be due no later than 2:00 pm on 9 June 2009. Any questions about this requirement must be submitted in writing to Valerie DeAngelis at
[email protected]. All proposals shall be sent to the address specified in the solicitation.