76--Civilian Enterprise (CE) Newspaper Agreement for Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Responses will be accepted until 9:00AM CST 17 February 1. The Department of the Army, Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC), Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, intends to solicit proposals for a contractor to provide base newspaper services at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, labor, supplies, tools, materials, supervision, and other items necessary to assemble, print, and distribute up to 10,000 copies weekly of a Civilian Enterprise (CE) broadsheet newspaper to distribution points on post and other designated locations, using editorial material and instructions supplied by the Government. A minimum of 50 issues per year will be published. A complete performance work statement (PWS) is attached. The date for solicitation release has not been determined. 2. Once released, the solicitation will result in the award of a single agreement. The resulting agreement will be awarded as a no-cost agreement; the right to circulate the advertising in this publication to the Department of Defense readership constitutes contractual consideration to pay for the publication. The applicable NAICS code is 511110 Newspaper Publishers and the small business size standard is 500 people. This procurement will be competed full and open (unrestricted). 3. The anticipated contract period of performance is a base period of June 2015 - May 2016 plus 4 one-year option periods that expire on 31 May 2020. 4. Telephonic requests for the solicitation will not be honored. When issued, the solicitation will be available via the FedBizOpps website, http://www.fbo.gov/. The tentative solicitation issue date is unknown and the anticipated closing date is unknown. Interested offerors are advised to consult the actual solicitation for final dates and times. 5. Offers from all capable and responsible sources will be considered. Firms offering a response to this notice should ensure that they are registered in the System for Awards Management database, https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM# and ensure that the applicable NAICS code 511110 is included in their profile prior to submission of proposals. 6. Prospective offerors are urged to submit any questions they may have, in advance and in writing, to the Contract Specialist, [email protected].