This Request For Information is not a Request of Proposal or Quotes. This is for informational purposes only. The Government anticipates acquiring services under NAICS Code: 541930 and FSC/PSC: R608, Translation and Interpretation Services. The Government has a need to determine whether or not there are qualified Small Businesses interested and capable to perform this work.
The nature of the effort will involve services of a qualified contractor to provide 24-hour, seven days a week, linguistic support for interpretation, translation, media and document exploitation, and related intelligence operations program support, including management of personnel and related functions and a response center for non-normal duty hours. Linguists are required to know low-density languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, and Somali. Other languages will be required as needed, such as Spanish, German, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Swahili, Turkish, Azeri, Uighur, Tajik, Albanian, Chechen, Baluchi, Kurdish, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Tagalog, Indonesian, Thai, Serb-Croat, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, and Amharic. Linguist should have a very good command of the English language. At least initially, approximately 40% of the linguists will be Arabic and 30% Pashto/Dari. The contractor should also have experience and/or capability in being able to manage a contract specific workforce of linguists as bonafide prime contractor employees and multiple subcontractors. Initial estimate of number Linguists is approximately 115 plus management. The Total number of personnel could potentially reach approximately 200. Sixty percent of the workforce will be required to have clearances at the SECRET level and 40% have TOP SECRET/SCI. It is anticipated that some linguists may need to go on temporary duty or deployment to hostile fire areas.
Request interested Small Businesses which are currently certified under this NIACS code respond to this announcement as soon as possible, but not later than 2:00 p.m. local time 29 August 2011, by providing only the following information not to exceed 5 pages: Company Name, CAGE Code, Company POC, Contact email address, Contact phone number (office and or cell), Small Business Size Status (SBA standard), Present contracts providing translation and interpretation services as Prime or Sub with the identification of number of direct employees and POC information (name, email, and phone) for the present contracts and capability statements All responses are to be submitted to: Christopher Du Jardin ; [email protected].

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