This sources sought announcement is for information and planning purposes only; it is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. A contract may not be awarded as a result of this sources sought announcement. The US Army Contracting Command, National Capitol Region Contracting Center (NCR-CC) at Hoffman II, on behalf of Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost & Economics (ODASA-CE), intends to procure financial management support using small business set-aside procedures in accordance with FAR Part 19 or under full and open competitive procedures. If at least two small business concerns are determined by the Government to be capable of performing this requirement based on the evaluation of the capability packages submitted by 12 February, 2010 at 10:00 AM EST, the requirement will be solicited as a 100% set-aside for small business concerns in accordance with FAR Part 19. If capability packages are not received from at least two responsible small business concerns in accordance with FAR Part 19 by the response date or if the Government determines that no small business concerns in accordance with FAR Part 19 are capable of performing this requirement based upon an evaluation of the capability packages submitted; this requirement will be solicited under full and open competitive procedures.

Only small businesses are to submit capability packages. Interested small business concerns in NAICS code 541611 with a size standard of $7.0M are encouraged to submit their capability packages. The capability packages for this sources sought market survey are not expected to be proposals, but rather statements regarding the companys existing experience in relation to the areas specified in the PWS. Capability packages must not exceed 15 pages and must be submitted electronically. All contractor questions must be submitted no later than 9 February, 2010 at 10:00 AM EST.

Small business concerns are to outline their experiences in the following:
1. Does your team have in-depth knowledge and experience in cost estimating of the Department of Defense (DOD) Active and Reserve Component Table of Organization and Equipment units for Acquisition, Activation, Operations, Movement, Modification and Inactivation?
2. Does your team have experience with cost estimates for planning a Contingency Force or Training Operation through the pre-deployment, deployment, operations and sustainment, redeployment, reconstitution, and demobilization phases?
3. Does your team have experience with Department of Defense (DOD) Force Generation and its impact on data collection and reporting?
4. Does your team have experience in developing Modeling and Simulation for financial and logistic operations?
5. Does your organization have a security management office and do all your team members have at least Secret security clearances?

Areas or tasks where a contractor does not have prior experience should be annotated as such.

A written Request for Proposal (RFP) will be posted on or about 8 March 2010. The RFP must be retrieved and downloaded from CCEs homepage at: http://cce.hqda.pentagon.mil/rfp/rfp_1.asp. Select the desired RFP and click on the Process button. No hard copies of the RFP will be issued. All amendments will be posted and must be retrieved from this website. Responses to the RFP must be submitted by email to the POC identified below. No solicitation mailing list will be compiled. Contractors are responsible for all costs for submitting their capability packages. POC is Na Lin, at [email protected] or Donald W. Leath, at [email protected].

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