RFP - Protective Security Officer (PSO) Services - Southern New Jersey

Please review the attached SF30 amendment (RFP #70RFP324RE3000001 A0005) and new attachments for all changes posted to this opportunity. The following attachments are included and published with this opportunity: Pre-Proposal conference slides, Answers to Industry Questions, Final Conformed Request For Proposal, and an updated Post Exhibit – Exhibit 13. All interested vendors are requested to complete and return an NDA by email; upon receipt, vendors shall request access to the updated Exhibit 13. This announcement includes an attachment of the NDA form. NDA shall be sent to:

Ryan Fitzpatrick, ryan.t.fitzpatrick@fps.dhs.gov. Please acknowledge all amendments in your proposal and incorporate any changes to the solicitation into your proposal.

Requirement: FPS has a requirement to acquire armed guard PSO services throughout Southern New Jersey (NJ). The armed PSOs will protect federal personnel and property at federally owned and leased buildings. The contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the SOW. The Period of Performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods.

This requirement will be solicited as a commercial item/service in accordance with FAR Part 12. Services shall be furnished via an IDIQ contract with fixed hourly rates. This requirement is being issued as a 100% small business set aside. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price.

The estimated PSO hours for 21 buildings throughout the state of NJ are 90,000 hours per year. The submission requirements and evaluation criteria will be defined in the solicitation. The NAICS code is 561612 with Small Business size standard is $29MM. The contractor is required to register with the SAM at http://SAM.gov. No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with SAM.

A Pre-proposal conference was conducted on Microsoft Teams on June 25, 2024, at 11:00 AM ET. All interested parties were invited to attend a briefing of this procurement. The briefing covered items as the evaluation criteria, technical factors, post exhibit, pricing, teaming arrangements, etc. FPS Points of Contact regarding this announcement:

Contract Specialist: Ryan Fitzpatrick (ryan.t.fitzpatrick@fps.dhs.gov) & Contracting Officer: Melissa Stolle (melissa.stolle@fps.dhs.gov) & Contracting Officer: Marcus Mason (marcus.l.mason@fps.dhs.gov). See the below important dates for the solicitation: Solicitation issued: 6/11/2024 Pre-proposal conference: 6/25/2024 @ 11 AM Questions closed on 6/28 @ 5 PM ET RFP closes: 9/30/2024 @ 5 PM ET