HAPPY HOLIDAYS: LEGACY MANAGEMENT RFP HITS THE STREET

By ExchangeMonitor

In a holiday gift to contractors, the Department of Energy last week issued the long-awaited Request for Proposals for the new support services contract for DOE’s Office of Legacy Management the day before Thanksgiving, with bids due two days before Christmas. The cost-plus-award-fee contract with task assignments is being set aside for small businesses, and is set to run for up to five years consisting of a 24-month base period and one 36-month option period. The size standard for the procurement is 500 employees, according to the RFP. Work to be performed under the contract includes long-term surveillance and maintenance; information technology and records management; asset management; business; and program-wide support services. Bids for the new contract are due by Dec. 23. No pre-proposal conference is currently planned.

According to the RFP, bids will be evaluated based on four criteria—Technical Approach, Management Approach, Staffing and Past Performance. Technical Approach is of “most importance,” according to the RFP, followed by Management Approach, Staffing, and Past Performance, which is of “least importance.” The RFP notes, “In determining the best value to the Government, technical capability and past performance when combined is significantly more important than the evaluated cost and fee. The Government is more concerned with obtaining a superior Technical Proposal than making an award at the lowest evaluated cost and fee. However, the Government will not make an award at a cost premium it considers disproportionate to the benefits associated with the evaluated superiority of one Technical Proposal over another. Thus, to the extent that Offerors’ Technical Proposals are evaluated as close or similar in merit, the evaluated cost and fee is more likely to be the determining factor.” DOE is taking questions on the RFP through Dec. 7.

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