Department of State Worldwide Facilities Infrastructure Reliability Maintenance (FIRM)

Title: FACILITIES INFRASTRUCTURE RELIABILITY & MAINTENANCE (FIRM) PROGRAM Sources Sought Number: Agency: U.S. Department of State Office: Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) Location: Worldwide Notice Type: Sources Sought (SS) NAICS Code: 561210, Facilities Support Services This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment on the part of the Government to conduct a solicitation for the below-listed services in the future. Respondents are advised that the Government will not pay for information submitted in response to this Sources Sought (SS), nor will it compensate respondents for any costs incurred in the development/furnishing of a response. The Government will not entertain telephone calls or questions for this SS. Note that a decision not to submit a response to this SS will not preclude a vendor from participating in any future solicitation. Responses are limited to those companies considered small business under NAICS Code 561210, Facilities Support Services. Respondents are welcome to submit other relevant and appropriate NAICS codes for consideration. The base IDIQ contract will require an already active Top Secret Facility Clearance. This will ensure continuity of operations and limit competition to U.S. offerors. However, offerors may include regional non-U.S. or local companies as part of their solution. 1.0 PURPOSE The purpose of this SS is to accomplish market research pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10, and to identify small businesses capable of and interested in performing the functions described herein. The Government is requesting information regarding the availability and feasibility of attracting small businesses with proven technical capability and experience in worldwide, multi-discipline facilities, infrastructure, maintenance and repair of mission-critical systems. This includes, but is not limited to, preventive maintenance and major servicing of power generation, electrical distribution and control, mechanical heating and cooling, building automation, potable and hydronic water treatment, and roofing systems, as well as emergency response and rapid mobilization capabilities in austere, high-threat, and logistically constrained overseas environments. The Government seeks to determine whether the small business community possesses the technical depth, cleared workforce, global logistics capability, and program management infrastructure necessary to perform the full scope of the Facilities Infrastructure Reliability & Maintenance (FIRM) Program requirement as a prime contractor, either independently or through a teaming arrangement. The Government encourages responses from prime contractors, joint ventures, mentor-protégé arrangements, and contractor teaming arrangements. Respondents are encouraged to identify portions of the requirement that could reasonably be performed through specialized partners. The United States Department of State, through the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), requires a comprehensive, technically rigorous, and operationally resilient worldwide maintenance and repair program to sustain U.S. Embassies, Consulates, Missions, Branch Offices, and other designated diplomatic facilities across the globe. FIRM is not intended to function as a routine facilities service contract or a checklist-based preventive maintenance vehicle. It is intended to provide a technically competent, auditable, regionally responsive, and reliability-focused maintenance and repair capability for the infrastructure that enables U.S. diplomatic missions to operate safely and continuously worldwide. While the FIRM Program encompasses a limited subset of work previously performed under the legacy International Maintenance Assistance Program (IMAP) contract, FIRM is not a recompete of IMAP. FIRM represents a fundamentally new and expanded requirement, broader in technical scope, more...