Aircraft & Ground Fuel Services and Storage & Distribution
The Defense Logistics Agency Energy anticipates issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for remote jet fuel storage area consisting of the tankage to receive, hold, and issue F-24 to a downstream fillstand located near the flightline at Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi. Services include receiving, maintaining, storing, sample and testing, internally transferring, and issuing petroleum products. The contractor must be responsible for all fuel-servicing operations and safeguarding facilities, equipment, and fuel products under its control during normal and adverse conditions. The NAS Meridian bulk fuel facility is a widespread system of tanks and components interconnected by pipeline and operated by a workforce consisting of contracting personnel.
The Contractor shall be responsible for the following:
Ensuring compliance with all contract performance requirements. The inspection system must be used by the Contractor to measure performance on a continuous basis throughout the contract performance period and any contract option periods. Provide a comprehensive plan to ensure that products placed in the care of the Contractor are properly handled, remain on-specification, and are ready for issue. The plan must include policy and procedure regarding product sampling, visual examination of samples, and the submission of samples needing further analysis to the regional fuel laboratory.
Provide a detailed operational and situational maintenance plan for all facilities, contractor furnished equipment, system components, and site issued equipment.
The contractor must receive, maintain, store, sample, internally transfer, and issue petroleum products.
Be responsible for all fuel-servicing operations and safeguarding facilities, equipment, and fuel products under its control during normal and adverse conditions.
Issue, defuel, and provide off-station fuel services to aircraft and support equipment by mobile fuel servicing vehicles and portable pantograph/hose systems.
Be capable of performing all other functions relative to an active storage operation, i.e., inventory, quality limited to the visual analysis of samples taken, housekeeping, the securing of the system, and environmental protection.
Be capable of providing fuel services to station and transient aircraft 24 hours a day.
Provide the fuel servicing equipment in sufficient numbers to undertake the workload.
Furnish and maintain used oil, off-spec, and ground fuel servicing equipment necessary to undertake the projected workload and include specifications for the proposed - in their proposal.
Ground fuels, regular unleaded gasoline (GUR) and ultra-low sulfur diesel (DS2), must be delivered as required.
Must use the automated data collection equipment (scanners) to document each ground fuel issue.
Must be responsible for collecting used oil from identified collection points and responding to unscheduled request.
Provide aviation, ground, used oil, utility vehicles, and equipment in necessary quantities to meet the aircraft and ground refueling/defueling workload requirements, including surge demands.
The Contractor is responsible for furnishing all personnel and provide aviation, ground, utility vehicles, and equipment in necessary quantities to meet the aircraft and ground refueling/defueling workload necessary to provide these services.
The expected period of performance is December 1, 2020 through November 30, 2024 for a four-year base and one five-year option from December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2029, and if needed a possible six-month extension from December 1, 2029 through May 31, 2030.
Interested parties should submit information to the following areas in their capability statements (Responses are limited to 5 Pages):
1. Company Profile.
2. Capability of providing qualified and experienced personnel, with appropriate clearances, if required.
3. Past Performance. Do you have past performance as a prime contractor or subcontractor on a service contract for similar fuels management requirements? If so, please provide the following information: Contract number, Name of Government Agency or Commercial Entity, Period of Performance, Dollar Value, Type of Contract (Fixed Price, Cost Reimbursement, etc.), and an explanation of services provided as they relate to fuels management services. If your firm acted as a subcontractor or joint venture, name the prime contractor or other party, the specific work performed and percentage. Address any past performance problems, and resolutions taken.
4. Do you anticipate any type of teaming arrangement for this requirement? If yes, please address what kind of arrangement and what percentage of work, types(s) of service would you perform.
5. Does your company have experience with Service Contract Act of 1965 covered contracts? Does your company have experience with Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs)? Please explain any experience your company has had with labor unions.
6. Does your company have the financial capability and financial stability, and/or adequate lines of credit to sustain and support a five-year multiyear contract at one or more locations, in the event there are difficulties with invoice payments? Do you have an approved accounting system in place to adequately track expenditures? Please elaborate.
7. What realistic phase-in period would you require to commence performance with personnel, equipment, and materials?
Capability Statements can be submitted to Tina M. Williams via email tina.williams@dla.mil.
TINA MICHELLE WILLIAMS, CONTRACT SPECIALIST, Phone 5717678556, Email tina.williams@dla.mil
