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Potential prime contractors must 1) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB), 2) be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government, and 3) have performed similar tasking to the requirement described in the solicitation.
Contractor personnel performing services under the contract must 1) be citizens of a NATO nation and 2) have appropriate professional training and experience in a related field.
The reference for this project is IFIB-ACT-SACT-19-05.
Type of Contract: Lowest Price, Technically Compliant (LPTC)
Partial bidding is not authorized.
REQUIREMENT
HQ SACT's TKM Branch requires specialized support to develop, implement, transition, and sustain further IKM continuous improvements. Additionally, this tasking requires to build upon existing work strands and rapid execution of associated deliverables; therefore, the most appropriate and cost-effective means of meeting this requirement is through the continued surge provision of technical support through a current specialist contractor.
Throughout 2016, changes were implemented to the way in which electronic information was managed across HQ SACT on the NATO SECRET (NS) domain only, specifically employing the use of SharePoint 2013. Endorsed by the HQ SACT leadership, it was an ambitious project to accomplish a needed transformational change in the way people worked; it sought to capitalize on available technology to assist HQ SACT staff to internally collaborate to a greater degree than was done previously.
Follow-on requirements were identified to capitalize on those efforts and implement further IKM improvements. The requirement for continuity in the skillset required from the additional post has been further reinforced. Until manned in accordance with the new command structure, the IKM section requires the correct skillset in order to fulfill HQ SACT strategic milestones.
The primary stakeholders in the completion of the various deliverables will be the lead IKM Section Staff Officers. However, other stakeholders across the whole of HQ SACT will be engaged to ensure completeness of transition and sustainment tasks and activities. The progress of this effort will be closely monitored by HQ SACT staff. The envisaged approach is to build upon previous deliverables and engagement.
BIDDING PROCEDURE
NATO ICB requires that the U.S. Government nominate U.S. prime contractors to the bidders list. Before the U.S. Government can nominate a U.S. prime contractor to the bidders list for this procurement, the U.S. firm must be approved for participation in NATO ICB. U.S. firms are approved for NATO ICB on a facility-by-facility basis.
The U.S. NATO ICB application is a one-time application. The application requires supporting documentation in the form of 1) a company resume indicating contracts completed as a prime contractor and 2) an annual report or set of financial documents indicating compilation, review, or audit by an independent CPA.
U.S. firms can download a copy of the U.S. NATO ICB application from the following website:
The application and supporting documentation may be submitted as e-mail attachments. If, when submitting the application, your firm is interested in a specific NATO ICB project, please include the following in the text of your email:
- the title and/or solicitation number of the project
- the name/phone/FAX/email of the company employee who should receive the bid documents
Upon approval of the one-time NATO ICB application, the Department of Commerce will then know to issue a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE), which is the document used to nominate an approved facility to the bidders list for a particular NATO ICB project.
IMPORTANT DATES
Firms should request a DOE (and, for firms new to NATO ICB, submit a completed one-time NATO ICB application) by: 25 February 2019
HQ SACT issues IFIB (target): 01 March 2019
Procurements (RFPs, IFIBs, NOIs): http://www.act.nato.int/contracting
Bid closing (target): 12 April 2019
Period of performance: July 2019 - Dec 2019 base period with two potential 12-month option periods