This action is a small business set-aside. The requirement is for Shuttle Service for Coast Guard personnel to and from Coast Guard Island, Alameda, CA to Oakland Federal Building with morning and afternoon stops at the Lake Merritt Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Station located in Oakland, CA. First service will start at 5:30 am and the service will be every 30 minutes until 8:30am. The mid-day service will be from 9:00 am to 2:00pm and it will be every 60 minutes, except from 11:00 am to 1:00pm, it will revert back to every 30 minutes. The afternoon service will be from 3:00pm to 6:00pm and this will be every 30 minutes. The period of performance is planned for 01 February 2004 (or date of award) through 31 July 2004, with two (2) three month option periods from 01 August 2004 through 31 January 2005. The solicitation will be issued on or about 2 January 2004, with a planned closing date of 20 January 2004. The Shuttle service will be acquired under the authority of FAR Subpart 12. “Commercial Items” and Subpart 13.5, “Test Program for certain Commercial Items” Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The solicitation will be issued via the Electronic Posting System at www.eps.gov under Vendor, DHS, United States Coast Guard, Commander (fcp-2) USCG Maintenance and Logistics Command Pacific, Alameda, CA. Telephone, written, and E-mail requests for hard copies of the solicitation package will not be accepted, the solicitation must be extracted from the EPS web site. The NAICS code is 485410 with a size standard of $6,000,000.00. If applicable all FOIA requests for previous contract information and pricing should be sent to the FOIA Control Officer, Sharon May, at
[email protected]. “See Note(s) 1.