The Base Alameda P&C Department is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for a DirecTV cable services contract that can include many different boxes and accounts under one contract/bill. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 515210 and the small business size standard is $35.5 million. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) Provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) Secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) Implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) Provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract. BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by 09 July 2014. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to
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[email protected] APPENDIX 1: Purpose and Objectives The US Coast Guard Base Alameda is located at Coast Guard Island, Alameda, CA 94501. Currently it has ten (10) DirecTV accounts servicing about a couple dozen individual receivers. The main intention is to try to combine all of these receivers and accounts under one contract so it have be easier to manage and pay. The intended contract period is a one-year base period plus (4) four one-year option periods. Vendor is to provide basic, expanded, and options for premium channels programming. We require firm fixed pricing for each twelve month period. Vendor shall be registered and active is www.sam.gov in order to be considered for any award that may occur. NOTE: US Coast Guard Base Alameda has a Government-owned satellite television system that was installed on the base in the past. Commercial DirecTV brand digital satellite receivers and programming services were also purchased at that time to go along with the base satellite system. These digital receivers are designed to receive only DirecTV programming services. No other satellite programming services are compatible with these digital satellite receivers, and it does not appear to be cost effective to discard the functional DirecTV receivers and purchase new receivers if service is performed by a non-DirecTV vendor.