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This is a Presolicitation Notice ONLY.

The United States (U.S.) Government anticipates a projected solicitation date during the month of December 2022 and projected award is April 2023, subject to change. The solicitation is expected to be for the procurement of support services for the Joint Personal Effects Depot (JPED) at Dover Air Force Base, DE. This will be a single award IDIQ Requirements Type Contract (RTC). The period of performance will be for a Base year plus 4 option years, to include a 30 day phase in. The anticipated NAICS code is: 561990, All Other Support Services, with a size standard of $12,000,000.00. A need is anticipated to receive, safeguard, inventory, store, process, and make final disposition of Personal Effects (PE) of all fatalities resulting from overseas contingency operations (OCO) and all current deaths other than OCO that process through the Dover Port Mortuary as determined by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner (AFME).

The contractor shall provide non-personal services for routine operations at the JPED and Mortuary to process an average of 9 PE cases per month per year. The contract will be a RTC. PE cases shall be processed within 15 days of receipt of notice from the government for services provided. The maximum estimate is processing 468 PE cases. A case is the PE of an individual Soldier. The average case in terms of PE is six footlockers. Contractor support is needed to support the JPED mission due to a shortage of available and qualified U.S. Government personnel support, and casualty surges. The JPED mission is carried out in accordance with the following regulations: Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Publication 4-0, Joint Logistics - Joint Chiefs of Staff, dated 4 February 2019; DoDD 1300.22 Mortuary Affairs Policy dated 30 October 2015; DoDI 1300.18 DoD Personnel Casualty Matters, Policies and Procedures dated 8 January 2008; and Army Regulation (AR) 638-2 (Army Mortuary Affairs Program). For all other applicable regulations please see attached Draft PWS. Attached is the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) (File Name: JPED Draft PWS-8DEC22). This draft PWS is for planning and information purposes only. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the government nor will the government pay for any information solicited. The draft PWS is being provided to industry for receipt of comments only. All requirements’ documents are preliminary, and the government reserves the right to make any changes deemed appropriate.

This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes – it does not constitute Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This notice does not commit the U.S. Government to contract for any supply or service. Further, the U.S. Government is not seeking quotes, bids or proposals at this time and will not accept unsolicited proposals in response to this presolicitation notice. The U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this notice. Submittals will not be returned to the responder. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any future RFQ or IFB or RFP, if any is issued. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the SAM.gov. It is the responsibility of potential offerors to monitor SAM.gov for additional information pertaining to this requirement.