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Synopsis for Armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services

throughout the States of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and surrounding areas

Solicitation 70RFPW23RW8000001

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) has a requirement to acquire armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services throughout the states of Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota and surrounding areas. The armed PSOs will protect federal personnel and property at federally owned and leased buildings. The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, management, supervision, training, licenses, and permits to provide the services in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW). The Period of Performance is for a one-year base period with four one-year option periods and an optional 6-month extension. Services shall be furnished via an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with fixed hourly rates. This acquisition is being solicited as a 100% Small Business set-aside. Resultant task orders under this contract will be firm fixed prices. The source selection process to be utilized for this acquisition is best value/trade-off. The technical, non-price factors, when combined, are more important than price. The estimated PSO hours throughout the Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and surrounding areas is 750,000 hours for a 60-month period. The submission requirements and evaluation criteria will be defined in the solicitation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 561612 with size standard is $25.5 million. The Contractor is required to register with the System for Award Management (SAM) at http://www.sam.gov. No contract award shall be made to any contractor that is not registered or in the process of registering with the System for Award Management.

All questions must be submitted in writing to Contract Specialist, Thomas Westlake at Thomas.Westlake@fps.dhs.gov.

Solicitation issued 1/5/2023. Amendment 0001 issued 2/10/2023.