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THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR BIDS/PROPOSAL.

PROJECT: W912DR-23-R-0S7O – Pentagon Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility (CVIF) & Memorial Restroom, Pentagon Reservation, Arlington, Virginia

No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow-up information requests.

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of Brand Name Items.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District intends to include the following proprietary items in a request for proposal for a construction contract acquisition under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(c)(1), authorized or required by statute. This project may include a Brand Name only component, as described below, unless the results of this sources sought notification indicates otherwise.

This notification serves three purposes: (1) to notify potential Offerors of the Government's intent to solicit a brand name only component under a future construction project; (2) to identify potential sources that can provide the brand name only item and/or equivalent; (3) notification of the Army's intent to contract sole source for a Brand Name Only, if the market is unable to provide 'equivalent' products.

In the event no equivalent equipment exists, the Brand Name Only justification will be issued pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(c)(1). A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval (J&A) for sole sourcing the resultant product(s) or system(s) in the event an equivalent product is not submitted for consideration. In such instances, the brand name or equal component will be embedded in the construction project. Only that part of the project requiring brand name components will be sole sourced if no sources are able to prove an equal product.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The construction project will include Brand Name only equipment as follows:

1. Under Vehicle Surveillance System (UVSS) (3) to be sole sourced to Gatekeeper. This system quickly and thoroughly inspects the under carriage of a vehicle as it is being processed through the Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility.


2. License Plate Reader (LPR) (3) to be to be sole sourced by Gatekeeper. This device rapidly and efficiently scans the license plate of an entering vehicle to run the plate number against local and federal data bases.


3. Active Vehicle Barrier (AVB) (2) to be sole sourced by RSSI. The AVB provides a secure means of creating a physical barrier against an unauthorized vehicle attempting to run through the Pentagon CVIF and enter the Pentagon reservation.


4. Ameristar Trident fence (approx. 1,5000 LF) to be sole sourced by Ameristar. This fence meets Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (AF/FP) standards and is compatible with the existing Ameristar security fence around the reservation.

Interested vendors must show clear and convincing evidence that alternatives to the specified items exist. Interested vendors wishing to be considered by the Government as described above must provide a copy of its brochure and any other capability statements/ data no later than 16 December 2022, 11:00 AM EST, to Contract Specialist, Qiana Bowman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Contracting Division, via email to Qiana.L.bowman@usace.army.mil and Gary Faykes to gary.faykes@usace.army.mil.

This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the direction of the Government.

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