FA441816HOIST
Added: Jul 22, 2016 4:18 pm
COMBINED SYNOPSIS - SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS (IAW FAR 12.603 (C))(i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. FAR subpart 13.5, are applicable. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Proposals are requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.(ii) This solicitation/synopsis reference number is FA441816HOIST and is being issued as Request for Quote (RFQ). The RFQ format is attached to this combined synopsis/solicitation and shall be used to submit pricing.(iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-89, effective 14 Jul 2016.(iv) This acquisition is 100% set-aside for small businesses. The associated NAICS code is 811310 with an $7.5 million size standard.(v) Contractors shall submit a proposal in reference to the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) and bid schedule for Hoist, Lift and Crane Maintenance Service at Joint Base Charleston Air Base and Weapons Station (JB CHS AB and WS). All responsible sources may submit a proposal, which shall be considered.A SITE VISIT will be held Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 9:00 A.M. (EST). All prospective Offerors are urged to attend this conference and are requested to contact SSgt Daniel Tureac, Contract Specialist at (843) 963-3327, Fax number (843) 963-5183, e-mail address daniel.tureac@us.af.mil no later than 04:00pm, E.S.T 28 July 2016 with the names of no more than two individuals who plan to attend and be placed on JB Charleston's authorized list. Vendors will meet at the Dorchester Road Gate. SOME DELAY SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED. Offerors should allow sufficient time to obtain a visitor pass. You must have a valid driver's license, vehicle registration, and current proof of vehicle insurance to gain base access.(vi) The contractor will be responsible for providing all materials, labor, equipment, tools, supervision, and incidentals to perform Hoist, Lift and Crane Maintenance Services on Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina (see attached Performance Work Statement).(vii) The period of performance is one (1) base performance period (1 Oct 2016 through 30 September 2017, 4-1 year option periods, and a 6 month extension period; 1st option is 1 October 2017 through 30 September 2018; 2nd option is 1 October 2018 through 30 September 2019; 3rd option is 1 October 2019 through 30 September 2020; 4th option is 1 October 2020 through 30 September 2021; 6 month extension 1 Oct 2021 through 31 March 2022.**The extension would only be used in the event of a protest or other unforeseen events that result in the delay of a follow-on award action.(viii) The following clauses and provisions are incorporated and will remain in full force in any resultant award: (full text of clauses and provisions may be accessed electronically at this website: http://farsite.hill.af.mil)FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items.(ix) FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and is amended as follows:The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the government, price and other factors considered.The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers in the following relative order of importance: 1. Past Performance, 2. Price. The Government will evaluate the total price of the offer for the award purposes. Past performance is significantly more important than price.The government will evaluate proposals to determine the best overall value to the Government. If the lowest priced offeror is found to have Substantial Confidence rating then this represents the best value for the Government and the revaluation process stops at this point. Award shall be made to that offeror without further consideration of any other offers. The Government reserves the right to seek information on higher priced offeors if none of the lower priced offerors receive Substantial Confidence rating. Offerors shall provide 3-5 references of "recent" and "relevant" projects that have occurred. "Recent" is defined as; projects within the past three years. "Relevant" is defined as; Performance effort involved essentially the same magnitude of effort and complexity this RFQ requires.(x) All offerors shall include a completed copy of FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representation and Certifications -- Commercial Item or complete electronic annual representations and certifications at the System for Award Management http://www.sam.gov .(xi) The clause at FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Condition-CommercialItems, applies to this acquisition:BUSINESS LICENSE TAX - SOUTH CAROLINAIn accordance with Contract Clause entitled, "Federal, State and Local Taxes" dated APR 2003/FAR 52.229-3 incorporated by reference, be advised that the Cities of North Charleston, South Carolina and/or Goose Creek South Carolina imposes a business license tax on all contract work within the cities of North Charleston, South Carolina and/or Goose Creek South Carolina. The cities interpret this to include contractors performing work for the United States government within the limits of North Charleston and/or Goose Creek. Joint Base Charleston - Air Base is included within the City of North Charleston, South Carolina and Joint Base Charleston - Weapons Station is included within the city limits of Goose Creek. The cost of the license is proportional to the dollar amount of work being executed. Information for the North Charleston City Tax may be obtained at North Charleston Business License Office, 2500 City Hall Lane, North Charleston, SC 29406, or by calling (843) 740-2632 or www.NorthCharleston.Org. and for the Goose Creek City Tax by calling 843-797-6220 ext 1112 or www.cityofgoosecreek.com .(xii) The clause at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items (DEVIATION), applies to this acquisition. • FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (May 2009) (Deviation) are incorporated by reference, however, the following clauses apply:• FAR 52.222-21, Prohibition Of Segregated Facilities• FAR 52.222-22, Previous Contracts and Compliance Reports• FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity • FAR 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans • FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers With Disabilities • FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports On Veterans • FAR 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging while Driving• FAR 52.225-1, Buy American Act - Supplies Offerors are reminded that the Buy American Act restricts the purchase of supplies that are not domestic end products. • FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer--Central Contractor Registration(xiii) The following additional clauses are applicable to this procurement.• FAR 52.204-7, System for Award Management• FAR 52.216-18, Ordering(a) Any supplies and services to be furnished under this contract shall be ordered by issuance of delivery orders or task orders by the individuals or activities designated in the Schedule. Such orders may be issued from 1 Oct 2016 through 30 Sep 2021.(b) All delivery orders or task orders are subject to the terms and conditions of this contract. In the event of conflict between a delivery order or task order and this contract, the contract shall control.(c) If mailed, a delivery order or task order is considered "issued" when the Government deposits the order in the mail. Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods only if authorized in the Schedule.(End of Clause)• FAR 52216-19, Order LimitationsOrder Limitations (Oct 1995)(a) Minimum order. When the Government requires supplies or services covered by this contract in an amount of less than $2,000, the Government is not obligated to purchase, nor is the Contractor obligated to furnish, those supplies or services under the contract.(b) Maximum order. The Contractor is not obligated to honor --(1) Any order for a single item in excess of $300,000;(2) Any order for a combination of items in excess of $1,500,000; or(3) A series of orders from the same ordering office within 30 days that together call for quantities exceeding the limitation in subparagraph (b)(1) or (2) of this section.(c) If this is a requirements contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection 52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in paragraph (b) of this section.(d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within 30 days after issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor's intent not to ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons. Upon receiving this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from another source.(End of Clause)• FAR 52.216-21 RequirementsAs prescribed in 16.506(d), insert the following clause:Requirements (Oct 1995)(a) This is a requirements contract for the supplies or services specified and effective for the period stated, in the Schedule. The quantities of supplies or services specified in the Schedule are estimates only and are not purchased by this contract. Except as this contract may otherwise provide, if the Government's requirements do not result in orders in the quantities described as "estimated'' or "maximum" in the Schedule, that fact shall not constitute the basis for an equitable price adjustment.(b) Delivery or performance shall be made only as authorized by orders issued in accordance with the Ordering clause. Subject to any limitations in the Order Limitations clause or elsewhere in this contract, the Contractor shall furnish to the Government all supplies or services specified in the Schedule and called for by orders issued in accordance with the Ordering clause. The Government may issue orders requiring delivery to multiple destinations or performance at multiple locations.(c) Except as this contract otherwise provides, the Government shall order from the Contractor all the supplies or services specified in the Schedule that are required to be purchased by the Government activity or activities specified in the Schedule.(d) The Government is not required to purchase from the Contractor requirements in excess of any limit on total orders under this contract.(e) If the Government urgently requires delivery of any quantity of an item before the earliest date that delivery may be specified under this contract, and if the Contractor will not accept an order providing for the accelerated delivery, the Government may acquire the urgently required goods or services from another source.(f) Any order issued during the effective period of this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed by the Contractor within the time specified in the order. The contract shall govern the Contractor's and Government's rights and obligations with respect to that order to the same extent as if the order were completed during the contract's effective period; provided, that the Contractor shall not be required to make any deliveries under this contract after 30 Sep 2021.(End of Clause)• FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of OptionsAs prescribed in 17.208(c), insert a provision substantially the same as the following:Evaluation of Options (Jul 1990)Except when it is determined in accordance with FAR 17.206(b) not to be in the Government's best interests, the Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. Evaluation of options will not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).(End of Provision)• FAR 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside• FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services. The government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the contractor within 15 DAYS.• FAR 52.217-9, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract. (a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the contractor within 15 DAYS; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 60 DAYS before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension. (b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause. (c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed 66 MONTHS.• FAR 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside• FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting• FAR 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Representation • FAR 52.222-41 Services Contract Act of 1965 and current Wage Determination # 05-2474 (Rev.19)• FAR 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires In compliance with the Service Contract Act of 1965, as amended and the regulations of the Secretary of Labor (29 CFR Part 4), this clause identifies the classes of service employees expected to be employed under the contract and states the wages and fringe benefits payable to each if they were employed by the contracting agency subject to the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5341 or 5332.This Statement is for Information Only: It is not a Wage Determination.Employee Class Monetary Wage-Fringe Benefits23530 Machinery Maintenance Mechanic WG-11-$23.55 + 32.45% Fringe• FAR 52.222-44 Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act - Price Adjustment• FAR 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons • FAR 52.222-54, Employment Eligibility Verification• FAR 52.222-55 Minimum Wages under Executive Order 13658• FAR 52.223-11, Ozone-Depleting Substances• FAR.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Texting while Driving • FAR 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases • FAR 52.228-5 Insurance-Work on a Government Installation • FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management• FAR 52.233-2, Service of Protest• FAR 52.233-3, Protest After Award• FAR 52.236-2, Differing Site Conditions• FAR 52.236-6 Superintendence by the Contractor • FAR 52.236-9 Protection of Existing Vegetation, Structures, Equipment, Utilities and Improvements• FAR 52.236-12, Cleaning Up• FAR 52.236-14, Availability and Use of Utility Services• FAR 52.232-99, Providing Accelerated Payment to Small Business Subcontractors (DEVIATION)• FAR 52.253-1 Computer Generated Forms • DFARS 252.204-7004, Alternate A, System for Award Management• DFARS 252.225-7002, Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors • DFARS 252.225-7012, Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities• DFARS 252.225-7015, Restriction on Acquisition of Hand or Measuring Tools • DFARS 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports (Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this clause, the Contractor shall submit payment requests and receiving reports using WAWF, in one of the following electronic formats that WAWF accepts: Electronic Data Interchange, Secure File Transfer Protocol, or World Wide Web input. Information regarding WAWF is available on the Internet at https://wawf.eb.mil/. The WAWF routing information will be provided upon award.• DFARS 252.237-7023, Continuation of Essential Contractor Services• DFARS 252.246-7000, Material Inspection And Receiving Report • DFARS 252.209-7991 Representation by Corporations Regarding and Unpaid Delinquent Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction under any Federal Lay -Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations (DEVIATIONS 2016-O00002) (Oct 2015)(a) In accordance with section 101(a) of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016 (Pub. L. 114-53) and any subsequent FY 2016 appropriations act that extends to FY 2016 funds the same restrictions as are contained in sections 744 and 745 of division E, title VII, of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L. 113-235), none of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to enter into a contract with any corporation that- (1) Has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and made a determination that this further action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government; or (2) Was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and made a determination that this action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government. (b) The Offeror represents that- (1) It is [ ] is not [ ] a corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability, (2) It is [ ] is not [ ] a corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under a Federal law within the preceding 24 months. (End of provision)• AFFARS 5352.201-9101 OMBUDSMAN (NOV 2012) (a) An ombudsman has been appointed to hear and facilitate the resolution of concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and others for this acquisition. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The existence of the ombudsman does not affect the authority of the program manager, contracting officer, or source selection official. Further, the ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, or the adjudication of protests or formal contract disputes. The ombudsman may refer the interested party to another official who can resolve the concern. (b) Before consulting with an ombudsman, interested parties must first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendations to the contracting officer for resolution. Consulting an ombudsman does not alter or postpone the timelines for any other processes (e.g., agency level bid protests, GAO bid protests, requests for debriefings, employee-employer actions, contests of OMB Circular A-76 <http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a076/a76_rev2003.pdf> competition performance decisions).(c) If resolution cannot be made by the contracting officer, the interested party may contact the ombudsman, Mr. Gregg Oneal, AFICA/KM, 507 Symington Dr., Scott AFB, IL, 62225-5022, (618) 229-0267, fax (618) 256-6668, email: gregory.oneal@us.af.mil. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations that cannot be resolved at the Center/MAJCOM/DRU/HQ AFICA/SMC ombudsman level, may be brought by the interested party for further consideration to the Air Force ombudsman, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (ADAS) (Contracting), SAF/AQC, 1060 Air Force Pentagon, Washington DC 20330-1060, phone number (571) 256-2395, facsimile number (571) 256-2431.(d) The ombudsman has no authority to render a decision that binds the agency. (e) Do not contact the ombudsman to request copies of the solicitation, verify offer due date, or clarify technical requirements. Such inquiries shall be directed to the Contracting Officer. (End of clause).• AFFARS 5352.223-9001, Health and Safety on Government Installations (when performance on Joint Base Charleston is required)• AFFARS 5352.242-9000, Contractor Access to Air Force Installations (when performance on Joint Base Charleston is required)(xv) Response to this combined synopsis/solicitation must be received via email, fax, mail, or delivery by 22 August 2016 no later than 04:00 PM (EST). Requests should be marked with solicitation number FA441816HOIST.(xvi) Address any questions to SSgt Daniel Tureac, Contract Administrator, (843) 963-3327, fax (843) 963-5183, email: daniel.tureac@us.af.mil or SrA David Rios, Contract Administrator (843) 963-5166, email:david.rios_chinas.1@us.af.mil.For more opportunities, visit http://www.airforcesmallbiz.org (see Contract Opportunities at the right side-bar. Also see http://www.sba.govAttachments:1) RFQ2) Past Performance Reference Questionnaire3) Performance Work Statement
FA441816HOIST Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command
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