12318724R0003 Amendment 0001.pdf

USDA-FOREST SERVICE

Project Title: Pacific Southwest Satellite Delivery Solicitation Number: 12318724R0003 Amendment 0001 Location: Southern California

FAC 2024-03 February 23, 2024

c) Representations and Certifications – Fill in the check boxes for provisions 52.204-24, 52.204-26, 52.209-7, and 52.212-3.

3) Submit offer via email to:

Contract Specialist - Alicia Bledsoe - alicia.bledsoe@usda.gov

Contracting Officer - Grace Walton - grace.walton@usda.gov.

Ensure your email is delivered into these inboxes by the due date and time. Emails should contain 3 separate attachments (Technical Proposal, Price Proposal, and Representations and Certifications) in Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF format. Be aware that large attachments may increase the time required to deliver an email. It is the offerors responsibility to confirm receipt of the offer from Alicia Bledsoe or Grace Walton.

4) Address questions regarding this solicitation to both Alicia Bledsoe, Contract Specialist, alicia.bledsoe@usda.gov, and Grace Walton, Contracting Officer, grace.walton@usda.gov no later than Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 3:00pm ET via email to both Solicitation POCs.

POCs. (ix) 52.212-2 Evaluation – Commercial Products and Commercial Services (NOV 2021) (Provision)

(a) 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:

Price: The Government will determine the Evaluated Price of offers by adding the rates for all line items of the sample task times the estimated quantities for fair and reasonableness of the offered pricing for the base and option year periods.

Non-Price Factors:

1. Technical Capabilities: The Government will evaluate the technical capability by reviewing photographs and descriptions of your proposed facilities to determine the extent that they meet the requirements of the solicitation. Facilities that do not meet the requirements will not be eligible for award. Both facility characteristics and facility climate/weather will be evaluated. Additionally, facilities that are closer to public land and a commercial airport will be evaluated more favorably.

Solicitation Number: 12318724R0003 Amendment 0001

2. Past Performance. Past Performance Questionnaire: Each offeror will be evaluated on their performance under existing and prior contract of similar nature in type, scope and complexity for the past three (3) years. Performance information (including responses to the Past Performance Questionnaire) will be used to evaluate Past Performance. The Government will evaluate your organizations past performance in providing services similar to those identified in Section 3. Your past performance will be evaluated on the basis of information obtained from references and other sources, including any information on your company contained in the Government-wide Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), a Government-wide past performance database located on-line at cpars.gov. The Government will give greater weight to its own experiences with you, if any, than it will give to reports obtained from others. The Government will not consider past performance more than three years old.

Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than price which is in accordance with FAR 15.304.

(b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

(c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer’s specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

(x) Representations and Certifications (complete highlighted items in this section and return with your offer)

VENDOR NAME: _____________________________________________

VENDOR UEI: _____________________________________________

FAR 52.204-26 Covered Telecommunications Equipment or Services-Representation (OCT 2020) (Provision)

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(a) Definitions. As used in this provision, "covered telecommunications equipment or services" and "reasonable inquiry" have the meaning provided in the clause FAR 52.204-25, Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment.

(b) Procedures. The Offeror shall review the list of excluded parties in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://www.sam.gov) for entities excluded from receiving federal awards for "covered telecommunications equipment or services".

(c) (1) Representation. The Offeror represents that it □ does, □ does not provide covered telecommunications equipment or services as a part of its offered products or services to the Government in the performance of any contract, subcontract, or other contractual instrument.

(2) After conducting a reasonable inquiry for purposes of this representation, the offeror represents that it □ does, □ does not use covered telecommunications equipment or services, or any equipment, system, or service that uses covered telecommunications equipment or services.

52.204-24 Representation Regarding Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment (NOV 2021) (Provision)

The Offeror shall not complete the representation at paragraph (d)(1) of this provision if the Offeror has represented that it "does not provide covered telecommunications equipment or services as a part of its offered products or services to the Government in the performance of any contract, subcontract, or other contractual instrument" in paragraph (c)(1) in the provision at 52.204-26, Covered Telecommunications Equipment or Services—Representation, or in paragraph (v)(2)(i) of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications- Commercial Products or Commercial Services. The Offeror shall not complete the representation in paragraph (d)(2) of this provision if the Offeror has represented that it "does not use covered telecommunications equipment or services, or any equipment, system, or service that uses covered telecommunications equipment or services" in paragraph (c)(2) of the provision at 52.204-26, or in paragraph (v)(2)(ii) of the provision at 52.212-3.

(a) Definitions. As used in this provision—

Backhaul, covered telecommunications equipment or services, critical technology, interconnection arrangements, reasonable inquiry, roaming, and substantial or essential component have the meanings provided in the clause 52.204-25, Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment.