36C24820Q0677-003.docx

(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. This announcement constitutes only the solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.

(ii) This solicitation (36C24820Q0677) is being issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ).

(iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Circular FAC Number: 2020-05, Effective Date: March 30, 2020.

(iv) This requirement is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-aside. The NAICS code for this requirement is NAICS Code 562991- Septic Tank and Related Services $7.5 Million – SBA Size Standard).

(v) Price/Cost Schedule

Restroom Trailer with Disability Access Ramp, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliant

Restroom Trailer with Disability Access Ramp, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliant

Restroom Trailer with Disability Access Ramp, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliant

(vi) Description of requirements for the items to be acquired: This combined synopsis is for the purchase of three (3) Restroom Trailers with wheelchair Access Ramps, that are Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Compliant.

Purpose: Restroom Trailers with Wheelchair Access Ramps, that are ADA Compliant are to provide service to both patients and employees that need to use facilities at Alternate Care Sites (ACS) and after long commutes or while waiting for the shuttles to VA buildings and remote clinics.

Background: As part of the COVID-19 preparedness and response activities, Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (VISN 8) VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) are establishing facilities and ACS that are not physically located inside their buildings. These ACS facilities are being established for patients’ screening and other patient care operations. Having safe accessible and readily available toilet facilities near these ACSs has been identified as a critical necessity to meet our veterans’ needs.

Scope: Bathroom trailers must have an ADA anti-slip wheelchair ramp system for patients. Contractor shall provide a quantity of three (3) single bathroom trailers, each trailer shall include two (2) stalls (one unisex ADA restroom stall to include wheelchair accessibility for entrance stall and one standard restroom stall).

Specific Need/ Salient Characteristic’s: The restroom trailers shall have the physical functional and performance characteristics as listed below. This includes permanently installed toilets and waste storage or disposal without sewer connection. Bathroom units shall have an easily accessible emergency pull cord switch that will activate an audible alarm and visual indicator beacon.

1. Restroom Trailer shall have steel or porcelain material fixtures (commodes and sinks).

2. Wastewater Holding Tanks per Restroom Trailer. Each tank shall be outfitted with overflow switches that activate solenoids on the water supply lines to control the possibility of overuse and overflow as a result. Water shutoff device shall be located on the holding tank to prevent overflow of the holding tanks into the restrooms between servicing or any discharge in the area around the holding tanks.

DELIVERY SCHEDULE: All items to be delivered within 45 days of purchase order processing and order placement.

Delivery Locations:

James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital 13000 Bruce B. Downs Blvd Tampa, FL 33612

Jacksonville Port: Consolidation Point:

C/O Interstate Warehouse 3700 Port J- Ville Parkway Jacksonville FL 32226 Mark For: VA Caribbean Healthcare System 10 Casia Street San Juan, PR 00921

Orlando VA Healthcare System 13800 Veterans Way Orlando, FL 32827

Warranty of Equipment: Contractor must provide manufacturer(s) warranty on all provided supplies.

(vii) DELIVERY SCHEDULE

13000 Bruce B Downs Tampa, FL 33612

Jacksonville Port:

Consolidation Point C/O Interstate Warehouse 3700 Port J-VILLE PWKY Jacksonville FL 32226 Mark For:

VA Caribbean Healthcare System 10 10 Casia Street San Juan, PR 00921

13800 Veterans Way Orlando, FL 32827

FOB: Destination

(viii) The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial, applies to this acquisition and offers must fill out price. Offerors must submit their equipment specifications and warranty period that addresses all requirements pertaining to the required solicitation.

A. Questions and Answers

1. Prospective contractors shall submit any questions regarding this requirement no later than 1:00 pm EST, April 29, 2020 to Cory.Summerville2@va.gov and Michael.Pierson@va.gov. In the subject line notate the word Question, Business name and Solicitation number. Example: Question, Company A 36C24820Q0677.

2. Questions, with the Government’s responses, will be posted to www.beta.sam.gov. Government reserves the right to transmit questions and responses of a common interest to all prospective contractors.

B. Quotes Closing Date

1. Quotes are due on or before 1:00 pm EST, May 7, 2020. Submission shall be via e-mail to Cory.Summerville2@va.gov and Michael.Pierson@va.gov.

2. Interested parties are instructed to contact Cory Summerville and Michael Pierson to confirm receipt of their respective quotation.

(ix) ADDENDUM to the provision at 52.212-2 EVALUATION—COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014) The Government will award a Firm-Fixed Price contract to the responsible quoter using a comparative evaluation. The comparative evaluation will be performed in accordance with FAR 13.106-2(b)(3). The government reserves the right to select a quotation that provides benefit to the government that exceeds the minimum but is not required to do so. Quoters are advised that quotation may exceed the requirements, but the government is not requesting or accepting alternate quotes; each response must respond to the solicitation requirement, stated in the RFQ.

The government will apply the following comparative evaluation process as the basis for award:

Assess the direct comparison of one quote with another in a uniform and fair manner to determine which quote provides the government what it needs, where and when in accordance with the Statement of Need (SON) and this Request for Quote. It is an assessment of which response is “best” as a whole.

Once one quotation is found acceptable, it is compared side-by-side to the remaining ones, and the “best” one is chosen for the best value to the government.

The following comparative evaluation factors shall be used:

1. Salient Characteristics listed in the statement of need to meet the physical, functional and performance of the restroom trailer.

2. Delivery- Contractor must meet the delivery date of 45 days ARO after receipt of order The Government may rely on internal documentation including Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), contractor references, contracting officer’s knowledge of and previous experience with supply or service being acquired for determining Past Performance. If no record of past performance is found in CPARS, the contract shall not receive a favorable or unfavorable rating but shall receive a rating of neutral.

Price shall be submitted using the enclosed Price Schedule.

(x) To be eligible for award offerors must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) prior to award in accordance with the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items.

(xi) The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and no additional addenda to the clause included.

(xii) The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following FAR clauses cited in the clause are applicable to the acquisition:

· 52.222-50 52.203-15 52.209-6

· 52.225-1 52.232-33

(xiii) The following additional contract requirement(s) or terms and conditions determined by the contracting officer to be necessary for this acquisition and consistent with customary commercial practices are as follows:

Attachment 1: Combined Synopsis

VAAR 852.219-10 VA NOTICE OF TOTAL SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE (JUL 2016)(DEVIATION)

(a) Definition. For the Department of Veterans Affairs, “Service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern or SDVSOB”:

(1) Means a small business concern:

(i) Not less than 51 percent of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not less than 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans or eligible surviving spouses (see VAAR 802.201 Surviving Spouse definition);

(ii) The management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans (or eligible surviving spouses) or, in the case of a service-disabled veteran with permanent and severe disability, the spouse or permanent caregiver of such veteran;

(iii) The business meets Federal small business size standards for the applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identified in the solicitation document;

(iv) The business has been verified for ownership and control pursuant to 38 CFR 74 and is so listed in the Vendor Information Pages database, (https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov); and

(v) The business will comply with subcontracting limitations in 13 CFR 125.6, as applicable

(2) “Service-disabled veteran” means a veteran, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(2), with a disability that is service-connected, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(16).

(b) General.

(1) Offers are solicited only from verified service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns. Offers received from concerns that are not verified service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns shall not be considered.

(2) Any award resulting from this solicitation shall be made to a verified service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern.

(c) Agreement. A service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern agrees that in the performance of the contract, the concern will comply with the limitation on subcontracting requirements in 13 CFR §125.6.

(d) A joint venture may be considered a service-disabled veteran owned small business concern if the joint venture complies with the requirements in 13 CFR 125.15, provided that any reference therein to SDVO SBC is to be construed to apply to a VA verified SDVOSB as appropriate.

(e) Any service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern (non-manufacturer) must meet the requirements in FAR 19.102(f) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to receive a benefit under this program.

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VAAR 852.246-70 GUARANTEE (JAN 2008)

The contractor guarantees the equipment against defective material, workmanship and performance for a period of industry standards, said guarantee to run from date of acceptance of the equipment by the Government. The contractor agrees to furnish, without cost to the Government, replacement of all parts and material that are found to be defective during the guarantee period. Replacement of material and parts will be furnished to the Government at the point of installation, if installation is within the continental United States, or f.o.b. the continental U.S. port to be designated by the contracting officer if installation is outside of the continental United States. Cost of installation of replacement material and parts shall be borne by the contractor.

(xiv) Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) and assigned rating, is not applicable to this acquisition.

(xv) Quotes are due no later than 1:00 PM eastern standard time (EST) on May 7, 2020 via e-mail to Cory.Summerville2@va.gov and Michael.Pierson@va.gov

(xvi) The point of contact is Contract Specialist Cory Summerville and Contracting Officer Michael Pierson, cory.summerville2@va.gov 813-631-2850, michael.pierson@va.gov 813-631-2812.

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