36C25926Q0021 0002.docx

Amendment to a Previous Combined Solicitation

Amendment to a Previous Combined Solicitation

GENERAL INFORMATION

Network Contracting Office

NCO 19

6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300 Greenwood Village CO 80111

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist Natasha Holland natasha.holland@va.gov 303.712.5753

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Eastern Colorado Healthcare System

Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center

1700 N. Wheeling Street

Aurora CO

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The Purpose of this amendment 0002 to RFQ 36C25926Q0021 is to answer additional vendor questions from site visit and update section (j) Instructions to offerors, update to “ADDENDUM to FAR 52.212-2 EVALUATION—COMMERCIAL ITEMS” and incorporate FAR 52.225-1 and FAR 52.225-2. Please note there are two amendments.

Offeror is to acknowledge both amendments when submitting quote.

I. Second round of questions and answers are indicated below (refer to amend 0001 for first set):

Q1. Will we have access to the inspection report that was completed for reference?

A1. No, the values just need to be replaced.

Q2. Is there work that needs to be done on the gas train? If so, who provides specifics on whether Clever Brooks has to provide engineered drawings, or VA engineers due to the fact these boilers are specifically designed for the VA? Can we use our engineers and if so, who approves?

A2. No work on gas train is required at this time.

Q3. In executing this project, can one superintendent fulfill the supervision, safety, and QAQC roles?

A3. This is a business decision for the contractor Q4. Are contractors required to issue a contract specific QA/QC Plan?

A4. This is not required, however, all safety regulations and following the safety requirements is required Q5. Are contractors required to issue a contract specific Safety Plan?

A5. This is not required, however, all safety regulations and following the safety requirements is required Q6. Is this project tax exempt?

A6. Yes Q7. Are shop drawings required?

A7. No Q8. Is temporary power going to be required for outages?

A8. No Q9. Pressure notes incoming is 10 PSI. Needs to reduce pressure to manifold to 29.5 inches of water. Please confirm.

A9. No changes need to happen with incoming psi. Maintain current levels.

Q10. What is the anticipated start date?

A10. The approximate start date is 12/01/2025.

Q11. What are the permissible hour for onsite work? Weekends?

A11. Mon-Fri 7:30am-4:30pm ONLY no weekend work allowed.

Q12. Is there an incumbent or is this a new requirement.

A12. This is a new requirement.

II. Offeror instructions for section (j) of the combined synopsis are hereby updated as indicated below:

(j) Offerors instructions: All information shall be confined to the appropriate file. The offeror shall confine submissions to essential matters, sufficient to define the quote and provide an adequate basis for evaluation. Offerors are responsible for including sufficient details, in a concise manner, to permit a complete and accurate evaluation of each quote.

Submission of quote shall include the following volumes: (I) Technical capability (II) Past Performance, (III) Price, and (IV) Completion of “Attachment – FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate”

Volume I – Technical capability The offer shall demonstrate understanding of the requirements of the Statement of work (SOW) and produce a quote that will meet those requirements, The offeror show compatibility with the current boiler system.

The Offeror shall provide evidence of contract requirements and credentials as required in SOW paragraph Ib.

Volume II- Past Performance Offeror must provide at least two recent and relevant past performance references attesting to contract performance (including contract numbers, amount of contract award, point of contact with email address, telephone numbers and other relevant information, and a description of product/work performed under the contract).

To be relevant, the effort must be similar in nature of size, magnitude, complexity, and scope of this procurement.

To be recent, the effort must be completed and fully performed within the past five years from the RFQ release date of this procurement.

Past performance must include

1. Name of company that is being evaluated

2. Description of services performed

3. Performance dates

4. Total contract value

5. Addresses

6. Contract numbers

7. Point of contact information such as name, phone numbers and email addresses to verify the services performed.

Past performance questionnaire shall be completed, signed and submitted to the contracting point of contract, natasha.holland@va.gov and Thaddeus.gray@va.gov directly from the reference and by the submission deadline.

If offeror's past performance is in CPARS, offeror shall provide a copy of the CPARS report as a part of their offer, this can be substituted for questionnaires.

Volume III – Price The offeror shall complete the pricing schedule provided in Section (v) above: Price/Cost Schedule.

Volume VI – Completion of “Attachment – FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate” The offeror shall complete the “Attachment - FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate” and submit as part of the quote.

III: “ADDENDUM to FAR 52.212-2 EVALUATION—COMMERCIAL ITEMS” is hereby updated as indicated below:

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the offeror responsible whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government considering price and other factors.

(b) The following factors shall be used to evaluate quotations:

(c) Evaluation Approach. The Government will evaluate quotations using the comparative evaluation process outlined in FAR 13.106-2(b)(3), where quotations will be compared to one another to determine which provides the best benefit to the Government. The Government reserves the right to consider a quotation other than the lowest price that provides additional benefit(s). Quotations may exceed minimum requirements of the solicitation. The Government reserves the right to select a quotation that provides benefit to the Government that exceeds the minimum requirements of the solicitation, but is not required to do so. Each response must meet the minimum requirements of the solicitation. The Government is not requesting or accepting alternate quotations. The evaluation will consider the following:

The following factors shall be used to evaluate quotations:

Factor 1. Technical capability Factor 2. Past Performance Factor 3. Price Factor 4. Completion of “Attachment - FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate”

Factor 1. Technical capability: The proposal will be evaluated to the extent to which it can meet and/or exceed the Government’s requirements as outlined in the solicitation and SOW and based on the information requested in the instructions to offerors in 52.212-1 section of the solicitation.

Factor 2. Past Performance: The Offeror shall be evaluated on performance of past contracts and how well the identified performance relates to the work being procured under the SOW for this requirement. The following will be used to assess past performance.

The past performance evaluation will assess the relative risks associated with a quoter’s likelihood of success in fulfilling the solicitation’s requirements as indicated by the offeror’s submitted record of past performance.

In the case of an offeror without a record of relevant/recent past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available, the offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance. The Government may use other methods to evaluate past performance, including but not limited to review of CPARS.

Factor 3. Price: The Government will evaluate the price by adding the total of all line-item prices including options. The Government may use various price analysis techniques and procedures to make the price reasonableness determination. Offers that do not meet or exceed the technical capability or quality of the item offered to the Government requirement shall not be selected regardless of price.

Factor 4. Completion of “Attachment - FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate”: The Government will evaluate the responses an offeror makes to Attachment - FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate for completeness. If an offeror fails to complete Attachment - FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate their quote will be determined ineligible for award. Offers will be evaluated on a group basis in accordance with FAR Part 25.

(End of Addendum to 52.212-2)

IV. FAR Clause 52.225-1 Buy American and Provision FAR 52.225-2 Buy American Certificate are hereby incorporated into this solicitation.

All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

A.1 52.225-1 BUY AMERICAN—SUPPLIES (OCT 2022)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item—(1) Means any item of supply (including construction material) that is—

(i) A commercial product (as defined in paragraph (1) of the definition of ‘‘commercial product’’ at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101;

(ii) Sold in substantial quantities in the commercial marketplace; and

(iii) Offered to the Government, under a contract or subcontract at any tier, without modification, in the same form in which it is sold in the commercial marketplace; and

(2) Does not include bulk cargo, as defined in 46 U.S.C. 40102(4), such as agricultural products and petroleum products.

Component means an article, material, or supply incorporated directly into an end product.

Cost of components means—

(1) For components purchased by the Contractor, the acquisition cost, including transportation costs to the place of incorporation into the end product (whether or not such costs are paid to a domestic firm), and any applicable duty (whether or not a duty-free entry certificate is issued); or

(2) For components manufactured by the Contractor, all costs associated with the manufacture of the component, including transportation costs as described in paragraph (1) of this definition, plus allocable overhead costs, but excluding profit. Cost of components does not include any costs associated with the manufacture of the end product.

Critical component means a component that is mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States and deemed critical to the U.S. supply chain. The list of critical components is at FAR 25.105.

Domestic end product means—

(1) For an end product that does not consist wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both—

(i) An unmanufactured end product mined or produced in the United States;

(ii) An end product manufactured in the United States, if—

(A) The cost of its components mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States exceeds 60 percent of the cost of all its components, except that the percentage will be 65 percent for items delivered in calendar years 2024 through 2028 and 75 percent for items delivered starting in calendar year 2029. Components of foreign origin of the same class or kind as those that the agency determines are not mined, produced, or manufactured in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities of a satisfactory quality are treated as domestic. Components of unknown origin are treated as foreign. Scrap generated, collected, and prepared for processing in the United States is considered domestic; or

(B) The end product is a COTS item; or

(2) For an end product that consists wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, an end product manufactured in the United States, if the cost of foreign iron and steel constitutes less than 5 percent of the cost of all the components used in the end product. The cost of foreign iron and steel includes but is not limited to the cost of foreign iron or steel mill products (such as bar, billet, slab, wire, plate, or sheet), castings, or forgings utilized in the manufacture of the end product and a good faith estimate of the cost of all foreign iron or steel components excluding COTS fasteners. Iron or steel components of unknown origin are treated as foreign. If the end product contains multiple components, the cost of all the materials used in such end product is calculated in accordance with the definition of ‘‘cost of components’’.

End product means those articles, materials, and supplies to be acquired under the contract for public use.

Fastener means a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together. Examples of fasteners are nuts, bolts, pins, rivets, nails, clips, and screws.

Foreign end product means an end product other than a domestic end product.

Foreign iron and steel means iron or steel products not produced in the United States. Produced in the United States means that all manufacturing processes of the iron or steel must take place in the United States, from the initial melting stage through the application of coatings, except metallurgical processes involving refinement of steel additives. The origin of the elements of the iron or steel is not relevant to the determination of whether it is domestic or foreign.

Predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both means that the cost of the iron and steel content exceeds 50 percent of the total cost of all its components. The cost of iron and steel is the cost of the iron or steel mill products (such as bar, billet, slab, wire, plate, or sheet), castings, or forgings utilized in the manufacture of the product and a good faith estimate of the cost of iron or steel components excluding COTS fasteners.

Steel means an alloy that includes at least 50 percent iron, between 0.02 and 2 percent carbon, and may include other elements.

United States means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and outlying areas.

(b) 41 U.S.C. chapter 83, Buy American, provides a preference for domestic end products for supplies acquired for use in the United States. In accordance with 41 U.S.C. 1907, the domestic content test of the Buy American statute is waived for an end product that is a COTS item (see 12.505(a)(1)), except that for an end product that consists wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, the domestic content test is applied only to the iron and steel content of the end product, excluding COTS fasteners.

(c) Offerors may obtain from the Contracting Officer a list of foreign articles that the Contracting Officer will treat as domestic for this contract.

(d) The Contractor shall deliver only domestic end products except to the extent that it specified delivery of foreign end products in the provision of the solicitation entitled "Buy American Certificate."

Alternate I (OCT 2022). As prescribed in 25.1101(a)(1)(ii) substitute the following sentence for the first sentence of paragraph (1)(ii)(A) of the definition of ‘‘domestic end product’’ in paragraph (a): (A) The cost of its components mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States exceeds ___ percent of the cost of all its components. [Contracting officer to insert the percentage.] (End of Clause)

A.2 52.225-2 BUY AMERICAN CERTIFICATE (OCT 2022)

(a)(1) The Offeror certifies that each end product, except those listed in paragraph (b) of this provision, is a domestic end product and that each domestic end product listed in paragraph (c) of this provision contains a critical component.

(2) The Offeror shall list as foreign end products those end products manufactured in the United States that do not qualify as domestic end products. For those foreign end products that do not consist wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, the Offeror shall also indicate whether these foreign end products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except for those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select ‘‘no’’.

(3) The Offeror shall separately list the line item numbers of domestic end products that contain a critical component (see FAR 25.105).

(4) The terms ‘‘commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item,’’ ‘‘critical component,’’ ‘‘domestic end product,’’ ‘‘end product,’’ and ‘‘foreign end product’’ are defined in the clause of this solicitation entitled ‘‘Buy American—Supplies.”

(b) Foreign End Products:

[List as necessary]

(c) Domestic end products containing a critical component:

Line item No.

[List as necessary]

(d) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of part 25 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(End of Provision)

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