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RFP AG-91S8-S-10-0014 Amendment 03 Section L Solicitation Instructions

L.1 General. If you want to compete for the contract described in this Request for Proposal (RFP) then you must submit a proposal that includes the following: (1) an offer and (2) information about your company’s past performance, experience and management approach.

When evaluating your capability (see RFP Section M), we will consider how well you complied with these instructions. We will consider any significant failure to comply with these instructions to be indicative of what we could expect from you during contract performance.

L.2 Offer. Your offer must consist of the following:

L.2.a Standard Form 1442 with blocks 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20. completed.

L.2.b RFP “Schedule of Items” with prices inserted.

L2.c Bid Guarantee

L.2.d. RFP Section K, “Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Offerors,” completed hardcopy & or electronically through Online Certifications and Representations (ORCA).

The completion and submission of the above items of information will constitute your offer to perform in accordance with the terms and conditions of this RFP, including attachments and documents incorporated by reference. Your offer must communicate to us your unconditional assent to the terms and conditions in this RFP, its attachments, and documents incorporated by reference. Our acceptance of your offer will create a binding contract between us.

If we select you for award and if you are not a small business as defined in Federal Acquisition

Regulation (FAR) Subpart 19.1, then you will have to submit a plan for subcontracting with small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses, in accordance with FAR Subpart 19.7, within three days of a request by the Contracting Officer. If you are required to submit a subcontracting plan, award will be conditioned upon our ability to reach agreement with you on the terms of your plan. If we accept your subcontracting plan it will become a part of the contract.

We will not entertain alternate proposals. If you (1) fail or refuse to assent to any of the terms and conditions of this RFP, (2) propose additional terms or conditions, or (3) fail to submit any of the information required by this paragraph L.2, then we will consider your offer to be unacceptable, which will make you ineligible for contract award.

The only way an unacceptable offer could be made acceptable would be through discussions (see FAR

15.306(d)). However, we intend to award a contract without discussions, as permitted by FAR 15.306(a) and 52.215-1. We reserve the right to conduct discussions and to permit offerors to revise their proposals if we think that it is in our best interests to do so.

L.3 Organizational Experience, Past Performance and Management Approach. For your past performance, submit the names of names of references who can verify that you have done the type of work that must be done under the contract contemplated by this RFP, and who will provide information

RFP AG-91S8-S-10-0014 Amendment 03 Section L Solicitation Instructions about the quality of your past performance. Make sure that your reference information is up to date.

Our assessment of your past performance will be subjective, and based mainly on your reputation with your customers and others.

Your organizational experience is relevant when your team has been confronted with the kinds of challenges that will confront you under the contract contemplated by this RFP. We will assess your relevant organizational experience on the basis of its breadth and its depth, and on the basis of how the key personnel have worked together in the past.

Your management approach must address the extent to which you understand and are prepared to successfully manage the project. You should detail the resources that are planned, (key personnel & their qualifications) and equipment. Also provide information on project management tools and address project safety.

Failure to comply with this paragraph L.3 may result in an unfavorable evaluation of your experience or past performance.

Submit 1 copy of the completed signed offer ( 1442, Schedule of Items, K (Certifications &

Representations hardcopy or electronically) and Bid Gurarantee.

Submit 3 hard copies of the technical proposal (Responses to the evaluation criteria listed in section M).