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This document is an amendment to a federal solicitation for III Armored Corps Agricultural Sanitation and Washing Services. The purpose of this amendment is to (1) extend the Question-and-Answer period to October 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM CDT, and (2) clarify that Past Performance Questionnaires are due at the time of Solicitation Closing. No other changes have been made to the solicitation. A subsequent amendment will be issued providing answers to all submitted questions.
The solicitation is issued by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Mission and Installation Contracting Command Fort Hood. The contract is for agricultural sanitation and washing services. Offerors must submit their proposals in four parts: Summary Data, Price Proposal, Technical Proposal, and Past Performance Information. Evaluation criteria includes Price, Technical Acceptability, and Past Performance. Proposals are due via email by the date specified in the solicitation.
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AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT
Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the document referenced in Item 9A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect.
15A. NAME AND TITLE OF SIGNER (Type or print)
30-105-04EXCEPTION TO SF 30
APPROVED BY OIRM 11-84
STANDARD FORM 30 (Rev. 10-83) Prescribed by GSA
FAR (48 CFR) 53.243
The purpose of this Amendment is to (1) extend the Question-and-Answ er period and to clarify the Past Performance Questionnaire due date is NLT the Solicitation closing date..
Questions are due in w riting NLT 18OCT2024, 1000, CDT.
No other changes to the Solicitation are made or implied. A subsequent Amendment w ill be issued providing answ ers to all submitted questions.
1. CONTRACT ID CODE PAGE OF PAGES
J 1 7
16A. NAME AND TITLE OF CONTRACTING OFFICER (Type or print)
16C. DATE SIGNED
BY 16-Oct-2024
16B. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA15C. DATE SIGNED15B. CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR
(Signature of Contracting Officer)(Signature of person authorized to sign)
8. NAME AND ADDRESS OF CONTRACTOR (No., Street, County, State and Zip Code) X W911RX24R0011
X 9B. DATED (SEE ITEM 11)
25-Sep-2024
10B. DATED (SEE ITEM 13)
9A. AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION NO.
11. THIS ITEM ONLY APPLIES TO AMENDMENTS OF SOLICITATIONS
X The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offer is extended, X is not extended.
Offer must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended by one of the following methods:
(a) By completing Items 8 and 15, and returning 1 copies of the amendment; (b) By acknowledging receipt of this amendment on each copy of the offer submitted;
or (c) By separate letter or telegram which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO BE RECEIVED AT THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY RESULT IN
REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted, such change may be made by telegram or letter, provided each telegram or letter makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.
12. ACCOUNTING AND APPROPRIATION DATA (If required)
13. THIS ITEM APPLIES ONLY TO MODIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTS/ORDERS.
IT MODIFIES THE CONTRACT/ORDER NO. AS DESCRIBED IN ITEM 14.
A. THIS CHANGE ORDER IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO: (Specify authority) THE CHANGES SET FORTH IN ITEM 14 ARE MADE IN THE
CONTRACT ORDER NO. IN ITEM 10A.
B. THE ABOVE NUMBERED CONTRACT/ORDER IS MODIFIED TO REFLECT THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES (such as changes in paying office, appropriation date, etc.) SET FORTH IN ITEM 14, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF FAR 43.103(B).
C. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT IS ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY OF:
D. OTHER (Specify type of modification and authority)
E. IMPORTANT: Contractor is not, is required to sign this document and return copies to the issuing office.
14. DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)
10A. MOD. OF CONTRACT/ORDER NO.
2. AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION NO. 5. PROJECT NO.(If applicable)
6. ISSUED BY
3. EFFECTIVE DATE
16-Oct-2024
CODE
MICC - FORT RILEY (923RD CBN)
1792 12TH STREET
FORT RILEY KS 66442
W911RX 7. ADMINISTERED BY (If other than item 6)
4. REQUISITION/PURCHASE REQ. NO.
CODE
See Item 6
FACILITY CODECODE
EMAIL:TEL:
W911RX24R0011
SECTION SF 30 BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE
SUMMARY OF CHANGES
SECTION L - INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS AND NOTICES TO BIDDERS
The following have been modified:
ADDENDUM TO FAR 52.212-1
A. Proposal Preparation Instruction:
(1) To assure timely and equitable evaluation of the proposal, the offeror must follow the instructions contained herein. Offerors are required to meet all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, and representations and certifications.
(2) Failure to meet a requirement may result in an offer being ineligible for award.
Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the solicitation terms and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale.
(3) The response shall consist of four (4) separate parts; Part I – Summary Data, Part
II - Price Proposal, Part III – Technical Data, and Part IV - Past Performance Information.
( 4 ) Offers are to be received by the MICC Fort Riley via email no later than the date shown in box 9 of the SF 33.
( 5 ) Evaluation Criteria: Evaluation criteria consist of factors and subfactors. The proposals will be evaluated under three evaluation factors: Price, Technical Acceptability and Past performance.
( 6 ) Submit ONLY electronic proposals to the following email addresses:
travis.e.engle.civ@army.mil and christopher.a.richie.civ@army.mil .
( 7 ) The proposal shall be submitted in a format readable by Microsoft Office which includes software programs such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
( 8 ) For those pages of the proposal that cannot be submitted using Microsoft Office, offerors shall include those pages electronically using Adobe Acrobat portable document files (.pdf) format.
(9) Part II - Price shall be submitted in the provided Exhibit B- Price Table Workbook, using Microsoft Excel.
(10) Identify the company name and title on proposal.
(11) Within the proposal use separate files and folders to permit rapid location of all portions, including exhibits and attachments, if any. Each Part shall be complete in itself and shall not reference information contained in other Parts. Page 1 of a Part is defined as the first page after the Table of Contents. All pages shall be numbered.
(12) USB flash drives, floppy disks, CD’s/DVD’s and zip disks are not acceptable.
B. Specific Instructions:
(1) Part I –Summary Data: The following information will be required in Part I:
a) The offeror shall provide a concise summary to include CAGE Code and Unique Entity ID number and a master table of content of the entire proposal.
b) Provision 52.204-8 Annual Representations and Certifications (MAR 2023)
1. If the Offeror has completed the annual representations and certification electronically via the System for Award Management (SAM) Website located at http://www.sam.gov/portal, the Offeror shall submit a statement verifying the representation and certifications currently posted electronically in the SAM database have been updated within the past 12 months and are current, accurate, complete, and applicable to this solicitation. Include this statement in Part I.
2. If the Offeror has not completed the annual representations and certifications electronically, the offeror shall return FAR Provision 52.204-8 and include with Part I.
Annual representations and certification will not count towards page limit identified in paragraph d., of this document.
c) Provision 252.204-7007 Alternate A, Annual Representations and Certifications (NOV 2023)
1. Substitute paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) for paragraphs (b) and (d) of the provision at
FAR 52.204-8. The offeror shall return DFARS Provision 252.204-7007 Alternate A and include with Part I. Annual representations and certification will not count towards page limit identified in paragraph d., of this document.
d) Other provisions and clauses required in this solicitation will not count towards the page limit identified in paragraph C., of this document.
e) Submit an acknowledgment of all the solicitation amendments, if issued. If the amendment changes the offeror's proposal or includes any additional documents/ information that was not previously submitted with the original proposal, submit the revised proposal and the Amendment Acknowledgement of Receipt in accordance with the above paragraph. Revised proposals must be received by the proposal due date and time. If the amendment does not change the offeror's original proposal or include any additional documents/information the signed Amendment Acknowledgement of Receipt can be emailed to travis.e.engle.civ@army.mil . All acknowledgements of amendments must be received by the proposal due date and time.
f) Submit an Affirmation of no Exceptions, Deviations, or Waivers, if none proposed.
g) Submit a letter, signed at the vice-president level or equivalent or higher, that identifies the individual(s) with the authority to obligate or otherwise bind your company to the resulting contract and, if necessary, future contract modifications.
h) Responsibility Determination. To assist in determining contractor responsibility in accordance with FAR 9, the offeror shall explain how they plan to maintain adequate financial resources for a contract.
(2) Part II - Price Proposal: This Part shall be the completed Exhibit A (TE 1) Equipment List & Virkon Estimator (BCT-Notional) and Exhibit B- Price Table Workbook, of this solicitation.
a) Contract Price Exhibits-Attachment. To be considered for award, offeror must submit a Price proposal that shall be all inclusive and include, but not be limited to, the following costs:
- Direct labor cost
- Indirect cost
- General and Administrative
- Overhead
- Profit
- Major/Minor Equipment
- Subcontract
- FTE
b) For Evaluation Purposes ONLY
- Offeror(s) shall use Exhibit A, Equipment List and Virkon-S Square Footage Estimator (BCT- Notional), for pricing.
- Offerors will not change the formulas within the Exhibit!
- Offerors will input costs in the 2nd & 3rd Tabs
- Offerors will populate the Column P (Orange) with the unit cost.
- Column Q will auto-populate based on the quantity established in Column O and the Offeror’s input into Column P.
- Offeror(s) shall use Attachment 2, SCA Wage Determination (2015-5237rev25) for Bell
County, Texas (FT Cavazos) for pricing.
- The Period of Performance (Notional) is 04NOV2024 to 26NOV2024.
(3) Part III – Technical Proposal: The following documents will be required in Part III:
a) ELEMENTS – Management Approach, Staffing approach and Quality Control.
1. Element 1 Management Approach demonstrates that the Offeror has very sound procedures to monitor and manage performance of all personnel, in all locations, to ensure timely quality work and to control costs. The proposal shall clearly demonstrate that the Offeror has offered properly qualified personnel in the appropriate labor categories to perform this requirement, has a very sound recruiting and retention plan to ensure the continued availability of properly qualified personnel and has a very efficient, effective and sound staffing approach that ensures an appropriate number of personnel are available to perform this requirement. The proposal’s overall management and staffing approach has little potential to disrupt or degrade performance or to increase costs.
2. ELEMENT 2--The Staffing Approach shall demonstrate how the offeror identified personnel positions essential for contract performance and that are deemed necessary to satisfy the requirement of the PWS. The staffing approach will show how proposed personnel fit into the overall organization, and how they describe the proposed responsibilities for each position. The approach shall show that the personnel qualifications to ensure qualifications are commensurate with the size and scope of PWS requirements including the offeror’s key personnel qualifications relevant to professional experience, specific experience and other relevant activities and achievements.
(a) Scheduling Methodology (PWS para(s) 1.6.5 and 5.4)
(i) Work Schedule. This element will show the offeror’s ability to develop and employ a work schedule that ensures timely performance of required services. See Exhibit B – Price Table Workbook, Tab Staffing Plan for examples.
3. ELEMENT 3 -- Quality Control (PWS para 1.6.1 and sub-paragraphs)
(i) Quality Control Plan (QCP). This element will show the offeror’s approach for ensuring the quality of performance will be in accordance with the standards in the PWS throughout the life of the contract. Provide a QCP, which describes your approach for ensuring performance is IAW the standards in the PWS throughout the life of the contract. Identify who will be responsible for the QCP. Include in your QCP your system for inspecting your own performance. Describe the types and frequencies of inspections you will conduct and identify who will conduct the inspections. Describe how inspections will be documented and provide sample inspection records for each type of inspection to be conducted. Describe the methods, processes, procedures and safeguards you will use to prevent deficiencies from occurring and how you will prevent reoccurrences.
(4) Part IV - Past Performance Information: The following documents will be required in Part
IV:
(a) Small Business Participation Past Performance. The Offeror shall submit information substantiating the Offeror’s past performance in complying with FAR 52.219-8, “Utilization of Small Business” to maximize opportunities for U.S. small business subcontractors. Offerors shall also provide a statement indicating whether any negative information has been reported in the past three years concerning the Offeror’s past compliance with FAR 52.219-8. If any such negative information has been reported, the Offeror may submit explanations or comments responding to such negative information. Offerors with no prior contracts containing FAR 52.219- 8 shall certify the same.
(b) Only references for the prime contractor or subcontractors that will perform major or critical aspects of the requirement will be considered and should be submitted.:
(c) Quality and Satisfaction Rating for Contracts Completed in the past three years: Provide any information currently available (letters, metrics, customer surveys, independent surveys, etc.)
which demonstrates customer satisfaction with overall job performance and quality of completed product for same or similar type contract. In addition, explain corrective actions taken in the past, if any, for substandard performance and any current performance problems such as cost overruns, extended performance periods, numerous warranty calls, etc.
(d) Performance Questionnaire: Past Performance Questionnaires (PPQs) shall be used by the offeror in obtaining and providing past performance information. The government requires the offeror send out a PPQ to each of the Points-of-Contact (POCs) identified in the Past Performance Proposal.
(i) The offeror shall send out the past performance inquiries using the Exhibit C, Past Performance Questionnaire to each of their references. The responsibility to send out the PPQs rest solely with the offeror.
(ii) Once the questionnaires are completed by the POCs, the information contained therein will be considered source selection sensitive and will not be released outside the government. The POCs shall forward their completed questionnaires directly to the government - NOT BACK TO THE OFFEROR.
(iii) Past Performance Questionnaires shall be sent directly from your reference to the MICC Fort Riley Contracting Office no later than the date and time annotated in Box 9 of the SF33 marked attention of Travis Engle via email to travis.e.engle.civ@army.mil .
(e) Past Performance Information: The government will review the quality and extent of offeror's performance deemed recent and relevant to the requirements of this solicitation. The government will use information submitted by the offeror, references, and other sources such as the System for Award management (SAM) and the Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), other federal government offices and commercial sources to assess performance.
(i) Relevant contracts include efforts involving service contracts similar in magnitude and complexity.
(ii) Furnish the following information for each contract referenced:
(1) Offeror Company/Division name and CAGE code
(2) Indicate whether offeror was the prime contractor, subcontractor, teaming partner or joint venture
(3) Program Title
(4) Contract Title
(5) Contracting Agency/Customer
(6) Contract Type
(7) Contract Number
(8) Contract Dollar Value (do not include unexercised options)
(9) Period of Performance
(10) Verified, up to date: name, address, email and telephone number of the contracting officer Comments regarding compliance with contract terms and conditions
(11) Thoroughly document the square footage you cleaned and how many buildings was cleaned per contract in order for the Government to assign a relevancy rating.
(12) Quality and Satisfaction Rating: Provide any objective information (e.g., metrics, customer surveys, independent surveys) which demonstrates customer satisfaction with overall job performance and quality of completed service.
(13) Comment regarding any performance deemed unacceptable to the customer, or not in accordance with the contract terms and conditions.
****NOTE: If an offeror/s has no past performance history of relevance, the offeror must state affirmatively it possesses no past performance history of relevance. ****
C. Proposal Submission Summary:
(1) The format for proposals shall be 8 1/2" x 11" paper except for foldouts used for charts, tables, or diagrams, which may not exceed 11" x 17". A page is defined as one face of a sheet of paper containing information. Typing shall not be less than 10 font. Size of print is applicable to charts and graphs. Page margins shall be a minimum of 0.7-inch top, bottom, and each side. The below table summarizes the proposal submission:
PART TITLE PAGE LIMIT
I Summary Information 2 ( not including fill ins- II Price Price Exhibit III Technical 30 IV Past Performance 15
D. Questions:
(1) All questions shall be submitted in writing to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist (see below) not later than (NLT) 10:00 A.M. (CDT), 18 October 2024. All questions will be compiled, answered, and published in an Amendment for all Offerors.
(i) Contracting Officer: Chris Richie, christopher.a.richie.civ@army.mil
(ii) Contract Specialist; Travis Engle. travis.e.engle.civ@army.mil
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