Atch 2 14860 Circuit Card Commercial Instructions to Offerors.pdf

52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

As prescribed in 12.205(a)(1), insert a clause substantially as follows:

(a) Submission of offers. Submit signed and dated offers to the office specified in this solicitation at or before the exact time specified in this solicitation. As a minimum, offers shall include—

(1) The solicitation number;

(2) The name, address, telephone number of the Offeror;

(3) The Offeror’s Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and, if applicable, Electronic Funds Transfer

(EFT) indicator;

(4) Information necessary to evaluate the factors contained in the provision at 52.212-2 or as described in the solicitation;

a. The proposal shall be submitted and evaluated: Offerors shall submit the technical and past performance volumes. The Government will evaluate if the offeror is technically capable to meet requirements in Factor 1 (a) – (f), then Factor 2 past performance.

b. Offerors shall provide the following

Factor 1. Technical Volume

Each offeror is to provide sufficient detail (limited to a combined total of 5 pages) to demonstrate their capabilities to perform the requirements in the performance work statement (PWS) in order to perform and deliver individual BPA orders, specifically demonstrating the offeror’s own (in-house) established capability in:

(a) performing PCB assembly and/or PCB Fabrication in-house;

(b) perform a wide range of PCB Fabrication activities, including but not limited to:

multi-layer PCBs, multi-sided PCBs, very thin PCBs, PCBs with a high density of highly miniaturized features, and PCBs with complex vias.

(c) perform and report on PCB Fabrication validation and quality control activities, including post production impedance and continuity checks.

(d) perform a wide range of PCB Assembly activities, including but not limited to: multi-sided assembly, very small or thin assemblies, assemblies with a high component density, fine pitch component assembly (BGAs, BTCs, etc.), and assemblies with miniscule passive components (0201, 01005, etc.)

(e) perform and report on PCB Assembly validation and quality control activities, including post production quality control inspections and other electrical tests (flying probe test, etc.)

(f) rapidly provide/procure adequate electronic components to meet tight PCBA production deadlines, when in absence of Government Furnished Material (GFM) in-whole or in-part, which must also describe the process used to maintain chain of custody from Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

Please see Table 1 in Evaluation section below.

The Government requires offerors with international trafficking in arms (ITAR), please explicitly state in proposal if the Offeror is capable of:

(g) performing orders with International Trafficking in Arms (ITAR) requirements

(h) performing order with Trusted Requirements (DoDI 5200.44)

Factor 2. Past Performance Volume

Each offeror may provide Government or commercial contracts/orders that are considered recent and relevant to the subject solicitation. Recent projects are those that have been completed (or have been awarded with substantial accomplishment to date and are still in progress) by the offeror (either Fabrication or Assembly, or both), within the last three years. The Government may provide greater weight to Offerors who provide evidence of significant experience in both PCBA and PCBF. Relevant projects are those projects with similar scope described in the Performance Work Statement, limited to a combined total of 3 pages). Information for each contract/order shall include current point of contact (POC) information (name, telephone numbers, and email address for each POC), value, duration, completion status, and (for Government contracts/orders) contract/order number. See past performance evaluation below.

(5) Responses to provisions that require Offeror completion of information, representations, and certifications (other than those collected via the System for Award Management (SAM)); and

(6) A statement specifying the extent of agreement with all terms, conditions, and provisions included in the solicitation and any solicitation amendments.

(b) Period for acceptance of offers. The Offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 60 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers, unless another time period is specified in an addendum to the solicitation.

(c) Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of offers.

(1) Offerors are responsible for submitting offers and any modifications or revisions to the Government office designated in the solicitation by the time specified in the solicitation.

(2) Any offer, modification, or revision received after the time specified for receipt of offers is “late” and will not be considered unless it is received before award is made and the Contracting Officer determines that accepting the late offer would not unduly delay the acquisition. However, a late modification of an otherwise successful offer that makes its terms more favorable to the Government will be considered at any time it is received and may be accepted.

(3) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that offers cannot be received at the Government office designated for receipt of offers by the exact time specified in the solicitation, and urgent Government requirements preclude amendment of the solicitation or other notice of an extension of the closing date, the time specified for receipt of offers will be deemed to be extended to the same time of day specified in the solicitation on the first work day on which normal Government processes resume.

(4) Offerors may withdraw their offers by written notice to the Government received at any time before award.

(d) Contract award (not applicable to Invitation for Bids). The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without exchanges with Offerors. Therefore, the Offeror’s initial offer should contain the Offeror’s best terms. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct exchanges, if necessary. The Government may reject any or all offers if such action is in the public interest, accept other than the lowest offer, and waive informalities and minor irregularities in offers received.

(e) If requested, the Government will provide a brief explanation of the basis for the BPA establishment decision in accordance with RFO 13.301 Notifications.

NOTE: All proposal preparation cost will be the sole responsibility of the offeror. The Government will not reimburse any firm for their proposal preparation cost.