ATTACHMENT 3 - Evaluation Criteria.pdf

W912D0-24-R-0021 AAC Office Furniture Evaluation Criteria

FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial applies to this acquisition.

ADDENDUM TO FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items

1. SOLICITATION/OFFEROR REQUIREMENTS

a. OFFER SUBMISSION

(1) Offers shall consist of two volumes. The volumes shall include the following:

Volume Content Number of Digital Copies (Emailed)

Page Limit

I Past Performance N/A N/A II Price (see note*) 1 N/A

*For pricing structure: Use line items of the Solicitation (SF1449)

(2) The offer may be submitted to the email addresses below:

tina.d.persingerhorrocks.civ@army.mil

(3) Contract Specialist (CS), Tina Persinger Horrocks, is the point of contact (POC) for this acquisition.

(4) All questions or concerns you may have regarding this solicitation shall be submitted in writing via email to:

tina.d.persingerhorrocks.civ@army.mil

All questions and answers will be posted in the attachments no later than 12 p.m.

Alaska Time 4 September 2024.

Offers shall be submitted no later than 12 p.m. Alaska Time 9 Sept 2024.

(5) Delivery Instructions. The Digital email volumes shall be submitted in one email with separate labeled documents. The email shall be marked as below:

(1) Email Title: Solicitation number W912D0-24-R-0021

(2) Content’s title: AAC Office Furniture

(3) Offeror’s name

b. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

(1) The selection of a source for award purposes will be conducted utilizing simplified acquisition procedures as delineated in FAR Part 13.106-2, Evaluations of Quotations or Offers. Offers will be evaluated using the criteria under addendum to 52.212-2, “Evaluation – Commercial Items.”

(2) It is the Government’s intention to award without discussions, however the Government retains the right to conduct discussion if needed. Offerors are encouraged to present their best technical offer and prices in their initial offer submission. The Government may reject any or all offers if such action is in the public interest; and waive informalities and minor irregularities in offers received.

(3) In accordance with FAR Subpart 4.8 Government Contract Files, the Government will retain one copy of all unsuccessful offers. Unless the offeror requests otherwise, the Government will destroy extra copies of such unsuccessful offers.

(4) If an offeror believes that the requirements in these instructions contain an error, an ambiguity, omission, or are otherwise deemed unsound, the offeror shall immediately notify the KO in writing with supporting rationale. The offeror is reminded that the Government reserves the right to award this effort based on the initial offer, as received, without clarifications.

(5) All referenced documents for this solicitation are available on the SAM.gov Web site at https://www.sam.gov

(6) Potential offerors are encouraged to subscribe for real-time e-mail notifications when information has been posted to the website for this solicitation.

c. OFFER PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

(1) Offer Limitation. The Government will not accept any changes to the contractor’s offer after the closing date of the solicitation.

(2) VOLUME I –PAST PERFORMANCE. No submission required. The Government will use information obtained from other sources, such as the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) or Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS). Offers will be evaluated in accordance with the addendum to FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation Commercial Items.

(3) Volume II – PRICE. The offeror shall complete the line item section in the Solicitation (SF1449), Attachment 1.

The Government reserves the right to require the submission of Other Than Certified Cost or Pricing Data as is deemed necessary to arrive at a fair and reasonable price.

52.212-2 -- Evaluation -- Commercial Items. (Nov 2021) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

(a) Factors.

1. FACTOR I – PAST PERFORMANCE

2. FACTOR II - PRICE

(b) Options. (N/A)

(End of Provision)

ADDENDUM TO 52.212-2 EVALUATION – Commercial Items

1. BASIS FOR AWARD AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

BASIS FOR CONTRACT AWARD

(a) This is a best value source selection conducted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) PART 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR PART 13.5, Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items.

Award will be made to a single offeror who is deemed responsible in accordance with the FAR, whose offer conforms to the solicitation requirements, and whose offer, judged by an overall assessment of the evaluation criteria and other considerations specified in this solicitation, is the most advantageous to the Government

(b) The government reserves the right to conduct a price realism analysis at any point during the evaluation process. The Government will evaluate prices for reasonableness using adequate competition and price analysis techniques.

2. AWARD FOR ALL THE WORK. The Government intends to award a single Requirements Contract as a result of this solicitation.

3. EVALUATION CRITERIA.

a. Evaluation criteria consist of factors and sub-factors. The offers will be evaluated under two evaluation factors.

1. FACTOR I – PAST PERFORMANCE

2. FACTOR II - PRICE

a. Factor 1: Past Performance: In conducting the Past Performance evaluation, the Government will use information obtained from other sources, such as the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) or Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS).

b. Factor 2: Price. Price is not formally scored, but is the primary evaluation factor for determining award. The government expects competitive offers to be submitted for this procurement and will use these competitive offers to determine price reasonableness.

Completeness. Each offeror is required to provide complete pricing for each contract line identified.

(1) The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price of all line items.

(2) The Government will evaluate the option contained in clause 52.217-8 – Option to Extend Services by adding to the total price one half the amount of the final year's option price. Evaluation of this option shall not obligate the Government to exercise this option. The offeror shall not include pricing for this option period on their offer.

b. Definitions.

Reasonableness. A price is reasonable if, in its nature and amount, it does not exceed that which would be incurred by a prudent person in the conduct of competitive business.

Completeness/Accuracy. The offeror is in compliance with the Price Volume instructions in the solicitation.

Table A-1 Technically Acceptable/Unacceptable Ratings

Rating Description

Acceptable Ratings are Satisfactory or Above Unacceptable Ratings are Below Satisfactory

Neutral No Past Performance exists