BUY AMERICAN Form 2024 COMPLETED (002).pdf
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This is a Buy American—Balance of Payments Program Certificate for a solicitation involving SPIES and FRIES equipment. The document details the country of origin for multiple line items across different equipment types, with line items originating from China (1-4, 5-13, 24-25), Italy (14, 29-31), Mexico (19), USA (15-18, 21-23, 27-28, 32-33), and one line item marked as NLA (26). The certificate requires offerors to certify the origin of end products, with specific requirements for identifying domestic content, critical components, and qualifying country end products. The solicitation is issued by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Drum, covering equipment such as SPIE harnesses, SPIE lanyards, SPIES ropes, fast ropes, and rope bags, with varying quantities for each item type.
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BUY AMERICAN—BALANCE OF PAYMENTS PROGRAM CERTIFICATE—BASIC
(FEB 2024)
(a) Definitions. “Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item,” “component,” “critical component,” “critical item,” “domestic end product,” “foreign end product,” “qualifying country,” “qualifying country end product,” and “United States,” as used in this provision, have the meanings given in the 252.225-7001, Buy American and Balance of Payments Program— Basic clause of this solicitation.
(b) Evaluation. The Government—
(1) Will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of Part 225 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; and
(2) Will evaluate offers of qualifying country end products without regard to the restrictions of the Buy American statute or the Balance of Payments Program.
(c) Certifications and identification of country of origin.
(1) For all line items subject to the Buy American and Balance of Payments Program— Basic clause of this solicitation, the Offeror certifies that—
(i) Each end product, except those listed in paragraphs (c)(2) or (3) of this provision, is a domestic end product and that each domestic end product listed in paragraph (c)(4) of this provision contains a critical component or a critical item; and
(ii) For end products other than COTS items, components of unknown origin are considered to have been mined, produced, or manufactured outside the United States or a qualifying country. For those 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”.
(2) The Offeror certifies that the following end products are qualifying country end products:
Line Item Number Country of Origin
1-4 CHINA
5-13 CHINA
14 ITALY
15 USA
16-18 USA
19 MEXICO
21-23 USA
24-25 CHINA
26 NLA
27-28 USA
29-31 ITALY
32-33 USA
(3) The following end products are other foreign end products, including 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”.
Line Item Number Country of Origin Exceeds 55% Domestic (Yes/No)
(4) The Offeror shall separately list the line item numbers of domestic end products that contain a critical component or a critical item(see Federal Acquisition Regulation 25.105).
Domestic end products containing a critical component or a critical item:
Line Item Number _________________________________________________
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