RFQ - 3 CTS Vector Signal Generators Amendment 0001.pdf

FA251724Q0107

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE

SPACE BASE DELTA 1

3 September 2024

21st Contracting Squadron/PKB 135 Dover Street Suite 2225, Peterson SFB, CO 80914

SOLICITATION NUMBER: FA251724Q0107: Amendment 0001 SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR QUOTE, 3 CTS EWOC Vector Signal Generators

All communications with the requiring activity concerning this solicitation shall cease until the award is announced.

During this period, interaction is only allowed with the Contracting Officer.

Question Submission: Questions are due NLT 6 September 2024, 10:00 A.M. Mountain Time: All questions must be submitted to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist, please see email addresses in the table below.

Quote Submission: Quotes are due NLT 9 September 2024, 10:00 A.M. Mountain Time: All quotes must be submitted to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist, please see email addresses in the table below.

Points of Contact Information:

Contracting Officer Contracting Specialist

SSgt Frederick Chartrand A1C Samuel Souil frederick.chartrand@spaceforce.mil Samuel.souil@spaceforce.mil

The 21st Contracting Squadron, Peterson Space Force Base (SFB), has a brand name or equal requirement to award a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order for Rohde & Schwarz Vector Signal Generators that meet the brand name requirement or salient characteristics identified below, to be delivered to Colorado Springs, CO. The exact address will be provided at time of award.

Salient Characteristics:

1. Dual Channel RF signal output

2. 2 I/Q paths to RF section/output

3. Output frequency range: 100KHz - 3 GHz

4. Baseband generator with real time coder and ARB (Arbitrary Waveform Generator)

5. Pulse Modulator

6. Mult-function Generator

7. Differential analog I/Q outputs

8. Digital Baseband output

9. Additional white gaussian noise (AWGN) output

10. Enhanced phase noise generation, phase noise, impulsive noise

The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2024-05 dated 22 May 2024.

This effort is being solicited 100% small business set-aside 334515 - Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals. The size standard is 750 employees.

Please provide a quote that lists part number, description, unit price, and the extended price for each item. Please also total mailto:meagan.tracey@spaceforce.mil mailto:Samuel.souil@spaceforce.mil line item and provide a bottom-line price. Product specifications and salient characteristics are provided in the table below. Please include the delivery timeframes in the submitted quote.

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) Information Table

Brand Name or Equal Audio Console – Delivery: 8 Weeks ARO

CLIN

Number

Qty Description Unit Price

Total Price

Clin 0001

1 EA

Brand Name or Equal for Rhode and Schwarz VSGs IAW the attached List of Materials (LOM)

FAR Provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items (SEP 2023) applies to this acquisition and the following addendum applies: The Government will award a contract resulting from the solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be the most advantageous to the Government.

Evaluation and Award Criteria The Government will review all quotes for compliance with the RFQ, to include compliance with all instructions, provisions and clauses, and submission dates.

The compliant quotes will then be evaluated using a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) approach in accordance with the following factors:

• Factor 1: Technical

• Factor 2: Price

Technical Acceptability: The Government will evaluate quotes for technical acceptability in the following way:

Verification that quotes include the correct quantity, part number and description/configuration and meets the brand and/or the salient characteristics listed in the CLIN Information Table.

Definition: Acceptable or Unacceptable.

• Acceptable is defined as the quote clearly meets the correct quantity, part number and description/configuration and meets the brand and/or the salient characteristics listed in the CLIN Information Table

• Unacceptable is defined as the quote does not clearly meet the correct quantity, part number and description/configuration. The quote does not meet the brand and/or the salient characteristics listed in the CLIN Information Table

AWARD PROCESS:

The Government will first review all quotes for compliance and then order the Offerors from lowest to highest total price.

The lowest priced quote will then be evaluated for Factor 1, Technical Acceptability on acceptable/unacceptable basis. If the lowest priced quote is deemed technically acceptable the evaluation will stop and award will be made. If the lowest priced quote is deemed technically unacceptable no further consideration will be given to that offeror and the next lowest priced quote will then be evaluated, the Government will continue the evaluation process until reaching a technically acceptable quote. Quotes that are technically unacceptable are un-awardable. The Government reserves the right to award without exchanges. Prior to award, the quoted price of the lowest priced technically acceptable offer will be evaluated for fairness and reasonableness in accordance with FAR 13.106-3.

Interchanges: The Government intends to award a purchase order without conversations with respective vendors. The Government however, reserves the right to conduct conversations if deemed in its best interest of the Government.

The Government may conduct conversations with one, some, none or all Vendors at its discretion.

If the price is determined to be fair and reasonable, the lowest priced responsible Offeror who is technically acceptable will receive the award. The award will be made to that Offeror without further consideration to any other Offerors.

Note: The vendor acknowledges that should the quote terms and conditions and/or agreement conflict with mandatory provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and other Federal law applicable to commercial acquisitions, to the extent of such conflict the FAR and Federal law govern and conflicting vendor terms and conditions and/or agreement are unenforceable and are not considered incorporated into any resultant contract.

The following provision applies to this solicitation:

Brand Name or Equal (Aug 1999)

(a) If an item in this solicitation is identified as "brand name or equal," the purchase description reflects the characteristics and level of quality that will satisfy the Government’s needs. The salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics that "equal" products must meet are specified in the solicitation.

(b) To be considered for award, offers of "equal" products, including "equal" products of the brand name manufacturer, must-

(1) Meet the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristic specified in this solicitation;

(2) Clearly identify the item by-

(i) Brand name, if any; and

(ii) Make or model number;

(3) Include descriptive literature such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the Contracting Officer; and

(4) Clearly describe any modifications the offeror plans to make in a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements.

Mark any descriptive material to clearly show the modifications.

(c) The Contracting Officer will evaluate "equal" products on the basis of information furnished by the offeror or identified in the offer and reasonably available to the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or obtaining any information not identified in the offer.

(d) Unless the offeror clearly indicates in its offer that the product being offered is an "equal" product, the offeror shall provide the brand name product referenced in the solicitation.

(End of provision)

Attachments –

Attachment 1 – Provisions and Clauses Attachment 2 – List of Materials

AWARD PROCESS: