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Solicitation Number FA2823-21-Q-4002 Refuse Collection Services, Eglin AFB, FL

The Air Force Test Center, Installation Operational Contracting Division, Eglin AFB, FL intends to solicit and award a firm-fixed price (FFP) contract for Refuse Collection and Disposal Services on Eglin AFB, Duke Field, Camp Rudder, 7th Special Forces, Eglin Ranges and Sites in Florida. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart

12.6 - Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items, and supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation;

offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Additionally, this combined synopsis/solicitation if being conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.5, FAR Subpart 19.8, Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 USC 637(a)(1)), and the executed Partnership Agreement between the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of the Air Force.

Notice to Offeror(s)/Supplier(s): Funds are not presently available for this effort. No award will be made under this solicitation until funds are available. The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, either before or after the closing date. In the event the Government cancels this solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs.

Who Can Participate? In accordance with FAR 19.800 and 15 U.S.C. 637(a), this acquisition is set aside for participants of the 8(a) Business Development (BD) program, and Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act. An offer may only be submitted by firms that have been accepted in the 8(a) Business Development (BD) program and have an active status at time of contract award.

Relationship between the Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors and the Basis for Award

Your attention is directed to the functional relationship between the Addendum to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items and the Basis for Award. FAR 52.212-1 provides information for the purpose of organizing and submitting an offer and is not intended to be all-inclusive.

The Basis for Award describes evaluation factors and the basis of award, to include the evaluation procedures for responsiveness to the solicitation, price, and non-price factors.

Addendum to FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors

QUOTATION PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

To assure timely and equitable evaluation of quotations, Offerors must follow the instructions contained herein. Offerors are required to meet the Request for Quotation (RFQ) requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, and requirements as defined in the Performance Work Statement (PWS). Failure to meet a requirement may result in an offer being ineligible for award.

Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the RFQ terms and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale. The response shall consist of two (2) separate parts; Volume I – Price Quotation, Volume II – Past Performance Information and Past Performance References and accompanying completed Past Performance Questionnaires. For all volumes, offerors must submit their documents through the DoD SAFE (Secure Access File Exchange) system. Offerors are cautioned to follow the detailed instructions fully and carefully, as the Government intends to make an award based on the initial offers received, without discussion of such offers.

In quotation volumes, follow the page limits as follows:

Volume Page Limits

Volume I - Price Quotation No page limit

Financial Responsibility No page limit Questionnaires (Attachment C)

Amendments (if any) No page limit

Bid Schedule No page limit (Attachment 4)

Volume II – Past Performance Information 10 pages

Past Performance References 4 pages per Attachment A Reference (Attachment A)

Completed Past Performance No page limit Questionnaires (Attachment B)

Consent form (Attachment D)

NOTE 1. Provide the form at Attachment A of not more than five (5) references of the most relevant contracts performed for federal agencies and commercial customers within the last three (3) years as part of Volume II. If the Offeror is a Joint Venture, in addition to the five (5) references for the prime, the Offeror may provide up to five (5) additional references for the Joint Venture. In addition, the Offeror is responsible for providing the Government the completed Attachment B questionnaires provided back to the Offeror by their references as part of Volume II.

NOTE 2. Provide the form at Attachment D. Joint venture - Concerns submitting offers on a particular acquisition as joint ventures are considered as affiliated and controlling or having the power to control each other with regard to performance of the contract. i.e. Joint profit, for which purpose they combine their efforts, property, money, skill, or knowledge, but not on a continuing or permanent basis for conducting business generally. Joint Ventures are characterized as two or more business entities that have been merged to create one business entity with equal responsibility during the course of the contract and will have a single Cage Code identified by SBA—joining the two companies.

Quotation Organization: The electronic files will be checked to determine the number of pages and compliance with quotation instructions. Those pages in excess of the limit will not be evaluated. The Government will not consider the evaluation of any pages in excess of the limit. If Evaluation Notices (EN’s) are required, page limits may be placed on any responses. Any page limits for responses to ENs will be identified in the email transmitting the ENs to you. Excess pages submitted in response to EN’s will be removed in the same manner as above by the PCO.

Format for all quotation Volumes shall be as follows:

A1. Quotations shall be neat, indexed (cross-indexed as appropriate) and assembled in an orderly manner.

A2. Page Set-Up/Font Size/Lines on Page: Only 8 ½ x 11 inch, portrait format pages are acceptable for text-oriented material. Landscape (8 ½ x 11 inch) pages are permitted for charts or graphs. Foldout pages are limited to 11 x 17 inch and may be portrait or landscape (limit 5). Text shall be written in full text.

Text font shall be Times New Roman (No “narrow” font versions acceptable). Font size shall be 12 point with proportional spacing permitted. Type size for figures and tables must be no smaller than 8-point with proportional spacing permitted. Text may be wrapped around figures and tables. Margins on all four (4) edges of each page shall be at least 1 inch. Include: RFQ number, Volume and/or subdirectory title and page number in the margin on the upper right of all pages. Single spacing may be used for figures and tables. Company name and proprietary information notices shall be placed on top and/or bottom margins.

Use single column formatting only; multi-column formatting is not allowed. Graphics are allowed in either color or black and white with an 8-point minimum on embedded text except where data is only being used as a sample and readability is not intended. Quotations shall not be supplemented by a package or supplemented by reference documents. Elaborate formats or color presentations are not desired or required.

A3. Page Definition: A page is defined as the digital equivalent of one face of a sheet of paper containing information.

A4. Page Numbering: Pages in each volume must be numbered sequentially and consecutively. The cover page, table of contents, list(s) of tables and drawings, and blank pages are excluded from the page count.

A5. Text and graphics portions of the electronic quotation documents shall be in a format readable by Microsoft (MS) Word 2003 or higher or Adobe PDF. Data submitted in spreadsheet format shall be readable by MS Excel 2003 or higher. Offerors are cautioned to follow the detailed instructions fully and carefully, as the Government intends to make an award based on the initial offers received, without discussion of such offers.

Specific Instructions for Volume I – PRICE QUOTATION

B1. Complete Attachment 4 Bid Schedule. In doing so, the offeror accedes to the contract terms and conditions as written in the RFQ and PWS.

B2. An offeror shall address in its Price Quotations Narrative any increase or decrease in any line item unit price of 5% or more per calendar/fiscal year. In addition, Offerors may provide in the Price Quotation Narrative information it believes may aid the Government evaluation.

B3. Line Item Price Rounding: All proposed line item unit price amounts shall be rounded to two decimal points to reflect cents. The extended line item total cost shall be rounded to the nearest dollar.

If any pricing quotation deviates from this format, the Government will apply the specified format to determine the extended pricing and TEP.

B4. The Contract will have a base period, four option periods and one optional six month extension. The offered prices for all Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) will be added together to determine the Total Evaluated Price (TEP).

B5. Complete the necessary fill-ins and certifications in FAR Provision FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items (Nov 2020) Alternate I (Oct 2014). This provision shall be returned in its entirety with your price quotation. The offeror’s System for Award Management

(SAM) Representations and Certifications record must be current, accurate and complete. For additional information, reference https://www.betaSAM and/or https://www.sam.gov/.

B6. All offerors must stay aware of any amendments made to the combined synopsis and solicitation, as the original and any revisions will be posted to beta.sam.gov under the number FA282321Q4002.

B7. Provide the name, title, and telephone number of the company/division point of contact regarding decisions made with respect to your quotation and who can obligate your company contractually.

Identify those individuals authorized to negotiate with the Government. Additionally, please provide the name, title, and telephone number of the CEO, Division President, and/or Vice President.

B8. Provide the company/division’s street address, county and facility code; CAGE code; DUNS code;

size of business; and labor surplus area designation.

B9. Submission of the financial questionnaire is required to be submitted by the Offeror on the Attachment C form(s) in regards to having, or having the ability to obtain, adequate financial resources to cover the contract. The Attachment C form shall be completed by the Offeror's main financial banking institution, and may be completed for the Offeror's suppliers and/or from other businesses having financial affairs with the Offeror. This information is to guide the Contracting Officer in determining whether or not the Offeror has the necessary financial resources to perform the contract or has the ability to obtain them prior to award in accordance with FAR 9.104-1(a). Information submitted on Attachment C form(s) is not a technical factor and will not be evaluated. Rather, this information is required by the FAR in order to be eligible for award and is submitted in advance to expedite the Contracting Officer's determination of Offeror responsibility prior to contract award.

B10. The Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) has determined that there is a high probability of adequate price competition in this acquisition. Upon examination of the initial offers, the Contracting Officer will review this determination and if, in the Contracting Officer’s opinion, adequate price competition exists, no additional price information will be requested. However, if at any time during this competition the PCO determines that adequate price competition no longer exists; offerors may be asked to submit information to the extent necessary for the PCO to determine the reasonableness and affordability of the Price. As allowable by FAR 13.106-2(b)(1), and in accordance with FAR 15.403-1(b) and 15.403-3(a), other than certified cost or pricing data may be required to support price reasonableness and realism. Data may be provided in accordance with FAR 15.403-5. Any information provided will be used in conjunction the procedures found at FAR 13.106-3(a)(2).

Specific Instructions for Volume II – PAST PERFORMANCE INFORMATION (PPI)

Only recent and relevant PPI is desired.

RECENT AND RELEVANT PPI: For the purpose of this RFQ, recent and relevant are defined as:

RECENT – Ongoing contracts with a performance history, and contracts completed or near completion within three (3) years from the issue date of this RFQ. Past Performance submitted that does not meet the definition of recent will NOT be evaluated.

RELEVANT – Performance of work which is the same or similar in scope, magnitude, trade, and complexity, as described in the RFQ. Relevant contracts include experience as a prime contractor and/or Joint Ventures in the area of industrial solid waste collection activities.

PPI is relevant if the work includes each of the following requirements:

https://www.betasam/ https://www.sam.gov/

1. Service a minimum of 200 “Front Load” cans per month.

2. Service a minimum of 50 (20/30/40 Cu. Yd.) roll off dumpsters per month.

3. Service compactors at least weekly.

4. Minimum annual contract cost - $500K

Provide any information available (i.e. descriptive language, letters, metrics, customer surveys, independent surveys, etc.) which demonstrates customer satisfaction with overall job performance and quality of completed projects for same or similar type contracts completed within the last three years as well as current projects nearing completion. In addition, explain corrective actions taken in the past, if any, for substandard performance and any current performance problems such as missed refuse pickups.

Provide comments regarding any known performance deemed unacceptable to the customer, or not in accordance with the contract terms and conditions. If the contractor does not have recent and relevant past performance, then the Offeror shall state in its quotation that the Offeror does not have recent and relevant past performance.

PAST PERFORMANCE REFERENCES

C1. Only references for same or similar type contracts are desired.

C2. The Government will evaluate the quality and extent of offeror’s performance deemed recent and relevant to the requirements of this RFQ. The Government will use information submitted by the offeror in the Past Performance Volume II Attachment A and Attachment B forms and other sources such as other federal Government resources and commercial sources, to assess performance. The Government may also use other information available that is determined relevant to this effort, such as, but not limited to, the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS).

C3. Joint Venture: If the offeror intends to fulfill the requirements of this RFQ in a teaming arrangement or joint venture, the offeror must provide complete information as to the arrangement, including a list of any relevant and recent past/present performance information on previous joint ventures with the same joint venture partner. If this is a first-time joint effort, each party to the arrangement must provide a list of past and present contracts. If the offeror intends to submit past performance information of a teaming arrangement member or a joint venture partner, then the offeror shall provide sufficient information to clearly convey the roles and responsibilities that each member or partner performed. Past Performance information of team members or joint venture partners shall be consistent with the proposed roles and responsibilities that each member or partner will perform for this requirement. Identify each member's share of the prospective contract, 50/50, 51/49, etc. Clearly establish roles of each party (who is prime and who is subcontractor, who is responsible for what tasks, contract administration, quotations, work management, etc.). Provide for protection of competition-sensitive proprietary information (subcontractor past performance cannot be disclosed to the prime offeror without the subcontractor's consent). Provide a letter from all subcontractors (Attachment D) that will perform major or critical aspects of the requirement, consenting to the release of their past performance information to the prime contractor, only if it is being used as part of the past performance evaluation. Include a Statement of Assurance that the team member will not be replaced for the duration of the contract, and any exceptions should be identified. Also include a Statement of Assurance that the team members are not teaming with another firm for this requirement. Include a Statement of acknowledgement that the Prime Contractor is responsible for adhering to contract terms and conditions and daily management. The Prime Contractor is obligated to negotiate in good faith and is responsible for conveying mandatory government terms and conditions to subcontractors. The prime contractor shall remain fully responsible for contract performance, regardless of any teaming agreement between the prime contractor and its subcontractors.

Additional Instructions

D1. Deviations. Deviations from these instructions will be reviewed by the Contracting Officer to ensure that no offeror receives a competitive advantage. Deviations resulting in a competitive advantage for an offeror will result in the quotation being determined nonconforming with the RFQ requirements. Offerors unconditionally assume the risk that a clear quantitative deviation will be deemed qualitatively advantageous to the offeror and determined nonconforming with the RFQ.

D2. Disposition of Unsuccessful Quotations. The Government will retain one copy (digitally) of all unsuccessful quotations.

D3 (D3-D8). Offer Delivery. All offerors must submit their quotation through the DoD SAFE (Secure Access File Exchange) system found at https://safe.apps.mil/. Offerors must follow the instructions below in submitting their quotations. Any offers submitted outside of the system will not be evaluated.

D4. Offerors must name their files to include the volume of the quotation first, followed by an attachment reference (if there is one), and finally the document title. Offerors must utilize the underscore character, “_”, to separate each part of the file names. Examples are as follows; “Volume I_Attachment 4_Bid Schedule” or “Volume II_Past Performance Information”.

D5. Offerors must email Daniel Gillert (daniel.gillert.1@us.af.mil) and Nathan McMillen (nathan.mcmillen.1@us.af.mil) with the first and last name(s) of the Points of Contact (POC) submitting the offer on behalf of the offeror, as well as the POC(s) email address(es). This information must be submitted no sooner than fourteen (14) days and no later than eight (8) days prior to the offerors due date.

D6. The POC(s) to submit the offer will receive a DoD SAFE email with a link to upload all offer documentation. Offerors must utilize the “Click to Add Files” button to select their offer documentation.

Offerors uploading their offer documents must keep the box titled “Send me an email when each recipient picks up the files” checked. This selection will enable automatic confirmation of offer receipt by the contracting office. The use of the file “Description” field is not required.

D7. After uploading all required offer documentation, offerors must click “Drop-off Files” to proceed the offer submission. Offerors will be presented with a banner confirming that no classified information is contained within the submission. Offerors must click “ok” to complete their submission. Note: The upload link provided will only remain valid for 14 days. Upon successful file upload, the link will be made unusable.

D8. Upon successful offer submission offerors will be brought to a confirmation page titled “Drop-Off Completed”. Offers must retain this confirmation, should it be needed.

D9. Electronic Reference Documents. All referenced documents for this RFQ are available on the SAM beta website at http://www.beta.sam.gov. Potential Offerors are encouraged to subscribe for real-time email notifications when information has been posted to the website for this RFQ.

D10. Formal Communications: Offerors shall submit formal communications such as questions, requests for clarifications, and/or information concerning this RFQ, in writing via email to the following email https://safe.apps.mil/ mailto:daniel.gillert.1@us.af.mil mailto:nathan.mcmillen.1@us.af.mil addresses NO LATER THAN TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE OFFERS DUE DATE to allow processing an amendment to the RFQ with the Offeror’s questions and answers.

Email: daniel.gillert.1@us.af.mil AND nathan.mcmillen.1@us.af.mil

Note: Late submittals will be handled in accordance with (IAW) the provision at FAR 52.212-1.

BASIS FOR AWARD

EVALUATION CRITERIA

BASIS FOR CONTRACT AWARD:

This is a competitive best value acquisition utilizing the tradeoff process without technical offers in accordance with FAR Part 12, FAR Part 13, and FAR Part 15 as appropriate, and the evaluation process and criteria set forth in this RFQ. This procurement will be conducted as a Section 8(a) set-aside. The Government will award a contract resulting from the RFQ to the acceptable, responsible offeror whose quotation, conforming to this RFQ, offers the best-value to the Government. The evaluation factors are:

Factor 1: Price and Factor 2: Past Performance with Past Performance being approximately equal to Price.

Evaluation criteria are the same for all competing Offerors.

Offerors shall assure that quotations are submitted in accordance with the instructions provided in clause FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Competitive Acquisitions and Addendum to FAR 52.212-1 of this RFQ. By submission of its offer, the offeror accedes to all RFQ requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, exhibits, attachments, drawings, and specifications.

Offerors shall offer prices for all CLINs. Any offer that fails to cite a price for each item, or fails to make an entry, may be rejected as nonconforming to this RFQ.

Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the RFQ terms and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale. Failure to meet a requirement risks rejection.

Only Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) offers will be evaluated for FFP CLINs. An offer using a sliding price scale, or subject to escalation based on any contingency for FFP designated CLINs, will not be accepted. Only one contract will be awarded for this requirement.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

Evaluation Factors

Factor 1: Price Factor 2: Past Performance

Process (Stepped Approach)

Step 1 - Quotations will be ranked from lowest total evaluated price (TEP) to highest TEP. Then, the two lowest TEP quotations will be evaluated under Factor 1 Price.

Step 2 - If either or both of the two lowest quotations are found to be incomplete, unreasonable or unbalanced under Factor 1 then the Government will review the next lowest TEP quotation(s) until two mailto:daniel.gillert.1@us.af.mil quotations are found to be complete, reasonable and have balanced pricing under Factor 1 OR all offers have been evaluated.

Step 3 - Then, the two lowest TEP quotations with complete, reasonable and balanced pricing for Factor 1 will be evaluated for past performance confidence under Factor 2. If the lowest TEP quotation with complete, reasonable and balanced pricing for Factor 1 is found to have a Substantial Confidence performance assessment under Factor 2, this quotation is deemed to represent the best value for the Government, and the evaluation process stops at this point. Award shall be made to that Offeror without further consideration of any other Offerors.

Step 4 - If the lowest TEP with complete, reasonable and balanced pricing for Factor 1 does not receive a “Substantial Confidence” performance assessment rating under Factor 2, then the second lowest TEP quotation with complete, reasonable and balanced pricing for Factor 1 will be evaluated under Factor

2. If the second lowest TEP with complete, reasonable and balanced pricing for Factor 1 quotation does not receive a “Substantial Confidence” performance assessment rating under Factor 2, then this evaluation process will continue until an offeror is found to have a “Substantial Confidence” performance assessment rating under Factor 2 OR all offers have been evaluated.

Step 5 - The Source Selection Authority shall then make an integrated assessment best value award decision by determining if the best value to the Government is to pay a higher price for higher past performance confidence assessment rating. The Government reserves the following rights: to award a contract to the lowest price offeror who has Substantial Confidence Rating, to award to higher priced offeror who has Substantial Confidence Rating; award a contract to the lowest price offeror who has at least a Satisfactory Confidence Rating or award a contract to the lowest price offeror who has a Neutral Confidence Rating.

Step 6 - If the Government chooses to enter into discussions at any point during the evaluation process, discussions will be conducted with those Offerors whose quotations are in the competitive range. After discussions are closed and Final Quotation Revisions received, the process will begin again at Step 1.

Price Evaluation: As mentioned above, initially, offers will be ranked from lowest to highest, according to their TEPs.

The Offeror’s quoted CLIN prices will be determined by multiplying the “Unit Price” by the Government provided ”Quantity” identified to determine the “Amount” for each CLIN. As part of the Price evaluation, all CLIN “Amounts” will be added together (summed) to establish an offeror’s overall TEP for the acquisition. Price will be reviewed and evaluated based on the CLINs shown within Attachment 4 Bid Schedule. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise such options.

The offeror's price quotation will be evaluated, using one or more of the techniques defined in FAR 15.404, as allowed by FAR 13.106-2(b) in order to determine if it is complete, reasonable, and balance.

Once the Contracting Officer has determined that adequate price competition exists within this source selection, price fairness and reasonableness will be evaluated, at a minimum, based on the comparison of the offeror’s overall TEP with all other competitive offerors’ overall TEPs received in response to the solicitation IAW FAR 13.106-3(a).

Past Performance Evaluation: Using the information provided in Volume II, Past Performance Information and Past Performance References (Attachment A) and completed Past Performance

Questionnaires (Attachment B) and other available information, the Contracting Officer shall seek recent and relevant performance information on all Offerors based on (1) the past and present efforts provided by the Offeror and (2) data independently obtained from other Government, commercial and other sources.

E1. Recent - Ongoing contracts with a performance history, and contracts completed or near completion within three (3) years from the issue date of this solicitation. Past Peformance Information submitted that does not meet the defintion of recent shall not be evaluted.

E2. Relevant – Performance of work which is the same or similar in scope, magnitude, trade, and complexity, as described in the RFQ. Relevant contracts include experience as a prime contractor and/or Joint Ventures in the area of industrial solid waste collection activities.

PPI is relevant if the work includes each of the following requirements:

1. Service a minimum of 200 “Front Load” cans per month.

2. Service a minimum of 50 (20/30/40 Cu. Yd.) roll off dumpsters per month.

3. Service compactors at least weekly.

4. Minimum annual contract cost - $500K

E3. The Government reserves the right to seek information on higher priced offerors if none of the lower priced offerors receive a Substantial Confidence performance confidence assessment. The purpose of the Past Performance evaluation is to allow the Government to assess the offeror’s ability to perform the effort described in this RFQ, based on the offeror’s demonstrated Present and Past Performance. The Government will conduct a performance confidence assessment based upon Past Performance of the offerors as it relates to the probability of successfully performing the solicitation requirements. This evaluation will include the offeror’s record of (i) conforming to the Performance Work Statement, (ii) management of the project, (iii) reasonable and cooperative behavior and performance and commitment to customer satisfaction, and (iv) quality control. This assessment represents the Government evaluation team’s judgment of the probability of an offeror successfully accomplishing the proposed effort, based upon the offeror’s demonstrated present and past performance. The rating may be determined initially, without the need of discussions. The assessment process will result in an overall performance confidence assessment rating of Substantial Confidence, Satisfactory Confidence, Limited Confidence, No Confidence, or Unknown Confidence, as defined in Table 2.0.

E4. Offerors submitting past performance information regarding predecessor companies, key personnel, or subcontractors, are highly encouraged to provide sufficient details regarding them to allow the Government to fully evaluate the relative value of the information. For example, but not limited to, how is the past performance of a predecessor company, key personnel, or subcontractor recent and relevant to the determination of this offeror’s ability to perform this contract. What will the level of involvement of key personnel be on this contract effort? Provide full details of any subcontractor’s involvement on this work effort.

E5. In evaluating Past Performance, the Government reserves the right to give greater consideration to information on those contracts deemed most relevant to the effort described in this RFQ.

E6. Offerors with no recent and relevant past or present performance history or the offeror’s performance record is so limited that no confidence assessment rating can be reasonably assigned shall receive the rating "Neutral Confidence," meaning the rating is treated neither favorably nor unfavorably. Definitions for Performance Confidence Assessments and Relevancy are as defined below:

Table 1.0 – Past Performance Relevancy Ratings Definitions

Past Performance Relevancy Ratings Definitions Very Relevant Present/Past Performance effort involved essentially the same scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Relevant Present/Past Performance effort involved similar scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Somewhat Relevant Present/Past Performance effort involved some of the scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Not Relevant Present/Past Performance effort involved little or none of the scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Table 2.0 –– Performance Confidence Assessments

Performance Confidence Assessments Substantial Confidence Based on the Offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the

Government has a high expectation that the Offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Satisfactory Confidence Based on the Offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a reasonable expectation that the Offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Neutral Confidence No recent/relevant performance record is available or the offeror’s performance record is so sparse that no meaningful confidence assessment rating can be reasonably assigned.

The offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on the factors of past performance.

Limited Confidence Based on the Offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a low expectation that the Offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

No Confidence Based on the Offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has no expectation that the Offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Offerors are cautioned to submit sufficient information and in the format specified in FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Competitive Acquisitions and the Addendum to FAR 52.212-1 of this solicitation. Offerors may be asked to clarify certain aspects of their quotation (for example, the relevance of Past Performance information) or respond to adverse Past Performance information to which the offeror has not previously had an opportunity to respond. Adverse Past Performance is defined as Past Performance Information that supports a less than Satisfactory rating on any evaluation element or any unfavorable comments received from sources without a formal rating system. Communication conducted to resolve minor or clerical errors will not constitute discussions and the Contracting Officer reserves the right to award a contract without the opportunity for quotation revision.

The Government may reject any or all offers, if such, is in the public interest; accept other than the lowest offer; and waive informalities and minor irregularities in received offers.

Rejection of Unrealistic Offers: The Government may reject any quotation that is assessed to be unrealistic in terms of program commitments, including contract terms and conditions, or unrealistically high or low in price, such that the quotation is deemed to reflect lack of competence or failure to comprehend the complexity and risks of the program. Quotations that are unrealistic in terms of price may be rejected at any time during the evaluation process. Offerors are cautioned to follow the detailed instructions fully and carefully, as the Government reserves the right to make an award based on initial offers received, without discussion of such offers. The offeror's initial quotation should reflect their best effort.

The Government reserves the right to award a contract based only on initial quotations without establishing a competitive range and conducting discussions. If, during the evaluation period, it is determined to be in the best interest of the Government to conduct discussions, the Government will establish a competitive range and conduct discussions with all offerors included in the competitive range.

Offeror responses to Evaluation Notices and the Final Quotation Revision will be considered in making the source selection decision.

A Contractor Responsibility Determination will be made IAW FAR Subpart 9.1 for the prospective awardee.

ATTACHMENTS

Attachment Title Pages Date Attachment 1 Provisions and Clauses 35 N/A Attachment 2 Performance Work Statement 37 Oct 2020 Attachment 3 Wage Determinations 45 Feb 2021 Attachment 4 Refuse Bid Schedule 6 N/A Attachment A Past Performance References 1 N/A Attachment B Past Performance Questionnaire 5 N/A Attachment C Financial Responsibility Questionnaire 1 N/A Attachment D Consent Form 1 N/A