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COMBINED SYNOPSIS/ SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS

FA4418-20-R-FIRE

(i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 and 13.5 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.

(ii) The combined synopsis/solicitation reference number is FA4418-20-R-FIRE and shall be used to reference any written quote provided under this Request for

Quote (RFQ). The following documents are attached to this combination synopsis/solicitation that will be used to submit quotes.

Attachments:

1. Pricing Sheet

2. Performance Work Statement

3. Past Performance Questionnaire

(iii) This RFQ, Solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 202019-01 effective 12 Nov

2019.

(iv) This acquisition is solicited as a Small Business Set Aside. The applicable

NAICS code is 561621 with a size standard of $22M. All responsive sources may submit a quotation using the attached pricing sheet.

(v) Contractor shall submit a quote for fire alarm maintenance and repair services.

The Price Sheet is attached to this combination solicitation/synopsis and will be used to submit quotes. After award, this document will become part of the contract.

A SITE VISIT is scheduled Tuesday, 6 December 2019 at 9:00 A.M. (EST).

This site visit is encouraged but not mandatory. All prospective Offerors interested in attending this site visit are requested to contact Mr. Victor

McKinnon, Contract Specialist via e-mail: victor.mckinnon@us.af.mil no later than 4 December 2019 by 12:00 noon (EST) with the names of no more than two individuals who will attend.

Instructions for site visit meeting location will be issued by 4:00 pm (EST) on

4 December 2019. SOME DELAY SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED. Offerors should allow sufficient time to obtain access to the base.

(vi) The contractor shall provide all equipment, materials, tools, parts, shipping, and all other items necessary to provide fire alarm testing, inspection, and repair services as prescribed in the attached Performance Work Statement.

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(vii) Base performance period is 1 Mar 20 – 30 Sep 20; 1st option is 1 Oct 20 - 30

Sep 21; 2nd option is 1 Oct 21 - 30 Sep 22; 3rd option is 1 Oct 22 - 30 Sep 23; 4th option is 1 Oct 23 - 30 Sep 24. Place of Performance: Joint Base Charleston -

Weapons Station, Goose Creek, SC 29445 and Joint Base Charleston - Air Base

29404.

(viii) The following clauses and provisions are incorporated and will remain in full force in any resultant award: (full text of clauses and provisions may be accessed electronically at this website: http://farsite.hill.af.mil) FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items

(ix) FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items

The Government will award a contract resulting from this combined synopsis/solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the government, price, and other factors considered. A trade off will be used to determine the awardee. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

1. Price.

2. Past Performance.

Price: Initially offers shall be ranked according to price.

Past Performance: Past performance will be rated as Very Relevant, Relevant, Somewhat Relevant and Not Relevant. Performance Confidence Assessment. The assessment process will result in an overall performance confidence assessment of

Substantial Confidence, Satisfactory Confidence, Neutral Confidence, Limited

Confidence, or No Confidence.

Past Performance will be significantly more important than price. If the lowest priced evaluated responsible offer is judged to have Exceptional recent, Relevant

Past Performance then a Substantial Confidence rating shall be assigned, and the

Evaluation process stops at that point. That offer shall represent the best value to the Government and the award shall be made to that Offeror without further consideration of any other offers. Offerors shall provide three references of your most recent and relevant projects. Recent is defined as projects within the past three years. Relevant is defined as performance effort involved similar magnitude of effort and complexity that this RFQ requires.

(x) All Offerors shall include a completed copy of FAR 52.212-3, Offeror

Representation and Certifications -- Commercial Item or complete electronic annual representations and certifications at the System for Award Management http://www.sam.gov http://www.sam.gov/

(xi) FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial

Items, applies to this acquisition.

(xii) FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to

Implement Statutes or Executive Orders – Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition.

(xiii) Terms and Condition incorporated by reference or full text:

FAR 52.209-10 – Prohibition on Contracting With Inverted Domestic

Corporations

FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of Options

FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services. The government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting

Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the contractor within

15 DAYS.

FAR 52.217-9, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract. (a) The

Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the contractor within 15 DAYS; provided that the Government gives the

Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 60

DAYS before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension. (b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause. (c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed 55 MONTHS.

FAR 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside

FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting

FAR 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Representation

FAR 52.222-21 -- Prohibition of Segregated Facilities.

FAR 52.222-41 Services Contract Act of 1965 and current Wage

Determination # 2015-4427 Rev 12 Dated July 16, 2019

FAR 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires. In compliance with the Service Contract Act of 1965, as amended and the regulations of the Secretary of Labor (29 CFR Part 4), this clause identifies the classes of service employees expected to be employed under the contract and states the wages and fringe benefits payable to each if they were employed by the contracting agency subject to the provisions of

5 U.S.C. 5341 or 5332.

This Statement is for Information Only: It is not a Wage Determination.

Employee Class Monetary Wage-Fringe Benefits

23290 Fire Alarm System Mechanic WG-10 $24.75 + 36.25% Fringes

FAR 52.222-44 Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Act - Price

Adjustment.

FAR 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons

FAR 52.225-1, Buy American Act - Supplies

FAR 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases

FAR 52.223-15, Energy Efficiency in Energy-Consuming Products

FAR 52.228-5 Insurance—Work on a Government Installation, 52.236-2, Differing Site Conditions, and 52.236-6 Superintendence by the

Contractor

FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for

Award Management

FAR 52.204-7, System for Award Management

FAR 52.209-10 – Prohibition on Contracting With Inverted Domestic

Corporations

FAR 52.232-99, Providing Accelerated Payment to Small Business

Subcontractors (DEVIATION)

FAR 52.233-3 -- Protest After Award.

FAR 52.253-1 Computer Generated Forms

DFARS 252.204-7004, Alternate A. System for Award Management

DFARS 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and

Receiving Reports (Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this clause, the Contractor shall submit payment requests and receiving reports using

WAWF, in one of the following electronic formats that WAWF accepts:

Electronic Data Interchange, Secure File Transfer Protocol, or World

Wide Web input. Information regarding WAWF is available on the

Internet at https://wawf.eb.mil/. The WAWF routing information will be provided upon award.)

DFARS 252.246-7000, Material Inspection And Receiving Report

AFFARS 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman

5352.201-9101 OMBUDSMAN

(a) An ombudsman has been appointed to hear and facilitate the resolution of concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and others for this acquisition. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The existence of the ombudsman does not affect the authority of the program manager, contracting officer, or source selection official. Further, the ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of quotes, the source selection process, or the adjudication of protests or formal contract disputes. The ombudsman may refer the party to another official who can resolve the concern.

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(b) Before consulting with an ombudsman, interested parties must first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendations to the contracting officer for resolution. Consulting an ombudsman does not alter or postpone the timelines for any other processes (e.g., agency level bid protests, GAO bid protests, requests for debriefings, employee-employer actions, contests of OMB Circular A-76 competition performance decisions).

(c) If resolution cannot be made by the contracting officer, the interested party may contact the ombudsmen, Mrs. Susan Madison, AFICC OL

AMC, 510 POW/MIA, Scott AFB, IL 62225-5022, 618-229-0267, fax

618- 256-5724, email: susan.madison@us.af.mil. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations that cannot be resolved at the

Center/MAJCOM/DRU/HQ AFICC/AFISRA/SMC ombudsman levels, may be brought by the interested party for further consideration to the Air

Force ombudsman, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (ADAS)

(Contracting), SAF/AQC, 1060 Air Force Pentagon, Washington DC

20330-1060, phone number (571) 256-2395, facsimile number (571) 256-

2431.

(d) The ombudsman has no authority to render a decision that binds the agency.

(e) Do not contact the ombudsman to request copies of the solicitation, verify offer due date, or clarify technical requirements. Such inquiries shall be directed to the Contracting Officer (End of clause)

(xiv) Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS): N/A

(xv) Response to this combined synopsis/solicitation with attached pricing sheet and associated attachments must be received via email, mail, or delivery by 17

December 2019, no later than 4:00 PM EST. Requests should be marked with solicitation FA4418-20-R-FIRE

(xvi) Address questions to Victor McKinnon, Contract Specialist, at (843) 963-

4492 or victor.mckinnon@us.af.mil and Tricia Esannason, Contracting Officer, at

(843) 963-3337, or tricia.esannason@us.af.mil .

For more opportunities, visit http://www.airforcesmallbiz.org (see Contract

Opportunities at the right side-bar). Also see: http://www.sba.gov mailto:susan.madison@us.af.mil mailto:victor.mckinnon@us.af.mil mailto:tricia.esannason@us.af.mil http://www.airforcesmallbiz.org/ http://www.sba.gov/