Combined Synopsis Solicitation FA441824Q0043.pdf

COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION

REMOVE/REPLACE VENTILATION SYSTEM, WELDING SHOP, BLDG 536

JOINT BASE CHARLESTON (JB CHS) – AIR BASE, SC

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, 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.

The Request for Quotation (RFQ) number FA441824Q0043 shall be used to reference any written quote provided under this RFQ.

The RFQ document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2024-05; Effective 05/22/2024.

This acquisition is set-aside for small business concerns.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this project is 333413, Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing, with a size standard of 500 employees.

The purpose of this combined synopsis/solicitation is for the contractor to provide all labor, materials, transportation, supervision and management to perform installation as it relates to the following tasks, including, but not limited to 1) demolishing the existing welding ventilation system and 2) providing a new industrial welding ventilation system in the Aircraft Metals Technology Shop in Building 536.

The bid schedule and contract CLIN structure are below.

Line Item Description Qty U/I Unit Price Total Amount 0001 $ $

TOTAL PRICE $

FAR Provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Products and Commercial Services applies to this acquisition and the following addendum applies:

The following words stating “offer”, “offeror”, and “proposal” are replaced with “quotation”, “vendor”, and “quote”.

Paragraph (a) first sentence revised as follows: “The NAICS code and small business size standard for this acquisition appear above.”

Paragraph (c) first sentence revised as follows: “The vendor agrees to hold the prices in its quote firm for 60 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of quotes, unless another time period is specified in an addendum to the quote.”

A site visit will be conducted at 10:00 AM EST, Monday, 29 July 2024. Offerors shall meet the Government Representative(s) in the parking lot adjacent to Waffle House at 6907 Dorchester Road, http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/52_000.htm#P1070_147634

North Charleston, SC 29418. All prospective Offerors are urged to attend this conference and are requested to contact the Contract Specialist (CS), Lisa (Brooke) Mitchell via email at lisa.mitchell.11@us.af.mil and provide the company name and company personnel names planning to attend the site visit no later than 12 Noon (EST), on 25 July 2024. Offerors are advised traffic may be congested at the designated location. Offerors are advised to arrive early to be included in the site visit.

At the conclusion of the Site Visit, questions regarding this RFQ must be emailed to lisa.mitchell.11@us.af.mil (CS) AND nicholas.riccio.1@us.af.mil, Contracting Officer (CO), by 12:00 PM EST, 31 July 2024. Responses to questions will be compiled, answered, and uploaded to SAM.gov for all interested parties to review.

RFQ due date: 06 August 2024 RFQ due time: 3:00 P.M. EST Email to lisa.mitchell.11@us.af.mil AND nicholas.riccio.1@us.af.mil

THIS MUST BE SENT TO THE EMAIL ADDRESSES AS STATED ABOVE. ANYTHING

OTHERWISE CAN AND WILL BE CONSIDERED NONRESPONSIVE. YOU MAY WISH TO

PLACE A READ/DELIVERY RECEIPT.

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Please provide the following information with your quote:

Company Name Unique Entity Identifier CAGE Code Number of Employees * Estimated Delivery Time Payment Terms Warranty FOB (Destination or Origin) Shipping Costs Included (Yes or No)

*Information required determining size of business for the NAICS referenced above

All companies must be registered in the System for Award Management at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ to be considered for award. The Government will not provide contract financing for this acquisition. Invoice instruction shall be provided at time of award.

FAR Provision 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Products and Commercial Services, applies to this acquisition with the following addenda:

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this RFQ to the responsible vendor whose quote conforming to the RFQ represents the lowest price technically acceptable quotation. To be determined technically acceptable, the quote must demonstrate items quoted meet the salient characteristics as defined in this solicitation.

mailto:lisa.mitchell.11@us.af.mil mailto:lisa.mitchell.11@us.af.mil mailto:nicholas.riccio.1@us.af.mil mailto:lisa.mitchell.11@us.af.mil mailto:nicholas.riccio.1@us.af.mil https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/52_000.htm#P1130_159445

Quotes will be arranged according to their total price and evaluated for technical acceptability on an Acceptable/Unacceptable basis.

The evaluation process will begin with the lowest price quote and will continue until a quote is deemed technically acceptable. Once a quote receives an Acceptable rating, the evaluation will stop, and award will be made to the lowest price technically acceptable vendor.

Interchanges: The government intends to award a purchase order without interchanges with respective vendors. Vendors are advised to quote their best terms. The government reserves the right to conduct interchanges with none, some, or all vendors of its choosing.

(End of Provision)

FAR Provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Products and Commercial Services (Alternate I) applies to this acquisition. Vendors must provide a completed copy of all representations and certifications or ensure they are completed electronically in the System for Award Management at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ at the time of Quote submittal.

FAR clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Products and Commercial Services applies to this acquisition.

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.

FAR clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Products and Commercial Services, applies to this acquisition. Additionally, the following FAR clauses cited in 52.212-5 are applicable:

FAR 52.204-27, Prohibition on a Byte Dance Covered Application FAR 52.219-28, Post-Award Small Business Program Representation FAR 52.222-3, Convict Labor FAR 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies FAR 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity FAR 52.222-50, Combatting Trafficking in Persons FAR 52.223-18, Encouraging contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving FAR 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management

The following FAR and DFARS Provisions and Clauses are also applicable to this Acquisition:

FAR 52.204-7, System for Award Management FAR 52.204-13, System for Award Management Maintenance FAR 52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting FAR 52.204-18, Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/52_000.htm#P1145_161469 http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/52_000.htm#P1405_194946 http://farsite.hill.af.mil/reghtml/regs/far2afmcfars/fardfars/far/52_000.htm#P1595_233379

FAR 52.204-24, Representation Regarding Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment.

FAR 52.223-22, Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals - Representation DFARS 252.203-7000, Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials DFARS 252.203-7002, Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights DFARS 252.203-7005, Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials DFARS 252.204-7015, Notice of Authorized disclosure of Information for Litigation Support DFARS 252.204-7018, Prohibition on the Acquisition of Covered Defense Telecommunications Equipment or Services.

DFARS 252.204-7024, Notice on the Use of the Supplier Performance Risk System DFARS 252.223-7008, Prohibition of Hexavalent Chromium DFARS 252.225-7001, Buy American and Balance of Payments Program DFARS 252.225-7002, Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors DFARS 252.225-7016, Restriction on Acquisition of Ball and Roller Bearings DFARS 252.225-7055, Representation Regarding Business Operations with the Maduro Regime DFARS 252.225-7056, Prohibition Regarding Business Operations with the Maduro Regime DFARS 252.225-7059, Prohibition on Certain Procurements from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region-Representation DFARS 252.225-7060, Prohibition on Certain Procurements from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 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 252.232-7006, Wide Area Workflow Payment Instructions (Provided Upon Award) 252.232-7010, Levies on Contract Payments 252.232-7011, Payments in Support of Emergencies and Contingency Operations 252.244-7000, Subcontracts for Commercial Products or Commercial Services.

DFARS 252.247-7023, Transportation of Supplies by Sea The following DAFFARS clauses are applicable to this solicitation:

DAFFARS 5352.201-9101, AMC Ombudsman (Jul 2023)

(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 proposals, the source selection process, or the adjudication of protests or formal contract disputes. The ombudsman may refer the interested party to another official who can resolve the concern.

(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 ombudsman, 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/SMC ombudsman level, 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)

The full text of these clauses and provisions may be assessed electronically at the website:

acquisition.gov.

NOTE: ALL PROVISIONS WILL BE REMOVED AT TIME OF AWARD BUT SHALL REMAIN

PART OF THE CONTRACT FILE.

Attachments: (1)

1. Statement of Work