Combined_Synopsis_F-16_Gun_Maintenance_Trailer.pdf

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Request for Quotation (RFQ) for F-16 Gun Maintenance Trailer

General Information

Document Type: Request for Quotation Solicitation Number: FA4803-18-Q- G058 Posted Date: 06/27/2018

Original Response Date: 07/10/2018 Current Response Date: 07/10/2018 Site Visit: A site visit is not necessary.

Classification Code: 1740 Set Aside: 100% small business set-aside NAICS Code: 332312 – 500 employees

Contracting Office Address:

20th Contracting Squadron 321 Cullen Street Shaw AFB, SC 29152

Place of Contract Performance:

Shaw AFB, SC 29152

Description This is a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for commercial items/services prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, “Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items,” as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation;

quotations are being requested and a written solicitation document will not be issued. The solicitation will be evaluated and awarded per the prescribed procedures of FAR Part 13.

The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-97; DEFENSE FAR SUPPLEMENT (DFARS) Publication Notice (DPN) 20180323, and Air Force Acquisition Circular (AFAC) 2017-1003.

The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 332312, with a small business size standard of 500 employees. This requirement is being solicited as a small business set aside.

The 20th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), located at Shaw AFB in Sumter, SC, is seeking the procurement of three each F16 Gun System Maintenance Trailers.

Vendor shall provide quotations for the following:

Line Item Description Qty Unit Price Total Price

CLIN 0001

F-16 Gun Maintenance trailer in accordance with Air Force drawing X20084625 dated 21 May 2012.

3 EA $ _______ $ _________

Evaluation: The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation, is the lowest evaluated price meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors.

The full text of FAR provisions or clauses may be accessed electronically at: http://farsite.hill.af.mil.

Note: When applicable, the following provision and clauses have been tailored to change the terminology in the original clause as follows:

Provisions and Clauses

Incorporated By Reference:

The full text of provision and clauses are located at http://farsite.hill.af.mil/:

52.203-3 Gratuities 52.203-19 Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements

(Jan 2017) 52.204-4 Printed or Copied Double-Sided on Postconsumer Fiber Content Paper 52.204-7 System for Award Management 52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting 52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance 52.204-19 Incorporation by Reference of Representations and Certifications 52.209-6 Protecting the Governments Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors

Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting With Inverted Domestic Corporations (Nov 2015) 52.212-3 Offerors Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items with Alternate I 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items 52.212-5 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or

Executive Orders—Commercial Items (Deviation 2013-O0019) (JUN 2016) Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside 52.219-27 Notice of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside 52.222-3 Convict Labor 52.222-19 Child Labor 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Veterans 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers With Disabilities 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans 52.222-41 Service Contract Act Labor Standards http://farsite.hill.af.mil/ http://farsite.hill.af.mil/

52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving 52.225-3 Buy American -- Free Trade Agreements--Israeli Trade Act 52.225-13 Restriction on Certain Foreign Purchases 52.232-1 Payments 52.232-8 Discounts for Prompt Payment 52.232-11 Extras 52.232-33 Payments by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors 52.233-1 Disputes 52.233-3 Protest after Award 52.233-4 Applicable Law For Breach Of Contract Claim 52.247-34 F.O.B. Destination 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference 52.252-6 Authorized Deviations in Clauses 52.253-1 Computer Generated Forms 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials 252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials 252.204-7000 Disclosure of Information 252.204-7003 Control of Government Personnel Work Product 252.204-7004 Alternate A, System for Award Management 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests 252.232-7006 Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments 252.243-7001 Pricing of Contract Modifications

Incorporated By Full Text:

52.209-11 – Representation by Corporations Regarding Delinquent Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction under any Federal Law (Feb 2016).

(a) As required by sections 744 and 745 of Division E of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L 113-235), and similar provisions, if contained in subsequent appropriations acts, the Government will not enter into a contract with any corporation that--

(1) Has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless an agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and made a determination that suspension or debarment is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government; or

(2) Was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless an agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and made a determination that this action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government.

(b) The Offeror represents that—

(1) It is [ ] is not [ ] a corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability; and

(2) It is [ ] is not [ ] a corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under a Federal law within the preceding 24 months.

(End of provision)

1. INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS

1.1. This section of the RFQ provides general guidance for preparing quotations as well as specific instructions on the format and content of the quotation. The quotation must include all data and information requested in the RFQ. The offeror shall comply with the solicitation requirements as stated and the SOW.

1.2. The quotation shall be clear, concise, and shall include sufficient detail to provide for adequate evaluation and for substantiation of the validity of stated claims. Submitted documents must contain adequate information to enable the evaluation team to fully understand an offeror pricing structure and must meet the requirements of the RFQ.

1.3. Offeror shall acknowledge awareness of all amendments to the solicitation by signing and dating Page 1 of each Standard Form 30, Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract, and include it in the quotation.

2. FORMAL COMMUNICATIONS

Any formal communication, once the formal solicitation has been issued, shall be submitted in writing (via email) to the POCs below. It is the offerors’ responsibility to confirm receipt of all formal communications.

Shaw AFB 20 CONS/PKA Reference: Solicitation No. FA4803-18-Q-G058 ATTN: Nancy Hunt / TSgt Ross Currie E-mail: Nancy.hunt@us.af.mil / ross.currie@us.af.mil

3. SUBMISSION OF QUOTATION

3.1. The original and copies shall be sent to the following on or before the date and time specified in this combined synopsis/solicitation:

Shaw AFB 20 CONS/PKAA Reference: Solicitation No. FA4803-18-Q-G058 ATTN: Nancy Hunt / TSgt Ross Currie E-mail: Nancy.hunt@us.af.mil / ross.currie@us.af.mil mailto:Nancy.hunt@us.af.mil mailto:ross.currie@us.af.mil mailto:%20ross.currie@us.af.mil

3.2. Offeror shall provide the following contact information for their quotations:

3.2.1. Names, titles, addresses, telephone and email addresses of persons authorized to negotiate on the offerors’ behalf with the Government in connection with this solicitation.

3.2.2. Name, title, and signature of person authorized to sign the quotation. Quotations signed by an agent shall be accompanied by evidence of that agent’s authority, unless that evidence has been previously furnished to the issuing office.

4. PROPRIETARY INFORMATION

Proprietary information submitted in response to this solicitation shall be clearly marked as such and will be protected from unauthorized disclosure as required by Subsection 27 of the Office of Procurement Policy Act as amended (41 U.S.C.423) (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) as implemented in the FAR. This information shall be labeled “Source Selection Information—See FAR

2.101 and 3.104.” Any unmarked proprietary information will be considered releasable under the restrictions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

5. QUOTATION PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

5.1. The instructions below prescribe the format of quotations. The quotation shall include all of the information requested in the specific instructions.

5.2. A quotation that is orderly and sufficiently documented will enable the Government to easily understand and perform a thorough and fair evaluation. The Government may incorporate into this contract, by reference or full text, portions of the successful offerors’ quotation submitted in response to this solicitation as revised and supplemented through the final quotation revision.

5.3. Electronic Copies. Electronic copies of all quotation information shall be submitted via E-mail with a read receipt. Offeror shall NOT submit any document in PDF that are copied as images.

Offeror shall name files in an unambiguous manner, using plain language text, which facilitates the evaluator’s ease of accessing the files for evaluation, using standard naming conventions (e.g., offeror name-volume name.doc for MSWord, offeror name-volume name.xls for MS Excel, offeror name-volume name.PDF for Portable Document Format, etc.). The quotation shall be in a single searchable file, with copy/paste capability. Offeror shall insert the file name in the header of each document. If there is a discrepancy between the paper and electronic copies, the paper copy will take precedence and be used for evaluation. Email size shall not exceed 5MB.

5.4. All quotations shall be sent to the contract specialist via e-mail:

ATTN: Nancy Hunt E-mail: Nancy.hunt@us.af.mil

5.5. The Government intends to award a purchase order as a result of this combined synopsis/solicitation that will include the terms and conditions set forth herein. To facilitate the award process, all quotations must include a statement regarding the terms and conditions herein as follows:

5.5.1. "The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document without modification, deletion, or addition."

OR

5.5.2. "The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document with the exception, deletion, or addition of the following:"

NOTE: Offerors shall list exception(s) and rationale for the exception(s).

5.6. Submission shall be received not later than: 10 July 2018 at 2:00 PM EST. Late submissions shall be treated in accordance with the solicitation provision at FAR 52.212-1(f). E-mailed submissions are accepted and are the preferred form of submission. Receipt will be verified by the date/time stamp on e-mail.

6. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRICE QUOTATION

6.1. The offeror shall provide the proposed price for all Firm Fixed Price (FFP) CLINs. This section shall include all unit prices (if applicable) and extended amounts for all FFP CLINS. Additionally, for ease of administration, offeror shall round all unit prices of proposed FFP CLINs to the nearest cent before they are multiplied by the quantity. The unit price multiplied by the number of units shall equal the extended price of each CLIN. If submitted unit prices are not rounded to the nearest cent, the Government will round the unit prices at the time of contract award or modification.

6.2. Reasonableness. The burden of proof as to price credibility rests with the offeror.

6.3. Quotation Documentation. In addition to the pricing information requested above, the quotation shall also contain the following documents:

6.3.1 Complete price quotation. An official having the authority to legally bind the company contractually must sign and date the quote. One copy of the quote must bear an original signature and if applicable, all amendments. Award cannot be made to a nonresponsive offeror.

6.3.2. Representations and Certifications. Complete the required Representations and Certifications or indicate if information is contained in the System for Award Management (SAM) located at https://www.sam.gov.

(End of Provision)

6.3.3. All offerors shall submit 1 (one) copy of their price quote.

1. EVALUATION of OFFERS: FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items.

FAR 52.212-2 has been tailored to read as follows:

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. Best value is expected to result from selection of the technically acceptable proposal with the lowest evaluated price. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

(i) Price

(ii) Technical Capability to meet the Government requirement

Award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors.

https://www.sam.gov/

(End of Provision)

AFFARS 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 quotations, 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, Lt Col Aaron D. Judge 129 Thompson St., Bldg. 586, Rm 129, Comm: 757-764-5372, Email: aaron.judge@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)

Point of Contact: Nancy Hunt, 20th Contracting Squadron, 321 Cullen Street Bldg. 216, Shaw AFB SC, 29152. Phone: 803-895-5349. Fax: 803-895-5339. Email: nancy.hunt@us.af.mil

Note: Offerors may use another format for submission of quotes. However, all quotes must contain the minimum information required under Instructions to Offerors.

4 Attachments:

Attachment 1 – Drawings X20084625 dated 20120521 mailto:nancy.hunt@us.af.mil

52.209-11 – Representation by Corporations Regarding Delinquent Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction under any Federal Law (Feb 2016).