Attachment No. 2 - Representations and Certifications.pdf
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This document is Attachment No. 2 to solicitation FA875126Q0891 and contains the Offeror Representations and Certifications form for commercial products and commercial services. It is a template that requires offerors to complete and return with their proposals.
The attachment includes three primary representations and certifications provisions. First, DFARS 252.204-7998 requires offerors to verify that their annual representations and certifications posted electronically in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov are current, accurate, and complete as of the offer date, with any changes identified by provision number, title, and date. Second, DFARS 252.204-7017 addresses covered defense telecommunications equipment or services, requiring offerors to represent whether they will or will not provide such equipment or services to the Department of Defense. If the offeror indicates it will provide covered defense telecommunications equipment or services, it must disclose detailed information including descriptions of the equipment and services, explanations of proposed use, and identification of entities providing or producing the equipment with their unique identifiers and CAGE codes. Third, DFARS 252.225-7000 requires offerors to certify the country of origin for all end products subject to the Buy American and Balance of Payments Program, distinguishing between domestic end products, qualifying country end products, and other foreign end products, while identifying which domestic end products contain critical components or critical items and whether foreign end products exceed 55 percent domestic content.
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FA875126Q0891 Attachment No. 2
OFFEROR REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS – COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
AND COMMMERCIAL SERVICES
Complete and return with your offer/proposal.
DFARS 252.204-7998, ALTERNATE A, ANNUAL REPRESENTATIONS AND
CERTIFICATIONS (DEVIATION 2026-O0043) (FEB 2026)
(f)(2) The following representations or certifications in SAM are applicable to this solicitation as indicated by the Contracting Officer:
(ii) 252.225-7000, Buy American—Balance of Payments Program Certificate.
(g) The Offeror has completed the annual representations and certifications electronically via the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov After reviewing the SAM database information, the Offeror verifies by submission of the offer that the representations and certifications currently posted electronically that apply to this solicitation as indicated in FAR 52.204-7 and paragraph
(f) of this provision have been entered or updated within the last 12 months, are current, accurate, complete, and applicable to this solicitation (including the business size standard applicable to the NAICS code referenced for this solicitation), as of the date of this offer, and are incorporated in this offer by reference (see FAR 4.203-1); except for the changes identified below [Offeror to insert changes, identifying change by provision number, title, date. If none, please enter ‘NONE’ in the space provided below]. These amended representation(s) and/or certification(s) are also incorporated in this offer and are current, accurate, and complete as of the date of this offer.
FAR/DFARS provision No. Title Date Change
Any changes provided by the Offeror are applicable to this solicitation only, and do not result in an update to the representations and certifications located in the SAM database.
(End of provision)
DFARS 252.204-7017, PROHIBITION ON THE ACQUISITION OF COVERED
DEFENSE TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES—
REPRESENTATION (MAY 2021)
The Offeror is not required to complete the representation in this provision if the Offeror has represented in the provision at 252.204-7016, Covered Defense Telecommunications Equipment or Services—Representation, that it “does not provide covered defense telecommunications equipment or services as a part of its offered products or services to the Government in the performance of any contract, subcontract, or other contractual instrument.”
(a) Definitions. “Covered defense telecommunications equipment or services,” “covered mission,” “critical technology,” and “substantial or essential component,” as used in this provision, have the meanings given in the 252.204-7018 clause, Prohibition on the Acquisition of Covered Defense Telecommunications Equipment or Services, of this solicitation.
(b) Prohibition. Section 1656 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Pub. L. 115-91) prohibits agencies from procuring or obtaining, or extending or renewing a contract to procure or obtain, any equipment, system, or service to carry out covered missions that uses covered defense telecommunications equipment or services as a substantial or essential component of any system, or as critical technology as part of any system.
(c) Procedures. The Offeror shall review the list of excluded parties in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov for entities that are excluded when providing any equipment, system, or service to carry out covered missions that uses covered defense telecommunications equipment or services as a substantial or essential component of any system, or as critical technology as part of any system, unless a waiver is granted.
(d) Representation. If in its annual representations and certifications in SAM the Offeror has represented in paragraph (c) of the provision at 252.204-7016, Covered Defense Telecommunications Equipment or Services—Representation, that it “does” provide covered defense telecommunications equipment or services as a part of its offered products or services to the Government in the performance of any contract, subcontract, or other contractual instrument, then the Offeror shall complete the following additional representation:
The Offeror represents that it [ ] will [ ] will not provide covered defense telecommunications equipment or services as a part of its offered products or services to DoD in the performance of any award resulting from this solicitation.
(e) Disclosures. If the Offeror has represented in paragraph (d) of this provision that it “will provide covered defense telecommunications equipment or services,” the Offeror shall provide the following information as part of the offer:
(1) A description of all covered defense telecommunications equipment and services offered (include brand or manufacturer; product, such as model number, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) number, manufacturer part number, or wholesaler number; and item description, as applicable).
(2) An explanation of the proposed use of covered defense telecommunications equipment and services and any factors relevant to determining if such use would be permissible under the prohibition referenced in paragraph (b) of this provision.
(3) For services, the entity providing the covered defense telecommunications services (include entity name, unique entity identifier, and Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code, if known).
(4) For equipment, the entity that produced or provided the covered defense telecommunications equipment (include entity name, unique entity identifier, CAGE code, and whether the entity was the OEM or a distributor, if known).
DFARS 252.225-7000, BUY AMERICAN—BALANCE OF PAYMENTS PROGRAM
CERTIFICATE—BASIC (FEB 2024)
(a) Definitions. “Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item,” “component,”“critical component,” “critical item,” “domestic end product,” “foreign end product,” “qualifying country,” “qualifying country end product,” and “United States,” as used in this provision, have the meanings given in the 252.225-7001, Buy American and Balance of Payments Program— Basic clause of this solicitation.
(b) Evaluation. The Government—
(1)Will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of Part225 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; and
(2)Will evaluate offers of qualifying country end products without regard to therestrictions of the Buy American statute or the Balance of Payments Program.
(c) Certifications and identification of country of origin.
(1) For all line items subject to the Buy American and Balance of PaymentsProgram— Basic clause of this solicitation, the Offeror certifies that—
(i) Each end product, except those listed in paragraphs (c)(2) or (3) of this provision, is a domestic end product and that each domestic end product listed in paragraph (c)(4) of this provision contains a critical component or a critical item; and
(i) For end products other than COTS items, components of unknown origin are considered to have been mined, produced, or manufactured outside the United States or a qualifying country. For those end products that do not consist wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, the Offeror shall also indicate whether these foreign end products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except for those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select “no”.
(2) The Offeror certifies that the following end products are qualifying country end products:
Line Item Number Country of Origin
(3) The following end products are other foreign end products, including end products manufactured in the United States that do not qualify as domestic end products. For those foreign end products that do not consist wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, the Offeror shall also indicate whether these foreign end products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except for those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select “no”.
Country of Origin Exceeds 55% Domestic Content Line Item Number (If known) (yes/no)____
(4) The Offeror shall separately list the line item numbers of domestic end products that contain a critical component or a critical item (see Federal Acquisition Regulation 25.105).
Domestic end products containing a critical component or a critical item: Line Item Number [List as necessary]
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