INSTRUCTIONS FOR REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS - URL MONITORING SERVICES 9_20_11.docx

INSTRUCTIONS FOR REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS (RFQ) 9/20/11

Office of Citizen Services and Innovative technologies URL Monitoring Services

The General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies requires URL monitoring services. A complete description of the requirement can be found in the Requirements Document. Offerors should note any changes in the instructions and cover letter. Questions and Answers are also in this revised solicitation.

Offerors can directly submit quotations electronically to cynthia.gilbert@gsa.gov or through the FedBizOpps.gov portal.

Cynthia Gilbert, Contracting Officer General Services Administration Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies 1275 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20417

All pre-award correspondence shall go through the Contracting Officer, preferably in writing to the Contracting Officer listed above.

Quotations Offerors shall submit quotations which are not to exceed 5 pages, excluding your cover sheets in response to the requirement identified in the Requirement Document. If an offeror’s quotation exceeds the 5 page limit, only the first 5 pages will be read.

Please include the following:

1. Identify whether you are a small business, disadvantaged, service disabled veteran, woman owned, Hub Zone, and/or minority-owned business and provide your federal tax id number and DUNS number.

2. A response to the specific requirements of the Requirements Document should be submitted with close attention to the areas identified as mandatory priority level.

Purchase Order Award Basis The government intends to award on the basis of lowest price technically acceptable.

Quotation(s) Submission Deadlines:

Vendor Questions: Questions must be submitted no later than Noon, EST September 22, 2011.

Government Answers: The government will respond to questions on or about September 23, 2011.

Quotations are due by Noon 12:00 PM, EST, September 27, 2011.

We anticipate award on or before September 30, 2011.

All pre-award communications should be submitted to Cynthia Gilbert, the Contracting Officer, via email at cynthia.gilbert@gsa.gov.