ISP_RFQv2_CO signed.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE

PETERSON-SCHRIEVER GARRISON

25 August 2021

FROM: 21 CONS/PKB

135 Dover Street, Ste. 2225

Peterson AFB, CO 80914-1055

SOLICITATION NUMBER: FA2517-21-Q-0056

SUBJECT: Request for Quotes (RFQ) for 21 CS Inside Plant (ISP) CAT 6 Premise Wiring

i. 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.

ii. This Request for Quote (RFQ), FA2517-20-Q-0056 is in support of the 21st Communications

Squadron (21 CS) for the inside plant (ISP) installation of category 6 (CAT-6) premise wiring infrastructure in accordance with (IAW) the Performance Work Statement (PWS) documents

(Attachments 1, 2, and 3) for three separate and distinct projects (Projects I, II, and III).

iii. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through

Federal Acquisition Circular 2021-06.

iv. A single award will be made as a result of evaluation of the quotes received. The NAICS code for this requirement is 238210 – Electrical Contractors, Other Wiring Installation Contractors. The size standard is $16.5M. This requirement is a 100% Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

Business (SDVOSB) set-aside. Responses received from a contractor not a part of the SDVOSB program will not be accepted.

v. As detailed below, this solicitation is comprised of the three distinct ISP projects, separated by labor and materials:

CLIN Line Item Description Unit Qty.

0001 Project 1: Labor required for work IAW Attachment 1: PWS ISP I

(Bldgs. 119, 121, 122, 130, 133, 150, 1229, 1255, 1256, 1262, 1280, and 1410)

Months 3

0002 Project 1: Materials required for work IAW PWS ISP I LOT 1

0003 Project 2: Labor required for work IAW Attachment 2: PWS ISP II

(Bldg. 140)

0004 Project 2: Materials required for work IAW PWS ISP II LOT 1

0005 Project 3: Labor required for work IAW Attachment 3: PWS ISP III

(Bldgs. 502, 503, 506, 538, 560, 605, 620, 626, 640 and 650)

0006 Project 3: Materials required for work IAW PWS ISP III LOT 1

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vi. Each project requires the contractor to engineer, furnish, install and test (EFI&T) new CAT-6 premise wiring within multiple buildings at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado. Each project must be completed in accordance with the requirements specified in the corresponding PWS

(Attachments 1, 2, and 3). Offerors are expected to complete all work in accordance with the three attached PWS documents if they are selected for award, at the prices specified in their quote.

vii. Performance shall take place on Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB) IAW each project’s PWS.

The estimated period of performance shall be three months from date of award, with performance beginning in September 2021.

viii. Addendum to: Provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items (Jul

2021)

a. To ensure full compliance with this solicitation document, offerors must follow the instructions and meet all solicitation requirements, including provisions and clauses, and representations and certifications. Any offeror who submits an incomplete quote or does not conform to all instructions in this document may be considered non-compliant, and the quote may not be evaluated.

b. Offerors shall assume that the Government has no prior knowledge of their experience and capabilities, and will base its evaluation solely on the information that the offeror presents in their quote.

c. Offerors are advised to submit adequate information to enable evaluators to fully determine the offeror’s capability to perform the requirements of the PWS. The quote shall be clear and include sufficient detail for effective evaluation. The data submitted shall be accurate, complete, and concise. The offeror is fully expected to perform all objectives in the PWS documents at the prices specified in their quote.

d. The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, either before or after the closing date. In the event the Government cancels this solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs they may occur.

e. Acceptance Period: The offeror agrees to hold the prices firm for 90 days from the date specified for receipt of offers.

f. Amendment(s) to the Solicitation (if applicable): The Government reserves the right to revise or amend the solicitation documents prior to the date of receipt of quotes. The

Government will make no changes to the solicitation without issuing an amendment to the solicitation. All amendments will be posted to SAM.gov; it is the responsibility of the offeror to check the website for any amendments to the solicitation. Offerors shall acknowledge receipt of any amendment(s) in conjunction with submittal of a quote. Any unacknowledged amendment(s) in the offeror’s quote may render the offeror’s entire quote non-compliant and ineligible for award.

g. Solicitation response: Volume I, responses to this solicitation document shall not exceed twenty (20) pages (page count does not include indices, or table of contents). Volume II

Pricing: there is no page limit for the pricing volume. Offerors are expected to submit their responses to include the following structure:

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Volume I: Cover Page: The Cover Page shall include the RFQ number and solicitation title, offeror’s business name, address, CAGE code, DUNS number, primary and alternate points of contact (who are authorized to contractually obligate the company), SDVOSB small business status under NAICS code 238210, and a short statement that the offeror understands the requirements specified and will meet the performance standards and requirements therein.

Volume I – Factor 1: Technical Capability: This section shall include all information pertinent to the requirement that enables the evaluators to identify that the offeror is capable of performing all contractual actions. The offeror shall not merely regurgitate the requirements of the PWS. At minimum, this section must include a response to the following:

Sub-Factor 1: The offeror shall provide an approach on how to engineer, furnish, install, and test (EFI&T) a complete OSP fiber optics expansion project, to include a flowchart detailing the steps required to support your approach. The offeror’s approach shall address the requirements from any one of the three projects: Attachments 1, 2, or 3.

Volume 2 – Factor 2: Pricing: This section shall include all information regarding the pricing of materials and labor required to complete all three ISP projects as stated in the attached PWS documents (attachments 1-3). Offerors are required to prepare a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) priced quote for labor and materials. At a minimum, pricing shall be provided in the CLIN structure outlined in Table 2 – Pricing Structure. Pricing submission shall include of a full bill of materials, labor categories, labor rates, labor hours, G&A rates, OH rates, fringe benefit rates, fee/profit rates. If the total for a CLIN is $0, please enter that value; do not leave any space blank.

Table 2 – Pricing Structure

CLIN Line Item Description Unit Qty. Unit

Price

Extended

Amount

0001 Project 1: Labor required for work IAW

Attachment 1: PWS ISP I (Bldgs. 119, 121, 122, 130, 133, 150, 1229, 1255, 1256, 1262, 1280, and 1410)

Months 3

0002 Project 1: Materials required for ISP Project

Lot 1

0003 Project 2: Labor required for work IAW

Attachment 2: PWS ISP II (Bldg. 140)

Months 3

0004 Project 2: Materials required for ISP Project

LOT 1

0005 Project 3: Labor required for work IAW

Attachment 3: PWS ISP III (Bldgs. 502, 503, 506, 538, 560, 605, 620, 626, 640 and 650)

Months 3

0006 Project 3: Materials required for ISP Project

LOT 1

Total:

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ix. Addendum to: Provision at FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation – Commercial Items (Oct 2014).

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. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

Factor 1 – Technical Acceptability: The technical evaluation team will evaluate Sub-Factor 1 contained in Volume I – Factor 1, Technical Capability, and rate it as either “Unacceptable” or

“Acceptable”. An “Acceptable” rating is required to be considered for award. An

“Unacceptable” rating may render the entire quote unacceptable and therefore, un-awardable. The response will be evaluated as such:

Sub-Factor 1: To be rated “Acceptable”: ‘Volume I – Factor 1, Technical Capability’ must contain a response that details the approach required to EFI&T a complete CAT-6 premise wiring project. The evaluation team must be able to identify that a complete end-to-end, functional and feasible approach has been developed with a sequenced rollout of steps. An

“Acceptable” response must include a flowchart. An “Acceptable” response must include how the offeror will complete the project.

Factor 2 – Price: Price will be evaluated based upon the total contract value in order to determine if the quoted price is fair and reasonable in accordance with FAR 13.106-3.

b. Evaluation Process: Quotes will be ordered from lowest to highest price. The Government will evaluate the two lowest priced quotes for Factor 1 – Technical Acceptability. If both lowest priced quotes are technically acceptable, then the evaluation will stop and the Government will award to the lowest priced quote. If either, or both, of the two lowest priced quotes are not technically acceptable, the Government will evaluate the next lowest priced quote for technical acceptability. This process will continue until there are two technically acceptable quotes. The

Government will then award to the lowest priced, technically acceptable offeror.

x. Offerors are advised to include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3 (Oct 2018), Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items, with their offer.

xi. Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items (Oct 2018), applies to this acquisition

xii. Clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive

Orders (Jul 2021) – Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition.

xiii. Other Applicable Clauses

a. 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman (Oct 2019)

i. 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

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ii. 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).

iii. If resolution cannot be made by the contracting officer, the interested party may contact the ombudsman, AFICC/OL-SPC Director or Deputy Director of Contracting 250 S

Peterson Blvd, Peterson AFB, CO 80914 (P) 719-554-5300, Workflow e-mail:

afica.ks.wf@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.

iv. The ombudsman has no authority to render a decision that binds the agency.

v. 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.

b. This solicitation and the resulting contract is subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards statute (the Service Contract Act), see attachment 5 for wage determinations.

c. Additional applicable clauses and provisions can be found in Attachment 4: Additional Provisions and Clauses.

xiv. RESERVED

xv. Offerors are strongly encouraged to attend a site visitation at Peterson Space Force Base to gain a better understanding of the requirement. Answers to questions asked during the site visitation will be posted to SAM.gov and all interested contractors. Please contact the Contract Specialist via email (see section xvi) if you are interested in a site visitation NLT 1:00pm on Friday, 27

August 2021, please include your attendee names (first and last), no more than 2 per company. There will also be a telecom line for individuals to call in. Note** On the day of the site visit, be prepared to provide driver’s license information for all participants for installation access. The site visitation will take place at Peterson Space Force Base, CO, on Wednesday, 1 September 2021 at 7:00 a.m. Mountain Time for approximately five (5) hours.

Please submit all questions in writing via e-mail to the Contracting Officer and Contract

Specialist. All questions are due no later than 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time on 03 September

2021.

mailto:afica.ks.wf@us.af.mil

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Please submit all quotes via e-mail to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist. Ensure that the RFQ number and title are referenced in the subject line. Quotes are due no later than 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time on 13 September 2021, no extensions will be granted.

xvi. Contact Information:

Contracting Officer: Sheri Burks; sheri.burks@spaceforce.mil; 719-556-4789

Contract Specialist: Casey Watson; casey.watson.5@us.af.mil; 719-556-8987

All communications with the requiring activity (21st Communications Squadron) shall cease until the award is announced. During this period, interaction is only allowed with the Contracting

Officer.

Sheri L. Burks

Contracting Officer

List of five (5) Attachments:

(1) PWS ISP Project I

(2) PWS ISP Project II

(3) PWS ISP Project III

(4) Additional Provisions and Clauses

(5) Wage Determination mailto:sheri.burks@spaceforce.mil mailto:casey.watson.5@us.af.mil