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MARFORRES EMAIL-SOLICITATION # M67861-20-Q-2001

Date Issued: December 27, 2019/ Close Date: December 30, 2019 @ 2:00PM CST

* * DELIVERY IS REQUIRED NOT LATER THAN January 10, 2020.

1. SUMMARY: 4th LAR BN 4th MARDIV 1099 East Molloy Road, Syracuse, New York, 13211-1303 has a requirement for snow tire chains and chain tensioners. The resulting award will be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract. This procurement is 100% Small Business Set-aside. The applicable NAICS code is 332618 and the size standard is 500 employees. The Government will accept ALL quotes in response to this solicitation that meet this size standard.

2. LINE ITEM DESCRIPTION:

CLIN 0001 Tire Snow Chains Tire Chains Qty 8 pairs CLIN 0002 Chain Tensioners Chain Tensioners Qty 8 pairs

3. SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Snow Tire Chains (8 pairs)/ with chain tensioners (8 pairs):

· Tire Chains shall fit on a 16.00R20 Tire, specifically 16.00 R20 XZL Michelin tubeless

· Tire Chains shall have diamond/diamond back pattern

· Tire Chains shall have link over type chain

· Tire Chains shall have square link style

· Tire Chains shall include appropriate chain tensioners

· Chain tensioners shall be multi-arm type chain tensioners

· Chain tensioners shall be 10mm or 11mm

· All proposed tire chains and tensioners shall be compatible with each other.

4. SUBMISSION OF QUOTES: Quotes must be returned to the below listed email address no later than 30 December 2019, 2:00 PM Central Standard Time. Due to server restrictions, attachments should be submitted in PDF format. Attachments not submitted in PDF format will be rejected by the Government’s server. Each email may not exceed 5MB in size or will be rejected by the Government's server. Offerors may submit multiple emails. . The Government reserves the right to make award solely on initial quotes received. Offerors bear the burden of ensuring that all portions of the offer (and any authorized amendments) reach the designated office before the deadline specified in the solicitation. ‘No bid’ emails requested if unable to submit a bid. Any direct customer contact by Offerors is not authorized during the solicitation phase or our quote may be at risk of being eliminated from consideration.

Quotations shall be delivered via email or fax to:

MARFORRES Contracting

Email: christian.dominguez1@usmc.mil and tammy.demille@usmc.mil

Fax: 504-697-9742

5. SOLICITATIONS: Offerors shall complete FAR Clause 52.212-3 Offerors Representations & Certifications – Commercial Items unless available on line as part of SAM (System for Award Management) registration at www.sam.gov. Any full text provisional clauses requiring completion not currently included in Offeror’s SAM registration need to be completed and included as part of Offeror’s bid submittal. Offerors should complete certifications and representations for paragraphs h, i, j, n, p, q, and r at FAR 52.212-3 Alt I herein, or indicate completion of paragraphs within SAM registration.

6. CONTRACT AUTHORITY: The Government will solicit and award this contract using Simplified Acquisition Procedures, in accordance with FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

7. DISCOUNT TERMS: Net 30 Days

8. INVOICING TERMS: In accordance with DFARS 252.232-7006 Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) Payment Instructions found at http://acquisition.gov/. The full text of this clause (including the excerpt below) will be included in the final award.

USMC WIDE AREA WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION

To implement DFARS 252.232-7003: Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) utilizes Wide Area WorkFlow-Receipt and Acceptance (WAWF-RA) to electronically process vendor requests for payment. This application allows DoD vendors to submit and track Invoices and Receipt/Acceptance documents electronically.

The contractor is required to utilize this system when processing invoices and receiving reports under this contract/order, unless the provision at DFARS 252.232-7003(c) applies. The contractor shall (i) ensure an Electronic Business Point of Contact is designated in Central Contractor Registration at https://www.sam.gov/ and (ii) register to use WAWF-RA at the https://wawf.eb.mil site, within ten (10) calendar days after award of this contract or modification. Step by step procedures to register are available at the https://wawf.eb.mil site.

9. DELIVERY: Delivery terms shall be FOB Destination. Offeror shall include delivery lead-times for the entire order if all lines items will be delivered at the same time otherwise list delivery lead-time separately for each CLIN. Provide delivery lead time after receipt of order for supplies and period of performance for services if different than listed in the solicitation document. This shall be visible on the face of the quote and not incorporated as a link or other attachment.

All shipping costs shall be included in the quote.

10. BASIS OF AWARD: Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Offer in accordance with the following clauses listed herein in full-text.

FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation – Commercial Items

(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:

The basis for award is Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA). The apparent successful, prospective contractor must have acceptable past performance:

I.

Technical Acceptability is defined as meeting all of the salient characteristics identified in this solicitation document. The Technical Evaluation Worksheet is incorporated into this solicitation for reference.

II.

Past Performance will be rated on an "acceptable" or "unacceptable" basis. The apparent successful, prospective contractor must have acceptable past performance. The Supplier Performance Risk System (SPSR) application (https://www.sprs.csd.disa.mil ) will be used in the evaluation of suppliers' past performance history for the FSC and PSC of the supplies being purchased in accordance with DFARS 213.106-2(b)(i). Any contractor with a Supplier Risk Score in the lowest 5% will be rated as 'unacceptable' unless information is so sparse that no meaningful past performance rating can be reasonably assigned, the contractor may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance

In the case of an apparent successful, prospective contractor without a record of relevant past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available or so sparse that no meaningful past performance rating can be reasonably assigned, the contractor may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance. Therefore, the contractor shall be determined to have unknown past performance. In the context of acceptability/unacceptability, "unknown" will be considered "Acceptable."

III.

Quotations will be ranked in order of lowest price to highest price. The lowest-priced quotation will be evaluated first. If the lowest-priced quotation (a) is deemed technically acceptable, (b) and its pricing determined fair and reasonable by the Contracting Officer, (c) and the contractor is determined to have acceptable Past Performance, no other quotations will be evaluated and award will be made to the lowest-priced contractor. If the lowest price quotation is determined technically unacceptable, or has unacceptable past performance, or its price cannot be determined fair and reasonable, the next lowest price quotation will be sent for technical evaluation, past performance evaluation and price analysis. This process is repeated in order of price until a quotation is deemed technically acceptable, its price determined fair and reasonable by the Contracting Officer, and the contractor’s past performance determined acceptable. The Government may consider multiple awards to meet the quantity and delivery date requirements.

(b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

(c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the same time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer’s specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

11. TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

a. The following FAR/DFARS provisions apply to this acquisition:

· FAR 52.204-7 System for Award Management

· FAR 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting

· FAR 52.204-22 Alternative Line Item Structure

· FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items

· FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items, Alternate I

· DFARS 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DOD officials

· DFARS 252.204-7008 Compliance with Safeguarding Covered Defense Information Controls

· DFARS 252.213-7000 Notice to Prospective Suppliers on Use of Supplier Performance Risk Systems in Past Performance Evaluations

· FAR 52.211-6 Brand name or equal

· FAR 52.204-22 Alternative Line Item Proposal 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference

This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. The offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the offeror and submitted with its quotation or offer. In lieu of submitting the full text of those provisions, the offeror may identify the provision by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its quotation or offer. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es):

*http://acquisition.gov

(End of Provision)

b. The following FAR/DFARS clauses apply to this acquisition:

· FAR 52.204-23 Prohibition on Contracting for Hardware, Software and Services Developed or Provided by Kaspersky Lab and Other Covered Entities

· FAR 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance

· FAR 52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity code Maintenance

· FAR 52.204-19 Incorporation by Reference of Representations and Certifications

· FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items

· FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders – Commercial Items

· FAR 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors

· FAR 52.247-34 F.O.B. Destination

· 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 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities

· 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

· DFARS 252.203-7000 Requirement Relating to Compensation of Former DOD Officials

· DFARS 252.204-7003 Control of Government Personnel Work Product

· DFARS 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting

· DFARS 252.204-7015 Notice of Authorized Disclosure of Information for Litigation Support

· 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 252.225-7048 Export-Controlled Items

· DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports

· DFARS 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments

· DFARS 252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items

· DFARS.252-247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea

· DFARS 52.219-6 (DEVIATION 2019-O00003) Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside

· FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons

· FAR 52.252-6 Authorized Deviations in Clauses 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference This contract incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. Also, the full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es):

*http://acquisition.gov

(End of Clause)

TECHNICAL EVALUATION WORKSHEET

TECHNICAL ACCEPTABILITY SECTION 1: ENTER COMPANY NAME

Tire Chains shall fit on a 16.00R20 Tire, specifically 16.00 R20 XZL Michelin tubeless

Tire Chains shall have diamond/diamond back pattern

Tire Chains shall have link over type chain

Tire Chains shall have square link style

Tire Chains shall include appropriate chain tensioners

Chain tensioners shall be multi-arm type chain tensioners

Chain tensioners shall be 10mm or 11mm

All proposed tire chains and tensioners shall be compatible with each other

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