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SECTION SF 30 BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

SECTION SF 1449 - CONTINUATION SHEET

SOLICITATION/CONTRACT FORM

The required response date/time has changed from 11-May-2018 05:00 PM to 14-May-2018 12:00 PM.

The following have been added by full text:

AMENDMENT 0002 REVISIONS

1. Extension of deadline to Monday, 14 May 2018 at 12:00 PM EST.

2. Revisions to 52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (JAN 2017)

3. Revisions to 52.212-2 EVALUATION--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014)

4. Revisions to Attachment “6” – PORTAL, ROLL-OUT and PMR REQUIREMENT

5. Addition of Attachment “8” – Consolidated Pricing Worksheet

6. Addition of Attachment “9” – Solicitation Questions and Answers

ATTACHMENT 8

Attachment “8” Consolidated Pricing Worksheet

ATTACHMENT 9

Attachment “9” Solicitation Questions and Answers

The following have been modified:

ATTACHMENT 6

Attachment “6” PORTAL, ROLL-OUT and PMR REQUIREMENT

INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS

52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (JAN 2017)

(a) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and small business size standard. The NAICS code and small business size standard for this acquisition appear in Block 10 of the solicitation cover sheet (SF 1449). However, the small business size standard for a concern which submits an offer in its own name, but which proposes to furnish an item which it did not itself manufacture, is 500 employees.

(b) Submission of offers. Submit signed and dated offers to the office specified in this solicitation at or before the exact time specified in this solicitation. Offers may be submitted on the SF 1449, letterhead stationery, or as otherwise specified in the solicitation. As a minimum, offers must show--

(1) The solicitation number;

(2) The time specified in the solicitation for receipt of offers;

(3) The name, address, and telephone number of the offeror;

(4) A technical description of the items being offered in sufficient detail to evaluate compliance with the requirements in the solicitation. This may include product literature, or other documents, if necessary;

(5) Terms of any express warranty;

(6) Price and any discount terms;

(7) "Remit to" address, if different than mailing address;

(8) A completed copy of the representations and certifications at FAR 52.212-3 (see FAR 52.212-3(b) for those representations and certifications that the offeror shall complete electronically);

(9) Acknowledgment of Solicitation Amendments;

(10) Past performance information, when included as an evaluation factor, to include recent and relevant contracts for the same or similar items and other references (including contract numbers, points of contact with telephone numbers and other relevant information); and

(11) If the offer is not submitted on the SF 1449, include a statement specifying the extent of agreement with all terms, conditions, and provisions included in the solicitation. Offers that fail to furnish required representations or information, or reject the terms and conditions of the solicitation may be excluded from consideration.

(c) Period for acceptance of offers. The offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 30 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers, unless another time period is specified in an addendum to the solicitation.

(d) Product samples. When required by the solicitation, product samples shall be submitted at or prior to the time specified for receipt of offers. Unless otherwise specified in this solicitation, these samples shall be submitted at no expense to the Government, and returned at the sender's request and expense, unless they are destroyed during preaward testing.

(e) Multiple offers. Multiple offers are not authorized for this solicitation.Offerors are encouraged to submit multiple offers presenting alternative terms and conditions, including alternative line items (provided that the alternative line items are consistent with subpart 4.10 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation), or alternative commercial items for satisfying the requirements of this solicitation. Each offer submitted will be evaluated separately.

(f) Late submissions, modifications, revisions, and withdrawals of offers:

(1) Offerors are responsible for submitting offers, and any modifications, revisions, or withdrawals, so as to reach the Government office designated in the solicitation by the time specified in the solicitation. If no time is specified in the solicitation, the time for receipt is 4:30 p.m., local time, for the designated Government office on the date that offers or revisions are due.

(2)(i) Any offer, modification, revision, or withdrawal of an offer received at the Government office designated in the solicitation after the exact time specified for receipt of offers is “late” and will not be considered unless it is received before award is made, the Contracting Officer determines that accepting the late offer would not unduly delay the acquisition; and--

(A) If it was transmitted through an electronic commerce method authorized by the solicitation, it was received at the initial point of entry to the Government infrastructure not later than 5:00 p.m. one working day prior to the date specified for receipt of offers; or

(B) There is acceptable evidence to establish that it was received at the Government installation designated for receipt of offers and was under the Government's control prior to the time set for receipt of offers; or

(C) If this solicitation is a request for proposals, it was the only proposal received.

(ii) However, a late modification of an otherwise successful offer, that makes its terms more favorable to the Government, will be considered at any time it is received and may be accepted.

(3) Acceptable evidence to establish the time of receipt at the Government installation includes the time/date stamp of that installation on the offer wrapper, other documentary evidence of receipt maintained by the installation, or oral testimony or statements of Government personnel.

(4) If an emergency or unanticipated event interrupts normal Government processes so that offers cannot be received at the Government office designated for receipt of offers by the exact time specified in the solicitation, and urgent Government requirements preclude amendment of the solicitation or other notice of an extension of the closing date, the time specified for receipt of offers will be deemed to be extended to the same time of day specified in the solicitation on the first work day on which normal Government processes resume.

(5) Offers may be withdrawn by written notice received at any time before the exact time set for receipt of offers. Oral offers in response to oral solicitations may be withdrawn orally. If the solicitation authorizes facsimile offers, offers may be withdrawn via facsimile received at any time before the exact time set for receipt of offers, subject to the conditions specified in the solicitation concerning facsimile offers. An offer may be withdrawn in person by an offeror or its authorized representative if, before the exact time set for receipt of offers, the identity of the person requesting withdrawal is established and the person signs a receipt for the offer.

(g) Contract award (not applicable to Invitation for Bids). The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offeror's initial offer should contain the offeror's best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. The Government may reject any or all offers if such action is in the public interest; accept other than the lowest offer; and waive informalities and minor irregularities in offers received.

(h) Multiple awards. The Government intends to make a single award resulting from this solicitation. may accept any item or group of items of an offer, unless the offeror qualifies the offer by specific limitations. Unless otherwise provided in the Schedule, offers may not be submitted for quantities less than those specified. The Government reserves the right to make an award on any item for a quantity less than the quantity offered, at the unit prices offered, unless the offeror specifies otherwise in the offer.

(i) Availability of requirements documents cited in the solicitation. (1)(i) The GSA Index of Federal Specifications, Standards and Commercial Item Descriptions, FPMR Part 101-29, and copies of specifications, standards, and commercial item descriptions cited in this solicitation may be obtained for a fee by submitting a request to--GSA Federal Supply Service Specifications Section, Suite 8100, 470 East L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, DC 20407, Telephone (202) 619-8925, Facsimile (202) 619-8978.

(ii) If the General Services Administration, Department of Agriculture, or Department of Veterans Affairs issued this solicitation, a single copy of specifications, standards, and commercial item descriptions cited in this solicitation may be obtained free of charge by submitting a request to the addressee in paragraph (i)(1)(i) of this provision. Additional copies will be issued for a fee.

(2) Most unclassified Defense specifications and standards may be downloaded from the following ASSIST websites:

(i) ASSIST (https://assist.dla.mil/online/start/).

(ii) Quick Search (http://quicksearch.dla.mil/).

(iii) ASSISTdocs.com (http://assistdocs.com).

(3) Documents not available from ASSIST may be ordered from the Department of Defense Single Stock Point (DoDSSP) by--

(i) Using the ASSIST Shopping Wizard (https://assist.dla.mil/wizard/index.cfm);

(ii) Phoning the DoDSSP Customer Service Desk (215) 697-2179, Mon-Fri, 0730 to 1600 EST; or

(iii) Ordering from DoDSSP, Building 4, Section D, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111-5094, Telephone (215) 697-2667/2179, Facsimile (215) 697-1462.

(4) Nongovernment (voluntary) standards must be obtained from the organization responsible for their preparation, publication, or maintenance.

(j) Unique entity identifier. (Applies to all offers exceeding $3,500, and offers of $3,500 or less if the solicitation requires the Contractor to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database.) The Offeror shall enter, in the block with its name and address on the cover page of its offer, the annotation ``Unique Entity Identifier'' followed by the unique entity identifier that identifies the Offeror's name and address. The Offeror also shall enter its Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) indicator, if applicable. The EFT indicator is a four-character suffix to the unique entity identifier. The suffix is assigned at the discretion of the Offeror to establish additional SAM records for identifying alternative EFT accounts (see subpart 32.11) for the same entity. If the Offeror does not have a unique entity identifier, it should contact the entity designated at www.sam.gov for unique entity identifier establishment directly to obtain one. The Offeror should indicate that it is an offeror for a Government contract when contacting the entity designated at www.sam.gov for establishing the unique entity identifier.

(k) System for Award Management. Unless exempted by an addendum to this solicitation, by submission of an offer, the offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance and through final payment of any contract resulting from this solicitation. If the Offeror does not become registered in the SAM database in the time prescribed by the Contracting Officer, the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered Offeror. Offerors may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the SAM database accessed through https://www.acquisition.gov.

(l) Debriefing. If a post-award debriefing is given to requesting offerors, the Government shall disclose the following information, if applicable:

(1) The agency's evaluation of the significant weak or deficient factors in the debriefed offeror's offer.

(2) The overall evaluated cost or price and technical rating of the successful and the debriefed offeror and past performance information on the debriefed offeror.

(3) The overall ranking of all offerors, when any ranking was developed by the agency during source selection.

(4) A summary of the rationale for award;

(5) For acquisitions of commercial items, the make and model of the item to be delivered by the successful offeror.

(6) Reasonable responses to relevant questions posed by the debriefed offeror as to whether source-selection procedures set forth in the solicitation, applicable regulations, and other applicable authorities were followed by the agency.

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ADDENDUM TO FAR 52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS – COMMERCIAL ITEMS (Jan 2017)

I. GENERAL

In addition to FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items (Jan 2017) and any other instructions contained elsewhere in this solicitation, the following information is provided. Offerors are required to submit their proposals in two separate volumes as follows:

Volume I – Non-Price Proposal

Factor I – The offeror shall provide a confirmation from Oracle’s Government Resell Programs Group that it is a member of the Oracle Partner Network at the Gold Level or higher, that it is authorized to create a contract in response to this RFP demonstrate, its membership in the Oracle Partner Network is in good standing, it has the required Full Use Distribution Agreement (FUDA and Public Sector Addendum (PSAD) in place, and it is approved to offer the Oracle products contained in this RFP.

Volume II – Price Proposal

Factor II– The offeror shall complete Attachment “3”, Pricing Proposal and Attachment “8” Consolidated Pricing Worksheet in its entirety in order to be considered for award. For each product listed in the Attachment “7” price lists, the offeror shall provide the OEM part number (if available), description, license list price, maintenance list price, discounted license price and the discounted maintenance price using the information from the Catalog Price Hold worksheet. This will require the offeror to include additional columns in Attachment “8”. Proposed prices must be inclusive of the 1% Acquisition, Contracting, and Technical (ACT) fee on everything except for the renewal of technical support (SULS). Renewal means the continuation of technical support (SULS) in the subsequent coverage periods following the initial support period. All fields in yellow on the spreadsheet must be completed. It is the offeror’s responsibility to verify calculations and totals to ensure its pricing is accurate.

The offeror shall also include the following as part of its Price Proposal submission but will not be included in the page count for page limitation purposes:

· A complete and signed Standard Form 1449, “Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items,” and executed copy of Amendments, if applicable, completed by offeror.

· RFP Section “Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Offerors” completed by the offeror in accordance with FAR 52.204-7, FAR 52.212-3 Alt 1 and DFARS 252.204-7004 Alt. A.

· The price proposal must contain sufficient information to allow for the Government to perform an analysis of the proposed price and to determine price reasonableness. This should include an explanation for the rationale of proposed prices/discounts, historical pricing/discounts provided by the offeror to the Department of Navy and other customers, actual invoices and sales data, and/or any other documentation the offeror can provide. Failure to provide sufficient information may result in the Government’s inability to find the total offered price fair and reasonable and therefore unawardable. A total price shall be provided for each FFP Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) listed in the solicitation.

Note: The completion and submission of the above items will constitute an offer and will indicate that offeror’s unconditional assent to the terms and conditions of this RFP and any attachments and/or exhibits to this RFP. Alternate proposals are not authorized. Objections to any of the terms and conditions of the RFP will make the offer unacceptable. Proposals shall be valid for 60 days from the RFP closing date.

II. PROPOSAL CONTENT

Method of Submission

The Offeror shall submit its entire proposal via email. See Email Submissions section below for instructions.

Email Submissions

Offerors may submit electronic proposals to:

Ms. Kelly Parker, Contract Specialist at kelly.a.parker@navy.mil.

Ms. Susan McArdle, Contracting Officer at susan.mcardle@navy.mil

Offerors must identify the RFP number in the Subject Line of the email and should include “# of #” if multiple emails are required for submission of entire proposal. Offerors are advised to submit electronic documents early and confirm successful transmission/receipt. Offerors also may want to consider sending more than one email to ensure size limitations will not hinder transmission. The Government POC will provide a return response signifying receipt of the transmissions.

Text and graphics portions of the electronic copies shall be in a format readable by Microsoft (MS) Office 2007, MS Word 2007, or higher. Data submitted in spreadsheet format shall be readable by MS Office 2007, MS Excel 2007, or higher.

Page Limitations

The cover letter, title page, table of contents, table of figures, list of tables and glossary of abbreviations & acronyms do not count against page count limitations. Proposal contents that exceed the stated page limitations will be removed from the proposal by the Contracting Officer, prior to turning the proposal over to the Government evaluation teams, and will not be considered in the evaluation. The Non-Price Proposal and Price Proposal collectively shall not exceed 50 pages excluding the following:

· A complete and signed Standard Form 1449, “Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items,” and executed copy of Amendments, if applicable, completed by offeror.

· RFP Section “Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Offerors” completed by the offeror in accordance with FAR 52.204-7, FAR 52.212-3 Alt 1 and DFARS 252.204-7004 Alt. A.

· Cover letter (letter of transmittal)

· Title Pages

· Table of Contents

· Glossaries

· Table of Figures

· List of Tables

Format

The offerors shall submit proposals per the following format. Text shall be single-spaced, on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper with a minimum one-inch margin all around. Pages shall be numbered consecutively. The font shall be 12-point size using Times New Roman. Underlining, bold and italics may be used to identify topic demarcations.

Each volume in the proposal shall include a copy of the cover letter (letter of transmittal), title page and table of contents. The table of contents shall list sections, subsections and page numbers. Each volume shall contain a glossary of all abbreviations and acronyms used. Each acronym used shall be spelled out in the text the first time it appears in each proposal volume. Each page of the proposal shall be affixed with the following legend:

“Source Selection Information – See FAR 2.101 and 3.104.”

52.212-2 EVALUATION--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014)

(a) The Government will award a single-award IDIQ 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. Offers will be evaluated utilizing a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection. The Government intends to award on initial offers but reserves the right to conduct discussions.

For a proposal to be determined technically acceptable, an offeror must submit a proposal that does not take exception to any term of the solicitation and provides a confirmation from Oracle’s Government Resell Programs Group that it is a member of the Oracle Partner Network at the Gold Level or higher, that it is authorized to create a contract in response to this RFP demonstrate, its membership in the Oracle Partner Network is in good standing, it has the required Full Use Distribution Agreement (FUDA and Public Sector Addendum (PSAD) in place, and it is approved to offer the Oracle products contained in this RFP.

The contracting officer will use the following adjectival rating table for technical evaluation factor:

Rating Description Acceptable Proposal meets the requirements of the solicitation.

Unacceptable Proposal does not meet the requirements of the solicitation.

Price will be evaluated by totaling the Unlimited Deployment Program (UDP) Pricing Worksheet in Attachment “3” and the discounted license price and discounted technical support (SULS) price at all transaction bands for the Catalog products provided via Attachment “8” Consolidated Pricing Worksheet. This total price will be evaluated for price reasonableness. Award will be made to the responsible offeror submitting the lowest price, technically acceptable offer. The evaluation may include, but is not limited to, the price analysis techniques listed at FAR 15.404-1(b)(2).

An award will only be made to an offeror that satisfies the general responsibility standards of FAR 9.104-1.

(b) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the 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.

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