Solicitation_SB1341-16-RQ-0203.pdf

Request for Quotation Number SB1341-16-RQ-0203

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation

THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN

ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6-STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR

EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTATIONS ARE BEING REQUESTED, AND A

WRITTEN SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED.

This solicitation is a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 05-85-2 effective March 2, 2016.

The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334516 with a small business size standard of 500 employees. This acquisition is unrestricted and all responsible parties may submit a quote.

BACKGROUND

The Chemical Sciences Division (CSD) Gas Sensing and Metrology Group (GSMG) maintains primary measurement standards for monitoring trace levels of elemental mercury in atmospheric samples. These standards are mandated by EPA regulations for monitoring and controlling emissions from power plants, cement plants and other industrial sources of airborne mercury. In an effort to expand the measurement range and speed, as well as to improve sensitivity, repeatability, and accuracy of our primary standards, the GSMG seeks to build a custom laser spectrometer for measuring mercury-in-air samples. Mercury has well-known absorption lines at wavelengths near 254 nm, with relatively strong absorption cross sections. Our goal is to build a high-resolution laser spectrometer probing absorption in this wavelength range to measure mercury emissions from an existing standard mercury generator. This new approach will provide a fast and sensitive alternative to conventional calibration methods based upon sorbent-trapping of mercury followed by inductively coupled mass spectrometry analysis.

The Contractor shall provide a High-precision, High-speed Wavelength Meter including a one-year warranty.

LINE ITEM

All interested quoters shall provide a quote for the following line item. All equipment must be new. Used or remanufactured equipment shall not be considered for award.

LINE ITEM 0001: Quantity one (1) each High-precision, High-speed Wavelength Meter including warranty, meeting all of the specifications and requirements identified in the attached Statement of Work.

DELIVERY

Delivery shall be completed not later than 12 weeks from the date of award.

Delivery terms shall be FOB Destination.

FOB DESTINATION MEANS: The contractor shall pack and mark the shipment in conformance with carrier requirements, deliver the shipment in good order and condition to the point of delivery specified in the purchase order, be responsible for loss of and/or damage to the goods occurring before receipt and acceptance of the shipment by the consignee at the delivery point specified in the purchase order; and pay all charges to the specified point of delivery.

PAYMENT SCHEDULE

The Contractor shall be paid in one lump sum payment upon successful completion of delivery, inspection, and acceptance

EVALUATION OF QUOTATIONS

The following will be used to evaluate quotations:

Technical Capability

Price

This requirement will be awarded to the quoter who presents a technically acceptable quotation at the lowest price.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITY

Technical capability shall be evaluated to determine whether the quoter has demonstrated that its proposed product meets the specifications identified in the SOW.

REQUIRED SUBMISSIONS

All quoters shall submit the following:

1) The FOB Destination price quotation which addresses the Line Item.

2) Technical description and/or product literature. Quoters shall include the manufacturer, make and model of the quoted product, manufacturer sales literature or other product literature which CLEARLY DOCUMENTS that the offered product meets or exceeds the specifications, and the requirements for warranty identified in the

SOW. It is the responsibility of the quoter to ensure that all specifications are clearly documented;

3) If the contractor objects to any of the terms and conditions contained in this solicitation, the contractor shall state “The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document with the exception, deletion, or addition of the following:” [Contractor shall list exception(s) and rationale for the exception(s)]. It is the sole responsibility of the contractor to identify in their quote any exceptions to the terms and conditions of the solicitation. If the contractor does not include such a statement, the submission of a quotation in response to this solicitation will be regarded as the Contractor’s acceptance of the Government’s terms and conditions for inclusion into the resultant purchase order.

4) The DUNS number for the quoter’s active System for Award Management (SAM) registration.

Quoters must have an active registration at www.SAM.Gov to receive an award.

5) The name of the manufacturer and the country of origin for the quoted equipment.

Submission must be received by 12:00 p.m. local time on May 4, 2016. E-mail quotations are acceptable.

Quotations must be emailed to richard.kim@nist.gov. Quotations shall be considered received when the quotation enters into the electronic mailbox of Richard Kim.

PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES

The full text of a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision or clause may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov.

http://www.sam.gov/ mailto:richard.kim@nist.gov http://www.acquisition.gov/

The following FAR provisions apply to this acquisition:

52.204-7, System for Award Management

52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting

52.204-17, Ownership or Control of Offeror

52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Items

52.212-3, Offeror’s Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items

52.225-25, Prohibition on Contracting with Entities Engaging in Sanctioned Activities Relating to Iran

In accordance with FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items, quoters must complete annual representations and certifications on-line at www.SAM.Gov. If paragraph (j) of the provision applies, a written submission is required.

The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition:

52.204-4, Printed or Copied Double-Sided on Postconsumer Fiber Content Paper

52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance

52.204-18, Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance

52.204-19, Incorporation by Reference of Representations and Certifications

52.209-7, Information Regarding Responsibility Matters

52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Items, except paragraph (f)

52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—

Commercial Items (MAR 2015) including sub-paragraphs: (checked clauses are applicable to this solicitation) __ (1) 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government

__ (2) 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct

__ (3) 52.203-15, Whistleblower Protections under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

(June 2010) (Section 1553 of Pub. L. 111-5). (Applies to contracts funded by the American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act of 2009.)

XX (4) 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards

__ (5) [Reserved].

__ (6) 52.204-14, Service Contract Reporting Requirements

__ (7) 52.204-15, Service Contract Reporting Requirements for Indefinite-Delivery Contracts

_XX_ (8) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government’s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors

Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment.

__ (9) 52.209-9, Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility Matters.

__ (10) [Reserved].

__ (11)(i) 52.219-3, Notice of HUBZone Set-Aside or Sole-Source Award.

__ (ii) Alternate I (Nov 2011) of 52.219-3.

__ (12)(i) 52.219-4, Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns

__ (ii) Alternate I (JAN 2011) of 52.219-4.

__ (13) [Reserved]

__ (14)(i) 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside

__ (ii) Alternate I (Nov 2011).

__ (iii) Alternate II (Nov 2011).

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__ (ii) Alternate I (Oct 1995) of 52.219-7.

__ (iii) Alternate II (Mar 2004) of 52.219-7.

__ (16) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns

__ (17)(i) 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan

__ (ii) Alternate I (Oct 2001) of 52.219-9.

__ (iii) Alternate II (Oct 2001) of 52.219-9.

__ (iv) Alternate III (Oct 2014) of 52.219-9.

__ (18) 52.219-13, Notice of Set-Aside of Orders

__ (19) 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting

__ (20) 52.219-16, Liquidated Damages-Subcontracting Plan

__ (21) 52.219-27, Notice of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside

_XX_ (22) 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation

__ (23) 52.219-29, Notice of Set-Aside for Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business

(EDWOSB) Concerns

__ (24) 52.219-30, Notice of Set-Aside for Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Concerns Eligible

Under the WOSB Program

XX__ (25) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (June 2003)

XX__ (26) 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies

XX__ (27) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities

XX__ (28) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity

___ (29) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans

XX__ (30) 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities

____ (31) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans

__ (32) 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act

_XX_ (33)(i) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons

__ (ii) Alternate I (Mar 2015) of 52.222-50

__ (34) 52.222-54, Employment Eligibility Verification (Executive Order 12989). (Not applicable to the acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf items or certain other types of commercial items as prescribed in 22.1803.)

__ (35)(i) 52.223-9, Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA–Designated Items

(Not applicable to the acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf items.)

__ (ii) Alternate I Not applicable to the acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf items.)

__ (36)(i) 52.223-13, Acquisition of EPEAT®-Registered Imaging Equipment

__ (ii) Alternate I.

__ (37)(i) 52.223-14, Acquisition of EPEAT®-Registered Televisions

__ (ii) Alternate I

__ (38) 52.223-15, Energy Efficiency in Energy-Consuming Products

__ (39)(i) 52.223-16, Acquisition of EPEAT®-Registered Personal Computer Products

__ (ii) Alternate I (Jun 2014) of 52.223-16.

XX__ (40) 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving

__ (41) 52.225-1, Buy American-Supplies https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136017 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136017 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136032 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136058 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136058 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136058 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136058 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136174 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136175 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136186 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1136387 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1139913 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1144950 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_217_221.html#wp1144420 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1147479 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1147630 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1147656 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1147711 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1158632 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1162802 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1148123 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1160019 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1151848 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1151848 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_222.html#wp1156645 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/Subpart%2022_18.html#wp1089948 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1168892 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1168933 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1194330 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1194323 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1179078 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1179078 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1188603 https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/current/far/html/52_223_226.html#wp1192900

XX_ (42)(i) 52.225-3, Buy American-Free Trade Agreements-Israeli Trade Act

XX__ (ii) Alternate I

__ (iii) Alternate II

__ (iv) Alternate III

__ (43) 52.225-5, Trade Agreements

XX__ (44) 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases

__ (45) 52.225-26, Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States

__ (46) 52.226-4, Notice of Disaster or Emergency Area Set-Aside

__ (47) 52.226-5, Restrictions on Subcontracting Outside Disaster or Emergency Area

__ (48) 52.232-29, Terms for Financing of Purchases of Commercial Items

__ (49) 52.232-30, Installment Payments for Commercial Items

XX__ (50) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management

__ (51) 52.232-34, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Other than System for Award Management

__ (52) 52.232-36, Payment by Third Party

__ (53) 52.239-1, Privacy or Security Safeguards

__ (54)(i) 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels

52.232-39 Unenforceability of Unauthorized Obligations

52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors

52.247-34 FOB Destination

52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference

The following U.S. Department of Commerce Acquisition Regulation (CAR) provisions and clauses apply to this procurement. The full text of a CAR provision or clause may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov. Reference Supplemental Regulations, U.S. Department of Commerce.

1352.201-70 CONTRACTING OFFICER'S AUTHORITY

1352.209-73 COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAWS

1352.209-74 ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST

1352.233-71 GAO AND COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS PROTESTS

1352.233-70 AGENCY PROTESTS (APR 2010)

(a) An agency protest may be filed with either: (1) the contracting officer, or (2) at a level above the contracting officer, with the appropriate agency Protest Decision Authority. See 64 Fed. Reg. 16,651 (April 6, 1999)

(b) Agency protests filed with the Contracting Officer shall be sent to the following address:

NIST/ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT DIVISION

ATTN: GRACE GARRITY, CONTRACTING OFFICER

100 Bureau Drive, MS 1640

Gaithersburg, MD 20899

(c) Agency protests filed with the agency Protest Decision Authority shall be sent to the following address:

NIST/ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT DIVISION

ATTN: HEAD OF THE CONTRACTING OFFICE (HCO)

100 Bureau Drive, MS 1640

Gaithersburg, MD 20899

(d) A complete copy of all agency protests, including all attachments, shall be served upon the Contract Law

Division of the Office of the General Counsel within one day of filing a protest with either the Contracting

Officer or the Protest Decision Authority.

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(e) Service upon the Contract Law Division shall be made as follows:

U.S. Department of Commerce

Office of the General Counsel

Chief, Contract Law Division

Room 5893

Herbert C. Hoover Building

14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20230.

FAX: (202) 482-5858

1352.246-70 PLACE OF ACCEPTANCE

**NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.

NIST LOCAL 04: BILLING INSTRUCTIONS

(a) NIST prefers electronic Invoice/Voucher submissions and they should be emailed to

INVOICE@NIST.GOV.

(b) Each Invoice or Voucher submitted shall include the following: (1) Contract Number. (2) Contractor Name and Address. (3) Date of Invoice. (4) Invoice Number. (5) Amount of Invoice and Cumulative Amount Invoiced to-date. (6) Contract Line Item Number (CLIN). (7) Description, Quantity, Unit of Measure, Unit Price, and

Extended Price of Supplies/Services Delivered. (8) Prompt Payment Discount Terms, if Offered. (9) Any other information or documentation required by the contract.

(c) In the event electronic submissions are not used, The Contractor shall submit an original invoice or voucher in accordance with the payment provisions of this contract to:

NIST: Accounts Payable Office

100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1621

Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1621

(End of clause) mailto:INVOICE@NIST.GOV