SF1449_SP800025R0005_04162025.pdf

SOLICITATION/CONTRACT/ORDER FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS 1. REQUISITION NUMBER PAGE 1 OF96

OFFEROR TO COMPLETE BLOCKS 12, 17, 23, 24, & 30 7011443031

2. CONTRACT NO. 3. AWARD/EFFECTIVE 4. ORDER NUMBER 5. SOLICITATION NUMBER 6. SOLICITATION ISSUE

DATE DATE

SP8000-25-R-0005 2025 APR 16

a. NAME b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (No Collect 8. OFFER DUE DATE/

7. FOR SOLICITATION

calls) LOCAL TIME

2025 MAY 16

INFORMATION CALL: Alicia Barrowman C012321 Phone: 614-692-9640

9. ISSUED BY CODE SP8000 10. THIS ACQUISITION IS

11:59 PM

[8J UNRESTRICTED OR □SET ASIDE: %FOR:

□SMALL BUSINESS □ WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS

(WOSB) ELIGIBLE UNDER THE WOMEN-OWNED

DCSO COLUMBUS DIVISION #3 □ HUBZONE SMALL SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM

3990 EAST BROAD STREET BUSINESS

COLUMBUS OH 43218 □ EDWOSB NAICS: 541990 USA SERVICE-DISABLED

□ VETERAN-OWNED

SMALL BUSINESS 08(A) SIZE STANDARD:

11. DELIVERYFOR FOB DESTINA- 12. DISCOUNT TERMS 13b. RATING TION UNLESS BLOCK IS □ 13a. THIS CONTRACT IS A MARKED RATED ORDER UNDER

DPAS (15 CFR 700) 14. METHOD OF SOLICITATION

[8J SEE SCHEDULE □ RFQ □ IFB 1:8] RFP

15. DELIVER TO CODE 16. ADMINISTERED BY CODE I

SEE SCHEDULE

17a. CONTRACTOR/ CODE I I FACILITY 18a. PAYMENT WILL BE MADE BY CODE I OFFEROR CODE

TELEPHONE NO.

□ 17b. CHECK IF REMITTANCE IS DIFFERENT AND PUT SUCH ADDRESS IN 18b. SUBMIT INVOICES TO ADDRESS SHOWN IN BLOCK 18a UNLESS BLOCK

OFFER BELOW IS CHECKED □ SEE ADDENDUM

19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

ITEM NO. SCHEDULE OF SUPPLIES/SERVICES QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT

See Schedule

(Use Reverse and/or Attach Additional Sheets as Necessary)

25. ACCOUNTING AND APPROPRIATION DATA 26. TOTAL AWARD AMOUNT (For Govt. Use Only)

1:8] 27a. SOLICITATION INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE FAR 52.212-1, 52.212-4. FAR 52.212-3 AND 52.212-5 ARE ATTACHED. ADDENDA

□ 27b. CONTRACT/PURCHASE ORDER INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE FAR 52.212-4. FAR 52.212-5 IS ATTACHED. ADDENDA

1:8] ARE

DARE

□ ARE NOTATTACHED

□ ARE NOTATTACHED

[8J 28. CONTRACTOR IS REQUIRED TO SIGN THIS DOCUMENT AND RETURN _1_ □29. AWARD OF CONTRACT: REF OFFER

COPIES TO ISSUING OFFICE. CONTRACTOR AGREES TO FURNISH AND

DATED . YOUR OFFER ON SOLICITATION

DELIVER ALL ITEMS SET FORTH OR OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED ABOVE AND ON ANY (BLOCK 5), INCLUDING ANY ADDITIONS OR CHANGES WHICH ARE ADDITIONAL SHEETS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SPECIFIED SET FORTH HEREIN, IS ACCEPTED AS TO ITEMS:

30a. SIGNATURE OF OFFEROR/CONTRACTOR 31a. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (SIGNATURE OF CONTRACTING OFFICER)

30b. NAME AND TITLE OF SIGNER (Type or Print)

AUTHORIZED FOR LOCAL REPRODUCTION

PREVIOUS EDITION IS NOT USABLE

30c. DATE SIGNED 31 b. NAME OF CONTRACTING OFFICER (Type or Print) 31c. DATE SIGNED

STANDARD FORM 1449 (REV. 212012)

Prescribed by GSA - FAR (48 CFR) 53.212

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SECTION B - SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES OR COSTS (CONTINUED)

Scope of Work for Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ):

The contractor shall perform bulk sampling services of material in, or about to enter, the government's Stockpile.

The contractor shall perform physical and chemical property analytical testing of the material for conformance to the government's specifications and other government requirements. Typically, the government will not know the material lot size, number of containers per lot, quantity of material in each container, number of lots per shipment, number of shipments per month until one ( 1) month before the material vendor begins delivery of material to the government. Each request for services under this Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract will be issued as a Task Order (TO). Each TO will specify the material, sampling location, expected timeframe, period of performance (POP), and whether analytical testing is required. Sampling may take place at a government location or prior to delivery at a material vendor or their upstream processing location. If analytical testing is included in the task order, the contactor shall take representative samples, perform the analysis, and deliver COAs to the government on numerous lots within eighty (80) calendar days of the government's request for the contractor's services, allowing the government a minimum often (10) calendar days to determine whether the material is acceptable or not, based on the CO As from the contractor. See Table 1.

Table 1: Timeline

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C 7 8

G n 7 15

C arts 15 3Qi

Co 15 5

Co OAs 21 66

Go 14, 8Qi nalys·s 80

Scope of Work for Task Order (TO):

Each TO will have a detailed Performance Work Statement (PWS) or Statement of Work (SOW) outlining the requirements for the site- and site-specific details. The TO PWS/SOW will align with the requirements and scope of the IDIQ PWS.

B.1 Contract Type

The Government intends to award a single Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract for this acqms1tion. However, the Government reserves the right to award no contracts as a result of this solicitation. Resulting task orders will be firm-fixed price with Time & Materials CLINS for labor and travel awards.

Maximum Contract Dollar Value: The total amount of all orders (Task Orders) placed against the IDIQ

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SECTION C - SPECIFICATIONS/SOW/SOO/ORD (CONTINUED)

2. BACKGROUND

The government acquires materials for the National Defense Stockpile (Stockpile), per the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of 1939, 50 USC § 98, as amended. The government stores these materials in bulk for long periods, sometimes several decades.

Each material is unique in nature - material form, quantity, lot size, packaging, storage requirements, special handling requirements, etc. Depending on the form of the material - metallic flake, lumps, metallic ingots, coarse and fine powders, rods, blocks, and sheets, etc., the government may store the material in bulk piles, drums, supersacks, crates, stacked on pallets, etc.

Some materials may require special storage situations. Examples of special storage situations are climate-controlled areas, sealed containment under artificial atmosphere, and compartmentalized areas in consideration of safety based on the material properties and potentially hazardous impurities.

The government's storage locations are depots located in Scotia, New York; Hammond, Indiana;

Hawthorne, Nevada; and Point Pleasant, West Virginia. There may be situations where the government stores material at a commercial location within the Continental United States (CONUS).

The government's acquisition contracts with material vendors often require the government to accept (or reject) material within a 90-calendar day window from when the material vendor makes the material available for analysis.

The certificates of analysis/analytical reports (COAs) that represent the material held in the stockpile must have impeccable veracity.

3. OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this contract is to obtain representative bulk sampling and specification analysis/ verification testing services so that the government may make timely acceptance decisions based on independently generated COAs and present reliable documentation of the material if or when the material exits the stockpile.

4. SCOPE OF WORK

The contractor shall perform bulk sampling services of material in, or about to enter, the government's Stockpile. The contractor shall perform physical and chemical property analytical testing of the material for conformance to the government's specifications and other government requirements.

Typically, the government will not know the material lot size, number of containers per lot, quantity of material in each container, number of lots per shipment, number of shipments per month until one (1) month before the material vendor begins delivery of material to the government.

Each request for services under this Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract will be issued as a Task Order (TO). Each TO will specify the material, sampling location, expected timeframe, period of performance (POP), and whether analytical testing is required. Sampling may take place at a government location or prior to delivery at a material vendor or their upstream processing location.

If analytical testing is included in the task order, the contactor shall take representative samples, perform the analysis, and deliver COAs to the government on numerous lots within eighty (80) calendar days of the government's request for the contractor's services, allowing the government a minimum of ten (10)

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SECTION I - CONTRACT CLAUSES (CONTINUED)

(c)lf this is a requirements contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection 52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in paragraph (b) of this section.

(d)Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within _N/A_ days after issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor's intent not to ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons. Upon receiving this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from another source.

(End of clause)

52.217-8 OPTION TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT (MAR 2000) FAR

(a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within _30_DAYS_ [insert the period of time within which the Contracting Officer may exercise the option]; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least _60_ days[60days unless a different number of days is inserted] before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.

(b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.

(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed _3 YEARS ___ (months) (years).

(End of clause)

52.217-9 OPTION TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT (MAR 2000)

a)The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within _30 DAYS __ [insert the period of time within which the Contracting Officer may exercise the option]; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least _ 60 DAYS_ days[60days unless a different number of days is inserted] before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.

(b)lf the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.

(c)The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed _3 YEARS ____ (months) (years).

(End of clause)

52.212-5 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR EXECUTIVE ORDERS

--COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS AND COMMERCIAL SERVICES (JAN 2025) FAR

(a) The Contractor shall comply with the following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial products and commercial services:

(1) 52.203-19, Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements (Jan 2017) (section 7 43 of Division E, Title VII, of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L.

113-235) and its successor provisions in subsequent appropriations acts (and as extended in continuing resolutions)).

(2) 52.204-23, Prohibition on Contracting for Hardware, Software, and Services Developed or Provided by Kaspersky Lab Covered Entities (Dec 2023) (Section 1634 of Pub. L. 115-91).

(3) 52.204-25, Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment. (Nov 2021) (Section 889(a)(1 )(A) of Pub. L. 115-232).

(4) 52.209-10, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations (Nov 2015).

(5) 52.232-40, Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors (Mar 2023) ( 31 U.S.C. 3903 and 10 u.s.c. 3801 ).

(6) 52.233-3, Protest After Award (Aug 1996) ( 31 U.S.C. 3553).

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SECTION L - INSTRUCTIONS, CONDITIONS AND NOTICES TO OFFERORS (CONTINUED)

The Contract Specialist at Victoria.Mcpherson@dla.mil

The Contracting Officer at Alicia.Barrowman@dla.mil

The Government:

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• Requires that all questions be received within twelve (12) calendar days from the date this solicitation is issued

• Will not accept phone calls

• Will post answers to the questions received on the Sam.gov website (https://sam.gov/) via amendment

• Recommends listing questions in a Microsoft (MS) Excel spreadsheet with document name, page number, paragraph or section number, context, and question or comment

Example:

Document Name: RFP (1449)

PAGE#: 7

Paragraph, Section # or Context: Paragraph 6 or last paragraph Contract Maximum Dollar Value Question/Comment: Typo

2.0 Proposal submission

The submission date for all volumes shall be no later than the date and time specified in the solicitation.

2.1 Electronic Submissions Only

The Offeror shall use Electronic means (Email) of sending the proposal. No mailed copies will be permitted. The Electronic documents should be clearly marked with the solicitation number and appropriate volume number.

2.2 Late Submissions

Proposals submitted after the closing date and time specified for receipt of offers are "late" and will not be considered for award.

The Government will process late submissions of proposals in accordance with FAR 52.212-1. If the electronic copy is received late, it is not eligible for consideration in accordance with FAR 52.212-1 and Alternate I. The Government will reject that proposal without evaluation.

2.3 Proposal Submission

Solicitation No: SPS000-25-R-0005

Opening/Closing Date and Time: 16APR25 - 11:59 EST 16MAY25

Note: Proposals will be accepted any time before the closing date and time.

The Offeror shall submit one Electronic copy of the proposal as shown in paragraph 2.6.5 of Section L and must be emailed to Alicia.Barrowman@dla.mil, Victoria.Mcpherson@dla.mil, and Zoryanna.Siemer@dla.mil and received no later than the solicitation close date.