Slingshot_Combined_Synopsis_Solicitation-Brand Name.pdf

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation

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.

This is a request for quotation. Solicitation number W56KGZ-20-Q-C001.

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

Federal Acquisition Circular: FAC 2020-04 Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Public Notice: DPN 20190430 Army Federal Acquisition Regulation: AFARS Revision #28, 1 May 2020

This is a brand name acquisition under NAICS 334220.

Due to the overseas location of this requirement, no set-aside will be used in accordance with FAR 19.000(b)

Response Date: 31 March 2020 at 5:00 p.m. Arabian Standard Time (AST) EST+7 hours Points of Contact: Contracting Officer: Stephen Makowsky, stephen.c.makowsky.mil@mail.mil, DSN: 318-239-3563

Contracting Specialist: SFC Christine Noriega, christine.noriega.mil@mail.mil, DSN: 318-239-3568 RCO-Erbil: usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil

CLIN Description Qty Unit of Issue Unit Price Total Price

Slingshot Vehicular System-UHF, SG-SS-VF-1001

EA

Slingshot Man-Pack System-UHF

SG-SS-MP-1002

EA

Grand Total

FAR provision 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items--Addendum

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible contractor whose quote conforms to the solicitation and will be most advantageous to the Government, considering price.

PRICE - price will be evaluated on a comparative basis amongst all received quotations and/or the Government estimate.

Award will be made to the lowest priced offeror with a fair and reasonable price.

Award to be made without holding discussions; however, Government reserves the right to hold discussions if required.

Awardee will be required to invoice through Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Delivery: FOB Destination Items must be delivered No Later Than 60 days after contract award to the following address:

APO AE 09305-9998

Complete delivery information shall be provided to the awardee upon contract award. This contains sufficient information for calculating shipping/delivery. APO overseas addresses are considered as a “U.S.” address.

City = APO, State = AE, Zip Code = 09305-9998.

APO Package Size Limits:

- Maximum length: 46 inches

- Maximum width: 35 inches

- Maximum height: 46 inches

- Maximum length and girth combined: 108 inches

- Weight Limit: 70 lbs mailto:stephen.c.makowsky.mil@mail.mil mailto:christine.noriega.mil@mail.mil mailto:usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil

FAR provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items applies to this solicitation

FAR provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items with alternate I applies to this acquisition; the offeror verifies by submission of their offer that the representation and certifications currently posted electronically at FAR 52.212-3 Alt I, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items, have been entered or updated in the last 12 months, are current, accurate, complete, and applicable to this solicitation.

FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation.

FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms And Conditions Required To Implement Statutes Or Executive Orders-- Commercial Items applies to this solicitation; the following clauses are hereby included by reference:

52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards.

52.209-6, Protecting the Government's Interests when Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended or Proposed for Debarment 52.222-19, Child Labor—Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities 52.222-22, Previous Contracts and Compliance Reports 52.222-26, Equal Employment Opportunity 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veteran 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases.

52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer - System for Award Management

The following clauses and provisions have been incorporated by reference:

52.204-7, System for Award Management 52.204-16, Commercial and Entity Code Reporting 52.204-18, Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance 52.204-19, Incorporation by Reference of Representations and Certifications 252.203-7000, Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials 252.203-7002, Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights.

252.203-7005, Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials 252.204-7003, Control of Government Personnel Work Product 252.204-7004, Alternate A, System for Award Management 252.204-7015, Notice of Authorized Disclosure of Information for Litigation Support 252-209-7004, Subcontracting w/firms that are owned or controlled by the Gov't of a terrorist country 252.213-7000, Notice to Prospective Suppliers on Use of Past Performance Information Retrieval System- Statistical Reporting in Past Performance Evaluations 252.225-7050, Disclosure of Ownership or Control by the Government of a Country that is a State Sponsor of Terrorism 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports 252.232-7010, Levies on Contract Payments 252.233-7001, Choice of Law (Overseas) 252.243-7001, Pricing of Contract Modifications 252.244-7000, Subcontracts for Commercial Items 252.246-7008, Sources of Electronic Parts 252.247-7023, Transportation of Supplies by Seas 252.247-7024, Notification of Transportation of Supplies by Sea 52.233-2, Service of Protest

(a) Chief, Regional Contracting Office-Erbil, Iraq: usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil 52.252-1, Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference http://www.acquisition.gov 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference http://www.acquisition.gov 252.225-7979, Additional Access to Contractor and Subcontractor records in the United States Central Command Theater of Operations 252.225-7993, Prohibition on Providing Funds to the Enemy 252.225-7994, Additional Access to Contractor and Subcontractor Records in U.S. Central Command Theater of Operations mailto:usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil mailto:usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil http://www.acquisition.gov/ http://www.acquisition.gov/ http://www.acquisition.gov/ http://www.acquisition.gov/

252.232-7006 WIDE AREA WORKFLOW PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS (DEC 2018)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—

“Department of Defense Activity Address Code (DoDAAC)” is a six position code that uniquely identifies a unit, activity, or organization.

“Document type” means the type of payment request or receiving report available for creation in Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF).

“Local processing office (LPO)” is the office responsible for payment certification when payment certification is done external to the entitlement system.

“Payment request” and “receiving report” are defined in the clause at 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports.

(b) Electronic invoicing. The WAWF system provides the method to electronically process vendor payment requests and receiving reports, as authorized by Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.232- 7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports.

(c) WAWF access. To access WAWF, the Contractor shall—

(1) Have a designated electronic business point of contact in the System for Award Management at https://www.sam.gov; and

(2) Be registered to use WAWF at https://wawf.eb.mil/ following the step-by-step procedures for self-registration available at this web site.

(d) WAWF training. The Contractor should follow the training instructions of the WAWF Web-Based Training Course and use the Practice Training Site before submitting payment requests through WAWF. Both can be accessed by selecting the “Web Based Training” link on the WAWF home page at https://wawf.eb.mil/.

(e) WAWF methods of document submission. Document submissions may be via web entry, Electronic Data Interchange, or File Transfer Protocol.

(f) WAWF payment instructions. The Contractor shall use the following information when submitting payment requests and receiving reports in WAWF for this contract or task or delivery order:

(1) Document type. The Contractor shall submit payment requests using the following document type(s):

(i) For cost-type line items, including labor-hour or time-and-materials, submit a cost voucher.

(ii) For fixed price line items—

(A) That require shipment of a deliverable, submit the invoice and receiving report specified by the Contracting Officer.

COMBO

(B) For services that do not require shipment of a deliverable, submit either the Invoice 2in1, which meets the requirements for the invoice and receiving report, or the applicable invoice and receiving report, as specified by the Contracting Officer.

(iii) For customary progress payments based on costs incurred, submit a progress payment request.

(iv) For performance based payments, submit a performance based payment request.

(v) For commercial item financing, submit a commercial item financing request.

(2) Fast Pay requests are only permitted when Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.213-1 is included in the contract.

(3) Document routing. The Contractor shall use the information in the Routing Data Table below only to fill in applicable fields in WAWF when creating payment requests and receiving reports in the system.

Routing Data Table*

Field Name in WAWF Data to be entered in WAWF Pay Official DoDAAC HQ0697 Issue By DoDAAC W56KGZ Admin DoDAAC** W56KGZ Inspect By DoDAAC W56ZQP / W56KGZ Ship To Code W56ZQP / W56KGZ Ship From Code Mark For Code

Service Approver (DoDAAC) W56ZQP / W56KGZ Service Acceptor (DoDAAC) W56ZQP / W56KGZ Accept at Other DoDAAC LPO DoDAAC DCAA Auditor DoDAAC Other DoDAAC(s)

(4) Payment request. The Contractor shall ensure a payment request includes documentation appropriate to the type of payment request in accordance with the payment clause, contract financing clause, or Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.216-7, Allowable Cost and Payment, as applicable.

(5) Receiving report. The Contractor shall ensure a receiving report meets the requirements of DFARS Appendix F.

(g) WAWF point of contact.

brennen.sikora@socom.mil christine.noriega.mil@mail.mil stephen.c.makowsky.mil@mail.mil

(1) The Contractor may obtain clarification regarding invoicing in WAWF from the following contracting activity’s WAWF point of contact.

Stacy Woolen at stacy.r.woolen.civ@mail.mil

(2) Contact the WAWF helpdesk at 866-618-5988, if assistance is needed.

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Addendum - FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items

This acquisition will be procured utilizing the commercial procedures of FAR Part 12 and the simplified procedures at FAR Part 13.106-2.

All quotes received that do not conform to the following instructions may be considered nonresponsive, removed from the competition, and ineligible from award.

1. QUOTES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 31 MARCH019 AT 5:00 PM Local Time. The Local Time is Arabian Standard Time (AST). (EST + 7 Hours).

2. QUOTE SUBMISSIONS: Submission of Quotes shall be sent via email to:

SFC Christine Noriega, Contracting Specialist: christine.noriega.mil@mail.mil, Stephen Makowsky, Contracting Officer: stephen.c.makowsky.mil@mail.mil, and RCO-Erbil: usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil

All quotes, questions, and correspondence, SHALL BE submitted in the ENGLISH language.

3. QUOTE FORMAT AND CONTENT:

a. GENERAL: Vendors may submit quotes on their company’s quotation sheet. Quotation sheets must include all required information identified in the combined synopsis solicitation (i.e. product description, quantity, unit of issue, unit price, total price, delivery terms, etc.).

- Verification of brand name requirement. All offerors shall include documentation to satisfy the eligibility requirements listed below in Paragraph 3.c.1.

b. CURRENCY: All quotes shall be in U.S. dollars. Failure to submit U.S. currency offers shall render the vendor(s) quote unacceptable.

c. ELIGIBILITY:

1. Verification of Brand Name:

Notice to all Offerors. All companies who are not a subsidiary of the manufacturer, or an authorized distributor, and/or does not have a company website that clearly demonstrates you actively advertise and/or provide the brand name ‘Slingshot’ products for sale, shall include with their quote how they intend to procure the required brand name items, based on the following three applicable options:

i. Offeror must provide a statement to certify their company is an authorized distributor of this product; or

ii. Offeror must provide a statement to certify their company has an authorized partnership with a distributor of this product and include the following:

- Name of sub-contractor, or distributor who they intend to acquire the name brand products from, to include company name, name of a point of contact, company address, (website address if applicable), phone number, and email address; or

iii. Offerors who are not authorized distributors, or have an authorized partnership with a distributor, or cannot prove by supplying their company’s website address that clearly demonstrates they sell this name brand product through their company, shall include the following information:

- Name of company, to include all contact information as noted in #2 above, of who they intend to acquire this name brand product from; and

- A certified and signed statement that all products and parts are authentic ‘Slingshot’ brand name equipment. The certification shall also include the manufacturer’s name and part numbers of all items required; and

- Offerors shall also include a description of how they intend to acquire the required brand name items, to include a description of how they will ship and deliver the items to the final destination.

2. Non-U.S. vendors must be registered in the JOINT CONTINGENCY and EXPEDITIONARY SYSTEM mailto:christine.noriega.mil@mail.mil mailto:stephen.c.makowsky.mil@mail.mil mailto:usarmy.baghdad.408-contr-spt-bde.mbx.rcc-oir-rco-erbil@mail.mil

(JCXS) at https://www.jccs.gov by the award date. In addition, all subcontractors, at all tiers, who will be contracted by the prime (including a U.S. prime contractor) during the life of the contract, will also be registered in JCXS by the award date or within 30 days of contract if unknown at award.

i. In order to complete the JCXS registration process, Non-U.S. vendors, including subcontractors at all tiers, are required to input current and authentic copies of the following documents into JCXS:

• Country business license

• Tax Identification (ID) certificate (not applicable in some countries; i.e., Iraq)

• CAGE Code (or NATO CAGE Code)

• National ID or Passport copies for key management personnel and ownership

• CENTCOM Eligibility section of vendor profile completed (Company Questionnaire)

ii. The offeror is required to submit a listing of all proposed subcontractors, at all tiers, to the contracting officer by the award date. If no subcontractors are expected to perform during the life of the contract, the prime must submit a negative response to the contracting officer before the award date. Failure to be registered in JCXS at the prime and subcontractor levels, and failure to inform the contracting officer of the names of all subcontractors (or provide a negative reply), may deem the offeror non-responsive and ineligible for award.

iii. A “subcontractor” mean any supplier, distributor, vendor, or firm (company) that furnishes supplies or services to, or for, a prime contractor, or for another subcontractor.

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1. QUOTES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 31 MARCH019 AT 5:00 PM Local Time. The Local Time is Arabian Standard Time (AST). (EST + 7 Hours).