B08 W519TC27QA033.pdf

SOLICITATION NARRATIVE

1. The Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI) hereby issues the solicitation W519TC27QA033, for the procurement of Aluminum Bar at Rock Island Arsenal, Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC). This solicitation is issued in accordance with Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Overhaul (RFO) Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services.

2. Quotes must be submitted via email to the Contract Specialist listed below in the Points of Contact paragraph and received prior to the closing date and time to be considered for award. The offeror is responsible for assuring the quote is received by the Government on time, prior to the closing date and time, to be considered. It is the government's intent to award without discussions (except for clarifications as described by FAR 15.306(a)). Therefore, the Contractor's quote should be complete and contain the contractor's best price and delivery terms. A complete quote submission includes (but not limited to) the contractor's best term (price and delivery and all required fill-ins under this RFQ). IAW FAR clause 52.212-2, included in this RFQ, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if determined necessary by the Contracting Officer.

CLOSING DATE/TIME FOR THIS SOLICITATION IS 13 NOVEMBER 2026 BY 10AM CENTRAL

TIME.

Quotes shall be prepared and authorized by a person(s) regularly employed by the contractor. The quote shall state the name of each person(s) contributing to the authorship of the quote, the person (s) position/title, phone number, and an email address for the person who should be contacted if an award is to be made. The quote should be prepared in a clear, legible, practical manner. In addition, the quote shall be written in English and should be specific and complete.

Pricing should be IAW the information on the CLIN and any attachments to this solicitation and should be documented directly on the SF1449 form, including a unit price (two decimals only, including shipping FOB destination to Rock Island, IL to be paid by the contractor) on each CLIN, a total CLIN amount, and a grand total for the entire solicitation, all clauses that require fill ins should be completed, and the authorized preparer shall sign and date prior to submission. The solicitation should be emailed to the POCs listed below.

**PLEASE NOTE: FAR 25/DFARS 225, FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS, SPECIFICALLY BY

AMERICAN, APPLIES FOR THIS REQUIREMENT. PLEASE PROVIDE THE COUNTRY OF

ORIGIN ON EACH CLIN OF YOUR QUOTE, WHICH MUST BE COMPLIANT WITH THE

ACCEPTABLE COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN.

Certified Test Report and Certificate of Conformance (COC) is required IAW FAR 52.246-15 with EVERY delivery.

4. Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in Proposal Evaluation

a. Use of AI tools in Support of Evaluations: The Government will employ AI as a tool to assist in the analysis and review of offeror proposals. AI tools may be used to support tasks such as summarizing proposal content, identifying compliance with request for task order proposal /solicitation requirements, and highlighting areas of potential strength, weakness, or risk.

b. Maintaining Inherently Governmental Functions: Notwithstanding the use of AI tools to support the evaluation process, all final evaluation judgements, including the assignment of assessment of adjectival ratings, best value determination, and source selection decisions, will be made exclusively by duly appointed Government personnel. The Government retains the sole responsibility for all inherently governmental functions and will not delegate decision making authority to any AI tool.

c. Offeror Confidentiality and Data Protection: The AI tools utilized by the Government will be employed in a manner consistent with the applicable regulations that govern the protection of proprietary and source selection sensitive information. The AI tool will be an output-only system.

Any generated report data is not saved.

5. The Government intends to award one firm fixed price purchase order (without discussions, except clarifications as described in FAR 15.306(a)) to the Offeror determined to be responsible (in accordance with (IAW) the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 9.1) whose quote conforms with the RFQ requirements and is determined to be the lowest total evaluated (fair and reasonable) priced quote.

6. Delivery for this item is specified on the CLIN(s), however early and incremental delivery is authorized and encouraged with no additional cost to the Government. All quotes shall be quoted as FOB Destination Rock Island, IL, see FAR 52.247-34, therefore, all shipping charges should be included in the quote.

On time delivery is critical. Therefore, contractor must adhere to the delivery requirements indicated in the resulting award. Failure to comply with the contractual delivery schedule after award may result in termination of the award or require consideration if the Government elects to extend your delivery schedule. The Government is not obligated to extend your delivery if you encounter delays. The non-availability of raw materials, subcontractor issues, scheduling conflicts, etc., are not considered acceptable delays/excuses for the failing to meet the contractual delivery schedule. If there is going to be a delay in delivery, the contractor is required to notify the Contracting Officer designated in the award at least 10 days prior to being late. Such notification shall include the contractor's reasons for delay, proposed revised schedule, and the contractor's offered consideration for the delay should the Government elect to extend. It is the responsibility of the contractor to ensure that they provide quality products that conform to the award terms and conditions as well as meet the required delivery schedule.

Delivery of nonconforming products results in delivery/acceptance delays and ultimately increased costs to the Government.

All deliveries shall be shipped to the following address:

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL

JOINT MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLGOY CENTER (RIA-JMTC) TRANSPORTATION

OFFICER, W52H1C

EAST END, RECG DOOR 16A ROCK ISLAND, il 61299-5000

**Contractor shall package all shipments to RIA-JMTC IAW standard commercial guidelines.

NOTE RECEIVING HOURS OF OPERATION Monday-Friday, 6:30am to 2:00pm Central Time.

Deliveries before or after the above stated hours will be turned away. Appointments are not necessary. For directions call: (309)782-8539 (Automated).

7. WARRANTY: A one year parts and labor warranty is required for all CLINs. Warranties shall be provided for the item and all required tooling. All warranties will begin upon final acceptance by the Government. Contractor shall provide the product warranty information to the Contracting Officer upon award.

8. PAYMENT: Payment will be via Defense Finance and Accounting System (DFAS) via the Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) System. Only electronic invoices submitted through WAWF will be accepted. All other formats will be rejected. See DFARS 252.232-7003 and 252.232-7006 for additional invoicing guidance.

9. Offeror is cautioned to ensure their proposal is fully complete, including all fill-ins and blanks in the solicitation. Contractor agrees by submission that their proposal and the prices contained therein will be valid for 90 days after date of the quote submission.

10. Point of Contacts for this RFQ are as follows:

Contract Specialist: Lynn Baker, Email: lynn.d.baker8.civ@army.mil Contracting Officer: Kelly

Hendricks, Email: Kelly.d.hendricks5.civ@army.mil

11. INSTALLATION ACCESS INFO

Rock Island Arsenal (RIA) Visitor Access Passes are issued to individuals, not companies or groups. All visitors, to include transportation and freight services, official and unofficial, are highly suggested to pre-register at least three (3) business days prior to their visit. Pre-registration of visitors allows for the national Crime Information Center NCIC-III background check to be conducted prior to the individual arriving at RIA, reducing their wait time upon arrival. It is the responsibility of the prime contractor to ensure that this information is passed along to any subcontractor or transportation provider used during the performance of this purchase order.

DRIVERS WHO DO NOT MEET THE INSTALLATION ACCESS REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE

ALLOWED ON THE INSTALLATION AND WILL BE TURNED AWAY.

The Visitor Access Form, instructions, and "How Do I Get On Post?" flowchart can be found at https://home.army.mil/ria/about/visitory-information, click on Pass Request Information (missile right), to Visitor Access Form.

All visitors must process through the Moline Visitor Center Gate (I-74) off of River Drive in Moline, IL. Visitors (to include transportation and freight providers) will be required proper identification to access RIA. POC for this Policy is RIA Visitor Center, email usarmy.ria.imcom.mbx.

usagaccessrequest@army.mil. Their phone number is (309)782-1337.

RECEIVING HOURS OF OPERATIONS:

Monday-Friday, 6:30am to 2:00pm CST - Excluding Holidays Deliveries before or after the above stated hours will be turned away. Appointments are not necessary.

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WIDE AREA WORKFLOW PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS (JAN 2023)

(a) 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) 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) 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) 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) Document submissions may be via web entry, Electronic Data Interchange, or File Transfer Protocol.

(f) 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) 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.

INVOICE 2IN1. DO NOT SELECT FAST PAY AS THIS OPTION AS IT DELAYS

ACCEPTANCE AND PAYMENT.

(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 financing, submit a commercial financing request.

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

(3) 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*

Pay Official DoDAAC

Issue By DoDAAC

Admin DoDAAC

Inspect By DoDAAC

Ship To Code

Ship From CodeW52H1B

Mark For Code

Service Approver (DoDAAC)

Service Acceptor (DoDAAC)

Accept at Other DoDAAC

LPO DoDAAC

DCAA Auditor DoDAAC

Other DoDAAC(s)

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

(g)

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

Contract Specialist, Lynn Baker, lynn.d.baker8.civ@army.mil

Contracting Officer, Kelly Hendricks, kelly.d.hendricks5.civ@army.mil

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

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Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature (June 2003)

(a) As used in this clause-means the act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assumes for itself, or as an agent of another, ownership of existing supplies, or approves specific services as partial or complete performance of the contract.

means the end items furnished by the Contractor and related services required under this contract. The word does not include "data."

(b) Contractor's obligations.

(1) Notwithstanding inspection and acceptance by the Government of supplies furnished under this contract, or any condition of this contract concerning the conclusiveness thereof, the Contractor warrants that for after delivery, or the specified event whose occurrence will 1 year terminate the warranty period; e.g.,the number of miles or hours of use, or combinations of any applicable events or periods of time]-

(i) All supplies furnished under this contract will be free from defects in material or workmanship and will conform with all requirements of this contract; and

(ii) The preservation, packaging, packing, and marking, and the preparation for, and method of, shipment of such supplies will conform with the requirements of this contract.

(2) When return, correction, or replacement is required, transportation charges and responsibility for the supplies while in transit shall be borne by the Contractor. However, the Contractor's liability for the transportation charges shall not exceed an amount equal to the cost of transportation by the usual commercial method of shipment between the place of delivery specified in this contract and the Contractor's plant, and return.

(3) Any supplies or parts thereof, corrected or furnished in replacement under this clause, shall also be subject to the terms of this clause to the same extent as supplies initially delivered. The warranty, with respect to supplies or parts thereof, shall be equal in duration to that in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause and shall run from the date of delivery of the corrected or replaced supplies.

(4) All implied warranties of merchantability and "fitness for a particular purpose" are excluded from any obligation contained in this contract.

(c) Remedies available to the Government.

(1) The Contracting Officer shall give written notice to the Contractor of any breach of warranties in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause within .45 days of notice of defect

(2) Within a reasonable time after the notice, the Contracting Officer may either-

(i) Require, by written notice, the prompt correction or replacement of any supplies or parts thereof (including preservation, packaging, packing, and marking) that do not conform with the requirements of this contract within the meaning of paragraph (b)(1) of this clause; or

(ii) Retain such supplies and reduce the contract price by an amount equitable under the circumstances.

(3)

(i) If the contract provides for inspection of supplies by sampling procedures, conformance of supplies or components subject to warranty action shall be determined by the applicable sampling procedures in the contract. The Contracting Officer-

(A) May, for sampling purposes, group any supplies delivered under this contract;

(B) Shall require the size of the sample to be that required by sampling procedures specified in the contract for the quantity of supplies on which warranty action is proposed;

(C) May project warranty sampling results over supplies in the same shipment or other supplies contained in other shipments even though all of such supplies are not present at the point of reinspection; provided, that the supplies remaining are reasonably representative of the quantity on which warranty action is proposed; and

(D) Need not use the same lot size as on original inspection or reconstitute the original inspection lots.

(ii) Within a reasonable time after notice of any breach of the warranties specified in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause, the Contracting Officer may exercise one or more of the following options:

(A) Require an equitable adjustment in the contract price for any group of supplies.

(B) Screen the supplies grouped for warranty action under this clause at the Contractor's expense and return all nonconforming supplies to the Contractor for correction or replacement.

(C) Require the Contractor to screen the supplies at locations designated by the Government within the contiguous United States and to correct or replace all nonconforming supplies.

(D) Return the supplies grouped for warranty action under this clause to the Contractor (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) for screening and correction or replacement.

(4)

(i) The Contracting Officer may, by contract or otherwise, correct or replace the nonconforming supplies with similar supplies from another source and charge to the Contractor the cost occasioned to the Government thereby if the Contractor-

(A) Fails to make redelivery of the corrected or replaced supplies within the time established for their return; or

(B) Fails either to accept return of the nonconforming supplies or fails to make progress after their return to correct or replace them so as to endanger performance of the delivery schedule, and in either of these circumstances does not cure such failure within a period of 10 days (or such longer period as the Contracting Officer may authorize in writing) after receipt of notice from the Contracting Officer specifying such failure.

(ii) Instead of correction or replacement by the Government, the Contracting Officer may require an equitable adjustment of the contract price. In addition, if the Contractor fails to furnish timely disposition instructions, the Contracting Officer may dispose of the nonconforming supplies for the Contractor's account in a reasonable manner. The Government is entitled to reimbursement from the Contractor, or from the proceeds of such disposal, for the reasonable expenses of the care and disposition of the nonconforming supplies, as well as for excess costs incurred or to be incurred.

(5) The rights and remedies of the Government provided in this clause are in addition to and do not limit any rights afforded to the Government by any other clause of this contract.

(End of clause)

Clauses Incorporated By Reference (Feb 1998)

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):

https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far

Authorized Deviations in Clauses (Nov 2020)

The use in this solicitation or contract of any Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR (a) Chapter 1) clause with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of "(DEVIATION)" after the date of the clause.

(b) The use in this solicitation or contract of any Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement, Department of Defense (48 CFR __Chapter 2__) clause with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of "(DEVIATION)" after the name of the regulation.

Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (Feb 1998)

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):

https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far

(End of provision)

Authorized Deviations in Provisions (Nov 2020)

The use in this solicitation of any Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR Chapter 1) (a) provision with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of "(DEVIATION)" after the date of the provision.

(b) The use in this solicitation of any Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement, Department of Defense (48 CFR Chapter 2 ) provision with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of "(DEVIATION)" after the name of the regulation.

(End of provision)