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ADDENDUM TO SOLICITATION W52P1J-19-T-NB01 for POTASSIUM CHLORATE

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE:

52.204-7 System for Award Management Jul 2013 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance Jul 2013 52.225-25 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities Engaging in

Certain Activities or Transactions Relating to Iran – Representation and Certification Dec 2012

52.232-39 Unenforceability of Unauthorized Obligations Jun 2013 52.233-2 Protest after Award Sep 2006 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim Oct 2004 52.243-1 Changes – Fixed Price Aug 1987 52.244-6 Subcontracts for Commercial Items Mar 2015 52.246-2 Inspection of Supplies – Fixed Price Aug 1996

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT:

52.209-3 First Article Approval -- Contractor Testing, with Alternate I (Jan 1997)

(a) The Contractor shall test 2 LBS unit(s) of Lot/Item Potassium Chlorate as specified in this contract. At least 7 calendar days before the beginning of first article tests, the Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer, in writing, of the time and location of the testing so that the Government may witness the tests.

(b) The Contractor shall submit the first article test report within 30 calendar days from the date of this contract to

Pine Bluff Arsenal ATTN: Darin Pecanty 504th St., Bldg 53 990 Central Receiving Point Pine Bluff, AR 71602 marked “First Article Test Report: Contract No. TBD, Lot/Item No. CLIN 0002 – First Article Test, Potassium Chlorate” Within 7 calendar days after the Government receives the test report, the Contracting Officer shall notify the Contractor, in writing, of the conditional approval, approval, or disapproval of the first article. The notice of conditional approval or approval shall not relieve the Contractor from complying with all requirements of the specifications and all other terms and conditions of this contract. A notice of conditional approval shall state any further action required of the Contractor. A notice of disapproval shall cite reasons for the disapproval.

(c) If the first article is disapproved, the Contractor, upon Government request, shall repeat any or all first article tests. After each request for additional tests, the Contractor shall make any necessary changes, modifications, or repairs to the first article or select another first article for testing. All costs related to these tests are to be borne by the Contractor, including any and all costs for additional tests following a disapproval. The Contractor shall then conduct the tests and deliver another report to the Government under the terms and conditions and within the time specified by the Government. The Government shall take action on this report within the time specified in paragraph

(b) above. The Government reserves the right to require an equitable adjustment of the contract price for any extension of the delivery schedule, or for any additional costs to the Government related to these tests.

(d) If the Contractor fails to deliver any first article report on time, or the Contracting Officer disapproves any first article, the Contractor shall be deemed to have failed to make delivery within the meaning of the Default clause of this contract.

(e) Unless otherwise provided in the contract, and if the approved first article is not consumed or destroyed in testing, the Contractor may deliver the approved first article as part of the contract quantity if it meets all contract requirements for acceptance.

(f) If the Government does not act within the time specified in paragraph (b) or (c) above, the Contracting Officer shall, upon timely written request from the Contractor, equitably adjust under the changes clause of this contract the delivery or performance dates and/or the contract price, and any other contractual term affected by the delay.

(g) Before first article approval, the acquisition of materials or components for, or the commencement of production of, the balance of the contract quantity is at the sole risk of the Contractor. Before first article approval, the costs thereof shall not be allocable to this contract for

(1) progress payments, or

(2) termination settlements if the contract is terminated for the convenience of the Government.

(h) The Government may waive the requirement for first article approval test where supplies identical or similar to those called for in the schedule have been previously furnished by the offeror/contractor and have been accepted by the Government. The offeror/contractor may request a waiver.

(i) The Contractor shall produce both the first article and the production quantity at the same facility.

52.211-5 Material Requirements (Aug 2000)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause --

“New” means composed of previously unused components, whether manufactured from virgin material, recovered material in the form of raw material, or materials and by-products generated from, and reused within, an original manufacturing process; provided that the supplies meet contract requirements, including but not limited to, performance, reliability, and life expectancy.

“Reconditioned” means restored to the original normal operating condition by readjustments and material replacement.

“Recovered material” means waste materials and by-products recovered or diverted from solid waste, but the term does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process.

“Remanufactured” means factory rebuilt to original specifications.

“Virgin material” means--

(1) Previously unused raw material, including previously unused copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, iron, other metal or metal ore; or

(2) Any undeveloped resource that is, or with new technology will become, a source of raw materials.

(b) Unless this contract otherwise requires virgin material or supplies composed of or manufactured from virgin material, the Contractor shall provide supplies that are new, reconditioned, or remanufactured, as defined in this clause.

(c) A proposal to provide unused former Government surplus property shall include a complete description of the material, the quantity, the name of the Government agency from which acquired, and the date of acquisition.

(d) A proposal to provide used, reconditioned, or remanufactured supplies shall include a detailed description of such supplies and shall be submitted to the Contracting Officer for approval.

(e) Used, reconditioned, or remanufactured supplies, or unused former Government surplus property, may be used in contract performance if the Contractor has proposed the use of such supplies, and the Contracting Officer has authorized their use.

52.216-1 Type of Contract (Apr 1984)

The Government contemplates award of a FIRM FIXED PRICE contract resulting from this solicitation.

52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature (Jun 2003)

(a) Definitions. As used in this clause --

Acceptance 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.

Supplies 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 3 years after acceptance of material.

(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 to 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 after discovery of the 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 suppliers 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 re-inspection; 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.

252.232-7006 Wide Area Workflow Payment Instructions (May 2013)

(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.

(b) Electronic invoicing. The WAWF system is the method to electronically process vendor payment requests and receiving reports, as authorized by 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.acquisition.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 must use the following information when submitting payment requests and receiving reports in WAWF for this contract/order:

(1) Document type. The Contractor shall use the following document type(s).

Combo Invoice/Receiving Report

(2) Inspection/acceptance location. The Contractor shall select the following inspection/acceptance location(s) in WAWF, as specified by the contracting officer.

Destination, Pine Bluff Arsenal

(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 HQ0303 Issue By DoDAAC W52P1J Admin DoDAAC W52P1J Inspect By DoDAAC W41G26 Ship To Code W41G26 Ship From Code N/A Mark For Code W41G26 Service Approver (DoDAAC) N/A Service Acceptor (DoDAAC) N/A Accept at Other DoDAAC N/A LPO DoDAAC N/A DCAA Auditor DoDAAC N/A

Other DoDAAC(s) N/A

(4) Payment request and supporting documentation. The Contractor shall ensure a payment request includes appropriate contract line item and subline item descriptions of the work performed or supplies delivered, unit price/cost per unit, fee (if applicable), and all relevant back-up documentation, as defined in DFARS Appendix F, (e.g. timesheets) in support of each payment request.

(5) WAWF email notifications. The Contractor shall enter the email address identified below in the “Send Additional Email Notifications” field of WAWF once a document is submitted in the system.

Contract Specialist: Nicholas.j.brown91.civ@mail.mil PCO: jill.c.veloz.civ@mail.mil

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

Contract Specialist: Nicholas.j.brown91.civ@mail.mil PCO: jill.c.veloz.civ@mail.mil

(2) For technical WAWF help, contact the WAWF helpdesk at 866-618-5988.

OTHER INFORMATION

Non-Release of Contract Information

1. Any proprietary, confidential commercial, trade secret or similar type of information in the contract resulting from this solicitation may not be released to anyone outside the Government.

2. Do not release proprietary, confidential commercial, trade secret or similar type of information from this contract to anyone inside the Government that does not have a legitimate need to know the information.

3. If in doubt about what information in the contract may be released, contact the Contracting Officer.

4. Criminal penalties are provided by 18 U.S.S. for the improper release of proprietary and/or confidential commercial information.

Clauses/Solicitation Provisions Incorporated By Reference

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):

http://farsite.hill.af.mil/;

http://www.arnet.gov/far/;

http://aca.saalt.army.mil/library/acq-instructions

Disclosure of Unit Price Information

This constitutes notification pursuant to Executive Order 12600, Pre-Disclosure Notification Procedures for Confidential Commercial Information (June 23,1987), of our intention to release unit prices of the awardee in response to any request under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC 552. Unit price is defined as the contract price per unit or item purchased. We consider any objection to be waived unless the Contracting Officer is notified of your objection to such release prior to submission of initial proposals.

PACKAGING (PRESERVATION/PACKING/MARKING):

Containers shall be clearly marked, at a minimum, with the information as follows:

a. Name of contractor

b. Contract / Purchase Order Number

c. Description of items contained therein

d. Lot / Batch Number(s)

INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE:

Inspection and acceptance will be at destination, unless otherwise provided herein. Until delivery and acceptance, and after any rejections, risk of loss will be on the contractor, unless loss results from negligence of the United States Government.

CERTIFIED MATERIAL TEST REPORTS:

For those material(s) identified below, a certified test report shall be made available to the Government/DCAS Quality Assurance Representative (QAR). The test results contained on the certified test report(s) shall be adequate to determine compliance with all applicable requirements of the material specification(s). Availability of the certified test reports are in addition to other contract requirements and does not reduce or prejudice the Government's right to inspect supplies under other provisions of this contract. The test report(s) shall contain the following:

a. Name and address of supplier.

b. Purchase Order/Contract Number.

c. Identification of material by specification, revision, amendment and dates, together with type, grade, size etc.

d. Quantity of material.

e. Test results identified by reference to the applicable requirements.

f. Quantity tested, sample size, and specimen type as applicable.

g. Date, signature, and title of the authorized representative of the contractor that is attesting to the accuracy of the test report content.

NOTICE TO TRANSPORTATION CARRIERS

Beginning on 1 March 2016, Pine Bluff Arsenal will no longer receive unscheduled inbound shipments. Scheduling is executed via the Carrier Appointment System (CAS) in Electronic Transportation Acquisition (ETA) tool.

Carriers without access to CAS call (870) 540-3610 or (870) 540-3611 for appointment 24 hours in advance. In order to obtain an appointment, you must provide a BOL (must contain the following: NSNs, DODIC, Nomenclature and HAZCLASS). This includes FAK. Pine Bluff Arsenal Transportation office hours of operation are 7:00 am – 2:30 pm Mon-Thur (except Federal Holidays). Closed for receiving on Fridays.

Carriers that do not register shipments in advance may be turned away.

ETA Registration

New Users. If you do not have an ETA account, follow the instructions below:

1. Go to ETA Home https://eta.sddc.army.mil

2. Select Register for Access-> First Time Registration

3. Select CAS (Carrier Appointment System) in the Freight/Cargo section

4. Select a CAS Role from the drop down on the right-hand side. This should be the same role that was provided in the list sent by the depot.

5. Select the Generate Request Form button at the bottom of the page

6. Enter your information. All required fields contain an asterisk to the left of the field name. Users with a .mil address will be required to register their digital certificate (CAC).

7. After entering information. Select Submit Request.

8. Confirm your email address is correct by selecting OK. A page will be displayed with a Request ID. This will become your ETA User ID upon approval. Your request for access will be reviewed and you will be contacted via email.

9. There will be a time delay while the request is in the queue. The CAS ETA Administrator will approve depot users based on the depot implementation date.

10. Once approved, ETA will send an email with a link to obtain a password. If you are using your CAC to authenticate, you will not need a password.

11. Approved CAS ETA users will access CAS through the ETA Home Page (https://eta.sddc.army.mil) -> Select Freight/Cargo Systems -> Select Carrier Appointment System (CAS)

Existing Users:

1. Go to ETA Home https://eta.sddc.army.mil

2. Select Register for Access-> First Time Registration

3. Select CAS (Carrier Appointment System) in the Freight/Cargo section

4. Select a CAS Role from the drop down on the right-hand side. This should be the same role that was provided in the list sent by the depot.

5. Select the Generate Request Form button at the bottom of the page

6. Enter your information. All required fields contain an asterisk to the left of the field name.

7. After entering information. Select Submit Request.

8. Confirm your email address is correct by selecting OK.

9. There will be a time delay while the request is in the queue. The CAS ETA Administrator will approve depot users based on the depot implementation date.

10. Once approved, ETA will send an email informing you that you are approved and that you may begin using the CAS application.

11. Approved CAS ETA users will access CAS through the ETA Home Page (https://eta.sddc.army.mil) -> Select

Freight/Cargo Systems -> Select Carrier Appointment System (CAS)

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE (MAR 2000)

The signature on this solicitation, offer or contract should be the signature of:

(a) A Corporate Officer (President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary); or,

(b) An individual authorized in writing by a Corporate Officer to bind the company to a legal document.

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