RFQ_Calib_Beam_extend_solicitation.pdf

(I) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 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 solicitation is for Full and Open Competition.

(II) This Solicitation W564KV-17-T-0061 is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ).

(III) This solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses for commercial items in effect through Federal

Acquisition Circular 2005-93.

(IV) Due to the overseas location of this solicitation, no set-aside will be used. The NAICS code for this requirement is NAICS: 238990 – All other specialty trade Contractors.

(V) SCHEDULE OF SUPPLIES:

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Item

Item Description Quantity Price per unit

Total

FFP

Model 81-12

Beam Calibrator System with radiological sources packaging

Preparation for transport.

Type B(U) transport container. The radioactive source is

Type B quantity shipment

Packaging and preparation for shipping of the Model 81-12

Beam Calibrator System with radiological sources.

See attached PWS

(VI) This combined synopsis/solicitation is for the purchase of Model 81-12 Beam Calibrator System with radiological packaging preparation for transport from delivery to location specified herein.

(VII) Period of Performance 60 days after date of contract award, packaging and preparation to be performed within a two week time period.

(VIII) Inspect/Accept at Destination for Model 81-12 Beam Calibrator System is below:

Starting Point

U.S. Army TMDE Region-Europe Husterhoeh Kaserne, BLDG. 4145, 66953 Pirmasens, Germany

Ending Point

Rhine Ordnance Barracks 270, BLDG. 326, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany

(IX) The provision FAR 52.212-1, ADDENDUM to FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-

Commercial items.

This addendum replaces the below referenced paragraphs of clause 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—

Commercial Items as follows. Offerors are cautioned to follow the instructions contained herein exactly.

Please read the entire addendum carefully. Failure to meet a requirement may result in an offer being ineligible for award. All submissions must be legible, i.e. product literature in font size no smaller than 10 pitch.

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

As prescribed in FAR 12.302(d) the following addendum is provided for solicitation provision FAR

52.212-1 and hereby amends any language therein:

Quotation Preparation Instructions:

A. To assure the timely and equitable evaluation of quotations, offerors must follow the instructions contained herein. Offerors are required to meet all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, and technical requirements, in addition to those identified as evaluation factors. Quotations submitted in response to this Combined Synopsis/Solicitation must address the evaluation factors which include a price quote and technical specification.

B. Quote Specifics: All quotes must include the following information:

1. Vendor’s complete mailing and remittance address and contact information.

2. Offeror shall be enrolled in the System for Award Management (SAM) database

(www.sam.gov) and ready future enrollment in WAWF, for payment and invoicing in electronic funds transfer – payable 30 days upon delivery. Inability to receive EFT payment may disqualify a recipient from award consideration.

3. Quotes shall be quoted in United States Dollars or Euros and shall be valid through 30 June

2017.

4. Prices shall be all inclusive (i.e., Unloading Type B quantity sources in the Model 81-12 at the

US Army base in Primasens, transferring the sources into the Type B(U) shipping package, and shipping the sources and the empty Model 81-12 and track system a storage location approximately 30-40 miles to Kaiserslautern, and reloading sources into the Model 81-12 (so not to pay demurrage on the Type B Transport package).

5. Full Reps and Certs shall be accomplished in conjunction with SAM registration.

6. Discount for prompt payment, if applicable.

C. Factors for Award:

1. Factor I-Technical Qualifications–

(a) Sub-Factor 1 – Salient Characteristics: Offeror must meet all salient characteristics stated in the CLINs Description

(b) Sub-Factor 2 – Quantity Offeror must meet all quantity requirements

(c) Sub-Factor 3 – Delivery: Offeror must meet the requested delivery date

2. Factor II- Price Quote-

(a) Prices shall be all inclusive (i.e., cabling equipment delivery to address specified in herein) and shall be clearly identified in the quote.

(b) Insert proposed unit and extended prices on attachments 1. The extended amount must equal the whole currency unit price multiplied by the number of units.

(c) Include discount for prompt payment, if applicable.

D. Quotes are due to this office no later than 1200hrs Central European Time (CET), Tuesday, 13 June 2017. Quotes and inquiries may be sent via e-mail to primary contact, Contract Specialist, Shasta Davis at shasta.a.davis.civ@mail.mil or secondary contact, Contract Officer, Mr. Adan Jaime at adan.jaime.civ@mail.mil Email maximum is limited to 10MB or in sequential (1 of 2…) order, when over this maximum. PDF is the preferred file type. No ZIP files are accepted.

E. All questions regarding this Request for Quote are due in writing by 16:00pm CET, on 06 June

2017 Questions shall be submitted via email to Shasta.a.Davis.civ@mail.mil. The Government has no obligation to answer any questions received after the due date and time.

F. Offers are cautioned that all required proposal information must be received by the proposal due date and time, 12:00pm CET, on 13 June 2017, or the proposal may be considered non responsive, and may not be considered or evaluated.

(IX) The provision FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation--Commercial Items

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

Factor I – Technical Qualification (Sub-Factor 1- Salient Characteristics, Sub-Factor 2 –

Quantity, Sub-Factor 3 –Delivery) and

Factor II – Price Quote.

The Government’s evaluation of the quotation will fully account for the evaluation factors identified and required under the Addendum to FAR 52.212-1. The evaluation of these factors will utilize the lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) award basis. Quotes that do not meet the quote specifics will be deemed technically unacceptable, and therefore not considered for award.

All quotes must be based upon Firm Fixed Prices (FFP), per FAR 16.202-1

(b) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the

Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

(End of provision)

(X) Offerors are to include, along with their offer, a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3 Alt

1, Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items with their offer. Can be completed electronically at https://www.sam.gov.

(XI) The clause FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items in its latest edition applies to this solicitation.

(XII) The following clauses and provisions apply to this solicitation and are included by reference or by full text:

CLAUSES INCORPORTATED BY REFERENCE

52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors- Commercial Items

52.204-7 System for Award Management mailto:shasta.a.davis.civ@mail.mil mailto:adan.jaime.civ@mail.mil mailto:Shasta.a.Davis.civ@mail.mil http://www.sam.gov/ http://www.sam.gov/

52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel

52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance

52.211-6 Brand Name of Equal

52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons

52.223-5 Pollution Prevention and Right-to-Know Information

52.225-14 Inconsistency between English Version and Translation of Contract

52.225-25 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities Engaging in Certain Activities or

Transactions Relating to Iran-- Representation and Certifications.

52.229-6 Taxes--Foreign Fixed-Price Contracts

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

52.233-3 Protest After Award

52.242-13 Bankruptcy

52.252-6 Authorized Deviations in Clauses

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

252.204-7004 Alt System for Award Management Alternate A

252.204-7012 Safeguarding of Unclassified Controlled Technical Information

252.209-7004 Subcontracting With Firms That Are Owned or Controlled By The Government of a Terrorist Country

252.225-7041 Correspondence in English

52.225-7048 Export-Controlled Items

252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports

252.232-7008 Assignment of Claims (Overseas)

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

THE FOLLOWING CLAUSES WILL BE INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT IN THE

RESULTING CONTRACT/ PROVISIONS ARE IN FULL TEXT

52.212-5 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES

OR EXECUTIVE ORDERS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (FEB 2016)

52.225-17 EVALUATION OF FOREIGN CURRENCY OFFERS (FEB 2000)

52.252-1 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):

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

(End of provision)

52.252-2 CLAUSES INCORPORTED BY REFERENCE (FEB 1998)

252.232-7006 WIDE AREA WORKFLOW PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS (MAY 2013)

If you have complaints about this procurement, it is preferable that you first attempt to resolve those concerns with the responsible contracting officer. However, you can also protest to Headquarters, AMC. The HQ, AMC-Level Protest Program is intended to encourage interested parties to seek resolution of their concerns within AMC as an Alternative Dispute Resolution forum, rather than filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office or other external forum. Contract award or performance is suspended during the protest to the same extent, and within the same time periods, as if filed at the GAO. The AMC protest decision goal is to resolve protests within 20 working days from http://farsite.hill.af.mil/ filing. To be timely, protests must be filed within the periods specified in FAR 33.103. Send protests

(other than protests to the contracting officer) to:

Protest to HQAMC shall be filed at: Headquarters U.S. Army Materiel Command

Office of Command Counsel-Deputy Command Counsel 4400 Martin Road

Rm: A6SE040.001

Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000

Fax: (256) 450-8840 or e-mail: usarmy.redstone.usamc.mbx.protest@mail.mil Packages sent by

FedEx or UPS should be addressed to:

Headquarters U.S. Army Materiel Command

Office of Command Counsel-Deputy Command Counsel 4400 Martin Road

Rm: A6SE040.001

Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000

The AMC-level protest procedures are found at:

http://www.amc.army.mil/pa/COMMANDCOUNSEL.asp

If Internet access is not available, contact the contracting officer or HQ, AMC to obtain the AMC-

Level Protest Procedures.

(End of Provision)

(XIV) N/A.

(XV). Terms of the solicitation and specifications remain unchanged unless the solicitation is amended in writing by the Contracting Officer. If an amendment is issued, normal procedures relating to the acknowledgement and receipt of solicitation shall apply. Offers are due to the following addresses:

shasta.a.davis.civ@mail.mil by 1200 hrs. Central European Time, Tuesday, 13 June 2017. All responsible sources that submit a response, if timely received, shall be considered by the agency.

(XVI) The point of contact for this solicitation is: S h a s t a D a v i s , shasta.a.davis.civ@mail.mil mailto:%20shasta.a.davis.civ@mail.mil