W911YU-21-R-0005 Combo CST FTX(1).pdf

COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION

GUAM ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

CST FTX EXERCISE

W911YU-21-R-0005

Notice to Offerors:

I. DESCRIPTON

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 and in conjunction with FAR Subpart 13.5 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposal is being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.

Solicitation number W911YU-21-R-0005 is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP). The solicitation documents and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2021-06.

The applicable NAICS code is 541990, "All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services”, with a size standard of $16.5 MIL.

The government anticipates entering into a firm-fixed-price contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror(s) whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the government. The contractor shall provide all personnel, supplies, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, transportation, and other items and services necessary to perform and fulfill all requirements in accordance with the PWS.

II. GENERAL INFORMATION

Document Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Solicitation Number: W911YU-21-R-0005 Issue Date: 19 July 2021 RFI/Questions Due Date: 23 July 2021 – 0900 Hours ChST

Chamorro Standard Time Proposal Submission Deadline: 2 August 2021 - 0900 Hours ChST

Chamorro Standard Time NAICS Code: 541990 – All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services

III. CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS

Guam National Guard USPFO Purchasing & Contracting Division 430 Army Drive, Building 100 Barrigada, GU 96913

IV. SUPPLIES/SERVICES

GUAM NATIONAL GUARD W911YU-21-R-0005

See the Attachment 1, Performance Work Statement (PWS).

V. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Guam, U.S.A. (Refer to PWS for additional/alternate coverage areas required for telecommunication services.)

VI. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

9 August 2021 – 13 August 2021

VII. PROVISIONS

The following solicitation provisions apply to this announcement; full text of all FAR provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at http://acquisition.gov/comp/far/index.html.

a. FAR 52.212-1, “Instructions to Offerors–Commercial Items (Jan 2017)”

b. FAR 52.212-3, “Offerors Representations and Certifications–Commercial Items (Nov 2017).” Offerors must complete annual representations and certifications on-line at https://www.sam.gov (If paragraph (j) of the provision is applicable, a written submission is required).

c. FAR 52.212-2, “Evaluation—Commercial Items (Oct 2017)”

i. (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.

ii. (c) 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.

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

e. FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items applies to this acquisition.

Other provisions and clauses applicable to this acquisition are as follows. These clauses and others may be viewed in full text on https://www.sam.gov

f. FAR 52.204-9, Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel (JAN 2011)

g. 6.2 FAR 52.204-24, Representation Regarding Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment (OCT 2020)

h. FAR 52.204-25, Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment (AUG 2020)

i. FAR 52.204-26, Covered Telecommunications Equipment or Services-Representation

(OCT 2020)

j. FAR 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (MAR 2015)

k. FAR 52.225-1, Buy American—Supplies (MAY 2014)

l. FAR 52.225-2, Buy American Certificate (MAY 2014)

m. DFARS 252.204-7012, Safeguarding covered defense information and cyber incident reporting (Dec 2015)

n. DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation (MAR 2016)

o. DFARS 252.209-7999, Representation by Corporations Regarding Unpaid Delinquent Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction Under any Federal Law (Deviation)

p. DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports (JUN 2012)

VIII. BASIS OF EVALUATION

a. Proposal Preparation and Submission

This is solicitation for services as defined herein. The government intends to award a contract as a result of this announcement that will include the terms and conditions set forth herein. To facilitate the award process, all offers must include a statement regarding the terms and conditions herein as follows:

"The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document without modification, deletion, or addition."

OR

"The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document with the exception, deletion, or addition of the following:"

Offeror shall list exception(s) and rationale for the exception(s).

All submissions shall be in 12 point font in Times New Roman and may be in 10 point font for charts or illustrations. Page Limitation for Technical Proposal including past performance information, should not exceed 9 pages. The Pricing Sheet will not be included in the page limitation. Include the solicitation number: W911YU-21-R-0005 in all correspondence or on the Subject line of any e-mail.

Technical Capability Statement (no more than 6 pages). This Part shall contain a letter with the contractor’s affirmation of their capability to provide the services as required by the PWS.

PAST PERFORMANCE PROPOSAL (no more than 3 pages) Past Performance Information: Provide a list of no more than 3, of the most relevant contracts performed for any customer.

Furnish the following information for each contract listed:

(i) Company/Division name

(ii) Product/Service

(iii) Contracting Agency/Customer

(iv) Contract Number

(iv) Contract Dollar Value

(v) Period of Performance

(vi) Verified, up-to-date name, mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone number of the contracting officer (Point-of-Contact)

(vii) Comments regarding compliance with contract terms and conditions

(viii) Comments regarding any known performance deemed unacceptable to the customer, or not in accordance with the contract terms and conditions.

Include rationale supporting your assertion of relevance and identify aspects of the contracts deemed relevant and how they relate to the proposed effort.

If an offeror has no past performance history of relevance, the offeror must affirmatively state it possesses no past performance history of relevance.

b. Evaluation Factors and Basis of Award

52.212-2 EVALUATION--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014)

(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 in accordance with FAR 15.101-1, Best Value Tradeoff process:

The significant evaluation factors and sub-factors, in descending order of importance, are as follows:

(i) Price;

(ii) Technical Capability;

(iii) Past Performance;

*Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than price.

(b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

(c) 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.

ADDENDUM TO 52.212-2 EVALUATION--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014)

Price: The government will rank all offers by price in order from least to greatest. The price evaluation will document the fairness and reasonableness of the price. The government reserves the right to perform price realism analysis.

Technical Capability: The government will evaluate technical capability as detailed in the following table. Each technical sub-factor must be clearly articulated and address the employment challenges of a remote area with finite population and resources. An unacceptable rating in any one of the three (3) sub-factors will result in an overall technical capability rating of unacceptable. The government reserves the right to not award to any offeror deemed unacceptable.

TECHNICAL EVALUATION

RATING DESCRIPTION

Exceeds Requirement Proposal clearly exceeds the minimum requirements set forth in the solicitation

Meets Requirement Proposal clearly meets the minimum requirements set forth in the solicitation

Unacceptable Proposal does not clearly meet the minimum requirements set forth in the solicitation

Past Performance: The government will evaluate recent and relevant past performance information on all offerors based on:

i. reference(s) provided by the offeror

ii. any past performance data independently obtained by the government

Note: failure to provide past performance information will result in a "not relevant" rating.

(A) Recent past performance information includes contracts performed and/or being performed for like services within the last three (3) years.

(B) Relevant past performance includes contracts being performed and/or being performed for like services, similar in scope, magnitude, and/or effort to the requirements set forth in this solicitation. The government will assess and assign a relevancy rating as follows.

PAST PERFORMANCE RELEVANCY

RATING DESCRIPTION

Very Relevant Present/past performance involved essentially the same scope, magnitude, and/or effort to the requirements set forth in this solicitation.

Relevant Present/past performance involved similar scope, magnitude, and/or effort to the requirements set forth in this solicitation.

Not Relevant Present/past performance involved little or none of the scope, magnitude, and/or effort to the requirements set forth in the solicitation

Note: present/past performance for the same or similar services as set forth in the solicitation and performed on Guam shall be a significant factor for assigning a “very relevant” rating.

IX. CLAUSES: The following contract clauses apply to this acquisition:

a. FAR 52.212-4, “Contract Terms and Conditions–Commercial Items (Jan 2017).”

b. FAR 52.212-5, “Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders (Nov 2017).”

c. 52.209-10, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations (Dec 2014)

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

e. 52.233-4, Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim (OCT 2004) (Public Laws 108-77, 108-78 (19 U.S.C. 3805 note)).

f. 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government (Sept 2006), with Alternate I (Oct 1995) (41 U.S.C. 4704 and 10 U.S.C. 2402).

g. 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (Apr 2010) (41 U.S.C. 3509).

h. 52.204-14, Service Contract Reporting Requirements (Jan 2014) (Pub. L. 111-117, section 743 of Div. C).

i. 52.204-24, Representation Regarding Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment

j. 52.204-25, Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment.

k. 52.204-26, Covered Telecommunications Equipment or Services-Representation

l. 52.209-6, Protecting the Government’s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment (Aug 2013) (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).

m. 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Aside (Nov 2011) (15 U.S.C. 644)

n. 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns (Oct 2014) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(2) and (3)).

o. 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting (Nov 2011) (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(14)).

p. 52.219-16, Liquidated Damages—Subcontracting Plan (Jan 1999) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(4)(F)(i)).

q. 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Representation (Jul 2013) (15 U.S.C.

632(a)(2)).

r. 52.222-3, Convict Labor (June 2003) (E.O. 11755).

s. 52.222-19, Child Labor—Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (Jan 2014) (E.O.

13126).

t. 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Apr 2015).

u. 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Apr 2015) (E.O. 11246).

v. 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Jul 2014) (38 U.S.C. 4212).

w. 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jul 2014) (29 U.S.C. 793).

x. 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans (Jul 2014) (38 U.S.C. 4212).

y. 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (Dec 2010) (E.O. 13496).

z. 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Mar 2015) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78 and E.O.

13627).

aa. 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging while Driving (Aug 2011) (E.O. 13513).

bb. 52.225-1, Buy American--Supplies (May 2014) (41 U.S.C. chapter 83).

cc. 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer— System for Award Management (Jul 2013) (31 U.S.C. 3332).

dd. 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels (Feb 2006) (46 U.S.C. Appx 1241(b) and 10 U.S.C. 2631).

ee. 52.222-17, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers (May 2014) (E.O. 13495)

ff. 52.222-41, Service Contract Labor Standards (May 2014) (41 U.S.C. chapter 67.).

gg. 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires (May 2014) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 67).

hh. 52.222-44, Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Labor Standards -- Price Adjustment (May 2014) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 67).

ii. 52.222-55, Minimum Wages Under Executive Order 13658 (Dec 2014) (E.O. 13658).

X. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

Any questions or concerns regarding this solicitation shall be forwarded in writing via e-mail to USPFO-GU Purchasing & Contracting at shaenamarie.b.santos.mil@mail.mil or randy.alegre@us.af.mil; questions shall be submitted no later than Thursday, 23 July 2021, 0900 hours (ChST) Chamorro Standard Time.

XI. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Submission of proposals shall be in accordance with 52.212-1 and are due no later than Thursday, 2 August 2021, 0900 hours (ChST). In addition to the requirements to 52.212-1, offerors are required to provide submittals in accordance with the instructions in Section VIII.

Late submissions shall be treated in accordance with the solicitation provision at FAR 52.212- 1(f). Proposals shall be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to USPFO-GU Purchasing & Contracting at shaenamarie.b.santos.mil@mail.mil or randy.alegre@us.af.mil.

XII. ATTACHMENTS:

Attachment 1: Performance Work Statement – CST FTX