W912DR18Q00440001_Amendment_041318.pdf

AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION/MODIFICATION OF CONTRACT

Except as provided herein, all terms and conditions of the document referenced in Item 9A or 10A, as heretofore changed, remains unchanged and in full force and effect.

15A. NAME AND TITLE OF SIGNER (Type or print)

30-105-04EXCEPTION TO SF 30

APPROVED BY OIRM 11-84

STANDARD FORM 30 (Rev. 10-83)

Prescribed by GSA

FAR (48 CFR) 53.243

The purpose of this amendment is to update the Instruction to Offerors section, evaluation criteria and the price schedule. All changes have been made in red. All other terms and conditions remain the same.

1. CONTRACT ID CODE PAGE OF PAGES

1 8

16A. NAME AND TITLE OF CONTRACTING OFFICER (Type or print)

16C. DATE SIGNED

BY 13-Apr-2018

16B. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA15C. DATE SIGNED15B. CONTRACTOR/OFFEROR

(Signature of Contracting Officer)(Signature of person authorized to sign)

8. NAME AND ADDRESS OF CONTRACTOR (No., Street, County, State and Zip Code) X W912DR18Q0044

X 9B. DATED (SEE ITEM 11)

04-Apr-2018

10B. DATED (SEE ITEM 13)

9A. AMENDMENT OF SOLICITATION NO.

11. THIS ITEM ONLY APPLIES TO AMENDMENTS OF SOLICITATIONS

X The above numbered solicitation is amended as set forth in Item 14. The hour and date specified for receipt of Offer is extended, X is not extended.

Offer must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended by one of the following methods:

(a) By completing Items 8 and 15, and returning 1 copies of the amendment; (b) By acknowledging receipt of this amendment on each copy of the offer submitted;

or (c) By separate letter or telegram which includes a reference to the solicitation and amendment numbers. FAILURE OF YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO BE

RECEIVED AT THE PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE RECEIPT OF OFFERS PRIOR TO THE HOUR AND DATE SPECIFIED MAY RESULT IN

REJECTION OF YOUR OFFER. If by virtue of this amendment you desire to change an offer already submitted, such change may be made by telegram or letter, provided each telegram or letter makes reference to the solicitation and this amendment, and is received prior to the opening hour and date specified.

12. ACCOUNTING AND APPROPRIATION DATA (If required)

13. THIS ITEM APPLIES ONLY TO MODIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTS/ORDERS.

IT MODIFIES THE CONTRACT/ORDER NO. AS DESCRIBED IN ITEM 14.

A. THIS CHANGE ORDER IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO: (Specify authority) THE CHANGES SET FORTH IN ITEM 14 ARE MADE IN THE

CONTRACT ORDER NO. IN ITEM 10A.

B. THE ABOVE NUMBERED CONTRACT/ORDER IS MODIFIED TO REFLECT THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES (such as changes in paying office, appropriation date, etc.) SET FORTH IN ITEM 14, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF FAR 43.103(B).

C. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT IS ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY OF:

D. OTHER (Specify type of modification and authority)

E. IMPORTANT: Contractor is not, is required to sign this document and return copies to the issuing office.

14. DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION (Organized by UCF section headings, including solicitation/contract subject matter where feasible.)

10A. MOD. OF CONTRACT/ORDER NO.

2. AMENDMENT/MODIFICATION NO. 5. PROJECT NO.(If applicable)

6. ISSUED BY

3. EFFECTIVE DATE

13-Apr-2018

CODE

USACE, BALTIMORE DISTRICT

2 HOPKINS PLAZA

ROOM 03-G-01

BALTIMORE MD 21201

W912DR 7. ADMINISTERED BY (If other than item 6)

4. REQUISITION/PURCHASE REQ. NO.

CODE

See Item 6

FACILITY CODECODE

EMAIL:TEL:

W912DR18Q0044

SECTION SF 30 BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

SECTION SF 30 - BLOCK 14 CONTINUATION PAGE

The following have been modified:

EVALUATION CRITERIA

I. INTRODUCTION

The intent for this Request for Quote is to solicit quotes for a contract to fulfill the requirements of the Scope of

Work attached to this solicitation. The Washington Aqueduct Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant has a requirement for Fluorosilicic Acid for use at the Washington Aqueduct’s water treatment plant (WTP), Dalecarlia WTP

Offeror’s 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.

Offerors shall submit in their proposal all requested information specified in this section of the solicitation at or before the exact time specified. If an Offeror believes that the requirements in these instructions contain and error, ambiguity, omission or are otherwise unsound, the Offeror shall immediately notify the Contracting Officer in writing with supporting rationale.

In accordance with FAR Subpart 4.8 (Government Contract Files), the Government will retain one copy of all unsuccessful quotes.

II. BASIS OF AWARD

The Government will award this contract on a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) basis. The Contract will be consist of a five (5) year ordering period. The contract type is Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery

Indefinite Quantity Contract.

The evaluation factors are as follows:

Factor I – Technical Capability: the Offeror must provide information as specified in the attached Scope of Work.

Each submittal will be evaluated to ensure requirements are met.

Factor II – Past Performance: An acceptable rating is required to be considered for award. The Offeror must provide information demonstrating that they have already successfully performed as a prime contractor within the last five (5) years of at least two (2) chemical contracts of equal or greater complexity to this solicitation in the minimum price range of $100,000 - $500,000. This information shall be submitted on the Past Performance Contacts

Questionnaire (attached) and information requested on this document must be submitted. The Offeror shall submit at least two references, including point of contact name, email address and phone number, that can verify past performance listed in this paragraph. This shall be submitted directly to the Contract Specialist via email at tolulope.o.olojo@usace.army.mil. Failure to do so will deem Offeror non-responsive.

The Past Performance Questionnaire included in this solicitation is provided for the Offeror or its team members to submit to the Contract Specialist for each project the Offeror includes in its proposal for Factor 2 – Past

Performance. Ensure correct phone numbers and email addresses are provided for the client point of contact.

Completed Past Performance Questionnaires (PPQ) should be submitted with your proposal. If the Offeror is unable to obtain a completed PPQ from a client for a project(s) before solicitation closing date, the Offeror should complete and submit with the quote the first page of the PPQ, which will provide contract and client information for the respective project(s). Offerors should follow-up with clients/references to ensure timely submittal of questionnaires.

Questionnaires may be submitted directly to the Contract Specialist (via email) at least 2 days prior to the solicitation closing date. Offerors shall not incorporate by reference into their proposal PPQs previously submitted for other RFQs. However, this does not preclude the Government’s from utilizing previously submitted PPQ information in the past performance evaluation.

mailto:tolulope.o.olojo@usace.army.mil

Offerors may include performance recognition documents received within the last 5 years such as awards, award fee determinations, customer letters of commendation, and any other forms of performance recognition.

The Government may review any other sources available to retrieve past performance information. Other sources may include, but are not limited to, ast Performance Retrieval System (PPIRS), including Contractor Performance

Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), using all CAGE/DUNS numbers of team members (partnership, joint venture, teaming arrangement, or parent company/subsidiary/affiliate) identified in the Offeror’s proposal, inquiries of owner representative(s), Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), Electronic

Subcontract Reporting System (eSRS), and any other known sources not provided by the Offeror.

While the Government may elect to consider data from other sources, the burden of providing detailed, current, accurate and complete past performance information rests with the Offeror.

Factor III – Offerors shall insert proposed pricing in the Price Schedule, proposing a price on all proposed items.

The unit prices shall include all markups for providing the specified Sodium Hypochlorite requirements. Markups are defined as all other direct and indirect costs, management, supervision, contractor furnished equipment, material, and supplies, travel, overhead and profit.

The absence of any information required to support the evaluation factors herein and as described below will result in disqualification from competition, as that offer will be found non-responsive and unacceptable. To receive consideration for award, a rating of no less than “Acceptable” must be achieved for the Factors I and II.

III. EVALUATION RATINGS

The following ratings, as defined, will be assessed to the evaluations factors as indicated below.

FACTOR I – Technical Capability

Rating Definition

Acceptable Proposal clearly meets the minimum requirements of the RFQ

Unacceptable Proposal does not clearly meet the minimum requirements of the RFQ

FACTOR II – Past Performance

Rating Definition

Acceptable

Based on the Offeror’s performance record, the

Government has a reasonable expectation that the

Offeror will successfully perform the required effort, or the Offeror’s performance record is unknown. *

Unacceptable

Based on the Offeror’s performance record, the

Government has no reasonable expectation that the

Offeror will be able to successfully perform the required effort.

* Note: In the case of an Offeror without a record of relevant past performance or for whom information on past performance is not available or so sparse that no meaningful past performance rating can be reasonably assigned, the

Offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance. Therefore, the Offeror shall be determined to have unknown past performance. In the context of acceptability/unacceptability, “unknown” shall be considered “neutral.”

FACTOR III – Price

Price will be evaluated based on technical acceptability and price reasonableness.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

This procurement is being conducted utilizing a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection process in accordance with FAR 15.101-2. Award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposal meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors. There shall be no trade-offs.

Responsibility determination will be made in accordance with FAR 9.1. Note that offers that are not Technically

Acceptable or have unacceptable past performance cannot be selected for award, regardless of Price. The Contract will be consist of a five (5) year ordering period. The contract type is Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery

Indefinite Quantity Contract.

The evaluation factors are as follows:

- Factor I – Technical acceptability

- Factor II – Past performance

- Factor III – Cost

Factor I - Technical Acceptability

To be technically acceptable, the Offeror must provide information as specified in the attached Scope of Work.

Technical acceptability will be determined in accordance with Table A-1 below.

Table A-1. Technical Acceptability Evaluation Ratings

Rating Description

Acceptable Proposal clearly meets the requirements of the Scope of Work

Unacceptable Proposal does not clearly meet the requirements of the Scope of Work

Factor II – Past Performance

An acceptable rating is required to be considered for award. The Offeror must provide information demonstrating that they have already successfully performed as a prime contractor within the last five (5) years (from the solicitation issue date) on at least two (2) water treatment chemical contracts of equal or greater complexity to this solicitation. This information must be provided in the table below. The price range of these two (2) contracts must be similar to the annual price proposal for this solicitation. Past performance information shall be provided in Table

A-2 below. Failure to provide this information shall result in the offeror being deemed non-responsive.

Table A-2. Chemical Contract Past Performance

Client Organization

(e.g., water utility) and address

Client Organization

Point of Contact

(email, phone number)

Chemical(s)

Delivered

Contract

Values

Date of

Contract Comments

EXAMPLE UTILITY

100 Main Street

Middle, KS

John Doe jdoe@utility.org

202-000-0000

Water Treatment

Chemical A

Water Treatment

Chemical B

$1,000,000

$500,000

Jan 2013-

Dec 2016

Jan 2013-

Dec 2016

In addition, the Government may review any other sources of information for evaluation past performance. While the Government may elect to consider data from other sources, the burden of providing detailed, current, accurate and complete past performance information rests with the Offeror.

Past performance shall be deemed acceptable or unacceptable in accordance with Table A-3 below.

Table A-3. Past Performance Evaluation Ratings

Rating Description

Acceptable Based on the Offeror’s performance record, the Government has a reasonable expectation that the Offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

mailto:jdoe@utility.org

Unacceptable Based on the Offeror’s performance record, the Government has no reasonable expectation that the Offeror will be able to successfully perform the required effort.

Factor III – Cost

Offerors shall insert proposed pricing in the Price Schedule (Table A-4) below, proposing a price on all items.

Failing to propose a price on all items may result in an offeror being deemed non-responsive. The unit prices shall include all markups for providing the specified chemical requirements.

INSTRUCTIONSTO OFFERORS

PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

The Offerors shall submit technical and price quotes in two volumes. Technical proposal shall not contain any pricing information.

In both volume, the Offeror shall identify primary and alternate points of contact for this effort. The information shall include: the name of the POC, office telephone numbers, email and email addresses. Both volumes shall easily identify the Offerors CAGE Code, DUNS and Federal Tax Identification Number.

Volume I – Technical Proposal

Volume I shall include all technical information in response to evaluation factor I as stated in the Evaluation

Criteria document. This volume shall not exceed 10 pages excluding tables of contents, charts, tables, figures, schedules or cover page. Text shall be no smaller than 11 font, single spaces on 8.5 x 11 size paper. Past

Performance Questionnaire documentation is excluded from the page count.

Volume II – Price Proposal

Volume II shall include the price schedule included in this solicitation. Supporting documentation may be submitted for price and costs elements. There is no page limitation for this volume. Any assumptions made regarding price shall be included in this volume.

Volume I – Technical Proposal

Volume I shall include all technical information in response to the Scope of Work and past performance documented in Table A-2. There is no page limitation to this volume.

Volume II – Price Proposal

Volume II shall include the price schedule included in this solicitation. Supporting documentation may be submitted for price and costs elements. There is no page limitation to this volume.

Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI): Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 9.5, all potential or real Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI)’s must be identified and evaluated as early in the acquisition. The offeror shall provide a certification that to the best of its knowledge and belief, that it is not aware of any existing potential organizational conflict of interest. If the offeror is aware of any existing potential organization conflict of interest, the contractor shall provide disclosure of the potential organization conflict of interest and a mitigation plan in its proposal for evaluation by the Government. If the Contracting Officer determines that a potential conflict exists, the offeror shall not receive award unless the OCI is resolved. All OCIs that may arise during the performance of this effort shall be disclosed to the Government as soon as identified.

REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

The Government will honor Requests for Information regarding this procurement. Should the Offeror choose to submit questions, questions must be received by the Contract Specialist via email no later than 12:00 PM EST on

Tuesday, 17 April 2018.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Offers shall be prepared in accordance with these instructions, providing all required information in the specified format. If any exceptions or deviations to the solicitation requirements are taken, these exceptions shall be clearly noted in the offeror’s cover letter. Quotes shall be submitted via email ONLY to the Contract Specialist, Ms. Tolu

Olojo, see block 8 of the SF1449. The Offeror shall request and document timely submission of proposal from the

Contract Specialist the time of submission. Official submission will be documented in accordance with the date and time stamp of the email submission

PRICE SCHEDULE

Price Schedule

Revision 1 – 13 April 2018

Line Item Description Est. Annual

Quantity

Unit of

Measure Unit Price Cost

0001 Provide Bulk Liquid Fluorosilicic

Acid 25% to the Dalecarlia WTP

1,100 Wet Tons $ $

TOTAL for YEAR 1

1001 Provide Bulk Liquid Fluorosilicic

Acid 25% to the Dalecarlia WTP

TOTAL YEAR 2

2001 Provide Bulk Liquid Fluorosilicic

TOTAL YEAR 3

3001 Provide Bulk Liquid Fluorosilicic

TOTAL YEAR 4

4001 Provide Bulk Liquid Fluorosilicic

TOTAL YEAR 5

Grand Total $

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