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Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Number: W912HQ-16-T-0023 – Request for Offers

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format FAR 12.603 – Streamlined Solicitation for Commercial Items, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-89, dated 14 July 2016.

The requirement is for a 100% woman-owned small business set-aside under NAICS code 541930, Translation and Interpretation Services. The size standard for this NAICS codes is $7.5 million.

Description: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) requires on-location American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting services to meet the requirements of Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. These services shall provide a form of reasonable accommodation necessary to fully integrate an individual with auditory disabilities into the workforce at the USACE Headquarters in Washington, DC. Interpretation services are required during assignments, meetings, conferences, training activities, one-on-one interactions, and any other work-related activities requiring communication. See attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) for additional information.

Contract Line Items: This requirement and associated contract line item number (CLIN) is provided below:

CLIN# Description Quantities Units of Measure Unit Price Total 0001 Base Year Primary Interpreter 12 Months 0002 Base Year Secondary Interpreter 720* Hours 0003 Base Year Travel 1 Job $2,000* $2,000* 0004 Base Year Manpower Reporting 1 Each 1001 Option Year 1 Primary Interpreter 12 Months 1002 Option Year 1 Secondary Interpreter 720* Hours 1003 Option Year 1 Travel 1 Job $2,000* $2,000* 1004 Option Year 1 Manpower Reporting 1 Each 2001 Option Year 2 Primary Interpreter 12 Months 2002 Option Year 2 Secondary Interpreter 720* Hours 2003 Option Year 2 Travel 1 Job $2,000* $2,000* 2004 Option Year 2 Manpower Reporting 1 Each 3001 Option Year 3 Primary Interpreter 12 Months 3002 Option Year 3 Secondary Interpreter 720* Hours 3003 Option Year 3 Travel 1 Job $2,000* $2,000* 3004 Option Year 3 Manpower Reporting 1 Each 4001 Option Year 4 Primary Interpreter 12 Months 4002 Option Year 4 Secondary Interpreter 720* Hours 4003 Option Year 4 Travel 1 Job $2,000* $2,000* 4004 Option Year 4 Manpower Reporting 1 Each

*Not to exceed amounts

Basis for award: The Government will award a contract resulting from this combined synopsis solicitation on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of responsible offers whose service meets the requirements as listed in the performance work statement. Offerors must submit the following documents for this solicitation: an offer submitted in accordance with FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Items, including the addenda. The price submission should include the breakout shown in the above table.

Offerors are required to be actively registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov prior to award. Offerors are highly encouraged to download and review all attachments to this solicitation prior to submitting an offer.

Period and Place of Performance:

Period of performance shall be one base year and four optional years estimated to begin on October 10, 2016.

Performance shall take place at:

USACE, HQ

441 G Street NW Washington, DC 20314

Date, Time, and Place Offers are Due: The closing date for the delivery of a response to this combined synopsis/solicitation is on or before 4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on Friday, 2 September 2016. Questions should be submitted via email only on or before 4:30 pm EDT on Friday, 19 August 2016; questions received after this time are not guaranteed to be answered. Offers should be e-mailed or mailed to the Point of Contact (POC) shown below by the closing date and time. If offers are mailed, an electronic version of the offer (i.e. CD, DVD, etc.) should accompany the paper copy. If an offer is e-mailed to the POC shown below, it is the offeror’s responsibility to ensure that the transmission is received by the Government prior to the closing date and time. Upon receipt of an electronic offer, the Government will acknowledge receipt of that offer via email to the offeror.

POC: Sarah Lugo Address: 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315 Phone: 703-428-7407 Email: sarah.r.lugo@usace.army.mil http://www.sam.gov/ mailto:sarah.r.lugo@usace.army.mil

SOLICITATION PROVISIONS:

The following provisions and clauses are applicable to this solicitation and can be found in full text at www.acquisition.gov/far or http://farsite.hill.af.mil :

52.203-3 Gratuities 52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel 52.209-2 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations--

Representation

52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items 52.217-5 Evaluation of Options 52.228-5 Insurance – Work on a Government Installation 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors 52.242-15 Stop-Work Order 252.201-7000 Contracting Officer’s Representative 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials 252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights 252.204-7003 Control Of Government Personnel Work Product 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting 252.209-7004 Subcontracting with Firms that are Owned or Controlled by the Government of a Country that is a State Sponsor of Terrorism

252.222-7007 Representation Regarding Combating Trafficking in Persons 252.223-7006 Prohibition on Storage, Treatment, and Disposal of Toxic or Hazardous

Materials

252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments 252.243-7002 Request for Equitable Adjustment 252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive

Orders. The following FAR Clauses cited within 52.212-5 are applicable to this acquisition:

52.203-6 Alt I Alternate I, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting with

Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment 52.209-9 Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility

Matters 52.219-3 Notice of HUBZone Set-Aside or Sole-Source Award 52.219-4 Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business

Concerns 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside 52.219-6 Alt I Alternate I of 52.219-6 52.219-6 Alt II Alternate II of 52.219-6 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns 52.219-13 Notice of Set-Aside of Orders http://www.acquisition.gov/far http://farsite.hill.af.mil/

52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting 52.219-27 Notice of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside 52.219-28 Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation 52.219-29 Notice of Set-Aside for Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned

Small Business 52.219-30 Notice of Set-Aside for Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB)

Concerns Eligible Under the WOSB Program 52.222-3 Convict Labor 52.222-19 Child Labor—Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Veterans 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans 52.222-40 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons 52.222-54 Employment Eligibility Verification 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving 52.225-3 Buy American--Free Trade Agreements--Israeli Trade Act 52.225-3 Alt I Alternate I of 52.225-3 52.225-3 Alt II Alternate II of 52.225-3 52.225-3 Alt III Alternate III of 52.225-3 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer—System for Award Management

52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Mar 2000)

(a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within 14 days; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 30 days before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.

(b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.

(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed five years.

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 1 – Key Personnel. The offeror’s proposed interpreters shall meet the qualifications as required in the PWS, section 2.2 Key Personnel.

Factor 2 – Past Performance. The Government will evaluate the offeror’s record of past performance to ascertain the probability of successfully performing the required efforts of this PWS. This evaluation includes considering the relevancy of the submitted past performance along with the quality of work on those recent efforts. Relevant contracts are those completed or ongoing for the same or similar in nature, complexity, and dollar value to the work required in this solicitation. Offers will be considered unacceptable if none of the contracts contain past performance interpreting Enterprise Architecture. Contracts must have been completed within the last five (5) years from the solicitation release date. Ongoing contracts must be at least 50% complete by the solicitation release date.

Factor 3 – Price. This factor will use price analysis to determine the total evaluated price in order to support the selection of the lowest priced, technically acceptable offer. The offeror’s price will be evaluated using the price analysis techniques described at FAR 13.106-3(a) to determine which offer provides the total evaluated lowest price to the Government.

Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly less important than price. The award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-price factors.

(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.

(End of provision)

Addenda to 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial

Along with the required information outlined in 52.212-1(b), Submission of offers, the offeror shall provide the following information:

Key Personnel - Offerors shall provide resumes and /or narrative information for the two interpreters to be used for this requirement. Documentation must contain evidence that interpreters meet the qualifications as stated in the PWS, section 2.2 Key Personnel.

Past Performance – (i) Offerors shall submit past performance information for a maximum of 5 contracts or subcontracts completed or on-going within the last 5 years from the release date of this solicitation. On-going contracts must be at least 50% complete as of the release date of this solicitation. Offers shall provide a project narrative and reference information in narrative form to address each of the bullets below. Offerors shall include at least one contract which required Enterprise Architecture interpreting knowledge. All points of contact, addresses, telephone numbers, data, fax numbers, etc. should be verified by the Offeror prior to submission to the Government as part of the Offeror’s proposal. Points of contact should be knowledgeable of past performance from a contractual, managerial, and technical perspective.

• Project Description

• Relevancy to this PWS

• Project Start & Ending Dates

• Contract Value

• POCs, Phone, Fax, Address, Email

• Performance recognition documents received within the last five years on projects relevant to this PWS such as awards, award fee determinations, customer letters of commendation, and any other forms of performance recognition

(ii) In addition to the above, the Government may review any other sources of information for evaluating past performance. Other sources may include, but are not limited to past performance information retrieved through the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS), including Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), using all CAGE codes/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.