A.09.03_W91YTZ-18-R-0059_Blood_Culture.pdf

W91YTZ-18-R-0059

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued and is expected to result in the award of a firm-fixed price requirement type contract. The resulting award will be made on SF 1449, for commercial supplies and services. Solicitation number W91YTZ-18-R-0059 is issued as request for quote (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-97 and DPN 20171228 current as of 28 December 2017.

This acquisition is UNRESTRICTED, under size standard 500 and NAICS code 325413. The Government anticipates awarding a single award for a Blood Culture Automated Microbial Detection System Cost Per Test (CPT), with an annual work load of approximately 6,600. This requirement also includes all supplies necessary for testing autoimmune and infectious disease blood culture detection Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared clinical assays as defined in the Statement of Objectives. Location of this requirement is Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC), Department of Pathology and Area Laboratory Services (DPALS), 300 E. Hospital Rd., Room 1L13 Fort Gordon, GA 30905. This platform must include a maximum of 1 detection system able to handle 200 to 240 bottles of blood culture at one time.

This requirement is for a base period and 3 option year periods. All responsible Small Businesses offers may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency.

Item No. 0001: BLOOD CULTURE DETECTION SYSTEM and SUPPLIES 1 Lot The contractor shall provide Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) with a system offering bottle recognition, putting the technician in control of bottle loading and unloading. It must have built in quality control, along with a low false positive rate and a rapid response time in accordance the Statement of Objectives. Blood Culture bottles for Aerobic and Anaerobic bacterial growth. Includes bottles compatible for platelet samples. Must be applicable for adults and pediatric patients. Includes any extra supplies. I.e. adapter caps, etc. for ease of workflow. Must be compatible to work with molecular testing such as Biofire instrumentation.

Billing shall occur monthly. Ordering Period: Date of Award – 30 September 2018.

Unit Price: _______________________ Total: ______________________

Total Base period: ______________________

Option Year 1

Item No. 1001: BLOOD CULTURE DETECTION SYSTEM and SUPPLIES 1 Lot The contractor shall provide Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) with a system offering bottle recognition, putting the technician in control of bottle loading and unloading. It must have built in quality control, along with a low false positive rate and a rapid response time in accordance the Statement of Objectives. Blood Culture bottles for Aerobic and Anaerobic bacterial growth. Includes bottles compatible for platelet samples. Must be applicable for adults and pediatric patients. Includes any extra supplies. I.e. adapter caps, etc. for ease of workflow. Must be compatible to work with molecular testing such as Biofire instrumentation.

Billing shall occur monthly. Ordering Period: 1 October 2018 – 30 September 2019.

Unit Price: _______________________ Total: ______________________

Total Option Year 1:______________________

Option Year 2

Item No. 2001: BLOOD CULTURE DETECTION SYSTEM and SUPPLIES 1 Lot Informational CLIN: The contractor shall provide Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) with a system offering bottle recognition, putting the technician in control of bottle loading and unloading. It must have built in quality control, along with a low false positive rate and a rapid response time in accordance the Statement of Objectives. Blood Culture bottles for Aerobic and Anaerobic bacterial growth. Includes bottles compatible for platelet samples. Must be applicable for adults and pediatric patients. Includes any extra supplies. I.e. adapter caps, etc. for ease of workflow. Must be compatible to work with molecular testing such as Biofire instrumentation. Billing shall occur monthly. Ordering Period: 1 October 2019 – 30 September 2020.

Unit Price: _____________ Total: _______________________

Total Option 2:______________________

Option Year 3

Item No. 3001: BLOOD CULTURE DETECTION SYSTEM and SUPPLIES 1 Lot The contractor shall provide Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (DDEAMC) with a system offering bottle recognition, putting the technician in control of bottle loading and unloading. It must have built in quality control, along with a low false positive rate and a rapid response time in accordance the Statement of Objectives. Blood Culture bottles for Aerobic and Anaerobic bacterial growth. Includes bottles compatible for platelet samples. Must be applicable for adults and pediatric patients. Includes any extra supplies. I.e. adapter caps, etc.

for ease of workflow. Must be compatible to work with molecular testing such as Biofire instrumentation. Billing shall occur monthly. Ordering Period: 1 October 2020 – 30 September 2021.

Unit Price: _____________ Total: _______________________

Total Option 3:______________________

Total Base Period Plus three (3) Option Periods:

The following FAR Clauses and Provisions in their latest editions apply to this solicitation.

52.212-1 Instructions to Offers –Commercial Items JAN 2017

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

FAR 52.212-1 is hereby amended to reflect the changes shown below:

Para (b) Submission of offers

All offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) prior to award, and lack of registration shall make an offer ineligible for award. Offerors may obtain information on registration Internet at https://www.sam.gov. Or the SAM Help desk at https://www.fsd.gov.

THE SOLICITATION MUST BE QUOTED ALL OR NONE.

To be delivered FOB Destination to: Eisenhower Army Medical Center 300 East Hospital Road, Fort Gordon, Georgia 30905.

All questions shall be submitted via email no later than 1:30PM EST June 27, 2018 to valerie.j.deveaux.civ@mail.mil . Responses will be posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website. Proposals are being accepted via email only. All responsible sources should submit proposals to Valerie DeVeaux via e-mail: valerie.j.deveaux.civ@mail.mil by July 17, 2018 12:00 PM EST. (n) the non-Far Part 12 discretionary FAR, DFARS, AFARS and MEDCOM provisions included herein are incorporated into this solicitation either by reference or in full text. If incorporated by reference, see provision 52.252-1 for locations where full text can be obtained.

Cover email shall include: Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) / CAGE Code, Point of contact for individual authorized to enter in to discussions to include phone and email.

All offers must request verification by email to Valerie DeVeaux Email:

valerie.j.deveaux.civ@mail.mil to confirm receipt of their proposal was received by the time specified in the solicitation. The Government will not be responsible for any failure of transmission or receipt of the offer, or any failure of the offeror to verify receipt of the emailed offer.

Instructions for the Preparation of Proposals

The technical information required for evaluation purposes shall not exceed 20 pages. Each page shall be numbered.

The proposal shall be prepared in two (2) separate volumes as indicated below.

• Volume I-Technical

• Volume II-Pricing

VOLUME I – TECHNICAL

The technical proposal, Volume I, shall be addressed in sufficient written detail for the Government to determine if the offeror understands this aspect of the Government’s https://www.sam.gov/ https://www.fsd.gov/ mailto:valerie.j.deveaux.civ@mail.mil mailto:valerie.j.deveaux.civ@mail.mil mailto:valerie.j.deveaux.civ@mail.mil requirement. The offeror shall address each factor separately, and shall provide sufficient narrative and supporting data for each factor. Lack of any of these significant capabilities shall be considered sufficient cause for the proposal to be determined unacceptable. The Technical Proposal shall provide sufficient detail for the Government to determine whether the proposal acceptably meets the requirements of the solicitation. Statements that the offeror understands, can or will comply with all specifications, or statements paraphrasing the specifications of parts thereof, or phrases such as “standard procedures will be used” or “well-known techniques will be used” will be considered unacceptable. The technical proposal shall provide a narrative and supporting data with the following sections organized separately so that the evaluation factors listed below are included.

VOLUME II – PRICING

Assessment of price reasonableness based on comparison to market prices.

a. The offeror shall submit proposed pricing for all subcontract Line Item Numbers (subCLINs) identified in the Request for Proposal, unless otherwise noted. The offeror shall limit their unit and extended prices to two (2) decimal places (example: $158.03).

b. The offeror shall submit pricing totals for the base period and option years individually, as well as a grand total.

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

52.203-2 Certificate of Independent Price Determination APR 1985 52.203-11 Certification and Disclosure Regarding Payment

To Influence Certain Federal Transactions

SEP 2007

52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting

JUL 2016

52.222-22 52.222-46

Previous Contracts And Compliance Reports Evaluation of Compensation for Professional Employees

FEB 1999

FEB 1993

52.223-1 52.225-25

Bio Based Product Certification Prohibition on Contracting with Entities Engaging In Certain Activities or Transactions Relating to Iran-Representation and Certification

MAY 2012

OCT 2015

Incorporated by Full Text

52.209-2

52.209-7

Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations-Representations Information Regarding Responsibility Matters

NOV 2015

JUL 2013

52.209-11

52.215-20

Representation by Corporations Regarding Delinquent Tax Liability or A Felony Conviction Under Any Federal Law Requirements For Certified Cost or Pricing Data and Data Other Than Certified Cost or Pricing Date (OCT 2010) Alternative IV (OCT 2010)

FEB 2016

52.216-1 Type of Contract: Firm Fixed Price APR 1984

52.222-25 52.233-2

Affirmative Action Compliance Service of Protest

APR 1984

SEP 2006

52.252-1 (FEB 1998), Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference: The full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this/these address (es):

www.farsite.hill.af.mil or www.arnet.gov/far.

52.252-5, Authorized Deviations in Provisions (APR 1984): (b) the use in this solicitation or contract of any DoD FAR Supplement (48 CFR Chapter 2) provision with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of “(DEVIATION)" after the name of the regulation.

252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DOD

Officials

NOV 2011

252.204-7008

252.204-7011 252.213-7000

252.215-7007 252.215-7008 252.222-7007 252.225-7020 252.225-7035

Compliance With Safeguarding Covered Defense Information Controls Alternate Line-Item Structure Notice to Prospective Supplies on Use of Past Performance Information Retrieval System-Statistical Reporting in Past Performance Evaluations Notice of Intent to Resolicit Only One Offer Representation Regarding Combating Trafficking in Persons Trade Agreements Certificate Buy American Free Trade Agreements-Balance of Payments Program Certificate-Basic

OCT 2016

SEP 2011

JUN 2015

JUN 2012

OCT 2013

JAN 2015

NOV 2014

NOV 2014

52.212-2

Evaluation –Commercial Items

OCT 2014

Addendum 52.212-2 (LPTA):

Paragraph (a) replaced with the following:

Award will be made using the lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) source selection process. Award will be made to the responsible offeror on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors. Award may be made without discussions with offerors (except communications conducted for the purpose of minor clarification). Therefore, each initial offer should contain the offeror's best terms from a technical and price standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if it is later determined by the contracting officer to be necessary.

The Government will award a Firm Fixed Price contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible Offer whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be the most advantageous for the Government, price and other factors considered. In order to be considered for award, an Offeror must receive an Acceptable rating in all factors. The following factors shall be used to evaluate:

Technical and Price http://www.farsite.hill.af.mil/ http://www.arnet.gov/far

Award will be made based on lowest price, technically acceptable proposal.

(a) 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).

(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 contractor 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.

FACTOR: 1 TECHNICAL

Equipment - Provide in writing, documentation of how your company equipment meets the salient characteristics

SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS

The Instrument must be a state-of-the-art, automated microbial detection system. The system must offer advantages in every dimension of microbial detection testing. As an example, the system offers immediate bottle recognition, putting the technician in control of bottle loading and unloading and virtually eliminating bottle handling errors during microbial detection testing. The system's automatic, built-in quality control, along with a low false positive rate and a rapid response time of this system, means the laboratory staff does more in less time with greater accuracy. At DDEAMC’s microbiology laboratory, positive blood cultures are further analyzed to identify potential pathogens using the FilmArray Blood Culture Identification panel. The specific type of blood culture bottle used must be a resin bottle and not charcoal. Salient characteristics must also include:

• Enhanced safety through use of unbreakable plastic bottles

• Detection of wide variety of microorganisms including bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeasts

• Employs spectral light to detect to detect changes in CO2 concentration

• Scalable up to 1440 cells

• Cells are designed to increase thermo stability

• Mean time to failure is >1000 days

• Capability to read delayed entry of bottles

• Capable of detecting 98% of organisms in 72 hours

• Touch, Scan, Load workflow facilitates ease of use

• FDA cleared for blood, sterile fluids and platelet QC testing

Technical will be evaluated as either Acceptable or Unacceptable. Best value is expected to result from selection of the technically acceptable proposal with the lowest evaluated price.

Definitions are as follows:

ACCEPTABLE: To be rated acceptable, the offeror's technical proposal must demonstrate it can meet all specifications and testing requirements.

UNACCEPTABLE: A technical proposal that fails to demonstrate it can meet one or more requirements will be determined unacceptable.

FACTOR II: PRICE

Price will be evaluated separately from Technical and will be evaluated for fairness and reasonability. The offeror shall complete the CLIN structure with a total cost covering a base period and three option years developed based upon Blood Culture Detection System and supplies. This information will be used to assist in the price analysis as required by FAR 15.404- 1(b).

52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications--Commercial Items (JAN 2017) Alternate I OCT 2014

52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items JAN 2017

52.212-4 ADDENDUM

(w) the non-FAR Part 12 discretionary FAR, DFARS, AFARS, and Local clauses herein are incorporated into this contract either by reference or in full text. If incorporated by reference, see clause 52.252-2 for locations where full text can be found.

52.203-3 Gratuities APR 1984 52.203-6 Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the

Government-Alternate I

SEP 2006

52.203-12 Limitation on Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions

OCT 2010

52.203-17 Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights and Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights

APR 2014

52.204-4 Printed or Copied on Double-sided Post Consumer Fiber Content Paper

MAY 2011

52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards

OCT 2016

52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance

JUL 2016

52.209-6

52.209-9

52.219-9

Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment Updates of Publically Availability Information Regarding Responsibility Matters Small Business Subcontracting Plan

JUL 2013

JAN 1999

52.222-3 52.222-19

Convict Labor Child Labor-Cooperation With Authorities and Remedies

JUN 2003

JAN 2014

52.222-21 Prohibition Of Segregated Facilities APR 2015 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity SEP 2016 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity For Veterans OCT 2015 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities JUL 2014 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Veterans OCT 2015 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons MAR 2015 52.222-54 Employment Verification OCT 2015 52.223-2 Affirmative Procurement of Bio based Products

Under Service and Construction Contracts

SEP 2013

52.223-3 Hazardous Material Identification and Material Safety Data

JAN 1997

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

MAY 2011

52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies To Ban Text Messaging While Driving

AUG 2011

52.224-1 Privacy Act Notification APR 1984 52.224-2 Privacy Act APR 1984 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases JUN 2008 52.228-5 Insurance—Work on A Government Installation JAN 1997 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer--System for

Award Management

JUL 2013

52.232-39 Unenforceability of Unauthorized Obligations JUN 2013 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business

Subcontractors

DEC 2013

52.233-3 Protest After Award AUG 1996 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim OCT 2004 52.237-2 Protection Of Government Buildings, Equipment, And Vegetation

APR 1984

52.242-5 52.242-13

Payment to Small Business Subcontractors Bankruptcy

JAN 2017

JUL 1995

252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former

DoD Officials

SEP 2011

252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights

SEP 2013

252.204-7003

252.209-7004

252.219-7003

Control Of Government Personnel Work Product

Subcontracting With Firms That Are Owned Or Controlled By the Government of A Country That is A State Sponsor of Terrorism Small Business Subcontracting Plan (DOD Contracts)

APR 1992

MAR 2016

252-225-7002 252.225-7012 252.225-7021

Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities Trade Agreements

AUG 2016

FEB 2013

SEP 2016

252.225-7048 252.226-7001

Export-Controlled Items Utilization of Indian Organizations, Indian-Owned Economic Enterprises, And Native Hawaiian Small Business Concerns

JUN 2013

SEP 2004

252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports

JUN 2012

252.232-7006 Wide Area Workflow Payment Instructions MAY 2013 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments DEC 2006 252.243-7001 Pricing of Contract Modifications DEC 1991 252.243-7002 Requests for Equitable Adjustments DEC 2012

Incorporated in Full Text

52.209-10 Prohibition On Contracting With Inverted Domestic

Corporations

NOV 2015

(End of clause)

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 30 days (insert the period of time within which the Contracting Officer may exercise the option); provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 60 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 40 months

52.219-28 Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation JUL 2013

52.222-40

Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act

DEC 2010

52.252-2 CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (FEB 1998)

This contract incorporates one or more clauses 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. Also, the full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this/these address (es):

www.farsite.hill.af.mil.

(End of clause)

52.252-6 AUTHORIZED DEVIATIONS IN CLAUSES (APR 1984)

(a) The use in this solicitation or contract of any Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR Chapter 1) clause with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of "(DEVIATION)" after the date of the clause.

(b) The use in this solicitation or contract of any DoD FAR Supplement (48 CFR Chapter 2) clause with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of "(DEVIATION)" after the name of the regulation.

252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting

OCT 2016

252.204-7015 Disclosure of Information to Litigation Support Contractors

MAY 2016

252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items and Commercial Components

JUN 2013

252.247-7023 252.247-7024

Transportation of Supplies by Sea-Basic Notification of Transportation of Supplies By Sea

APR 2014

MAR 2000

End of Additional FAR and DFARS clauses

Incorporated in Full Text

52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Items (Deviation 2013-O0019)

JAN 2017

IRAPT- Invoice, Receiving, Acceptance and property Transfer-formerly known as WAWF

HIPPA-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (7 July 2014)

TFMC-Tobacco Free Medical Campus http://www.farsite.hill.af.mil/

LEIE (October 2015)

STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Community Hospital

(Pathology Department) Fort Gordon, GA

Blood Culture Automated Microbial Detection System

1. GENERAL

1.1 Description of Work: The contractor shall provide all equipment, reagents, supplies, maintenance of contractor owned equipment necessary to perform detection of aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) from blood and other normally sterile body fluids.

Tests must be approved from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared clinical assays as defined in this Statement of Objectives. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

1.2 Objectives: The contractor shall supply a platform to include all supplies that will allow performing the following Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared tests:

1.3 Equipment and Supplies: The contractor shall provide all necessary equipment for full functionality. Discontinued models or refurbished equipment are not acceptable. The title and ownership of contractor-furnished equipment and components will remain with the contractor.

The contractor shall be responsible for all equipment repairs and provide repairs on-site within 24 hours. Any equipment downtime that exceeds 3 work days will require the vendor to provide alternate testing equipment and perform machine validation if necessary. The contractor shall provide all equipment, reagents, supplies, maintenance, service, and non-personal services necessary to perform the testing for autoimmune and infectious disease blood culture detection Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared clinical assays as defined in this Statement of Objectives. This platform must include a maximum of 1 detection system is able to handle 200 to 240 bottles of blood culture at one time. The bottles characteristics must be equivalent or better to the following characteristics:

Aerobic Blood Culture Bottles with resin or otherwise able to be used for FilmArray BioFire testing Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottles resin or otherwise able to be used for FilmArray BioFire testing Aerobic Platelet Culture Bottles Anaerobic Platelet Culture Bottles

The Culture bottles contain reagents that shall be United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved/cleared for clinical testing and shall also meet or exceed College of American Pathologists (CAP) criteria for clinical testing. Testing will be conducted in the Bacteriology section, Department of Pathology, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia.

These different bottle types should be available for order on DMMLS (Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support) for the clinics, wards and sections located at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia. The analyzer must perform the quoted and contracted workload. The analyzer must also be able to interface with the hospital Laboratory Information

System (LIS), the Department of Defense Composite Health Care System (CHCS), to allow for the transfer of results.

Maintenance Calls: As needed, upon completion of services, a written service report will be provided to the Chief, Microbiology and Immunology and Chief, Medical Maintenance. The service report shall be completely filled out within 24 hours from completion of service, provide detailed information regarding the cause of equipment malfunction and corrective action taken, to include the time required to complete the work, and a list of parts replaced with a price for each part.

Contractor shall provide the balance of the required information in writing to the Chief, Microbiology Laboratory and Chief, Medical Maintenance, not later than ten (10) days after services are completed. Contractor will furnish a malfunction incident report to the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) within 24 hours of the completion of any maintenance call or maintenance action.

1.4 Access and general protection/security policy and procedures. This standard language is for contractor employees with an area of performance within Army controlled installation, facility, or area. Contractor and all associated sub-contractors employees shall provide all information required for background checks to meet installation access requirements to be accomplished by installation Provost Marshal Office, Director of Emergency Services or Security Office. Contractor workforce must comply with all personal identity verification requirements (FAR clause 52.204-9, Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel) as directed by DOD, HQDA and/or local policy. In addition to the changes otherwise authorized by the changes clause of this contract, should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) at any individual facility or installation change, the Government may require changes in contractor security matters or processes.

1.4.1 Common Access Cards: For contractors that do not require CAC, but require access to a DoD facility or installation. Contractor and all associated sub-contractors employees shall comply with adjudication standards and procedures using the National Crime Information Center Interstate Identification Index (NCIC-III) and Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) (Army Directive 2014-05/AR 190-13), applicable installation, facility and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative), or, at OCONUS locations, in accordance with status of forces agreements and other theater regulations.

1.5 Software coverage: Contractor shall update all software to the customer and must notify to the customer when updates are released. This is at no cost to the government. Hardware upgrades that are related to safety concerns or needed to maintain instrument performance specifications will be mandatory and shall be performed by the Field Service personnel at no cost to the Government. All software and hardware upgrades must be performed by trained personnel.

The Field Service Engineer shall schedule with the section supervisor of the upgrade.

1. Personnel authorized for ordering: Names of authorized ordering personnel will be provided in contract.