9930--Solicitation: OFF-SITE MANUFACTURE, INSCRIBE, DELIVER OF (YA) FOR NATIONWIDE DISTRIBUTION

The National Cemetery Administration is soliciting proposals under Solicitation No. 36C78623R0008 to manufacture and distribute nationwide, YA blanks with inscriptions. YA are described as: (YA) Upright Granite Headstone, (Old Style) with Raised Lettering Inscribed 13 x42 x3 This contract shall include all labor, materials, packaging and transportation necessary to furnish inscribed upright granite headstones noted above. The Contractor shall be responsible for providing all labor and materials needed to produce the blank upright headstones, inscribe the blanks per orders received, package/label/palletize the inscribed monuments and deliver the finished product to the consignee noted on an order, F.O. B. destination. The Contractor shall have twenty-six (26) calendar days, excluding federal holidays, following the day an order is sent to the Contractor until the monuments are manufactured, inscribed, packaged and delivered to the order consignee as ordered by the Memorial Products Service (MPS) of the National Cemetery Administration. FIFO (First In First Out). Work shall be performed in strict accordance with all terms, conditions, specifications, schedules and drawings. Performance shall be in accordance with the requirements, conditions, terms and representations contained in this solicitation, any pertinent OSHA Occupational and Safety regulations, VA and Federal Security regulations and policies, and any State and/or local regulations, laws and codes. The Government will award a Firm Fix Unit Price Requirements contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose proposal is the best value to the Government. Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with FAR 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures to determine which response represents the best as a whole. The award may be made without discussion. Factors that will be evaluated to determine award are past performance, technical, and price in that order of importance. Technical subfactors are Sample Acceptance, Personnel, Methodology and Quality Assurance. Risk will be considered in all of these factors and overall. Samples failing to meet the submission requirements and their proposals will be removed from further consideration as nonresponsive. Responsibility determination will be made in accordance with FAR 9.1 Responsible Prospective Contractors. Price will be evaluated on the basis of its realism and acceptability to the Government. This solicitation is being issued for all Small Business concerns, with HUBZone small business concerns and 8(a) participants having priority. The NAICS Code is 327991.  Size standard is 500 employees,  solicitations will be available for download from https://sam.gov/ on or about December 8, 2022. Questions are due by noon on December 15, 2022; responses to the solicitation are due by 12:00 noon Eastern time on December 23, 2022. Any amendments to the solicitation will also be available at https://.sam.gov/. Offerors are advised they are responsible for obtaining any amendments.  Proposals shall be submitted in the manner requested in Section E of the solicitation. Failure to submit all documentation required as required so may result in the submission being determined non-responsive and removed from further consideration.