Boot, Air Force Hot Weather Safety (Coyote)

Solicitation Number:  SPE1C1-22-R-0053

Item: Boots, Air Force, Hot Weather, Safety Steel Toe (Coyote)(PGC: 03946 (Women’s) / PGC: 03947 (Men’s)

Solicitation SPE1C1-22-R-0053 will beaTotal Small Business Set-Aside &will be evaluated under Source Selection- Trade-off -Best Value Procedures.

Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Type Contract is anticipated & and will consist of a three-year base term with tiered pricing for each year of the contract.  One award will be made for the total quantities listed below:

Small Business Set-Aside – 100%

Tier I-   Year 1:  Minimum: 10,152 / AEQ: 39,840 / Maximum: 49,800

Tier II- Year 2:  Minimum: 10,152 / AEQ: 39,840 / Maximum: 49,800

Tier III-Year 3: Minimum: 10,152 / AEQ: 39,840 / Maximum: 49,800

NOTE:

Special measurement boots with a 21-day production lead time for recruits and a 60-day production lead-time for non-recruits.

The items will be procured on a FOB destination basis.  Delivery of tariff sizes will be made to:

DoDAAC: SD0131

Travis Association for the Blind

2301 E. St Elmo Rd. Bldg 2 Suite 220

Austin, TX  78744

Items are to be manufactured in accordance with the salient characteristics and testing requirements called out in Sections C & D. (Attached)

Procurement will be issued on a Small Business Set-Aside basis and will be evaluated under Best Value Procedures with the following factors:  Product Demonstration Model (PDM’s) & Past Performance Confidence Assessment. 

Production Lead Time for tariff sizes is 120 days.

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Important Note on Foreign Content:
The Defense appropriations and authorization acts and other statutes (including what is commonly referred to as "The Berry Amendment" impose restrictions on the DoD's acquisition of foreign products and services. Generally, Clothing and Textile items (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7012) and "specialty metals" (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7014) must be grown, reprocessed, reused, melted or produced in the United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico, unless one of the DFARS 225.7002-2 exceptions applies.

Contracting Office Address:

Defense Logistics Agency, Acquisition Management, DLA Troop Support - Clothing & Textiles, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19111-5096, UNITED STATES

Place of Performance:

Defense Logistics Agency, Acquisition Management, DLA Troop Support - Clothing & Textiles, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19111-5096

Point of Contact(s):

Kristy DeRitis, Acquisition Specialist, Phone: 215-737-2479, Email: Kristy.DeRitis@dla.mil

John Fricker, Contracting Officer, Phone: 215-5699-, Email: John.Fricker@dla.mil