Digital flatbed cutter, automatic, with tangential creasing for the USDA, ARS, NADC-Visual Services in Ames, IA

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service seeks quotations for one automatic tangential creasing digital flatbed cutter with installation and setup for the National Animal Disease Center Visual Services in Ames, Iowa, with quotations due September 28, 2026 and questions due September 25, 2026. This is a Total Small Business set-aside; the small business size standard is 750 employees.

Place of performance and delivery is Ames, Iowa. The equipment must feature a flatbed capable of simultaneous creasing and cutting, 2.5 kg creasing force, high-capacity auto feeder with 2,000-sheet capacity, 1,200 mm/sec cutting speed, portrait or landscape sheet feed capability, rear mark scanning system, two-zone vacuum bed, Adobe Illustrator plugins, and one-year warranty coverage for parts and labor plus one-year software support. All items must be new, approved parts with clear traceability to the original equipment manufacturer; offerors must provide a Certificate of Conformance demonstrating OEM or authorized distributor traceability per FAR 52.246-15. Delivery and installation must be completed within 90 business days after contract award, performed by factory-trained engineers only. Country of origin for the product offered must be clearly stated in the response. This is a firm fixed-price supply contract with one anticipated award. The NAICS code is 333248 (All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing) and PSC is 3695 (Miscellaneous Special Industry Machinery). Evaluation uses a lowest-priced, technically acceptable approach: only the lowest-priced offer is evaluated for technical capability; if technically unacceptable, evaluation proceeds sequentially by price. Offerors must hold pricing firm for 90 calendar days from receipt. Questions should be submitted to Shelley Steen at shelley.steen@usda.gov.