Dry Ice Pellets

SOLICITATION FB206782139300 is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ)

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR

subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement

constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This

solicitation is being conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) as a Request for Quote (RFQ)

No. FB206782139300. This requirement shall be solicited as a Total 100% Small Business Set-Aside.

SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARD

(a) NAICS: 325120

(b) No. of Employees: 1,000

(c) Dollars:

REQUIREMENT: PLEASE PROVIDE PRICING PER POUND

CLIN 0001: Dry ice pellets (500-575 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 30,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

CLIN 0002: Dry ice pellets (1050-1175 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 58,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

OPTION YEAR I:

CLIN 1001: Dry ice pellets (500-575 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 30,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

CLIN 1002: Dry ice pellets (1050-1175 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 58,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

OPTION YEAR II:

CLIN 2001: Dry ice pellets (500-575 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 30,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

CLIN 2002: Dry ice pellets (1050-1175 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 58,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

OPTION YEAR III:

CLIN 3001: Dry ice pellets (500-575 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 30,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

CLIN 3002: Dry ice pellets (1050-1175 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 58,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

OPTION YEAR IV:

CLIN 4001: Dry ice pellets (500-575 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 30,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

CLIN 4002: Dry ice pellets (1050-1175 Lb) - Not To Excced (NTE) 58,000 LBs

Delivery: 12 Month Delivery Period. Deliveries made every Wednesday (excluding holidays) with the

possibility of every other Wednesday depending on demand. Contractor must provide front opening

containers.

Price(s) should be FOB Destination (Robins AFB GA 31098). In addition to price and delivery, quote should

include your cage code, DUNS number, and taxpayer ID number. AWARD SHALL BE MADE TO THE

Quotations should be emailed to TSgt Andrew Speicher (andrew.speicher@us.af.mil) no later than Thursday, 23

August 2018, 2:00 pm EST. The anticipated award date is 14 September 2018. Please do not request award

status prior to this date.

The following clauses are applicable to subject solicitation (current through FAC 2005-99 dated 16 Jul 2018

and DFARS Change Notice DPN 20171228):

FAR 52.204-7 System for Award management

FAR 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance

FAR 52.209-2 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations--Representations

FAR 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations

FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors

FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items: Fill -in: TOTAL EVALUATED PRICE

FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items

FAR 52.217-7 Option For Increased Quantity-Seperately Priced Line Item

FAR 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract

FAR 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-- System for Award Management.

FAR 52.247-34 FOB Destination

FAR 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference

This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions 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. The

offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the offeror and

submitted with its quotation or offer. In lieu of submitting the full text of those provisions, the offeror may

identify the provision by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its quotation or

offer. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this/these address(es):

http://farsite.hill.af.mil/vmfara.htm

http://farsite.hill.af.mil/vmdfara.htm

http://farsite.hill.af.mil/vmaffara.htm

FAR 52.252-5 Authorized Deviations in Provisions: (a) The use in this solicitation of any Federal Acquisition

Regulation (48 CFR Chapter 1) provision with an authorized deviation is indicated by the addition of

"(DEVIATION)" after the date of the regulation Solicitation Only

(b) The use in this solicitation of any DFARS (48 CFR Chapter 2) provision with an authorized deviation is

Clauses Incorporated by Reference: fill-in: www.farsite.hill.af.mil

DFARS 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DOD Officials

DFARS 252.204-7004 Alternate A, System for Award Management.

DFARS 252.204-7008 Compliance with Safeguarding Covered Defense Information Controls

DFARS 252-204-7012 Safeguarding 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber

Incident Reporting

DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation. 1st fill in: N/A

DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program

DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports (WAWF is the

method used by DoD for processing invoices/receiving reports.)

DFARS 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments

AFFARS 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman: Timothy Inman

FAR 52.211-16 VARIATION IN QUANTITY (APR 1984

(a) A variation in the quantity of any item called for by this contract will not be accepted unless the

variation has been caused by conditions of loading, shipping, or packing, or allowances in

manufacturing processes, and then only to the extent, if any, specified in paragraph (b) below.

(b) The permissable variation shall be limited to:

10 Percent Increase

10 Percent Decrease

This increase or decrease shall apply to ALL contract CLINs.

FAR 52.212-5 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES

OR EXECUTIVE ORDERS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (DEVIATION 2013-O0019) (NOV 2017)

(a) Comptroller General Examination of Record. The Contractor shall comply with the provisions of this

paragraph (a) if this contract was awarded using other than sealed bid, is in excess of the simplified acquisition

threshold, and does not contain the clause at 52.215-2, Audit and Records -- Negotiation.

(1) The Comptroller General of the United States, or an authorized representative of the Comptroller

General, shall have access to and right to examine any of the Contractor's directly pertinent records

involving transactions related to this contract.

(2) The Contractor shall make available at its offices at all reasonable times the records, materials, and

other evidence for examination, audit, or reproduction, until 3 years after final payment under this

contract or for any shorter period specified in FAR Subpart 4.7, Contractor Records Retention, of the

other clauses of this contract. If this contract is completely or partially terminated, the records relating to

the work terminated shall be made available for 3 years after any resulting final termination settlement.

Records relating to appeals under the disputes clause or to litigation or the settlement of claims arising

under or relating to this contract shall be made available until such appeals, litigation, or claims are

finally resolved.

(3) As used in this clause, records include books, documents, accounting procedures and practices, and

other data, regardless of type and regardless of form. This does not require the Contractor to create or

maintain any record that the Contractor does not maintain in the ordinary course of business or pursuant

to a provision of law.

(b)

(1) Notwithstanding the requirements of any other clause in this contract, the Contractor is not required

to flow down any FAR clause, other than those in this paragraph (b)(1) in a subcontract for commercial

items. Unless otherwise indicated below, the extent of the flow down shall be as required by the

clause-

(i) 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (Oct 2015) (41 U.S.C. 3509).

(ii) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns (Oct 2014) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(2) and (3)),

in all subcontracts that offer further subcontracting opportunities. If the subcontract (except

subcontracts to small business concerns) exceeds $650,000 ($1.5 million for construction of any

public facility), the subcontractor must include 52.219-8 in lower tier subcontracts that offer

subcontracting opportunities.

(iii) 52.222-17, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers (May 2014) (E.O. 13495). Flow down

required in accordance with paragraph (1) of FAR clause 52.222-17.

(iv) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Apr 2015).

(v) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Sep 2016) (E.O. 11246).

(vi) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Oct 2015) (38 U.S.C. 4212).

(vii) 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jul 2014) (29 U.S.C. 793).

(viii) 52.222-62 Paid Sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706 (JAN 2017) (E.O. 13706).

(ix) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans (Feb 2016) (38 U.S.C. 4212).

(x) 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (Dec

2010) (E.O. 13496). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph (f) of FAR clause

52.222-40.

(xi) 52.222-41, Service Contract Labor Standards (May 2014), (41 U.S.C. chapter 67).

(xii) __X__ (A) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Mar 2015) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78

and E.O. 13627).

____ (B) Alternate I (Mar 2015) of 52.222-50 (22 U.S.C. chapter 78 E.O. 13627).

(xiii) 52.222-51, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to

Contracts for Maintenance, Calibration, or Repair of Certain Equipment--Requirements (May

2014) (41 U.S.C. chapter 67.)

(xiv) 52.222-53, Exemption from Application of the Service Contract Labor Standards to

Contracts for Certain Services--Requirements (May 2014) (41 U.S.C. chapter 67)

(xv) 52.222-54, Employment Eligibility Verification (Oct 2015).

(xvi) 52.222-55, Minimum Wages Under Executive Order 13658 (Dec 2015) (E.O. 13658).

(xvii) 52.222-62, Paid sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706 (JAN 2017) (E.O. 13706).

(xviii) (A) 52.224-3, Privacy Training (Jan 2017) (5 U.S.C. 552a).

(B) Alternate I (Jan 2017) of 52.224-3.

(xix) 52.225-26, Contractors Performing Private Security Functions Outside the United States

(Jul 2013) (Section 862, as amended, of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year

2008; 10 U.S.C. 2302 Note).

(xx) 52.226-6, Promoting Excess Food Donation to Nonprofit Organizations. (May 2014) (42

U.S.C. 1792). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph (e) of FAR clause 52.226-6.

(xxi) 52.247-64, Preference for Privately-Owned U.S. Flag Commercial Vessels (Feb 2006) (46

U.S.C. Appx 1241(b) and 10 U.S.C. 2631). Flow down required in accordance with paragraph

(d) of FAR clause 52.247-64.

(2) While not required, the contractor may include in its subcontracts for commercial items a minimal

number of additional clauses necessary to satisfy its contractual obligations.

(End of Clause)

52.209-11 REPRESENTATION BY CORPORATIONS REGARDING DELINQUENT TAX LIABILITY OR

A FELONY CONVICTION UNDER ANY FEDERAL LAW (FEB 2016)

(a) As required by sections 744 and 745 of Division E of the Consolidated and Further Continuing

Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L. 113-235), and similar provisions, if contained in subsequent appropriations

acts, the Government will not enter into a contract with any corporation that--

(1) Has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative

remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an

agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is aware of

the unpaid tax liability, unless an agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and made a

determination that suspension or debarment is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government; or

(2) Was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where

the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless an agency has considered suspension or debarment of

the corporation and made a determination that this action is not necessary to protect the interests of the

Government.

(b) The Offeror represents that--

(1) It is [ ] is not [ ] a corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed,

for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being

paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability;

and

(2) It is [ ] is not [ ] a corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under a Federal

law within the preceding 24 months.

(End of provision)

OFFEROR WITH THE LOWEST TOTAL EVALUATED PRICE, TO INCLUDE THE BASE YEAR

AND FOUR OPTION YEARS.

BASE CLINs:

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