IT Equipment for Tucson Area Office

This amendment is to extend the deadline for quotes to August 8, 2022, and extend the deadline for any questions to August 4, 2022.

See amendment 1 75H71422Q00001-0001 for question and answer.

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation and purpose of this procurement is to purchase and install a Dell Controller DD6400 NFC CIFS or equal to that can provide backup storage to support Tucson Area data files. Please see attachments for more information.

This acquisition is set-aside for Total Small Business.  The North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code for this requirment is 334112.  The solicitation will be awarded as a single award firm-fixed price type contract.  The location where the work will be performed, will be at the Tucson Area Indian Health Service (TAIHS) as specified in the Statement of Work (SOW).  The Period of Performance TBD.

This solicitation is set-aside for Native Owned small business. If TAIHS does not receive offer(s) that is reasonably priced, TAIHS will then evaluate quotes and consider award to other small business concerns under the following 5-tier cascading set-aside (in order of first consideration to last consideration):

- 1st Tier - Certified Hub Zone small business

- 2nd Tier - Women Owned small business

- 3rd Tier - Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses.

- 4th Tier - Small Disadvantage Businesses

- 5th Tier - All Other Small Business Concerns.

Please submit all questions by email to Michael.Thorne@ihs.gov by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, July 27, 2022. All Proposals will be due by August 1, 2022, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

This solicitation requires registration with the System for Award Management (SAM) prior to award, pursuant to applicable regulations and guidelines.  Registration information can be found at https://www.sam.gov.

In compliance with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-15-19 memorandum “Improving Government Efficiency and Saving Taxpayer Dollars Through Electronic Invoicing” directing Federal agencies to adopt electronic invoicing as the primary means to disburse payment to vendors.

Invoices submitted under any award resulting from this solicitation will be required to utilize the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) in accordance with HHSAR 352.232-71, Electronic Submission and Processing of Payment Requests”

IPP is a secure, web-based electronic invoicing system provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRSTL). Respondents to this solicitation are encouraged to register an account with IPP if they have not already done so. If your organization is already registered to use IPP, you will not be required to re-register- however, we encourage you make sure your organization and designated IPP user accounts are valid and up to date.

The IPP website address is: https://www.ipp.gov.

If you require assistance registering or IPP account access, please contact the IPP Helpdesk at (866) 973-3131 (M-F 8AM to 6PM ET), or IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov.

Potiential Offerors hereby notified that future information about this acquisition, including the solicitation and subsequent amendments, will be only distributed solefy through SAM.gov. Hard copies of the solicitation documentation will not be available. The SAM.gov site provides downloading instructions. All future information about this acquisition, including solicitation amendments, will also be distributed soley through this site. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure that they have the most up-to- date information about this acquisition.