Precision Plot Planter: Monosem 4-Row Step-4 Drawn Flex/ Equivalent

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. The solicitation number is 12405B19Q0028 and is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). The NAICS code is 333111, Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing. This solicitation document incorporates those provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2019-02_2.
The USDA, ARS, intends to procure a Precision Plot Planter. The Precision Plot Planter must be a Monosem 4-Row Step-4 Drawn Flex/ Equivalent. Planter is needed to plant cash crops and do variable row spacing, variable plant populations, variable dry products/fertilizers, and variable liquid products/fertilizers. The Precision Plot Planter must be equipped with the minimum specifications:
1. Planter needs to be a Monosem planter with four-row units having variable row spacing of 15 to 40 inch.
2. The toolbar should have a gearbox so that row spacing could be changed.
3. The planter should have monosem planter metering units.
4. The metering unit should have seed plates for corn, cotton, soybean, sorghum, peanuts, sunflower, wheat, and small grains.
5. Planter metering units should be hydraulic driven.
6. The closing wheel should be monosem sym cast closing wheel
7. Trash whippers should be included.
8. The planter should have coulters.
9. The planter should have a Gandy box hopper that can be used for variable dry products/fertilizers.
10. Planters should have coulters to do side-dress variable dry fertilizers in 2x2 inch setting.
11. Side dressed coulters should have adjustable depths.
12. The planter should do in-furrow variable application of dry and liquid product applications.
13. Planter should do the variable liquid injection of urea ammonium nitrate which could be side dressed as well as could be applied in-furrow.
14. Planter should have down pressure on the toolbar.
15. Planter should have bulk planting hoppers.
16. The operating software of planter should be windows 10 based.
17. Planting software must integrate variable population, variable dry and variable liquid application mapping in a single software provided by the planter company.
18. The planter company should provide updated planting software whenever a new software system is developed.
19. The planter should operate only from one AB line (in the direction of the planting) and should not have to take a planter AB line.
20. Planter software should be GIS-based and ten-year license cost should be included.
21. The planter software should produce shapefiles which then can be imported in a GIS software for spatial analysis.
22. The planter should be equipped with communication headsets for driver and researchers sitting on the planter.
23. The planter should be a drawn planter with low hydraulic fluid requirements (.