Religious Director of Music/Accompanist

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with acquisition procedures provided in FAR Subpart 12.6, as a supplement with additional information included in this notice. The announcement and attached Request for Quote (RFQ) constitutes as the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a separate solicitation will not be issued. This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside and the associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 711130, Musical Groups and Artists with a small size standard of $11,000,000. This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside and only qualified quoters may submit quotes.

Responses to this solicitation are considered quotations and not quotes. In those instances where the words quote, quoter, and proposal are used, the reader should understand that the use of such words does not change the nature of this request for quotation. The resulting award will be a Firm Fixed Price Type Contract for a Director of Music/Accompanist to coordinate and administer the Roman Catholic and Protestant music programs at the Station Chapel, Bldg. 1177, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona.

1.  SUBMISSION OF QUOTE:  QUOTES must be received by the Government no later than the date and time Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 10:00 PST. Contractor submitted quotes that fail to provide all required information due to a transmission error may be rejected as not-responsive.

2.  DELIVERY OF QUOTE:  Quotes may be emailed or submitted by commercial courier service (FedEx, UPS, etc.). Faxed quotations will not be accepted.

Email Submission: For email submission, the Government office designated for receipt of the quotes are the email addresses indicated below. Notwithstanding the provisions at FAR 52.212-1(f) or FAR 52.215-1(c)(3), delivery is not accomplished until the addressee can open the email; delivery to a server or an email inbox on a server is not considered delivery to the designated Government office and the quotation is not under the Government's control until the addressee can open the email. The email shall not be considered to be delivered unless the entire content of the email and all attachments can be read by the addressee indicated above. Receipt of an electronic acknowledgment from the addressee establishes that a record was received but does not establish that the content sent corresponds to the content received. Email attachments are limited to no more than 2MB. Quoters are specifically warned that email may be subjected to spam filters or attachment stripping. All submissions shall be submitted to the email address: june.henley@usmc.mil

3.  SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM):

Contractors must be currently registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to eligible for award. For information and registration go to http://www.sam.gov.

4.  REFERENCE THE FOLLOWING ATTACHMENTS:

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• Attachment 1:  Solicitation M00681-16-T-0072
  
• Attachment 2:  Video Source Selection Plan 
  

5.  REQUIRED CONTENT OF QUOTE: Contractor submitted quotes that fail to provide all required information due to a transmission error may be rejected as non-responsive.

 Quoters must submit a COMPLETE QUOTE addressing (a), (b) and (c) as follows:

a)  Price: Completion of CLIN(s) on SF 1449 Solicitation

b)  Technical Acceptability:  Offerors must address each of the qualifications in the Statement of Work Summary of Qualifications Section 5.0.  

c)  Past Performance- Provide three (3) recent and relevant references. Recent is defined within the last 5 years.  Relevant is defined the tasks and qualifications as provided in the Statement of Work. Each Reference should contain the following information:

  i)  Name

  ii)  Title

  iii)  Company/Business

  iv)  Address

  v)  Email/Phone Number

  vi)  Dollar Value of Service Provided

  vii)  Description of Service Provided

  viii)  Dates of Provided Service

INCOMPLETE QUOTES MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED

Basis of Award:  The Government intends to make a single award a Firm Fixed Price contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible quoter whose submission conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate complete submissions:

(1)  Price

(2)  Technical Ability (experience)

(3)  Past Performance

Lowest Price Technically Acceptable - Awardee shall be the lowest evaluated price of quotes meeting or exceeding the non-price factors provided above. If during the evaluation period it is determined to be in the best interest of the Government to hold discussions, Quoter responses to clarifications notices will be considered in making the award decision.  The Government reserves the right to make award solely on initial quotes received.

Questions concerning the solicitation shall be submitted by email no later than 18 July 2016 at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST) to the email addresses listed below. No phone questions will be accepted. The deadline is necessary to ensure timely award and the Government may, in its sole discretion, choose not to respond to questions received after the deadline. All questions will be reviewed and responded to by an amendment to the solicitation.  
 
june.henley@usmc.mil

The full text of the solicitation provisions may be accessed electronically at this address:

http://www.acquisition.gov/far