Replace current D70 with Wacker Neuson DW90 Wheel Dumper at Sarasota Nat'l Cemetery.

RFQ FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS

GENERAL INFORMATION

Document Type: Combined Synopsis Solicitation

Solicitation Number: RFQ VA786-17-Q-0692

Post Date: 8/17/2017

Response Date: 8/31/2017 8:00am

Applicable NAICS: 336999

Classification Code: 2305

Set Aside Type: 100% Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

Issuing Contracting Office: Department of Veterans Affairs

National Cemetery Administration, Contract Services

75 Barrett Heights Rd., Suite 309

Stafford, VA 22556



Place of Performance: South Florida National Cemetery

6501 S. State Road 7

Lake Worth, FL 33449



Sarasota National Cemetery

9810 State Road 72

Sarasota, FL 34241



Description: This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested, and all solicitation provisions & clauses are incorporated in this announcement. Responses to this Request for Quotation (RFQ) are due to the Contracting Officer no later than 8:00 am on 08/31/2017. Responses to this announcement will result in a Firm-Fixed Price purchase order with FOB Destination and the Government intends to make award under this announcement without discussions. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary and the Government will not pay for information provided nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided for the Government. Offerors are responsible for obtaining any and all amendments or additional information concerning this announcement at https://fbo.gov.

Prospective offerors must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) website and complete representations and certifications at https://www.sam.gov

SDVOSB offerors must be verified with the Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE) to participate under the Veterans First Contracting Program at the time of the response to this announcement at the following website: https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov . See VAAR clause 852.219-10 VA Notice of Total Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business Set-Aside for additional information on the Veterans First Contracting Program requirements. Offers received from companies not registered in https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov will not be considered and ineligible for award.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration and the South Florida National Cemetery anticipates a purchase order for (1) Wacker-Neuson DW50 Dumper (brand name or equal to). The Sarasota National Cemetery anticipates a purchase order for (1) Wacker-Neuson DW90 (brand name or equal to).

The applicable North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 333120, with a business size standard of 1,250 employees.

Delivery 60 days from receipt of award for FOB Destination

Scope: The contractor shall be responsible for providing the cemetery with requested items. This solicitation is for two (2) separate purchase request. The vendor can submit a bid on one purchase request OR both purchase request. The specs are as follows in the attachments.

Proposal Format and Submission Information:

Offers must be submitted on company letterhead. Commercial format is encouraged. All offerors shall include the following information as part of their quote:

Legal Business/Company Name (as listed in www.sam.gov)

DUNS Number

Point of Contact Name

Telephone number

Email Address



Proposals shall be submitted via email or via mail to the following addresses:

Email: auvorie.benson@va.gov

Mail: 75 Barrett Heights Road

Suite 309

Stafford, VA 22556

For proposals mailed, proposals shall be submitted on compact disk (CD) and files shall be in either Microsoft Word or Adobe pdf formats. DVDs are not acceptable as the Government computer is unable to read this media type. Any DVDs received in response to this announcement will be rated as technically unacceptable and removed from consideration.

Questions pertaining to this announcement shall be sent by email to: auvorie.benson@va.gov. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted.



Proposal Evaluation:

52.212-2 Evaluation Commercial Items (Oct 2014)

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

(i) technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement;

Product Description offered in response to the solicitation

Product Literature e.g. product brochure

Affirmative acknowledgement of requested options i.e. list the nonstandard options to be included as part of the proposal

Delivery time from placement of order placement

Warranty information

(ii) price

NOTE: OFFERORS MUST PROVIDE DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE, TO INCLUDE CURRENT WARRANTY PROVISIONS TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT S EVALUATION OF THE OFFERED PRODUCT(s).

The full text of FAR provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at:

http://farsite.hill.af.mil/ and https://www.acquisition.gov/?q=browsefar

The following solicitation provisions apply to this acquisition:

FAR 52.204-7 System for Award Management

FAR 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting

FAR 52.204-22 Alternative Line Item Proposal

FAR 52.211-6 Brand Name or Equal

FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items

FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications Commercial Items

FAR 52.215-1 Instructions to Offerors Competitive Acquisition

FAR 52.232-15 Progress Payments Not Included

FAR 52.252-3 Alterations in Solicitation

FAR 52.252-5 Authorized Deviations in Provisions

FAR 52.203-98 (DEVIATION) Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements-Representation

VAAR 852.273-74 Award without Exchanges

Offerors must complete annual representations and certifications on-line at http://orca.bpn.gov in accordance with FAR 52.212-3 Offerors Representations and Certifications Commercial Items. If paragraph (j) of the provision is applicable, a written submission is required.

The following solicitation clauses apply to this acquisition:

FAR 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards

FAR 52.204-12 Unique Entity Identifier

FAR 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance

FAR 52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting

FAR 52.204-19 Incorporation by Reference of Representations and Certifications

FAR 52.208-9 Contractor Use of Mandatory Sources of Supply or Services

FAR 52.211-16 Variation in Quantity

FAR 52.211-17 Delivery of Excess Quantity

FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items

FAR 52.219-9 Small Business Subcontracting Plan

FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting

FAR 52.219-27 Notice of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside

FAR 52.219-28 Post-Award Small Business Program Representation

FAR 52.222-20 Contracts for Materials, Supplies, Articles, and Equipment Exceeding $15,000

FAR 52.223-5 Pollution Prevention and Right-to-Know Information

FAR 52.227-1 Authorization and Consent

FAR 52.232-1 Payments

FAR 52.232-8 Discounts for Prompt Payments

FAR 52.232-11 Extras

FAR 52.232-23 Assignments of Claims

FAR 52.232-39 Unenforceability of Unauthorized Obligations

FAR 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors

FAR 52.233-1 Disputes

FAR 52.233-3 Protest after Award

FAR 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim

FAR 52.242-15 Stop-Work Order

FAR 52.242-17 Government Delay of Work

FAR 52.243-1 Changes Fixed-Price

FAR 52.246-2 Inspection of Supplies Fixed Price

FAR 52.246-15 Certificate of Conformance

FAR 52.246-16 Responsibilities for Supplies

FAR 52.246-17Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature

FAR 52.247-34 F.O.B. Destination

FAR 52.249-1 Termination for Convenience of the Government (Fixed-Price)(Short Form)

FAR 52.249-8 Default (Fixed-Price Supply and Service)

FAR 52.250-1 Indemnification Under Public Law 85-804

FAR 52.251-1 Government Supply Sources

FAR 52.253-1 Computer Generated Forms

FAR 52.223-3 Hazardous Material Identification and Material Safety Data

FAR 52.252-6 Authorized Deviations in Clauses

FAR 52.203-99 (Deviation) Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements

VAAR 852.203-70 Commercial Advertising

VAAR 852.211-70 Service Data Manuals

VAAR 852.211-73 Brand Name or Equal

VAAR 852.215-70 Service Disabled Veteran Owned and Veteran Owned Small Business Evaluation Factors

VAAR 852.232-72 Electronic Submission of Payments Requests

VAAR 852.246-70 Guarantee

VAAR 852.246-71 Inspection

FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders (January 2017) the following subparagraphs of FAR 52.212-5 are applicable:

(b)(4), (b)(19), (b)(21), (b)(22), (b)(25), (b)(26), (b)(27), (b)(28), (b)(28)(Alt I), (b)(30), (b)(33)(i), (b)(34), (b)(44), (b)(48), (b)(51)

001AL-11-15-1 LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING-- MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE (JUN 2011)

This solicitation includes VAAR 852.219-10 VA Notice of Total Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set Aside (DEC 2009). Accordingly, any contract resulting from this solicitation will include this clause. The contractor is advised in performing contract administration functions, the CO may use the services of a support contractor(s) retained by VA to assist in assessing the contractor's compliance with the limitations on subcontracting or percentage of work performance requirements specified in the clause. To that end, the support contractor(s) may require access to contractor's offices where the contractor's business records or other proprietary data are retained and to review such business records regarding the contractor's compliance with this requirement. All support contractors conducting this review on behalf of VA will be required to sign an Information Protection and Non-Disclosure and Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest Agreement to ensure the contractor's business records or other proprietary data reviewed or obtained in the course of assisting the CO in assessing the contractor for compliance are protected to ensure information or data is not improperly disclosed or other impropriety occurs. Furthermore, if VA determines any services the support contractor(s) will perform in assessing compliance are advisory and assistance services as defined in FAR 2.101, Definitions, the support contractor(s) must also enter into an agreement with the contractor to protect proprietary information as required by FAR 9.505-4, obtaining access to proprietary information, paragraph (b). The contractor is required to cooperate fully and make available any records as may be required to enable the CO to assess the contractor's compliance with the limitations on subcontracting or percentage of work performance requirement.