VIPR I-BPA for Water Tenders (Tactical and Support) and Engines for Great Basin Region (R4)

Amendment 0007 is issued to correct the invalid XML Characters in Amendment 0006. The new closing date is Monday, April 19, 2010 at 5pm Mountain Time.

Re-Open SolicitationThis Solicitation is hereby reopened to incorporate the HUBZone set-aside. The new closing date is April 15, 2010 at 5:00 pm Mountain Time.



Section B Page 2 Method of Award paragraph is changed to read as follows:



Method of Award Cascading Set-Aside Procedure:



1. Multiple awards of Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) resulting from this solicitation will be made using the following cascading set-aside order of preference:



a. In accordance with FAR Subpart 19.13, awards will be made on a competitive basis first to responsible, eligible HUBZone small business concerns and/or Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) concerns. (Refer to Section C, Clause C.1, 52.219-3, Notice of Total HUBZone Set-Aside and 52.219-27, Notice of Total Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside. These clauses are applicable only to this tier of the solicitation, not the solicitation in its entirety.) If there are insufficient HUBZone and SDVOSB concerns to meet the anticipated need, additional awards will be made in accordance with FAR Subpart 19.5, to responsible small business concerns.



2. Orders issued against awarded BPAs will be made using the following order of preference:



a. Any order issued under the awarded BPAs will be made first to a HUBZone small business concern and/or SDVOSB concern. Priority ranking for dispatch among HUBZone concerns and/or SDVOSB concerns will be determined using the method described in D.6.2.

b. If there are no HUBZone or SDVOSB concerns available, orders will be issued to small business concerns. Priority ranking for dispatch among small business concerns will be determined using the method described in D.6.2.



Add in Section C Paragraph C.1 52.212-5



X_ (5) 52.219-3, Notice of Total HUBZone Set-Aside (Jan 1999) (15 U.S.C. 657a)



Vehicle Inspections and Employee Information is still due to this office no later than 3 May 2010 as stated in Paragraphs D.16.3 and D.16.4.



All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

The purpose of this Request for Quotations and any resultant Agreements is to acquire the services of Type 1, 2 and 3 Support Water Tenders, Type 1 and 2 Tactical Tenders, and Types 3, 4, 5 and 6 Wildland Fire Engines for use on a local, Regional and Nationwide basis. The Agreements will be competitively awarded by Dispatch Centers within Region 4 of the Forest Service and may be used for wildland fire suppression, all hazard activities and severity. Awards resulting from this solicitation will be made using the Cascading Set-Aside Proceedure (i.e. HUBZone and SDVOSB). The Vendors are responsible for all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, trained/certified personnel, supervision, and management of those personnel necessary to meet the Agreement specifications. 1) Quotes shall be submitted in the Virtual Incident Procurement System (VIPR). To access VIPR you are required to have a Level 2 eAuthentication account that provides the ability to conduct offical electronic business transaction. Level 2 eAuthentication information is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/eauth.php 2) Formatta Filler Software is required in order to view and fill in the necessary electronic Solicitation forms. Formatta Filler is a free software and is available at; http://www.formatta.com 3) No telephone request for the solicitation will be accepted, and no paper copies will be issued. Additional information on VIPR including a Vendor User Guide is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorsupport.php 4) Vendors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) and the On-line Regisitration and Certifications Application (ORCA) as stated in the solicitation.

The solicitation will only be available electronically and will be posted to the fedbizopps website at: https://www.fbo.gov/ on or about January 11, 2010.

Contracting Office Address:

Region 4, Acquisition Management

Point of Contact(s):

Sue Huston 801-625-5811; Tom Underwood 801-625-5764; Steve Waters 208-373-4326

This amendment is notification to all offerors and prospective offerors that a protest has been filed on Solicitation No. AG-84M8-S-10-7000. The offer due date is not being extended at this time; however, no awards will be made until the protest is resolved.

This Amendment provides the information for Block 14 of Amendment 3 that was omitted.Amendment 0003 - This amendment corrects issues within the VIPR program that were created with the latest program release. The corrections are as follows:

The issue of the Water Handling forms having empty attribute drop-down boxes has now been corrected.

Resolution of the "VIN Already Awarded" error message that Vendors experienced.

On the resource data entry form field for entering an email address: uppercase, lower-case and mixed case all now work (note that the email data entry fields on the company info form were not broken)

On an amendment, the solicitation title will be used as the FBO description, not the long amendment description

All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.

The purpose of this Request for Quotations and any resultant Agreements is to acquire the services of Type 1, 2 and 3 Support Water Tenders, Type 1 and 2 Tactical Tenders, and Types 3, 4, 5 and 6 Wildland Fire Engines for use on a local, Regional and Nationwide basis. The Agreements will be competitively awarded by Dispatch Centers within Region 4 of the Forest Service and may be used for wildland fire suppression, all hazard activities and severity. Awards resulting from this solicitation will be made using the Cascading Set-Aside Proceedure (i.e. HUBZone and SDVOSB). The Vendors are responsible for all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, trained/certified personnel, supervision, and management of those personnel necessary to meet the Agreement specifications. 1) Quotes shall be submitted in the Virtual Incident Procurement System (VIPR). To access VIPR you are required to have a Level 2 eAuthentication account that provides the ability to conduct offical electronic business transaction. Level 2 eAuthentication information is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/eauth.php 2) Formatta Filler Software is required in order to view and fill in the necessary electronic Solicitation forms. Formatta Filler is a free software and is available at; http://www.formatta.com 3) No telephone request for the solicitation will be accepted, and no paper copies will be issued. Additional information on VIPR including a Vendor User Guide is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorsupport.php 4) Vendors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) and the On-line Regisitration and Certifications Application (ORCA) as stated in the solicitation.The solicitation will only be available electronically and will be posted to the fedbizopps website at: https://www.fbo.gov/ on or about January 11, 2010.

Contracting Office Address:

Region 4, Acquisition Management

Point of Contact(s):

Sue Huston 801-625-5811; Tom Underwood 801-625-5764; Steve Waters 208-373-4326

The purpose of this Request for Quotations and any resultant Agreements is to acquire the services of Type 1, 2 and 3 Support Water Tenders, Type 1 and 2 Tactical Tenders, and Types 3, 4, 5 and 6 Wildland Fire Engines for use on a local, Regional and Nationwide basis. The Agreements will be competitively awarded by Dispatch Centers within Region 4 of the Forest Service and may be used for wildland fire suppression, all hazard activities and severity. Awards resulting from this solicitation will be made using the Cascading Set-Aside Proceedure (i.e. HUBZone and SDVOSB). The Vendors are responsible for all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, trained/certified personnel, supervision, and management of those personnel necessary to meet the Agreement specifications. 1) Quotes shall be submitted in the Virtual Incident Procurement System (VIPR). To access VIPR you are required to have a Level 2 eAuthentication account that provides the ability to conduct offical electronic business transaction. Level 2 eAuthentication information is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/eauth.php 2) Formatta Filler Software is required in order to view and fill in the necessary electronic Solicitation forms. Formatta Filler is a free software and is available at; http://www.formatta.com 3) No telephone request for the solicitation will be accepted, and no paper copies will be issued. Additional information on VIPR including a Vendor User Guide is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorsupport.php 4) Vendors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) and the On-line Regisitration and Certifications Application (ORCA) as stated in the solicitation.

The solicitation will only be available electronically and will be posted to the fedbizopps website at: https://www.fbo.gov/ on or about January 11, 2010.

Contracting Office Address:

Region 4, Acquisition Management

Point of Contact(s):

Sue Huston 801-625-5811; Tom Underwood 801-625-5764; Steve Waters 208-373-4326

The purpose of this Request for Quotations and any resultant Agreements is to acquire the services of Type 1, 2 and 3 Support Water Tenders, Type 1 and 2 Tactical Tenders, and Types 3, 4, 5 and 6 Wildland Fire Engines for use on a local, Regional and Nationwide basis. The Agreements will be competitively awarded by Dispatch Centers within Region 4 of the Forest Service and may be used for wildland fire suppression, all hazard activities and severity. Awards resulting from this solicitation will be made using the Cascading Set-Aside Proceedure (i.e. HUBZone and SDVOSB). The Vendors are responsible for all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, trained/certified personnel, supervision, and management of those personnel necessary to meet the Agreement specifications. 1) Quotes shall be submitted in the Virtual Incident Procurement System (VIPR). To access VIPR you are required to have a Level 2 eAuthentication account that provides the ability to conduct offical electronic business transaction. Level 2 eAuthentication information is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/eauth.php 2) Formatta Filler Software is required in order to view and fill in the necessary electronic Solicitation forms. Formatta Filler is a free software and is available at; http://www.formatta.com 3) No telephone request for the solicitation will be accepted, and no paper copies will be issued. Additional information on VIPR including a Vendor User Guide is available at the following website; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorsupport.php 4) Vendors are required to be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) and the On-line Regisitration and Certifications Application (ORCA) as stated in the solicitation.

The solicitation will only be available electronically and will be posted to the fedbizopps website at: https://www.fbo.gov/ on or about January 11, 2010.

Contracting Office Address:

Region 4, Acquisition Management

Point of Contact(s):

Sue Huston 801-625-5811; Tom Underwood 801-625-5764; Steve Waters 208-373-4326