RR26- 7Utah Army National Guard Cultural Resources Services

Issuing Procurement Unit: State of Utah Division of Purchasing Conducting Procurement Unit: Utah Army National Guard (UTARNG) The purpose of this RFP is to enter into a contract to provide: Cultural Resource Services at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah, and other manager properties as needed. This contract and future years of the contract are subject to the appropriation of funds. It is anticipated that this RFP will result in a single contract award to the responsive and responsible vendor with the highest score justified by the procurement code . The methodology or formula that will be used to determine the number of contract awards is: Stage 1: Initial Review In the initial phase of the evaluation process, the conducting procurement unit will review all proposals timely received. Non-responsive proposals not conforming to RFP requirements or unable to meet the mandatory minimum requirements will be eliminated from further consideration. Stage 2: Technical Proposal Evaluation Responsive proposals will then be evaluated by an evaluation committee appointed by the conducting procurement unit against the proposal evaluation criteria noted in the Technical Criteria prerequisite of this RFP. Proposals will be evaluated against the evaluation criteria as follows: Company History and Mission - 200 points possible Cultural Resources Compliance - 200 points possible Ethnobotanical Experience - 100 points possible Tribal Coordination - 100 points possible Project Management - 200 points possible Offerors that achieve a minimum score threshold of 560 will proceed to the Final Stage: Cost Proposal Evaluation The Offeror with the lowest total cost will receive the maximum points of 200. Points assigned to each Offeror's cost proposal will be based on the lowest proposal price. The Offeror with the lowest total cost will receive 200 or 100% of the total cost points. All other Offerors will receive a portion of the total cost points based on the percentage higher their total cost is than the total lowest cost. The formula to compute the points is: Cost Points x (Lowest Proposed Price/Proposed Price). Pursuant to Utah Code Annotated (UCA) § 63G-6a-707(7), the cost proposal will be evaluated independently from the technical proposal, and as such, must be submitted separately from the technical proposal. Offerors must not include costs or pricing data in their responses to the Mandatory Minimum Requirements and the Technical Response. Offerors with a score of less than the minimum required technical points will be deemed non-responsive and ineligible for further consideration. The proposal that receives the highest total points from the combined technical and cost scores will be awarded a contract. The evaluation score sheet has been attached to this RFP. The attached evaluation score sheet states the relative weight that will be given to each evaluation criteria. Length of Contract: 5 years *Subject to the availability of funds Vendor must guarantee its pricing for: One Year (1yr)