SOLICITATION NOTICE
S -- Purchase of Direct Supply Natural Gas and Associated Management Services
- Notice Date
- 10/21/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson Laboratories, National Center for Toxicological Research, Attn: Contracts 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, AR, 72079
- ZIP Code
- 72079
- Solicitation Number
- 222-03-2002(P)
- Archive Date
- 1/31/2003
- Point of Contact
- Vicky Culp, Contract Specialist, Phone (870) 543-7459, Fax (870) 543-7990,
- E-Mail Address
-
vculp@nctr.fda.gov
- Description
- This announcement is for purchase of direct supply natural gas, local distribution and transportation management, balancing, nominations, and invoice consolidation, for the Jefferson Laboratories of the Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas. Separate agreements will be executed by the Government with Reliant Energy Arkla (local distribution company) and Reliant Energy Gas Transmission (interstate pipeline) for transportation of the natural gas to the burner tip at the Jefferson Laboratories. The Request for Proposal number is 222-03-2002(P). This is an unrestricted solicitation for a commercial item acquisition. The competition is being conducted under FAR Parts 12 and 15. The complete solicitation containing the scope of work, instructions to offerors, evaluation criteria, offeror representations and certifications and contract terms and conditions will be available on or about November 18, 2002 on FedBizOpps website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Prospective offerors are responsible for downloading the solicitation and any amendments. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the FedBizOpps for the release of the solicitation and any amendments. The general scope of work is described as follows: The contractor shall provide 100% firm, full requirements for the specified term of the contract. The performance period is a base year with two one-year options to extend. The base year will start March 1, 2003 and end February 29, 2004. The contractor shall be responsible for notifying the Government of any critical flow periods, operational flow alerts, operational flow orders, or other type of curtailment that may occur on the transporting pipeline or local distribution company. The contractor shall coordinate with the local distribution company and transporting pipeline to obtain appropriate capacity information, contract number, and meter number. The reserved firm pipeline capacity on Reliant Energy Gas Transmission is currently at 850 MMBtu/day. The specified delivery point for the Jefferson Laboratories is Reliant Energy Gas Transmission North Pooling Zone. The historical load profile (MMBtu) for Jefferson Laboratories is as follows: January - 25,000; February - 23,500; March - 21,500; April - 17,500;May - 15,000; June - 13,000; July - 14,500; August - 12,000; September - 15,500; October - 16,500; November - 20,000; December 30,000; Total - 224,000 MMBtu. The monthly volumes shown above are the default nomination quantities for the Jefferson Laboratories. However, the Government reserves the right to modify the above quantities at any point during the contract term. For the purposes of commodity pricing, any variations from originally nominated volumes or fixed price volumes will be billed/credited at the appropriate index (i.e., first of month nomination charges will be billed/credited at the designated Inside FERC Index plus the applicable sales margin, intra-month nomination charges will be billed/credited at the designated Gas Daily Index plus the applicable sales margin). Monthly invoices will be based on nominated volumes. The contractor should use discretion adjusting first of the month or intra-month nominations to maintain a maximum monthly imbalance of +/-5%. The pricing schedule will be based on sales margin applicable to index pricing, fixed pricing, daily pricing, and option pricing. Offeror shall indicate the maximum sales margin including overhead and profit for each of the above pricing scenarios. The sales margin for index pricing shall be the unit price in $/MMBtu in addition to the applicable Inside FERC Index for first-of-the-month quantities. The offeror shall also provide the Government with the right to fix commodity pricing throughout the term of the contract with no penalty. The sales margin for fixed pricing shall be the unit price in $/MMBtu in addition to any fixed pricing scenario executed by the Government. The sales margin for daily pricing shall be the unit price in $/MMBtu in addition to the applicable Gas Daily Index for intra-month quantities. The sales margin for option pricing shall be the unit price in $/MMBtu in addition to any option premiums should the Government elect to pursue option-based pricing. For evaluation purposes, each of pricing scenarios will be weighted according to their importance to the Government. The successful offeror shall be awarded this contract based on the lowest evaluated pricing, satisfactory past performance, and all technical evaluation criteria is met. The government may make its decision on the basis of initial proposals received and not have discussions. Therefore each initial proposal should contain the offeror's best terms from both a price and technical standpoint. Past performance: demonstrated successful performance within the past five years in natural gas transmission of a minimum of 850 MMBtu/daily as well as demonstrated experience in nominating/balancing and other management services. Technical evaluation criteria: Offerors must demonstrate that their company has experience on the local distribution company and transporting pipeline contained in this proposal package. It is planned that proposals will be due at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Division of Contracts and Acquisitions, HFT-322, 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079-9502, Attention: Vicky L. Culp, by 4:00 p.m. local time in Jefferson, Arkansas on or about December 31, 2002.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, Arkansas
- Zip Code: 72079-9502
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 72079-9502
- Record
- SN00191063-W 20021023/021021213210 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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