MODIFICATION
59 -- Distributor Partnership - Stock Initiative
- Notice Date
- 10/24/2002
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Defense Logistics Agency, Logistics Operations, Defense Supply Center Columbus, P O Box 16595, Columbus, OH, 43216-6595
- ZIP Code
- 43216-6595
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-IQC02171009003
- Response Due
- 11/29/2002
- Archive Date
- 12/14/2002
- Point of Contact
- Cheri Bowell, Contract Specialist, Phone 614-692-7947, Fax 614-693-1620,
- E-Mail Address
-
Cheri.Bowell@dscc.dla.mil
- Description
- Participants are being sought in an ever-changing program of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) called Distributor Partnership. We have issued three distributor partnership solicitations to date. Each solicitation has been slightly different in an attempt to improve upon the previous edition. The past Distributor Partnership solicitations were designed to take advantage of commercial off the shelf (COTS) items being held in stock to support commercial customers. Because the items were supposedly already stocked, the solicitations allowed only Direct Vendor Delivery (DVD) to our customers based on a 3 or 10-day delivery period and limited the contract length to 18 months with firm fixed prices for the entire contract period. The initiative has had limited success to this point. What we've found is that the majority of our items don't lend themselves to 3 and 10-day delivery because the vendors don,t routinely stock the items. The uncertainty of our demand patterns and the often times long lead times caused undue risk to the contract holder. Many potential sources expressed an interest in expanding this concept to include the potential for shipments to government stock locations and allowing a longer contract period. We intend to formulate a new Distributor Partnership solicitation based upon responses from this survey. Features we hope to incorporate into the new solicitation include filling stock orders for all National Stock Numbers (NSN) that cannot be delivered in a timely manner using DVD, expanding the contract term to up to 5 years, utilizing a best value evaluation instead of a "first in", "first out" method and only allowing for a single award per NSN. In order to reduce waste and make this effort as productive as possible, a modified approach will be used to determine the actual format of the solicitation(s) to be issued and to identify the candidate list of NSNs. The anticipated process will follow these steps: 1. Simultaneously issue this letter to known interested sources and issue a Sources Sought notice in the Federal Business Opportunities web site (www.fedbizopps.gov) to explain this initiative. 2. Obtain a list of candidate items NSNs from potential sources. (The initial list of potential candidate items is due by NOVEMBER 29, 2002.) Candidate items must have an NSN assigned and be managed by S9E. (Potential sources will be asked to provide a list of NSNs for validation via e-mail or a 3.5 floppy disk. MS Excel is the preferred format for the list.) 3. The candidate items will then be reviewed by DSCC to validate that the NSN is managed by S9E, is not currently on a long-term contract, and is coded as a stocked item in our system. The verified list, along with current demand data will be returned to the source that submitted the candidate item for validation. 4. The potential source will be asked to use the validated list to answer a market survey and resubmit the information in an electronic format (MS Excel is the preferred spreadsheet format). 5. A review of all responses will be completed to determine the actual list of NSNs to be included in the pending solicitation(s). (The intent is to solicit on a competitive basis as many of the validated candidate items as possible.)
- Record
- SN00193107-W 20021026/021024213154 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
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