SOLICITATION NOTICE
81 -- Packaging
- Notice Date
- 2/9/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries/UNICOR, Procurement Branch, 320 First Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20534
- ZIP Code
- 20534
- Solicitation Number
- FN1188-04
- Response Due
- 3/23/2004
- Archive Date
- 5/23/2004
- Point of Contact
- Tatea Cavanaugh, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-305-7302, Fax 202-353-7794,
- E-Mail Address
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tcavanaugh@central.unicor.gov
- Description
- UNICOR Office Furniture Business Group intends to enter into a five-year firm fixed price requirements type contract for packaging. Please note: quantities are estimated. The quantities and specifications will be provided in the solicitation document. The solicitation number is FN1188-04 and this solicitation is issued as a Request For Proposal (RFP). This is a full and open competitive Request for Proposal for packaging. Offerors may request copies of drawings by sending a written request to Tee Cavanaugh at tcavanaugh@central.unicor.gov or by faxing request to 202-353-7794. Request for drawings shall include complete mailing address, No P.O. Boxes. Offerors are advised that the Government intends to evaluate offers and award an all or none basis by region. UNICOR will be soliciting for various sizes of corrugated boxes, fillers, corner, seating pads, stretch wrap, fiberboard protectors and dividers, plastic banding, corner stiffeners, flat corrugated sheets, microfoam, tubes and caps, non waxed kraft paper, honeycomb pads, and packing tape. These items are to be delivered FOB Destination to the following UNICOR locations by region: Region I ? FCC Allenwood - Montgomery PA, Beckley, WV, Ashland, KY and Schuylkill, PA. Region II ? Texarkana, TX, Forrest City, AR and Florence, CO. Region III ? Coleman, Fl and Region IV ? Sheridan, OR. UNICOR intends to add additional locations at a later date. Delivery is 30 days after receipt of initial delivery from each factory and 14 days for each subsequent order thereafter. Successful offeror will be required to maintain consignment inventory of items listed in section B of the solicitation document. The minimum delivery order quantity per factory location is $2,500.00, the maximum delivery order quantity per factory is 25,000.00 and any order for a combination in excess of $100,000.00 contractor will not be obligated to honor. Variation in Quantity 5% increase or 5% decrease per delivery order. This acquisition will be conducted through the reverse auction process with Global eProcure. Only those offerors participating in the reverse auction process will be considered for award. Offerors will be required to submit initial pricing with written proposal for the purpose of determining competitive range all offerors who are determined to be in the competitive range shall submit pricing via the Auction. All offerors are required to submit their initial proposal in accordance with the procedures in the solicitation document. Offerors may contact Puja Mayani of Global eProcure to register for the reverse auction at (732) 382-6565 or her email address, puja.mayani @globaleprocure.com. All questions concerning the reverse auction shall be addressed to Puja and all other questions shall be directed to Tatea Cavanaugh. REVERSE AUCTION - GENERAL The Contracting Officer has opted to conduct a competitive, anonymous, on-line reverse auction as described herein. UNICOR has contracted with Global eProcure to conduct the reverse auction for this solicitation. However, use of this phrase shall not be construed to imply that this solicitation is being conducted under the procedures set forth at FAR Part 14, Sealed Bidding. Rather, this solicitation is being conducted under the procedures set forth at FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation, and award prescribed in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. Offerors will be required to submit initial pricing with written proposal for the purpose of determining competitive range. All offerors who are determined to be in the competitive range shall submit pricing via the Auction. During the reverse auction, offerors will provide pricing through submission of electronic offers the Global eProcure website. The primary pricing competition for this solicitation will be through the online reverse auction. Global eProcure will explain this process in detail and train each qualified offeror prior to the reverse auction through a simulated reverse auction. Offerors will have the ability to submit revised pricing during the reverse auction in response to prices submitted by other offerors. The identity of offerors will not be revealed to each other during the reverse auction. The final such revision during the reverse auction will be considered the Offeror's final revised proposal. The Contracting Officer reserves the right to conduct verbal or written discussions with respect to factors other than price with the offerors at anytime prior to award. Only those offerors who are determined to be in the competitive range will be allowed to participate in the reverse auction. REVERSE AUCTION - TRAINING Of OFFERORS, Training. Global eProcure will train designated employees of each offeror using real time ?mock? auction to familiarize the offerors' employees with the online auctioning system. Detailed bidding event guidelines and directions will be emailed to interested offerors prior to the practice and the live bidding event. The date of the practice reverse auction will be provided in the solicitation document. REVERSE AUCTION - THE AUCTION. During the reverse auction, offerors may revise their initial pricing proposal through submission of electronic offers during the anonymous reverse auction. This reverse auction shall constitute discussions with the offerors. The final such revision during the reverse auction will be considered the offeror's Final Revised Proposal. The Contracting Officer reserves the right to suspend or cancel the reverse auction at any time. If the Contracting Officer cancels the reverse auction, Final Revised Proposals will be requested by an amendment to the solicitation. Notwithstanding FAR 52.215-5, offerors will submit revised pricing only through the online mechanism supplied by Global eProcure. Offerors will not submit revised pricing via any other mechanism including but not limited to post, courier, fax, E-mail, or orally unless specifically requested by the Contracting Officer. The reverse auction bidding period shall be set by the Contracting Officer as indicated in Section IV, paragraph (a). Electronic offers shall be submitted by offerors during the reverse auction period. The reverse auction is designed to extend the closing time of a bidding lot if there are any bids placed in the final 2 minutes of the bidding lot. If a bid is placed within the last 2 minutes of the closing time, the time period shall be extended for two additional minutes beyond the scheduled closing. Any offeror experiencing difficulties during a reverse auction must notify Global eProcure immediately. ?Difficulties? include any event or problem, which interferes with the offerors ability to participate in the reverse auction and may include, but is not limited to: data entry errors, software problems, or hardware problems. Offerors will have five minutes after a Lot goes into ?Verifying? status to notify Global eProcure of any problems. If the Contracting Officer judges that any offeror has been disadvantaged by a problem, they may direct Global eProcure to address the problem and return the Lot to ?Open? status. Any and all offeror contact with Global eProcure is for the sole purpose of facilitating the reverse auction and shall not be considered discussions with the offeror within the meaning of FAR Part 15. For purposes of FAR 52.203-2, and in accordance with subparagraph (c) thereof, submission of a proposal by the offeror shall be considered certification by the Offeror that the only knowing disclosure by the offeror of its prices to any other offeror will be during the reverse auction. The offeror further certifies that disclosure by the offeror of its prices during the reverse auction shall not be for the purposes of restricting competition. UNICOR reserves the right to reject any or all offers received for any or all lots. REVERSE AUCTION ? RULES. The date of the practice reverse auction will be provided in solicitation document. The date of the reverse auction will be provided in solicitation document. The reverse auction shall be designated as reverse auction # 1188. There will be eight (8) lots. The reverse auction start and ending times will be provided in solicitation document. Only offerors in the competitive range will be permitted to submit electronic offers through the reverse auction. Offers submitted through the reverse auction are legally binding offers without qualification. Offers may not be cancelled or withdrawn except for data entry errors. Offerors must submit their offers through the online bidding mechanism supplied by Global eProcure and not through any other mechanism including but not limited to post, courier, fax, e-mail, or orally. There will be eight (8) lots as specified below: Lot 1 Corrugated boxes, fillers, corner, seating pads, fiberboard protectors and dividers, corner stiffeners, flat corrugated sheets, and honeycomb pads for Region I - FCC Allenwood - Montgomery PA, Beckley, WV, Ashland, KY and Schuylkill, PA, Lot 2 Corrugated boxes, fillers, corner, seating pads, fiberboard protectors and dividers, corner stiffeners, flat corrugated sheets, and honeycomb pads for Region II - Texarkana, TX, Forrest City, AR and Florence, CO, Lot 3 Corrugated boxes, fillers, corner, seating pads, fiberboard protectors and dividers, corner stiffeners, flat corrugated sheets, and honeycomb pads for Region III - Coleman, Fl, Lot 4 Corrugated boxes, fillers, corner, seating pads, fiberboard protectors and dividers, corner stiffeners, flat corrugated sheets, and honeycomb pads for Region IV - Sheridan, OR, Lot 5 Stretch wrap, plastic banding, microfoam, tubes, caps, non waxed kraft paper, and packing tape for Region I- FCC Allenwood - Montgomery PA, Beckley, WV, Ashland, KY and Schuylkill, PA, Lot 6 Stretch wrap, plastic banding, microfoam, tubes, caps, non waxed kraft paper, and packing tape for Region II Texarkana, TX, Forrest City, AR and Florence, CO, Lot 7 Stretch wrap, plastic banding, microfoam, tubes, caps, non waxed kraft paper, and packing tape for Region III Coleman, Fl, Lot 8 Stretch wrap, plastic banding, microfoam, tubes, caps, non waxed kraft paper, and packing tape for Region IV Sheridan, OR. Scheduled Opening to be provided in solicitation document. Scheduled closing to be provided in solicitation document. Questions regarding this requirement may be addressed in writing to Tatea Cavanaugh tcavanaugh@central.unicor.gov. The solicitation provides all clauses and provisions necessary to submit an offer and may be accessed at the following web site: The solicitation documents will be available on web site: www.eps.gov or www.unicor.gov/procurement/profurniture.htm. See numbered note 9. Offerors are not to contact field staff about any questions on the above solicitation. All questions must be sent via email or fax. All amendments issued must be signed and returned before offer closing date and time. All offerors must complete the Business Management Questionnaire in Section L with at least three references that are similar in size and scope of this requirement. A completed ACH form must be on file prior to contract award as well as verification of registration in the CCR database. If you have not registered in the CCR you may do so by logging onto www.ccr.gov and click on start new registration. Offerors shall submit signed and dated offers by facsimile to 202-353-7794 to the attention of Tatea Cavanaugh, Contracting Officer; by any available express mail service to the attention of Tatea Cavanaugh, 320 First Street NW, 400 Bldg. 7 Floor, Washington, DC 20534; or hand deliver to 400 First Street NW, Washington, DC 20534. Original copies of proposals must be received within two days of offer closing date the date and time for receipt of proposals will be identified in the solicitation document. All offers that fail to furnish required representations and certifications or information or reject the terms and conditions of the solicitation may be excluded from consideration. The Government intends to award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer represents the best value to the government. The following factors shall be used to evaluate proposals: conformance to specification, past performance and price. Offeror must hold prices firm for 60 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers. Offers received after the exact time and date specified will not be considered. A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer will be mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. The solicitation will be available on UNICOR?s website at www.unicor.gov/procurement/profurniture.htm on or about February 23, 2004. No copies of the solicitation will be mailed. All responsible offerors may submit an offer which will be considered.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Multiple UNICOR locations
- Record
- SN00518689-W 20040211/040209215051 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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