SOLICITATION NOTICE
69 -- Dry Erase Board
- Notice Date
- 8/16/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 339943
— Marking Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries/UNICOR, Procurement Branch, 320 First Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20534
- ZIP Code
- 20534
- Solicitation Number
- FN1238-05
- Response Due
- 9/1/2005
- Archive Date
- 10/31/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- UNICOR Office Furniture Business Group intends to enter into a five-year firm fixed price requirements type contract for dry erase boards. Please note: quantities are estimated. The solicitation number is FN1238-05 and this solicitation is issued as a Request For Proposal (RFP). This requirement is being set aside for small business only. Offerors are advised that the Government intends to evaluate offers and award an all or none basis. Item 0001 ? HWS0400 - dry-erase-board,1056mmx1056mm, porcelain on steel laminated to 1/4" hardboard backer, Est. Qty: 5,000, U/I: Each. Items are to be delivered FOB Destination FCC Allenwood, Golf Course Road, Montgomery PA 17752. UNICOR may add additional locations and similar type items to contract at a later date through modification of awarded contract. Delivery is 30 days after receipt of initial delivery order and 14 days for each subsequent order thereafter. The minimum delivery order is 100 each and the maximum delivery order is 5,000 each. 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 are not required to submit pricing with your written proposal. Offerors may contact Sushant Adhikari of Global eProcure to register for the reverse auction at (732) 382-6565 or her email address, sadhikari@globaleprocure.com. All questions concerning the reverse auction shall be addressed to Roopa 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 Offerding. 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 not be required to submit pricing with written proposal. During the reverse auction, offerors will provide pricing through submission of electronic offers through the Global eProcure website. The only 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. 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 offerding event guidelines and directions will be emailed to interested offerors prior to the practice and the live offerding 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 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 offering 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 offers lot if there are any offers placed in the final 2 minutes of the offering lot. If an offer 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 and live auctions will be provided in solicitation document. The reverse auction shall be designated as reverse auction # FN1238-05. There will be one (1). The reverse auction start and ending times will be provided in solicitation document. 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 offerding mechanism supplied by Global eProcure and not through any other mechanism including but not limited to post, courier, fax, e-mail, or orally. 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: www.unicor.gov or www.eps.gov. The solicitation documents will be available on web site: www.eps.gov or www.unicor.gov/procurement. 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 to Tatea Cavanaugh, contracting Officer. Email address is tcavanaugh@central.unicor.gov and fax number is 202-353-7794. 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 of solicitation document with three references. References must be for same or similar items. Offerors who have not done business with UNICOR shall complete the ACH form, which can be found on UNICOR?s webpage. 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 can obtain a copy of the ACH form by logging onto www.unicor.gov, Business Commercial Opportunities, Navigate to, Scroll down to Procurement forms, click on ACH Form, print and return completed form with written proposal. Effective January 1, 2005, all offers are required to complete Section K, Representations and certifications by logging onto http://orca.bpn.gov as part of the proposal submission process . You are required to key in your DUNS# and MPIN to gain access to the representations and certifications. Your MPIN is the nine digit code containing one alpha character and one number (no special character or spaces). The MPIN is created, by you, in your company CCR record when your CCR registration has been completed. You can add your representations and certifications and update using this site. It is the offerors responsibility to ensure data is up to date at all times. ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of many of the FAR required representations and certifications previously found in solicitations. With ORCA, you now have the ability to enter and maintain your representation and certification information, at your convenience, via the Internet at http://orca.bpn.gov. In addition, rather than receiving and reviewing paper submissions, government contracting officials can access ORCA and review your information online as a part of the proposal evaluation process. You will no longer have to submit representations and certifications completed in ORCA with each offer. Instead, a solicitation will contain a single provision that will allow you to either certify that all of your representations and certifications in ORCA are current, complete and accurate as of the date of your signature, or list any changes. Although architect-engineer firms can voluntarily submit the Standard Form (SF) 330 Part II through ORCA, they still must submit this form to each agency for which it wants to be considered for projects that are not publicly announced. To prepare for this requirement and to register in ORCA, you will need to have two items: an active Central Contractor Registration (CCR) record and a Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN) identified in that CCR record. Your DUNS number and MPIN act as your companys ID and password into ORCA. (Visit www.ccr.gov for more information on creating and entering your MPIN). The basic information provided in your CCR record is used to pre-populate a number of fields in ORCA. Vendors are reminded to protect their MPIN from unauthorized use. Once in ORCA you will be asked to review pertinent information pre-populated from CCR, provide a point of contact, and answer a questionnaire that contains up to 26 questions. The questionnaire is to help you gather information you need for the clauses. The questionnaire is not the official version. Be sure to read the provisions carefully. The answers you provide are then automatically entered into the actual FAR provisions. You are required to review your information, as inserted, in context of the full-text provisions for accuracy; acknowledge three additional read only provisions; and click a time/date stamp before final submission. You will need to review and/or update your ORCA record when necessary, but at least annually in order to maintain its active status. Detailed information regarding ORCA, how to submit your record, and whom to call for assistance can be found on ORCAs homepage at http://orca.bpn.gov under Help. Offers received after the exact time and date specified will not be considered. 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:Past Performance, specification and Price. 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 and eps.gov on or about August 18, 2005. No copies of the solicitation will be mailed. All responsible offerors may submit an offer, which will be considered.
- Place of Performance
- Address: FCC Allenwood, Golf Course Road, Montgomery PA
- Zip Code: 17752
- Zip Code: 17752
- Record
- SN00871388-W 20050818/050816211921 (fbodaily.com)
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