SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Blood Courier Service
- Notice Date
- 11/2/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 492110
— Couriers
- Contracting Office
- Medcom Contracting Center North Atlantic, ATTN: MCAA NA Bldg T20, 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20307-5000
- ZIP Code
- 20307-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W91YTZ-07-T-0010
- Response Due
- 11/15/2006
- Archive Date
- 1/14/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This solicitation uses Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) authorized in FAR Subpart 13.5 and is expected to result in the award of one firm-fixed price contract. The resulting award will be made on SF 1449, for commercial items. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requeste d and a written solicitation will not be issued. W91YTZ-07-T-0010 is a request for quotation (RFQ); its document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through the Federal Acquisition Circular 2001-23 and 2001-19 Update. This is a 100% small business set-aside procurement. The Sta ndard Industrial Classification Code is 4215 and the small business size standard is 1500. The North American Industry Classification System Code is 492110. Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC has a requirement for Blood Courier Services for 9 Jan uary 2007 through 8 January 2008 with four renewable option years. The estimated usage is 11,000 miles per year. Please quote on the Base and each option period seperately. PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT: 1. The Contractor shall provide transportation of whole blood units and testing samples from various mobile sites (pick-up locations)to the Fort Bragg Donor Center. The blood and samples will be packed by Blood Donor Center Staff, according to standards, prior to pick-up by the Contractor. 2. The Contractor will deliver the blood units directly to Fort Bragg Blood Donor Center as soon as possible after pick-up. The units should be delivered the same day as pick-up. If that is not possible, delivery will be made no later than 1000 the next morning. The Contractor will be met by Blood Donor Center Staff at the Fort Bragg Blood Donor Center on the evening of pick-up or the following morning to accept delivery of the blood units. 3. Locations of pick-up site will vary based on the location of the blood drive. Coverage by the Contractor will be limited to the pick-up locations in the states of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, Pick-up locations (mobile sites) currently include: Fort Jackson, SC; Charleston Naval Weapons Station, Charleston, SC; Charlesston Air Force Base, Charleston, SC; Fort Lee, Virginia and Fort Eutis, Virginia.. 4. The Contractor will maintain insurance that, in the event the blood is not safely transported to the Fort Bragg Blood Donor Center, this insurance will cover the cost of the lost blood supply. This will not include blood lost due to improper packing by the Blood Donor Center staff prior to pick-up. 5. The Contractor will provide a vehicle capable of transporting up to 12 Collins boxes full of blood and samples. 6. In some instances, it may be required that the Contractor transport supplies to the mobile site. However, this would only occur if the Contractor was already contracted to travel to that site for a pick-up of blood and samples. 7. Payment for services will be made per mile from the pick-up point to the Delivery Point. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower & Reserve Affairs) operates and maintains a secure Army data collection site whree the contractor will report ALL Contractor manpower (including subcontractor manpower) required for performance o f this contract. The contractor is required to completely fill in all the information using the format at the following web address: https://contractormanpower.army.pentagon.mil. The required information includes: (1) Contracting Office, Contracting Officer, Contracting Technical Representative; (2) Contract Number, including task and delivery order number; (3) Beginning and ending dates covered by reporting period; (4) Contractor name, address, phone number, e-ma il address, identity of contractor employee entering data; (5) Estimated direct labor hours (including sub-contractors); (6) Estimated direct labor dollars (including sub-contractors); (7) Total payments (including sub-contractors); (8) Predominant Federal Service Code (FSC) reflecting services provided by contractor (and separate predominant FSC for each sub-contractor if different); (9) Estimated data collection cost; (10) Organizational title associated with the Unit Identification Code (UIC) for the Army Requiring Activity (the Army Requiring Activity is responsible for providing the contractor with its UIC for purposes of reporting this information); (11) Locations where contractor and sub-contractors perform the work (specified by zip-code in the United States and nearest city, country, when in an overseas location, using standardized nomenclature provided on the website); (12) Presence of deployment or contingency contract language; and (13) Number of contractor and sub-contractor employees deployed in theater this reporting period (by country). As a part of its submission, the contractor will also provide the estimated total cost (if any) incurred to comply with this reporting requireme nt. Reporting period will be the period of performance not to exceed 12 months ending 30 September of each government fiscal year and must be reported by 31 October of each calendar year. Contractors may use a direct XML Data transfer to the database ser ver or fill in the fields on the website. The XML direct transfer is a format for transferring files from a contractors systems to the secure website without the need for separate data entries for each required data element at the website. The specific formats for the XML direct transfer may be downloaded from the website. The Roles and Responsibilities of personnel involved in the Accounting for Contract Services: The Requiring Activity will: Provide the resources, including funding, associated with the collection and reporting of data. The Requiring Activity is also responsible for supplying the Unit Identification Code (UIC) to the Contracting Officer for inclusion in the CLIN in Section B and monitoring the Contractors reporting of required information. NOTE: It is important to use the UIC of the Army requiring activity and NOT the Army Contracting Activity. The Contracting Officer Shall: (a) Ensure that the Data requirement is included in the PWS and Section B of the solicitation and any resultant contract. (b) Negotiate a fair and reasonable price for the collection and reporting of the data. (c) Include the requirement to monitor the Contractors reporting of required information in the Contracting Officers Representatives (COR) appointment letter. The COR shall: Ensure that the Contractors report the required information, per the COR appointment letter and surveillance plan. The Contractor will: Report the required information to the CMR System at https://contractormanpower.army.pentagon.mil as defined in the Statement of Work. Base Period 09 January 2007 - 08 Janaury 2008 ITEM 0001: INFORMATION. Payment will be made by IMPAC Credit Card. POC for the Impac Card Payment is: Vera DeGrande, Blood Donor Center, Bldg 8-2809 Scott Street, Fort Bragg, NC, 28310. Phone Number 910-396-4689 or 9925. Contractor shall submit invo ice to the office of Ms. DeGrande with each delivery. Invoice shall include the Contract Number and the Contract Line Item Number , Mileage, Price Per Mile, and total invoice cost. Mileage is calculated from the pick-up site to the Donor Center Delivery Site ITEM 0002: COURIER SERVICE: 09 Jan 07 to 8 Jan 08. Courier service to be used for off-site mobile drives to ship collected blood back to Fort Bragg. Quantities are estimated. Contractor will be paid only for the actual miles traveled from pick-up poin t to delivery point. QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT 11000 miles IT EM 0003: One Time Fee: One Time Fee for Accounting for Contract Services requirement as described in detail in the Statement of Work. QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT 1 each ITEM 1001: COURIER SERVICE: 09 Jan 08 to 08 Jan 09. Courier service to be used for off-site mobile drives to ship collected blood back to Fort Bragg. Quantities are estimated. Contractor will be paid only for the actual miles traveled from pick-up po int to delivery point. QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT ITEM 2001: COURIER SERVICE: 09 Jan 09 to 08 Jan 10. Courier service to be used for off-site mobile drives to ship collected blood back to Fort Bragg. Quantities are estimated. Contractor will be paid only for the actual miles traveled from pick-up poi nt to delivery point. QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT ITEM 3001: COURIER SERVICE: 09 Jan 10 to 08 Jan 11. Courier service to be used for off-site mobile drives to ship collected blood back to Fort Bragg. Quantities are estimated. Contractor will be paid only for the actual miles traveled from pick-up poi nt to delivery point. QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT ITEM 4001: COURIER SERVICE: 09 Jan 11 to 08 Jan 12. Courier service to be used for off-site mobile drives to ship collected blood back to Fort Bragg. Quantities are estimated. Contractor will be paid only for the actual miles traveled from pick-up poi nt to delivery point. QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE AMOUNT The following provisions in their latest editions apply to this solicitation. (1) 52.212-1, Instructions to Offeror-Commercial Items with the addendum that: The offer submitted shall include: (1) proposed prices (including Option Years); (2) completed copy of FAR 52.212-3. Offer Representations and Certifications-Commercial item s, and (4) Past Performance, minimum of three references for similar scope of work, with whom past performance can be verified, to include contact name, telephone number, e-mail address and contract number and dollar value. Offers may submit any other in formation regarding specific contracts that they deem relevant to the evaluation of their past performance. It is a requirement that all contractors doing business with the Govenrment be registered with CCR (the website may be accessed on the internet at: www.ccr.gov to register). FAR 52.212-2, The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitations will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following facto rs shall be used to evaluate Offers: Technical Capability, Price and Past Performance. Technical will be evaluated as either Acceptable or Unacceptable. Definitions are as follows: ACCEPTABLE: To be rated acceptable, the offerors technical proposal m ust demonstrate it can meet all requirements in the Statement of Work. UNACCEPTABLE: A technical proposal that fails to demonstrate it can meet one or more requirements of the Statement of work will be determined unacceptable. Past Performance will be ev aluated as high risk, medium risk and low risk with definitions as follows: Unsatisfactory / High Risk - Significant doubt exists that the offeror will satisfactorily perform the services on solicitation, based on preponderance of unsatisfactory performan ce records under the various factor evaluations, or offerors record of unsuccessful past and current contracts performance in fulfilling requirements similar to the size and complexity of the services under solicitation. Verification of past performance shows that offerors have consistently not met work schedules and other obligations, have defaulted on at least one contract within the past three years, or have chronically failed to meet contract terms. -Satisfactory / Moderate Risk - Some doubt exists ba sed on instances of record of poor performance, especially in contracts similar to the size and complexity of the services under solicitation. Verification of past performance shows that offeror meets work schedules and specified services most of the time, meets contract terms without failure or resolves issues immediately, and has not been defaulted on any contract within the past three years. Good / Low Risk - Little doubt exists, based on the offeror's preponderance of good, if not excellent past and current records of contract performance, especially in large contracts similar to the size and complexity of the se rvices under solicitation. Neutral No documented past performance record for the size or scope of this requirement. Verification of past performance shows that offeror consistently meets work schedules, provides specified services, meets contract terms without failure, and has not been defaulted on any contract within the past three years. - - Offeror without technical or insufficient technical information to show that their offer meets the performance work statement shall not be evaluated for award. The Government reserves the right to award to other than the low offeror for better technic al capability and/or better performance records. The Government intends to evaluate offers and award without discussion. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if determined to be in its best interest to do so. - (2) FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications; a completed copy of which shall be submitted with the offer.- (3) FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions, Key Personnel; and FAR Clauses 52.217-8(30 days prior to expiration of the contract), 52.217-9 (a) 30 days; Intent letter within 60 days; 52.232-19 (30 September 2005) (4) FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders, specifically, para (b)(15), (16),(17), (18), (19), (31), (5) FAR 52.252-1: for all referenced clauses/provisions, see web site http://www.arnet.gov/far or http://web2deskbook.osd.mmil/default.asp METHOD OF SUBMMISSION OF OFFERS for this solicitation shall be addressed to Womack Army Medical Center, Building 4-2817 Reilly Road, Contracting Office, ATTN: Anita Adcock, email anita.adcock@amedd.army.mil by Fax (910) 907-9307), NOT LATER THAN 15 Novemb er 2006. 12 NOON, EST. For technical questions, Government Point of Contact is Anita Adcock at 910-907-9303. .
- Place of Performance
- Address: Womack Army Medical Center Bldg 4-2817 Reilly Road Fort Bragg NC
- Zip Code: 28310-5000
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 28310-5000
- Record
- SN01175305-W 20061104/061102220915 (fbodaily.com)
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