SOLICITATION NOTICE
F -- VIPR I-BPA for Heavy Equipment with Water for Region 1 - Northern Region
- Notice Date
- 1/31/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 115310
— Support Activities for Forestry
- Contracting Office
- Northern Region, RO, Aerial Fire Depot
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AG-0343-S-13-7001
- Response Due
- 3/15/2013
- Archive Date
- 3/30/2013
- Point of Contact
- Debby Wesselius, 4068297350, dwesselius@fs.fed.us, Northern Region, RO, Aerial Fire Depot, P.O. Box 7669, Missoula, Montana, 59807;Leroy Schmitz, 4063293709, lschmitz@fs.fed.us, Northern Region Regional Office, 200 E. Broadway Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The USDA Forest Service, Northern Region is soliciting quotes for Water Handling equipment (skidgines, pumper-cats and soft-tracks) for use during local, Regional, and Nationwide fire suppression and all-hazard incidents. The Contractor is responsible for all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, trained/certified personnel, and supervision and management of those personnel, necessary to meet or exceed the Agreement specifications. This is a total Small Business set aside under NAICS 115310 with further consideration for HUBZone small business and Service Disabled Veteran Owned small business (SDVOSB). The solicitation will be issued using the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Information about the VIPR system and a Vendor User Guide is located on the web at http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vipr.php. 1) Vendors must have a valid e-mail address; all VIPR communications are conducted via e-mail. 2) Vendors must have a valid DUNS Number. Request a free DUNS Number from Dun and Bradstreet on the web at https://iupdate.dnb.com/iUpdate/companylookup.htm. 3) Vendors must be current in the System for Award Management (SAM) as stated in the solicitation. Vendors can access SAM at https://www.sam.gov/. This system has replaced the systems formerly known as CCR and ORCA. 4) Vendors are required to have a USDA Level 2 eAuthentication account that provides the ability to conduct official electronic business transactions. Information is available on the web at http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/eauth.php 5) Vendors must make offer in response using the VIPR Vendor Application; http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorapp.php. Vendor must list their IRS approved TAX PAYER NAME exactly as stated in SAM as the primary company name and may include a secondary business name as a doing Business As name on their offer. See the VIPR Vendor Helps page at http://www.fs.fed.us/business/incident/vendorapp.php. The Government expects to award multiple Agreements resulting from this solicitation; reasonable price, technically acceptable is the basis for the best value determination. Technical Acceptability. Technical acceptability will be determined on a pass/fail basis. An offer will pass if the offered resource meets the minimum requirements stated in the specifications and has acceptable past performance. Past performance includes: a measure of the degree to which the customer(s) has been satisfied in the past, and compliance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations. A neutral rating will be given to Quoters with no past performance data. Reasonable Price. The quoted price will be evaluated for reasonableness in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Price reasonableness evaluation may include consideration of cost to the Government for travel of resource based on stated location of resource in offer traveling to chosen host dispatch zone. This solicitation will be available electronically only and will be posted to the FedBizOpps website at https://www.fbo.gov on or about February 1, 2013. Electronic responses must be transmitted in the VIPR Vendor Application by 4:30 P.M. MST, March 13, 2013. Pre-proposal meetings will be held, see C.11 for location and time. Information about this and other solicitations in the Northern Rockies is posted on the Northern Rockies Coordinating Group website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/fire/nrcg/.
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