MODIFICATION
R -- Catholic Choir Director, Baumholder Germany Period of Performance 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014
- Notice Date
- 3/21/2013
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 813110
— Religious Organizations
- Contracting Office
- TCC-Kaiserslautern (PARC Europe, 409th CSB), KO DIRECTORATE OF CONTRACTING, UNIT 23156, APO, AE 09227
- ZIP Code
- 09227
- Solicitation Number
- W564KV13T0030
- Response Due
- 3/28/2013
- Archive Date
- 5/20/2013
- Point of Contact
- donald.peters, 496314115192
- E-Mail Address
-
TCC-Kaiserslautern (PARC Europe, 409th CSB)
(donald.peters@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- 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 announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial non-personal prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written (formal) solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ), solicitation number W564KV-13-T-0030 in accordance with FAR Parts 12 & 13. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular FAC 2005-61, effective 13 September 2012. This combined synopsis/solicitation is not set-aside for any NAICS code or small business size standard; this is an unrestricted acquisition. All responsible sources may submit a quote, which if received timely, will be considered by the 409th CSB/ECC-E Theater Contracting Center, APO AE 09227-3156. The scope of work is for a non-personal service in support of US Army Military Religious Programs. The Contractor must be committed to working within the pluralistic Military Chapel environment, in cooperation with other congregational leaders to meet the needs of the congregation. As a non-personal services contractor, the Catholic Choir Director, Baumholder is not a member of the Chapel or Installation Chaplain's Office Staff. The contractor and all employees shall identify themselves as contractor personnel by introducing themselves or being introduced as contractor personnel and displaying distinguishing badges or other visible identification for meetings with Government personnel. The Contractor shall appropriately identify themselves as contractor employees in telephone conversations and in formal and informal written correspondence. The mission of the Chaplain's program is to provide for Essential Elements of Religion to include worship services for all assigned soldiers, civilians, and family members. The primary goal of the Catholic Choir Director, Baumholder program is to provide music to supporting the various religious services. All aspects of the Catholic Choir Director, program shall remain the responsibility of the Commander and shall be conducted under the supervision of the USAG chaplain. The USAG chaplain will designate a chaplain or chaplains to supervise all chapel religious programs.. As such, they fall under the responsibilities of all Chaplains and, here in particular, the Catholic Community Chaplain. The Catholic Choir Director, Baumholder falls under the USAG Baumholder Chaplain's Program. REQUIREMENTS FOR QUOTE; Return this Section with Pricing for the entire year. Prices quoted must be Firm-Fixed price to include anticipated cost of the required Contractor Manpower Reporting. Description Qty Unit Price Extended Price LINE ITEM 0001 Catholic Choir Director, Baumholder Program; See Attached SOW 52 Wks $______________ $___________ 1 April 2013 through 31 March 2014 LINE ITEM 7500 Contractor Manpower Reporting 2 $______________ $___________ 31 October 2013 and 31 October 2014 The following Federal Acquisition (FAR) clauses apply to this combined synopsis/solicitation and offerors must comply with all instructions contained in FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items, addenda apply: The contractor shall submit their quote on company letterhead to include the following: solicitation number, contact name, address, telephone number of the offeror, unit price, extended price, CAGE code, DUNS number, tax identification number, and a statement that the provision at FAR 52.212-3 has been completed electronically on line at the System for Award Management, On-line Representations and Certifications Applications (formerly ORCA). The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or obtaining any information not identified in the offer. In accordance with FAR 52.204-99 System for Award Management (SAM) Registration (DEVIATION) contractors must be registered with SAM to conduct business with the Department of Defense. No purchase order can be awarded to any company without this registration. (www.sam.gov) Quotes must be received no later than 1000 local time for the designated Government office (Central European Time), 28 March 2013. Quotes shall be submitted via e-mail to Mr. Don Peters, Contract Specialist, at Donald.w.peters10.civ@mail.mil and Ms. Donna Kabatek, Contracting Officer, at donna.m.kabatek.civ@mail.mil. The subject of the e-mail shall be, quote mark W564KV-13-T-0030. Offerors are requested to submit any questions or comments via email to Mr. Don Peterson, Contract Specialist, donna.m.kabatek@us.army.mil and Ms. Donna Kabatek, Contracting Officer, donna.m.kabatek.civ@mail.mil no later than 5 working days before offers are due. The subject of the email shall be: quote mark W564KV-13-T-0030- Questions quote mark. Questions shall annotate a reference to the specific solicitation element to which they pertain. All responses will be taken into consideration and answered appropriately in an amendment to the RFQ/solicitation. Offers received after the above date and time will be considered late in accordance with 52.212-1(f) and will not be evaluated. The provisions at FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation--Commercial Items apply to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsive responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: technical acceptability and price. Award will be made on the basis of determining the technically acceptable offer with the lowest evaluated price which meets or exceeds the requirements. Once an offer has been determined to be technically acceptable then the Offeror with the lowest evaluated price will be awarded the contract. If an offer is not technically acceptable it will not be considered. The provision at 52.212-3 shall be completed electronically on line at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ with its quote. The following clauses apply to this acquisition. FAR 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference: This solicitation incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. The full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this address: http://farsite.hill.af.mil/. The clause at FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items, with the following addenda, applies: ADDENDUM TO FAR 52.212.4 A. In addition to FAR 52.212-4 (a), entitled: quote mark INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE quote mark, the following shall apply: Inspection and acceptance of services under this contract shall be performed by the Point of Contact (POC) of the Receiving Activity. B. In addition to FAR 52.212-4 (c), entitled: quote mark CHANGES quote mark, the following shall apply: The Government reserves the right to issue unilateral modifications to affect administrative changes. B. Electronic Fund Transfer: Payment for goods or services received shall be made by Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT). Therefore each invoice must show the contract number and the following Banking Information: Name of Receiving Bank: City and Country of Receiving Bank: SWIFT CODE Bank Transit Code (BLZ): Recipient's Account No.: IBAN No.: (End of Addendum) The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. Additional FAR/DFARS clauses cited in the clause applicable to this acquisition are: 52.204-1 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards AUG 2012 52.204-99 System for Award Management Registration (DEVIATION) AUG 2012 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While DrivingAUG 2011 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign PurchasesJUN 2008 52.225-14 Inconsistency between English Version and Translation of Contract FEB2000 252.232-7008 Assignment of Claims (Overseas)JUN 1997 252.233-7001 Choice of Law (Overseas)JUN 1997 DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions required to implement status of Executive Orders applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items (Apr 2007) applies to this acquisition. Additional FAR/DFARS clauses cited in the clause applicable to this acquisition are: 252.203-7000, Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests (MAR 2008). FAR 52.225-17 EVALUATION OF FOREIGN CURRENCY OFFERS (FEB 2000) If the Government receives offers in more than one currency, the Government will evaluate offers by converting the foreign currency to United States currency using the FY 2013 DOD EURO Conversion Rate in effect as follows: (a) For acquisitions conducted using sealed bidding procedures, on the date of bid opening. (b) For acquisitions conducted using negotiation procedures- (1) On the date specified for receipt of offers, if award is based on initial offers; otherwise (2) On the date specified for receipt of proposal revisions. (End of provision) DFARS 252.232-7006 Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions. WIDE AREA WORKFLOW PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS (JUN 2012) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause- quote mark Department of Defense Activity Address Code (DoDAAC) quote mark is a six position code that uniquely identifies a unit, activity, or organization. quote mark Document type quote mark means the type of payment request or receiving report available for creation in Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF). quote mark Local processing office (LPO) quote mark is the office responsible for payment certification when payment certification is done external to the entitlement system. (b) Electronic invoicing. The WAWF system is the method to electronically process vendor payment requests and receiving reports, as authorized by DFARS 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports. (c) WAWF access. To access WAWF, the Contractor shall- (1) Have a designated electronic business point of contact in the Central Contractor Registration at https://www.acquisition.gov; and (2) Be registered to use WAWF at https://wawf.eb.mil/ following the step-by-step procedures for self- registration available at this web site. (d) WAWF training. The Contractor should follow the training instructions of the WAWF Web-Based Training Course and use the Practice Training Site before submitting payment requests through WAWF. Both can be accessed by selecting the quote mark Web Based Training quote mark link on the WAWF home page at https://wawf.eb.mil/ (e) WAWF methods of document submission. Document submissions may be via web entry, Electronic Data Interchange, or File Transfer Protocol. (f) WAWF payment instructions. The Contractor must use the following information when submitting payment requests and receiving reports in WAWF for this contract/order: (1) Document type. The Contractor shall use the following document type(s). Invoice as 2 in 1 (Services) (2) Inspection/acceptance location. The Contractor shall select the following inspection/acceptance location(s) in WAWF, as specified by the contracting officer (3) Document routing. The Contractor shall use the information in the Routing Data Table below only to fill in applicable fields in WAWF when creating payment requests and receiving reports in the system. Routing Data Table* Field Name in WAWFData to be entered in WAWF Pay Official DoDAAC Issue By DoDAAC Admin DoDAAC Inspect By DoDAAC Ship To Code Ship From Code Mark For Code Service Approver (DoDAAC) Service Acceptor (DoDAAC) Accept at Other DoDAAC LPO DoDAAC DCAA Auditor DoDAAC Other DoDAAC(s) (4) Payment request and supporting documentation. The Contractor shall ensure a payment request includes appropriate contract line item and subline item descriptions of the work performed or supplies delivered, unit price/cost per unit, fee (if applicable), and all relevant back-up documentation, as defined in DFARS Appendix F, (e.g. timesheets) in support of each payment request. (5) WAWF email notifications. The Contractor shall enter the e-mail address identified below in the quote mark Send Additional Email Notifications quote mark field of WAWF once a document is submitted in the system. Primary: and Alternate: (g) WAWF point of contact. (1) The Contractor may obtain clarification regarding invoicing in WAWF from the following contracting activity's WAWF point of contact. (2) For technical WAWF help, contact the WAWF helpdesk at 866-618-988.(End of clause) CCE.233-4002AMC-LEVEL PROTEST PROGRAM (December 2008) If you have complaints about this procurement, it is preferable that you first attempt to resolve those concerns with the responsible contracting officer. However, you can also protest to Headquarters, AMC. The HQ, AMC-Level Protest Program is intended to encourage interested parties to seek resolution of their concerns within AMC as an Alternative Dispute Resolution forum, rather than filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office or other external forum. Contract award or performance is suspended during the protest to the same extent, and within the same time periods, as if filed at the GAO. The AMC protest decision goal is to resolve protests within 20 working days from filing. To be timely, protests must be filed within the periods specified in FAR 33.103. Send protests (other than protests to the contracting officer) to: HQ Army Materiel Command Office of Command Counsel 9301 Chapek Rd, Room 2-1SE3401 Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5527. Facsimile number (703) 806-8866 or 8875 Packages sent to FedEx or UPS should be addressed to: HQ Army Materiel Command Office of Command Counsel Room 2-1SE3401 1412 Jackson Loop Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5527 The AMC-level protest procedures are found at: http://www.amc.army.mil/pa/COMMANDCOUNSEL.asp If Internet access is not available, contact the contracting officer or HQ, AMC to obtain the AMC-Level Protest Procedures. (End of Provision)
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- Address: Baumholder Germany
- Zip Code: 09227
- Zip Code: 09227
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