SOLICITATION NOTICE
38 -- Provision of Concrete Mixers
- Notice Date
- 8/22/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 333120
— Construction Machinery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry & Security, Department of Commerce, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1099D, Washington, District of Columbia, 20230
- ZIP Code
- 20230
- Solicitation Number
- IFB-5HQ27010-04
- Archive Date
- 9/23/2013
- Point of Contact
- Elsie Carroll, Phone: 202-482-8228, Lee Ann Carpenter, Phone: 202-482-2583
- E-Mail Address
-
elsie.carroll@bis.doc.gov, LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov
(elsie.carroll@bis.doc.gov, LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): Provision of Concrete Mixers IFB-5HQ27010-04 The NATO Support Agency (NSPA) intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for the provision of four 2-cubic meter and eight 250-liter concrete mixers. These mixers are intended to assist with camp construction and maintenance in a rapidly deployable headquarters of NATO military forces that may be deployed over a wide range of geographic environments and climatic conditions. Accordingly, NATO expects the equipment to be robust and of high quality, agile yet heavy duty, and highly capable of performing under difficult climate and terrain conditions. The mixers shall be deployed to one of four major camps when not stored in the NATO Southern Operations Center (SOC) in Taranto, Italy. The equipment shall be: - Stored in outdoor storage facilities until needed - Configured and loaded quickly for a specific mission - transported by sea, land or air alongside 6.058 meter shipping containers including periods at dockside when they may be left without direct security - Configured rapidly by skilled solders, but ones who may be unfamiliar with the task for these particular mixers - Combined with other equipment and facilities in order to constitute a pre-planned camp - Deployed on exercises for short periods each year and/or deployed on military operations as required - Available for use 24 hours per day with minimum maintenance under harsh field conditions during operations lasting up to two years - Dismantled, repacked, stored, and re-reused through a series of exercises and field deployments, with only minimum refurbishment between uses - Maintained by solders with basic skills during deployed exercises and operational periods and by skilled tradespersons when not deployed, in accordance with the contractor's recommended logistics support program - Expected to perform reliable service without loss of function at any time during deployed exercises and operational periods - Designed, manufactured, and supported in consideration of a vendor-defined maintenance program that would provide 20 years of service life - Used to provide a reliable means of producing concrete in locations where access to a concrete batch plant is not an option In order to bid on this project, a U.S. primary contractor must 1) maintain a professionally active facility (office, factory, laboratory, etc.) in the United States, 2) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB), and 3) be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government. No partial offers will be entertained. The U.S. Department of Commerce will be using IFB-5HQ27010-04 as its reference for the IFB. BIDDING PROCEDURE NATO ICB requires that the U.S. Government nominate U.S. prime contractors to the bidders list. Before the U.S. Government can nominate a U.S. prime contractor to the bidders list for this procurement, the firm must be approved for participation in NATO ICB. Firms are approved for NATO ICB on a facility-by-facility basis. The NATO ICB application is a one-time application. The application requires supporting documentation in the form of 1) a company resume indicating contracts completed as a prime contractor and 2) an annual report or set of financial documents indicating compilation, review, or audit by an independent CPA. U.S. firms can download a copy of the U.S. NATO ICB application from the following website: http://www.bis.doc.gov/defenseindustrialbaseprograms/OSIES/NATOprograms/index.htm The application and supporting documentation may be submitted as e-mail attachments. If, when submitting the application, your firm is interested in a specific NATO ICB project, please include the following in the text of your email: - the title and/or solicitation number of the project - the name/phone/FAX/email of the point of contact for the bid documents After approval of your one-time NATO ICB application, the Department of Commerce will then know to follow up by issuing a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE) for that project. A DOE is used to nominate an approved prime contractor to the bidders list for a particular NATO ICB project. IMPORTANT DATES U.S. firms must request a DOE (and, for U.S. firms new to NATO ICB, submit the one-time NATO ICB application) by: 18 September 2013 NSPA has stated that "even if you have expressed an interest in this potential opportunity, NSPA has no obligation to contact your firm should this FBO result in an RFP. We therefore strongly encourage you to regularly consult the RFP website and to make sure you are registered in the NSPA source file." To register with the Source File, please see the NSPA procurement website: https://eportal.nspa.nato.int/EPROCUREMENT/default.aspx Planned release of IFB: not before 23 September 2013 Scheduled bid closing: Bidders will be allowed not less than 42 days to reply to the IFB. Delivery: Nine months after contract award.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/BIS/comp99/IFB-5HQ27010-04/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: various, Italy
- Record
- SN03158869-W 20130824/130822235928-fe208901395d1619dde7bece78575220 (fbodaily.com)
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