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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2014 FBO #4676
SOLICITATION NOTICE

Z -- Ditching Services at Olympic National Park, WA

Notice Date

9/11/2014
 

Notice Type

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
 

NAICS

115310 — Support Activities for Forestry
 

Contracting Office

NPS, PWR - OLYM MABO600 E. Park AvenuePort AngelesWA98362-6757US
 

ZIP Code

00000
 

Solicitation Number

P14PS02679
 

Response Due

9/18/2014
 

Archive Date

10/18/2014
 

Point of Contact

Phaedra Fuller (360) 565-3009 Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov
 

E-Mail Address

Contracting Officer
(Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov)
 

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 announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-76. It is the contractor's responsibility to be familiar with applicable clauses and provisions. Clauses and provisions can be found at http://www.acquisition.gov/far. The solicitation number is P14PS02679, and the solicitation is issued as a Request for Quotation. The NAICS code is 115310 with an associated small business size standard of $7.5 million. This solicitation is a 100% total small business set-aside, and will result in a firm fixed price contract to a single vendor determined to be responsive and responsible. The Government will consider past performance in determining responsibility. 01 - DESCRIPTION. The National Park Service, Olympic National Park (OLYM) has a requirement for the cleaning and shaping of roadside drainage ditches on paved and unpaved roads in Olympic National Park. 02 - ATTACHMENTS TO THIS SOLICITATION. All attachments can be accessed from the FedConnect website at https://www.fedconnect.net. Once at the FedConnect home page, click "Search Public Opportunities Only." Next screen, under Search Criteria, change the drop-down menu selection to read "Reference Number," then type in solicitation number P14PS02679 and click "search." Next screen, click the underlined text that is the title of the solicitation ("Ditching Services for Olympic National Park, WA"). Next screen is the overview screen. On the right-hand side, is the list of documents posted, showing the SF-1449 solicitation form and two attachments. The attachments can be opened to be viewed on-screen or they can be downloaded and saved or printed, whichever you prefer. Attachment no. 1 is this combined synopsis-solicitation, saved as a.pdf file. Attachment no. 2 is the Ditching Mileages and Turn-Outs saved as an Excell spreadsheet containing three worksheet tabs, one worksheet tab for each of the three park roads. 03 - STATEMENT OF WORK. 3.1 Provide equipment with operator to clean and shape linear feet of road drainage ditches on three roads at OLYM: Whiskey Bend Road (unpaved, tight road), Camp David Jr. Road (paved, tight road), and Sol Duc Road (paved). Ditches shall be cleaned and shaped with a horizontal rotating auger. Auger diameter shall be a minimum of 18-inch diameter and a maximum of 24-inch diameter. 3.2 Cleaning ditches shall be considered one pass of equipment on ditches that have established profiles. Ditches shall be cleaned to depth of at least half the auger diameter. 3.3 Cleaning shall be performed so that ditch lines have a continuous downstream gradient of at least 1% and 2% where topography allows. 3.4 Shaping shall be considered two or more passes on ditch areas without established ditch profiles. Ditched shall be shaped to a minimum of half auger width 3.5 Equipment shall be capable of removing rock debris from ditches that is 5" and smaller. Park staff will inspect and remove all visually apparent 5+" rock material and logs/trees from ditch lines prior to work. Where 5+" rock is encountered, this section of ditch line shall be skipped. 3.6 Contractor shall transport spoils from ditching operations to designated pullouts. See attachment no. 2 (pages 1, 2, and 3, providing mileages and turn-outs for each road). Spoils will contain soil, sediment and organics; no separation shall be required on spoils. Maximum haul distance to dump spots from ditching operations is 0.5 miles in direction of ditching. Maximum distance to turnaround locations is 4 miles. Park will transport spoils from pullouts to boneyards or landfills. 3.7 Contractor will be responsible for transport of equipment to all road ditching sites. 3.8 Equipment shall be washed and inspected prior to use. OLYM will inspect for weeds or seeds, oil leaks, fluid drips, in an effort to prevent pollution and spread noxious weeds and seeds along the roadway and in ditches. The COR will be onsite to inspect the equipment prior to use. 3.9 OLYM RESPONSIBILITY: (a) Remove all readily visible 5+" rock material from ditches. (b) Remove all trees and logs from ditch lines. (c) Transport spoils from designated dump areas to boneyards or landfill, for Sol Duc Road. (d) Provide traffic control, which includes staking the segments along the roadway that will receive ditching, indicating to the operator the start and stop points, and closing sections of the road during work or closing the whole road during work, as can be worked out and coordinated with vendor, to provide as safe of a working zone as possible. COR or designated project inspector will be onsite during performance of the work. 04 - PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE. Government anticipates making award in time for vendor/contractor to start work early October 2014 with a 30 day performance period. After award, the parties shall agree on actual start and end dates of the performance period. Target completion is within a 30 day period of performance. OLYM will provide traffic control during ditching (as described in section 3.9 above). Work shall occur between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, unless otherwise approved by the Contracting Officer. 05 - PRICE SCHEDULE. The price quoted shall include all labor and equipment necessary to complete the work as described herein. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible Offeror whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, on the basis of best value, considering price and non-price factors (as described below in Section 8). The Government may elect to accept other than the lowest priced quote when the perceived benefits of a higher priced quote merit the additional cost. The government has a limited amount of funds for this project. Award will be made for a not-to-exceed amount for a fixed price per foot, awarding as many feet as possible for the amount of funds available. The amount of funds available is not the Government estimate. The Government has estimated its own price per foot. The three park roads that require ditching, listed in descending order of priority are: (a) Whiskey Bend Road at approximately 19,537 feet, (b) Camp David Jr. Road at approximately 8,262 feet; and (c) Sol Duc Road approximately 11,590 feet. These quantities are what the Government anticipates being able to award (best case scenario), depending upon prices quoted. The Government may be able to award more or less than these quantities, and will award in order of the descending priority of as much footage as possible for Whiskey Ben Road, then Camp David Jr. Road, then Sol Duc Road. LINE ITEM 001: Provide unit price per foot to clean ditches on the above listed park roads with horizontal rotating auger according to the above statement of work, considering the attached mileages and turn-out points: $____________ per foot. 06 - INSPECTION and ACCEPTANCE. The Contracting Officer will delegate inspection and acceptance to the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), who will review segments of work completed, review invoices, perform partial and final inspections, and will be responsible for documenting Government's acceptance of the work as 100% complete, to be provided in writing to the Contracting Officer. Final payment shall not be made prior to Contracting Officer receiving COR's written final inspection, documenting date of acceptance indicating 100% completion. Payments will only be made for actual work completed as inspected by the COR on a per foot basis. 07 - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR SERVICE CONTRACT ACT WAGE DETERMINATION is applicable to this solicitation and can be viewed in full text on-line at http://www.wdol.gov. Select "SCA WDs." Search by state (WA), then by county (Clallam County). Answer "no" to previously performed. Answer "no" to non-standard services. The wage determination number is 05-2559 (Revision no. 17 dated 08/05/2014), and is hereby incorporated into this solicitation. 08 - CLAUSES & PROVISIONS. The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, applies to this solicitation. The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible Offeror whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, on the basis of best value, considering the evaluation factors herein. All evaluation factors other than price when combined are approximately equal to price. The Government may elect to accept other than the lowest priced quote when the perceived benefits of a higher priced quote merit the additional cost. The following evaluation factors are listed in descending order of importance: (A) PAST PERFORMANCE - - is a measure of the degree to which a contractor has satisfied its customers in the past. The NPS will evaluate past performance based on contacting references provided by the contractor, the Government's knowledge of Offeror's past performance, and /or references obtained from any other source. (B) RELATIVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE - - is differentiated from Past Performance in that it is factual, documented information about specific work the offeror has performed, which demonstrates the offeror's technical ability to accomplish the work. The Government shall consider the offeror's relative prior experience within the past 5 years for completed projects that are of similar size and scope, include shaping ditches that have lost profile, include minimizing vegetation removal on backslope, and capable of providing appropriate and reliable equipment that will facilitate timely completion of work. (C) PRICE - - evaluation will consist of price analysis to determine price reasonableness for quotes received. Price analysis will consider other competitive quotes received and comparison to the independent Government estimate. Quote MUST be good for 30 calendar days after close of this solicitation. The government reserves the right to make award without discussions. SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM): The clause 52.204-07, System for Award Management (SAM) is applicable to this solicitation. Vendors shall be registered in the SAM database. Award will only be made to the responsive, responsible vendor with a SAM registration status of "active." The website address for SAM is https://sam.gov. Quoters must include either a completed hard copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with quote, or have completed reps/certs electronically as part of their SAM registration. If the vendors reps/certs (either manually submitted using the provision or electronically completed in SAM) does not list the NAICS code stated in this solicitation, then the vendor will be required to rerepresent its business size via acknowledging a letter issued by the Contracting Officer prior to award. Award can only be made to a small business since this solicitation is a small business set-aside. The provision 52.212-03 is available on-line in full text at http://www.acquisition.gov/far. If submitting the provision manually, print the provision from the website link provided herein and fill it out, checking all applicable sections, and submit with quote. The clauses at 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition, and includes the following clauses: 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards; 52.209-06 Protecting the Governments Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment; 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations; 52.219-06 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside; 52.219-28 Post Award Small Business Program Representation; 52.222-03 Convict Labor; 52.222-19 Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; 52.222-41 Service Contract Act of 1965, as Amended; 52.222-42 Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires; 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons; 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving; 52.225-03 (Alternate I) Buy American Act - Free Trade Agreements - Israeli Trade Act; 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer - Central Contractor Registration; 52.233-03 Protest After Award; and 52.233-04 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim. 09 - INVOICE/PAYMENT. The following clause is applicable to the awarded contract, as a post-award requirement: U.S. Department of the Interior Electronic Invoicing and Payment Requirements - Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) (September 2011) - - - Payment requests must be submitted electronically through the U. S. Department of the Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform System (IPP). "Payment request" means any request for contract financing payment or invoice payment by the Contractor. To constitute a proper invoice, the payment request must comply with the requirements identified in the applicable Prompt Payment clause included in the contract, or the clause 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items included in commercial item contracts. The IPP website address is: https://www.ipp.gov.Under this contract, the following documents are required to be submitted as an attachment to the IPP invoice: Vendor's business invoice (upload your business invoice as an attachment to the IPP invoice before you click "submit" in IPP).). VENDOR'S FAILURE TO ATTACH THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION AS SPECIFIED ABOVE WILL RESULT IN THE IPP INVOICE BEING REJECTED. The Contractor must use the IPP website to register, access and use IPP for submitting requests for payment. The Contractor Government Business Point of Contact (as listed in the System for Award Management (SAM) database) will receive enrollment instructions via email from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (FRBB) within 3 - 5 business days of the contract award date. Contractor assistance with enrollment can be obtained by contacting the IPP Production Helpdesk via email ippgroup@bos.frb.org or phone (866) 973-3131.If the Contractor is unable to comply with the requirement to use IPP for submitting invoices for payment, the Contractor must submit a waiver request in writing to the Contracting Officer with its proposal or quotation. 10 - ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS SOLICITATION MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING (fax or email) to the attention of Phaedra Fuller, Contract Specialist at fax number 360-565-3015 or email at Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov. If question is faxed, include cover page that references the solicitation number. If question is emailed, indicate the RFQ number in the subject line of the email. 11 - WHAT TO SUBMIT - - CONTENTS OF QUOTE: 11.1 Submit signed/dated Standard Form (SF-1449), including writing the DUNS number on the form (the DUNS number will be verified in the SAM.gov database including reps/certs - - refer back to clauses 52.204-07 and 52.212-03 above). 11.3 Acknowledge any amendments issued. 11.4 Provide unit price per foot as requested in the above price schedule. 11.5 Submit either the filled out reps/certs provision 52.212-03 manually or have completed reps/certs in SAM. 11.6 Provide written narratives of relevant prior experience within the past 5 years for completed projects of similar size and scope, including shaping ditches that have lost profile, include minimizing vegetation removal on backslope, and capable of providing appropriate and reliable equipment that will facilitate timely completion of work. 11.7 Provide written past performance information for at least five past contracts/projects that you consider similar in nature to this RFQ that includes the project name, period of performance, price, and a brief description of the work performed, as well as a point of contact that includes contact name, phone number, and email (if email address is available). 12 - WHEN TO SUBMIT QUOTE - - RESPONSE DATE: Quotations must be received at Olympic National Park no later than Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 5 p.m., Pacific Standard Time. 13 - HOW TO SUBMIT QUOTE - - Quotes can be submitted by email, mail, or hand-delivered. Faxed quotes will not be accepted. If quote is emailed, send to Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov and include the solicitation number and company name in the subject line of the email. If quote is mailed or hand-delivered, the solicitation number shall be indicated on outer envelope as well as vendor's name and address. For hand-delivering, quotes may be dropped off with the contracting office located at park headquarters on the first floor of the Administration building at 600 East Park Avenue, Port Angeles, WA 98362. 14 - POINT OF CONTACT for this solicitation is Phaedra Fuller, Contract Specialist, Olympic National Park, telephone 360-565-3009, email Phaedra_Fuller@nps.gov. The government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOI/NPS/APC-IS/P14PS02679/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Olympic National Park600 East Park AvenuePort AngelesWA98362USA

Zip Code: 98362
 

Record

SN03505958-W 20140913/140911235043-0e2e65cd5a03333f0d85e3ce92717027 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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