SOLICITATION NOTICE
38 -- NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): Provision of Ancillary Equipment - Four 2 Cubic Meter Concrete Mixers
- Notice Date
- 3/9/2015
- 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-NSPA-5HQ27010-1T
- Archive Date
- 4/10/2015
- Point of Contact
- Lee Ann Carpenter, Phone: 202-482-2583, Lee Ann Carpenter, Phone: 202-482-2583
- E-Mail Address
-
LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov, LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov
(LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov, LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The NATO Support Agency (NSPA) has been designated to implement the acquisition of four 2 cubic meter concrete mixers. This equipment is required for the Deployable 500-man camps that are part of the Capability Package 5A0156 "NATO Deployable HQ Assets for Deployable 500-man camps". In order to bid on this procurement, a U.S. prime contractor must 1) maintain a professionally active facility (office, factory, etc.) in the United States 2) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB) 3) be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government 4) be registered in the NSPA Source File: https://eportal.nspa.nato.int/Registration/OnlineRegistration.aspx?lng=en The Department of Commerce will be using IFB-NSPA-5HQ27010-1T as its reference for this project. REQUIREMENT The contractor shall furnish to NSPA "Ancillary Equipment - Four 2 cubic meter concrete mixers" in accordance with the requirements of the Statement of Work. Options for additional mixers, identical to those, are also included. These mixers are intended to assist with the 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 Centre (SOC) in Taranto, Italy. This equipment shall be: a) stored in outdoor storage facilities until needed; b) transported by sea, land or air alongside 6.058 meter ISO containers (2.438 m height), if not precluded by their size; c) operated and maintained by soldiers 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; d) combined with other equipment and facilities in order to constitute a pre-planned camp; e) deployed on exercises for short periods each year and/or deployed on military operations as required; f) available for use 24 hours per day with minimum maintenance under harsh field conditions during operations lasting up to two years g) stored and re-used through a series of exercises and field deployments, with only minimum refurbishment between uses; h) designed, manufactured, and supported in consideration of a vendor defined maintenance program that would provide 20 years of service life; i) used to provide a reliable means of producing concrete in locations where access to a concrete batch plant is not an option. 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/index.php/other-areas/strategic-industries-and-economic-security-sies/nato-related-business-opportunities 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 reference 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: 07 April 2015 NSPA intends to issue the Invitation for Bids (IFB) to firms on its bidders list at a date yet to be determined, but not before 10 April 2015. The bidders will be allowed not fewer than 42 days to reply to the IFB. Please note that the actual quantities to be included in the IFB may vary slightly from those specified in this announcement.
- Web Link
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/BIS/comp99/IFB-NSPA-5HQ27010-1T/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: NATO Southern Operations Center in Taranto, Italy & unspecified, Italy
- Record
- SN03661895-W 20150311/150309235303-c9298293b57cac750f0853158da42ee2 (fbodaily.com)
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