SOLICITATION NOTICE
23 -- Procure ATVs for Buffalo National River
- Notice Date
- 7/22/2016
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 441228
— Motorcycle, ATV, and All Other Motor Vehicle Dealers
- Contracting Office
- NPS, MWR - Missouri MABO 11 North 4th Street St Louis MO 63102 US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- P16PS02205
- Response Due
- 7/28/2016
- Archive Date
- 8/12/2016
- Point of Contact
- Kendrick Sr, Clifton
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Solicitation Number: P16PS02205 Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Synopsis: (i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items 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 separate written solicitation will not be issued. (ii) This solicitation, P16PS02205, shall serve as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). (iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-89/07-14-2016 [FAR obtained from AFLCMC HIBB via http://farsite.hill.af.mil/vffara.htm (iv) This procurement is a 100% Small Business set-aside IAW FAR 19.502-2(a). The associated North American Industrial Classification Standard (NAICS) is 441228 ¿ Motorcycle, ATV and all other Motor Vehicle Dealers, and the applicable small business size standard is 500 employees. This requirement will be awarded by a Firm Fixed Price contract. (v-vi) This requirement consists of the delivery of (5) five Yamaha Kodiak 700 or Equal with the following specifications: Yamaha Kodiak 700 or Equal Specifications: ¿4-stroke, 500 cc to 750 cc electronic fuel injected engine ¿Electronic power steering, ¿Independent suspension ¿Sealed rear brake system ¿ Automatic transmission w/ hi and low gearing ¿ On command 4wd with differential locker ¿Minimum 4 gallon fuel tank capacity (main and reserve combined) ¿Preferred colors ¿ Green or Red Overall Height: no taller than 50 ¿ to ensure the stability while on off-camber slope. Overall Width: no wider than 50 ¿ to ensure proper loading and storage of the machine. Overall Length: no longer than 48 ¿, to ensure that the vehicle will fit in an enclosed 5th wheel trailer. Ground Clearance: at least 10.5 ¿ tall Seat Height: no greater than 35 ¿ tall Bed Length: at least 36 ¿ long Cargo Rack Payload Capacity: at least 300 lb payload (Front and Rear combined) in order to accommodate a 15 gallon water tank unit, drip torches, misc. fuel containers and crew gear. The rack must be made of metal or aluminum materials due to high heat areas created from dragging drip torches during fire operations. The vehicle must be capable of safely operating with a heavy load on the cargo rack and provide the torque necessary to pull loads up steep slopes and over rugged terrain. The engine must have at least a 10.1:1 compression ratio in order to deliver the torque required to carry heavy loads. The units are in support of wildfire operations and will be operated in rugged terrain. (vii) Required Delivery: 30 Days After Award Place of Delivery: NPS, Buffalo NR 170 Ranger Rd., St. Joe, AR 72675 FOB: Destination (viii) The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial, applies to this acquisition. The following addenda are made to the provision. Paragraph (b) Submission of offers is added to read: Quotations shall contain at a minimum the following information: Company name, POC name, phone, and e-mail, service description, quantity, unit of measure, unit price, total price, and delivery terms and Submit product specifications affirmatively demonstrating that product meets requirement as set forth in the solicitation. Quotes are required to be received NO LATER THAN 3:00 P.M. CST, 28 JULY 2016. Submit written offers ONLY by EMAIL. Oral offers will not be accepted. All quotes must be sent to the attention of Clifton L. Kendrick Sr via email to clifton_kendrick@nps.gov. A courtesy copy must also be sent to Michael Schreiber via email to michael_d_schreiber@nps.gov. Please send any questions or comments via email to both Clifton L. Kendrick Sr and Michael Schrieber with the subject: BUFF-ATV by 26 JULY 2016. (ix) The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. There are two specific evaluation criteria included in paragraph (a). The first one is (i) Technical Capability: Offers are to submit the product specification sheets with the quotation. The last one is (ii) price. The Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Source Selection Process will be used in this acquisition. (x) The provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The quotation must include a complete copy of this provision. See http://farsite.hill.af.mil/ (xi) The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. (xii) The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items (DEVIATION), applies to this acquisition. The following clauses/provisions also apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference/ 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference/ 52.252-6, Authorized Deviations in Clauses. This solicitation and resultant contract contains provisions and clauses that may be included by reference. You may view provisions or clauses incorporated by reference at this website: http://farsite.hill.af.mil/ 52.204-7 System for Award Management 52.204-13 System for Award Management Maintenance The following clauses within 52.212-5 are applicable: 52.209-10, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations 52.233-3, Protest After Award 52.233-4, Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation 52.222-3, Convict Labor 52.222-19, Child Labor ¿Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving 52.225-1, Buy American ¿Supplies 52.225-3, Buy American ¿Free Trade Agreements ¿Israeli Trade Act 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer ¿System for Award Management (xiii) The following additional contract requirements or terms and conditions have been determined to be necessary for this acquisition and consistent with customary commercial practices. All firms or individuals responding must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) (https://www.sam.gov ) in order to be considered for award. IAW FAR 9.405(a); Contractors debarred, suspended, or proposed for debarment as listed in the SAM Exclusions Listing are excluded from receiving contracts, and agencies shall not solicit offers from, award contracts to, or consent to subcontracts with these contractors. IAW FAR 9.103, Purchases shall be made from, and contracts shall be awarded to, responsible prospective contractors only. The provision at 52.232-40, Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors applies to this acquisition. The following provisions are incorporated by full text: 1452.215-71, Use and Disclosure of Proposal Information ¿Department of the Interior (APR 1984) (a) Definitions. For the purposes of this provision and the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), the following terms shall have the meaning set forth below: (1) ¿Trade Secret ¿ means an unpatented, secret, commercially valuable plan, appliance, formula, or process, which is used for making, preparing, compounding, treating or processing articles or materials which are trade commodities. (2) ¿Confidential commercial or financial information ¿ means any business information (other than trade secrets) which is exempt from the mandatory disclosure requirement of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. Exemptions from mandatory disclosure which may be applicable to business information contained in proposals include exemption (4), which covers ¿commercial and financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential, ¿ and exemption (9), which covers ¿geological and geophysical information, including maps, concerning wells. ¿ (b) If the offeror, or its subcontractor(s), believes that the proposal contains trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, (5 U.S.C. 552), the cover page of each copy of the proposal shall be marked with the following legend: ¿The information specifically identified on pages ______ of this proposal constitutes trade secrets or confidential commercial and financial information which the offeror believes to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The offeror requests that this information not be disclosed to the public, except as may be required by law. The offeror also requests that this information not be used in whole or part by the government for any purpose other than to evaluate the proposal, except that if a contract is awarded to the offeror as a result of or in connection with the submission of the proposal, the Government shall have the right to use the information to the extent provided in the contract. ¿ (c) The offeror shall also specifically identify trade secret information and confidential commercial and financial information on the pages of the proposal on which it appears and shall mark each such page with the following legend: ¿This page contains trade secrets or confidential commercial and financial information which the offeror believes to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and which is subject to the legend contained on the cover page of this proposal. ¿ (d) Information in a proposal identified by an offeror as trade secret information or confidential commercial and financial information shall be used by the Government only for the purpose of evaluating the proposal, except that (i) if a contract is awarded to the offeror as a result of or in connection with submission of the proposal, the Government shall have the right to use the information as provided in the contract, and (ii) if the same information is obtained from another source without restriction it may be used without restriction. (e) If a request under the Freedom of Information Act seeks access to information in a proposal identified as trade secret information or confidential commercial and financial information, full consideration will be given to the offeror's view that the information constitutes trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information. The offeror will also be promptly notified of the request and given an opportunity to provide additional evidence and argument in support of its position, unless administratively unfeasible to do so. If it is determined that information claimed by the offeror to be trade secret information or confidential commercial or financial information is not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, the offeror will be notified of this determination prior to disclosure of the information. (f) The Government assumes no liability for the disclosure or use of information contained in a proposal if not marked in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this provision. If a request under the Freedom of Information Act is made for information in a proposal not marked in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this provision, the offeror concerned shall be promptly notified of the request and given an opportunity to provide its position to the Government. However, failure of an offeror to mark information contained in a proposal as trade secret information or confidential commercial or financial information will be treated by the Government as evidence that the information is not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, absent a showing that the failure to mark was due to unusual or extenuating circumstances, such as a showing that the offeror had intended to mark, but that markings were omitted from the offeror's proposal due to clerical error. (End of provision) 52.203-98, Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements ¿Representation (DEVIATION 2015-02) (a) In accordance with section 743 of Division E, Title VII, of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Resolution Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L. 113-235), Government agencies are not permitted to use funds appropriated (or otherwise made available) under that or any other Act for contracts with an entity that requires employees or subcontractors of such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees or subcontractors from lawfully reporting such fraud, waste, or abuse to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of a Federal department or agency authorized to receive such information. (b) The prohibition in paragraph (a) of this provision does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information. (c) Representation. By submission of its offer, the Offeror represents that it does not require employees or subcontractors of such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees or subcontractors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of a Federal department or agency authorized to receive such information. (End of provision) 52.211-6, Brand Name or Equal (Aug 1999) (a) If an item in this solicitation is identified as ¿brand name or equal, ¿ the purchase description reflects the characteristics and level of quality that will satisfy the Government ¿s needs. The salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics that ¿equal ¿ products must meet are specified in the solicitation. (b) To be considered for award, offers of ¿equal ¿ products, including ¿equal ¿ products of the brand name manufacturer, must ¿ (1) Meet the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristic specified in this solicitation; (2) Clearly identify the item by ¿ (i) Brand name, if any; and (ii) Make or model number; (3) Include descriptive literature such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the Contracting Officer; and (4) Clearly describe any modifications the offeror plans to make in a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements. Mark any descriptive material to clearly show the modifications. (c) The Contracting Officer will evaluate ¿equal ¿ products on the basis of information furnished by the offeror or identified in the offer and reasonably available to the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or obtaining any information not identified in the offer. (d) Unless the offeror clearly indicates in its offer that the product being offered is an ¿equal ¿ product, the offeror shall provide the brand name product referenced in the solicitation. (End of provision) The following clauses are incorporated by full text in the final award: 52.203-99, Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements (FEB 2015) The Contractor shall not require employees or subcontractors seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign or comply with internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees or subcontractors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of a Federal department or agency authorized to receive such information. (a)The contractor shall notify employees that the prohibitions and restrictions of any internal confidentiality agreements covered by this clause are no longer in effect. (b)The prohibition in paragraph (a) of this clause does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information. (c)The prohibition in paragraph (a) of this clause does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information. (d)(1) In accordance with section 743 of Division E, Title VII, of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Resolution Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L. 113-235), use of funds appropriated (or otherwise made available) under that or any other Act may be prohibited, if the Government determines that the Contractor is not in compliance with the provisions of this clause. (2) The Government may seek any available remedies in the event the Contractor fails to comply with the provisions of this clause. (End of clause) DOI ELECTRONIC INVOICING Electronic Invoicing and Payment Requirements - Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) (Apr 2013) 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: None 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 CCR) 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. (End of Clause)
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