SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Surface Finish Analyzer Upgrade - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 3/10/2017
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFLCMC/WNMRP AFMETCAL, 813 Irving Wick Dr. W. Bldg 2, Heath, Ohio, 43056-6116, United States
- ZIP Code
- 43056-6116
- Solicitation Number
- FA2263-17-Q-0003
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2017
- Point of Contact
- Kathryn A Vaccaro, Phone: 740-788-5078
- E-Mail Address
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kathryn.vaccaro@us.af.mil
(kathryn.vaccaro@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Schedule B J & A AFMETCAL/ML-02 warranty DD 1423 and DIDs Purchase Description 17M-287A-DI Rev 1 dated 28 June 2016 This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-95, DAC 91-13, and Defense Publication Notice (DPN) 20161222. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. AFMETCAL at Heath OH intends to award a sole source firm fixed price contract under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) in accordance with FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures and FAR Part 12-Acquisition of Commercial Items, for the purchase of a Surface Finish Analyzer Upgrade with technical manual, Software User's Manual, and an extended 2-year warranty to Taylor Hobson, Inc., 1725 Western Dr., West Chicago, IL 60185. Taylor Hobson, Inc. possess the proprietary rights and is therefore the only supplier that can offer the upgrade, installation and training for the Surface Finish Analyzer Upgrade. Supplies or services are available from only one responsible source, no other type of supply or service will satisfy agency requirements. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to meet the requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. The RFQ number is FA2263-17-Q-0003 and shall be referenced on any offer submitted. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334516 and the business size standard is 1,000 employees. This RFQ is being solicited as a sole source. The sole source requirement will provide for the Surface Finish Analyzer upgrade in accordance with Purchase Description 17M-287A-DI Rev 1 dated 28 June 2016. Offerors are requested to provide pricing for one (1) unit in FY17. Products offered shall be commercially available. Item proposed shall be a new unit. Reconditioned, remanufactured, or used items are not acceptable and shall not be proposed. The unit must meet the requirements of Purchase Description 17M-287A-DI Rev 1 dated 28 June 2016 with an extended 2-year warranty and data in accordance with DD Form 1423. The Purchase Description, Warranty Description AFMETCAL/ML-02 and requirements for data delivery identified in the contract data requirements list are available for download at this site. Please review ALL documents carefully. Delivery of the upgraded unit shall be due 90 days after receipt of award notification and may not arrive at destination any earlier than 7 days before the required delivery date. Accelerated delivery is not permitted unless authorized by the Contracting Officer. Unit will be shipped to AFMETCAL in Heath Ohio. Delivery shall be FOB destination. The upgrade will undergo acceptance testing which will be completed within 45 days after completion of installation and training at AFMETCAL in Heath Ohio. Invoices may not be submitted in Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF) through Invoicing, Receipt, Acceptance, and Property Transfer (iRAPT) until the units have been accepted. Offerors will be required to provide pricing for a total of one (1) unit. Offerors shall complete Schedule B, posted at this site, for proposed pricing. NOTICE TO OFFERORS: Funds are not presently available for this effort. No award will be made under this solicitation until funds are available. The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation either before or after the closing date for receipt of offers. In the event the Government cancels this solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs incurred. The current versions of the following provisions and clauses, both by reference or full text, apply to this acquisition and are incorporated herein: FAR 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards; FAR 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment; FAR 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations; FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-2 "Evaluation--Commercial Items - (a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the 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:" 1. Technical. Capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirements as stated in the purchase description; and 2. Price. Award will be based on technical acceptability (acceptable or not acceptable) and then lowest total evaluated price. Technical acceptability will be determined solely on the content and merit of the information submitted in response to this request for quotation. Technical Tradeoffs will not be made and no additional credit will be given for exceeding acceptability. All offeror's shall provide with their proposal: descriptive literature, brochures, and a technical proposal response. Offerors must submit sufficient technical literature, documentation, etc., in order for the Government to make an adequate technical assessment of the proposed unit. The technical proposal response MUST include a written line-by-line response to each paragraph number of the purchase description, and provide sufficient supporting technical literature. Solely restating the paragraphs of the purchase description or limiting the response to a simple statement of compliance is not acceptable. Where the technical literature demonstrates that the proposed unit meets the requirement of a specific purchase description paragraph, you may reference that page and paragraph of the technical literature in your technical response in lieu of restating it. The total evaluated price will be calculated as follows: (1) On the basic year, the evaluated price will be the unit price proposed multiplied by the specified unit quantity (e.g. 2 EACH). (2) The sum of all CLINs will represent the total evaluated price. FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items, with Alternate I. Each offeror shall include a completed copy of this provision. Offeror shall complete only paragraph (b) of this provision if the offeror has completed the annual representations and certifications electronically via the System for Award Management (SAM) Website accessed through http://www.sam.gov/portal. If an offeror has not completed the annual representations and certifications electronically, the offeror shall complete only paragraphs (c) through (u) of this provision; FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items (DEVIATION); FAR 52.219-3 Notice of HUBZone Set-Aside or Sole Source Award; FAR 52.219-28 Post-Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation; FAR 52.222-3 Convict Labor; FAR 52.222-19 Child Labor - Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; FAR 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons; FAR 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving; FAR 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; FAR 52.232-18 Availability of Funds; FAR 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management; FAR 52.233-3 Protest After Award; FAR 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim; FAR 52.247-34 F.o.b. - Destination; DFARS 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; DFARS 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; DFARS 252.204-7008 Compliance with Safeguarding Covered Defense Information Controls (DEVIATION); DFARS 252.204-7011 Alternative Line Item Structure; DFARS 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting (DEVIATION); DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation; DFARS 252.213-7000 Notice to Prospective Suppliers on Use of Past Performance Information Retrieval System - Statistical Reporting in Past Performance Evaluations; DFARS 252.225-7002 Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors; DFARS 252.225-7035 Buy American - Free Trade Agreements - Balance of Payments Program Certificate, with Alternate I; DFARS 252.225-7036 Buy American - Free Trade Agreements - Balance of Payments Program, with Alternate I; DFARS 252.227-7015 Technical Data - Commercial Items; DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Restrictive Markings on Technical Data; DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports; DFARS 252.232-7006 Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions; DFARS 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments; DFARS 252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items; DFARS 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea; AFFARS 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman - When appropriate, potential offerors may contact Ombudsman Jill Willingham-Allen, AFLCMC/AQP at Phone 937-255-5472. It is the offeror's responsibility to be familiar with the applicable provisions and clauses. To view provisions and clauses in full text see website (http://farsite.hill.af.mil). Offerors need to adhere to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items; and include a completed FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items with their offer. The Government's preferred method is Online Representations and Certifications. The representations and certifications in FAR 52.212-3 fill-in MUST be completed and a copy returned with offer. This can be accomplished by registering in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov and completing the online Representations and Certifications. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OFFERORS: All prospective awardees are required to register at SAM and to maintain active registration during the life of the contract. SAM can be accessed at https://www.sam.gov. Any award resulting from this solicitation will include DFARS Clause 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports. Section 1008 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2001 requires any claims for payment (invoices) under DoD contract to be submitted in electronic form. Invoicing, Receipt, Acceptance, and Property Transfer (iRAPT) through Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF) e-Business Suite is the DoD system of choice for implementing this statutory requirement. Use of the basic system is at no cost to the contractor. Contractors must complete vendor training, which is also available at no cost at https://wawf.eb.mil. Prior to submitting invoices in the production system, contractors must register for an account at https://wawf.eb.mil/. The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offeror's initial offer should contain the offeror's best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. The government reserves the right to limit the number of offers reviewed for award, for efficiency purposes. The offer MUST: (1) be valid for a period of 90 days, (2) be for the item described in the purchase description, (3) be for a new unit (not reconditioned, remanufactured, or used unit), (4) be FOB Destination, (5) include a delivery schedule, (6) include copy of commercial price list, (7) include name of and be signed by an authorized company representative along with telephone number, facsimile number, and email address, (8) include taxpayer identification number (TIN), CAGE Code Number and DUNS Number, (9) include a technical proposal that includes a written line-by-line response to the PD, (10) include a statement of compliance with AFMETCAL extended 2-year warranty, (11) include completed schedule B, and (12) completed FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. Offerors shall ensure information in SAM is current. The Government reserves the right to incorporate the successful offeror's technical proposal into any contract resulting from this solicitation. This will be a DO-A70 rated order. Offers are due by 10 April 2017 at 2:00 PM EDT to: Kathryn Vaccaro, AFMETCAL, 813 Irving-Wick Dr W, The Horton Bldg, Heath OH 43056-1199. Facsimile submissions to 740-788-5157 are permissible with the follow-up of an original sent by overnight mail. Electronic submissions to kathryn.vaccaro@us.af.mil are permissible in a PDF compatible attachment with an original sent by overnight mail. Due to current Air Force requirements emails shall not include ZIP files. Offerors bare the risk for receipt of submitted offers being untimely. Offerors shall allow sufficient time for receipt of electronic submissions by the due date and time. If no written response is received by 10 April 2017, to the effect that comparable items are available that meet the Government's requirements, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these items through a sole source procurement with Taylor Hobson, Inc., a sole source award will be made.
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