SOLICITATION NOTICE
73 -- Food Service, Hospitality, Cleaning, Equipment and Supplies, Chemicals and Services
- Notice Date
- 4/28/2017
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 325611
— Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) - Southwest Supply and Acquisition Center (7QS)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 7FCM-C4-030073-B
- Point of Contact
- Haley Naegele
- E-Mail Address
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SOUTHWEST SUPPLY AND ACQ CTR, 819 TAYLOR STREET, 7A37, FORT WORTH, TX 76102
(haley.naegele@gsa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- GSA MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE (MAS) SOLICITATION. The Greater Southwest Acquisition Center, Fort Worth, Texas, is issuing a refreshed solicitation effective April 28, 2017 electronically. On June 23, 2016, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) published a General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) final rule to capture transactional data on procurements across all of its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program contracts and Government-wide Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contracts, to include Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs). The Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Rule requires vendors to electronically report the price the Federal Government paid for an item or service purchased through GSA acquisition vehicles. As part of the strategic implementation of the rule across all GSA contracts, the agency will introduce the transactional data reporting requirement with a pilot of select products and services in the FSS program. This pilot was introduced in a phased approach beginning in August 2016. Schedule 73 is participating in the pilot program. You will be required to submit all offers under Refresh 28 documentation effective December 19, 2016. Why is the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) implementing this change? The goals of TDR are to: - Significantly reduce burden to industry partners by eliminating Commercial Sales Practices (CSP) disclosure and Price Reductions clause (PRC) tracking requirements from Schedule contracts participating in the TDR pilot. - Reduce contract administration burden for TDR pilot vendors once TDR is implemented. - Provide business intelligence to strengthen best value decision-making by ordering activities, which will allow customers to take full advantage of the wide variety and complexity of products and services offered by Schedule Partners and pass on savings to the taxpayer. - Improve competition and increase transparency. - Support category management and promote smarter buying. With this refresh, the requirement for providing a CSP disclosure to accompany offer submissions will be eliminated. Other clauses and provisions are also being updated to implement TDR. This will result in significant burden reduction for our industry partners as outlined in the TDR Federal Register notice. There is also a change to the content of the Price Proposal Spreadsheet in terms of MFC information required. Please note: For new offers received after the solicitation refresh under TDR pilot Schedules/SINs, the transactional data reporting clause and corresponding pricing disclosure changes will be mandatory for all awarded contracts. For new contractors, reporting begins 30 days after the month in which the contract is awarded. GSA FAS published a public notice (Notice-FAS-2016-01) to solicit comments regarding the public release of transactional data reported in accordance with the GSAR Transactional Data Reporting clauses. GSA FAS will consider comments received in establishing its final position on which TDR data elements are releasable under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). GSA looks forward to sharing publicly in what format intelligence gathered through TDR will be made available. Notice: The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program has recently experienced a tremendous increase in new offers. Due to the large number of new offers currently in process, it could take up to 12 months before your offer is evaluated. GSA's practice is to evaluate offers in the order in which they are received. However, GSA may give priority to processing certain offers when circumstances dictate, such as when a federal agency Contracting Officer specifically requests an expedited offer review in order to meet a pending requirement that will be procured under the MAS program, or when there a need for GSA to bring strategically critical new products or services to market in order to meet federal customer needs. This solicitation includes the following product/services: FSC Group 68: Chemicals and Chemical Products; FSC Group 72: Recycling Collection Containers and Waste Receptacles; FSC Group 73: Food Service Equipment, Supplies, and Services; FSC Group 79: Cleaning Equipment, Accessories, Janitorial Supplies, Cleaning Chemicals, and Sorbents; and FSC Group 85: Toiletries, Personal Care Items, Linens, and Lodging and Hospitality Supplies and Services, and Hospitality Wear. This solicitation is issued electronically only. This is a standing solicitation with no closing date for receipt of offers. The solicitation will remain in effect until it is replaced by a refreshed solicitation. The Federal Supply Schedule period is continuous; contract periods commence on the date of award (DOA) and expire five years from the DOA unless further extended pursuant to option clause, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Evergreen), which allows the Government to extend the contract three additional five-year periods, not to exceed a total of twenty years. All contracts will be indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts with a $2500 guaranteed minimum for the contract period. All contracts to be awarded include Industrial Funding provisions. The Trade Agreements Act applies to this solicitation. Small Business Set-Aside provisions will be addressed in the individual product/services attachments to the solicitation. The section at the beginning of the Vendor Response Document providing instructions for submitting a paper offer should be disregarded; Schedule 73 is a mandatory eOffer schedule, effective with Refresh 10. Interested parties may access the solicitation at: http://www.fedbizopps.gov. This site provides instructions for downloading the solicitation files. Search using Solicitation Number 7FCM-C4-030073-B (include the dashes). For information regarding the solicitation, please contact Haley Naegele at haley.naegele@gsa.gov or 817-850-8444 or Stephen Nieswiadomy at stephen.nieswiadomy@gsa.gov or 817-850-8378.
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