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99 -- Blank Granite Niche Covers, Calverton NC - Attachment

Notice Date: 5/23/2017
Notice Type: Attachment
NAICS: 327991 — Cut Stone and Stone Product Manufacturing
Contracting Office: Department of Veterans Affairs;NCA Contracting Service;75 Barrett Heights Rd. Suite 309;Stafford VA 22556
ZIP Code: 22556
Solicitation Number: VA78617Q0476
Response Due: 6/2/2017
Archive Date: 7/2/2017
Point of Contact: Antionette.Collins-Somerville@va.gov
E-Mail Address: Work
(Antionette.Collins-Somerville@va.gov)
Small Business Set-Aside: Total Small Business
Description: COMBINED SYSNOPSIS/SOLICITATION For BLANK GRANITE NICHE COVERS CALVERTON NATIONAL CEMETERY THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL SUPPLIES AND PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6 STREAMLINED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; QUOTES ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A SEPARATE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT WILL NOT BE ISSUED. THE SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES. SOLICITATION VA786-17-Q-0476 IS BEING ISSUED AS A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ). THIS NOTICE AND THE INCORPORATED PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES ARE THOSE IN EFFECT THROUGH THE FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS (FAR). ALL RESPONSIBLE SOURCES MAY SUBMIT A QUOTE. FAR clauses and provisions enclosed within this RFQ are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-95 and are available in full text through Internet access at http://www.acquisition.gov/far. 1. This is a 100% set aside to Small Business (SB), Open Market procurement. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 327991 Cut Stone and Stone Product Manufacturing and the size standard is 500 Employees. Any firm that does not meet the capability and size standard under this NAICS code should not submit a response. Prospective awardees MUST be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM )at http://www.sam.gov, PRIOR TO AWARD and through final payment, and must complete the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) at http://www.sam.gov prior to award and through final payment. CONTRACT WILL NOT BE AWARDED UNTIL SAM REGISTRATION HAS BEEN COMPLETED. 2. This combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items is in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Therefore, all quotations received prior to the RFQ close date will be considered by the Contracting Office. A single award will be made to the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) offeror. The Contractor shall deliver the following items to the cemetery address above, FOB Destination. Delivery shall be delivered no later than August 1, 2017 to the following addresses: Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd Calverton, NY 11933 The schedule price shall be all-inclusive, including all labor, equipment, materials, and supplies to complete the Contract Line Item (CLIN(s)) SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND SCHEDULE OF PRICES CLIN DESCRIPTION QTY UNIT UNIT PRICE TOTAL PRICE 0001 H1, Blank Granite Niche Cover 400 EA $ $ SEE ATTACHMENT C: STATEMENT OF WORK 3. The following Provisions and Clauses apply to this procurement: a). The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Quoters -- Commercial, applies to this acquisition. Quotes are due on June 2, 2017 1:00 PM EST IT IS THE CONTRACTOR S RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENSURING PROPER SUBMISSION OF THEIR QUOTES. Quoters shall submit their quote to the Contracting Officer, Antionette Collins-Somerville, at Antionette.Collins-Somerville@va.gov. Late or incomplete quotes will not be considered. PLEASE ENSURE ALL DOCUMENTS ARE SUBMITTED THROUGH EMAIL PRIOR TO CLOSING. Quote Package shall include the following: Signed/dated ALL Amendments 1 completed Section B (Contract Admin) included in Attachment A An approved Sample sent to the MPS team in accordance with the Statement of Work prior to the closing date of this solicitation. Quote shall consist of three (3) volumes. The Volumes are I Price Schedule, Volume II Technical-Literature Review, and Volume III- Certifications & Representations. QUOTERS MUST COMPLETE AND RETURN ALL INFORMATION DESIGNATED IN FAR PROVISION 52.212-1, INSTRUCTIONS TO QUOTERS COMMERCIAL ITEMS, PARAGRAPH (b) AND IN THE STATEMENT OF WORK. QUOTE SHALL BE SUBMITTED BY POTENTIAL QUOTERS, PRIOR TO THE TIME SPECIFIED IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. Failure to submit all required documentation & Samples may result in your quote being determined not Technically Unacceptable and removed from further consideration. Quote shall include the information listed below. Quotes that fail to furnish the required information, or reject the terms and conditions of the RFQ may be excluded from further consideration. The following factors will be considered when evaluating the quotes: Technical and Price. The Offeror s quote shall consist of three (3) volumes. The Volumes are I Price Schedule, Volume II Technical-Literature Review, Volume III- Certifications & Representations. 2. RFQ FILES. Quoters quotations shall be submitted in accordance with the following instructions: a. Format. The submission shall be clearly indexed and logically assembled. Each volume shall be clearly identified and shall begin at the top of a page. All pages of each volume shall be appropriately numbered and identified by the complete company name, date and solicitation number in the header and/or footer. Quotation page limitations are not applicable to this procurement. All files will be submitted as either a Microsoft Excel (.XLS) file or an Acrobat (PDF) file or compatible as indicated in the table. Page size shall be no greater than 8 1/2" x 11" with printing on one side, only. The top, bottom, left and right margins shall be a minimum of one inch (1 ) each. Font size shall be no smaller than 12-point. Arial or Times New Roman fonts are recommended. Characters shall be set at no less than normal spacing and 100% scale. Tables and illustrations may use a reduced font size not less than 8-point and may be landscape. Line spacing shall be set at no less than single space. Each paragraph shall be separated by at least one blank line. Page numbers, company logos, and headers and footers may be within the page margin s ONLY, and are not bound by the 12-point font requirement. Footnotes to text shall not be used. All proprietary information shall be clearly and properly marked. Pages in violation of these instructions, either by exceeding the margin, font or spacing restrictions will not be evaluated. a. File Packaging. All of the quote files may be compressed (zipped) into one file entitled quote.zip using WinZip version 6.2 or later version or the quote files may be submitted individually. b. Content Requirements. All information shall be confined to the appropriate file. The Offeror shall confine submissions to essential matters, sufficient to define the quote and provide an adequate basis for evaluation. Quoters are responsible for including sufficient details, in a concise manner, to permit a complete and accurate evaluation of each quote. The titles and page limits requirements for each file are shown in the Table below: Volume Number Factor File Name Page Limitations* Volume I Price Schedule (Company Name) Price.xls None Volume II Technical: Literature Review (Company Name) Technical.pdf 50 Volume III Offer & Award Documents, Certifications & Representations (Company Name) OfrRep.pdf None A Table of Contents and/or a glossary of abbreviations or acronyms will not be included in the page count of the technical Volume. However, be advised that any and all information contained within any Table of Contents and/or glossary of abbreviations or acronyms submitted with an Offeror s quote will not be evaluated by the Government. VOLUME I- PRICE The Price Quote does not have a page limitation; however, Contractor s quotes shall provide detailed information that provides a list of price. The quote shall conform to PRICE/COST SCHEDULE listed in Attachment B. The contractor s price quote must be separated from the technical submittal. The contractor shall propose firm fixed price. The quotes that fail to furnish the required information, or reject the terms and conditions of the RFQ may be excluded from further consideration. VOLUME II TECHNICAL Quoters shall propose a detailed approach that addresses the following: Quoters shall provide a written document on meeting the requirements presented in the Product Description, including any innovative processes and/or procedures. Descriptive Literature Descriptive literature must be identified and highlighted to show the appropriate model and type and all component items for functions offered and clearly show that the item(s) offered are in compliance with the salient characteristics. The offeror may supplement the descriptive literature with a written technical document if the literature does not sufficiently demonstrate product compliance with the requirements. Descriptive Literature, as used in this RFQ, means information (including, but not limited to, cuts, illustrations, drawings, and brochures) that is submitted as part of an quotation. Descriptive literature is required to verify, for the purpose of evaluation and establishment, details of the product offered that are specified in the salient characteristics. To be technically acceptable, descriptive literature (1) shall be identified and highlighted to show the item(s) of the offer to which it applies and (2) shall show the appropriate model and type and all component items for functions offered (if applicable) and (3) shall demonstrate that all quoted products are in compliance with all of the salient characteristics. This descriptive literature must be received by the Government by the time specified in this RFQ for receipt of quotations. VOLUME III - OFFER AND AWARD DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATIONS/REPRESENTATIONS Certifications and Representations - An Acrobat PDF file shall be created to capture the signatures for submission. This Volume shall contain the following: Legal Business/Company Name (as it is indicated in www.sam.gov) DUNS Number Point of Contact Name Telephone number E-Mail Address Acknowledgement of Amendments, if any. Any proposed exceptions to solicitation terms and conditions Quoters are hereby advised that any Offeror-imposed terms and conditions which deviate from the Government s material terms and conditions established, may render the Offeror s quote Unacceptable, and thus ineligible for award. The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items. 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 based on (LPTA) Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable. Quotes will be evaluated for acceptability, but not ranked using the non-cost/price factors. The following factors will be used to evaluate quotes: All quotes shall be subject to evaluation by Government personnel. The Government reserves the right to award without discussions based upon the initial evaluation of quotes. The quote will be evaluated strictly in accordance with its written content. Quotes which merely restate the requirement or state that the requirement will be met, without providing supporting rationale, are not sufficient. Award will be made to Offeror whose price for items are lowest among all quotes that were deemed to be technically acceptable. Quoters who fail to meet the technical requirements of the solicitation will be rated Unacceptable and thus, ineligible for award. Price: The Government anticipates that adequate price competition will establish a fair and reasonable price. However, if the Government does not receive adequate price competition, it will evaluate price quotes to ensure price reasonableness of the products being provided to the Government, considering the specific terms and conditions and relevant commercial practices. Technical Qualifications for GRANITE: (pass/fail) An experienced technical representative from the Memorial Programs Service (MPS), Program Support Office, will review the sample provided, in accordance with this solicitation, and the Statement of Work (SOW) instructions, and determine if the sample passes by evaluating a sample of granite as specified in the SOW for the following: Finish Dimension within tolerance Material meets ASTM criteria Color/reflectivity standard is met Workmanship free from defects Bonding within specs Boring appropriately sized spaced A written and signed/dated, by the Contracting Officer, contract of award to the successful Offeror shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award. Evaluation Process: A Responsibility Determination will be made in accordance with FAR 9.1 Responsible Prospective Contractors. The Government will make use of several data bases to aid in establishing a more complete picture of responsibility and ability the databases include, but are not limited to Experian, PPIRS, EPLS, VetBiz and SBA. Clauses: SBA ACT 8(D)(13)(B); DIGNITY STANDARDS ; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions (JAN 2017) applies to this acquisition. Addendum to The clause at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (JAN 2017) applies to this acquisition. Under paragraph b, the following clauses are incorporated: 52.203-99, Prohibition On Contracting With Entities That Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements (DEVIATION) (JAN 2017) PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES: CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference(FEB 1998); 52.204-18, Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance (JUL 2016); 52.211-17 Delivery of Excess Quantities (SEP 1989); 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments To Small Business Subcontractors (DEC 2013); 52.246-1 Contractor Inspection Requirements (APR 1984); 52.246-16 Responsibility for Supplies( APR 1984); 52.247-34, F.O.B. Destination (NOV 1991); Limitations on Subcontracting-Monitoring and Compliance (JUN 2011) http://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html https://www.va.gov/oal/business/pps/policy.asp Solicitation Provisions: 52.203-18, Prohibition On Contracting With Entities That Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements-Representation (Deviation ) (JAN 2017); 52.209-5, Certification Regarding Responsibility Matters (OCT 2015); 52.209-7, Information Regarding Responsibility Matters (JUL 2013); 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items (Jan 2017); 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items (OCT 2014); 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items (JAN 2017); 52.216-1 Type Of Contract (APR 1984); 52.233-2, Service of Protest (JAN 2008). PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES: SOLICITATION PROVISION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (FEB 1998); 52.204-7, System for Award Management (OCT 2016); 52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting (JUL 2016); 52.204-17, Ownership Or Control Of Offeror (JUL 2016); 52.211-6, Brand Name or Equal (AUG 1999). VAAR: The VAAR Clauses applicable to this acquisition are 852.203-70, Commercial Advertising (JAN 2008), 852.203-71, Display of Department of Veterans Affairs Hotline Poster (DEC 1992); 852.211-75, Product Specifications (JAN 2008); 853.232-72 Electronic Submission Of Payment Request (NOV 2012); 852.233-71 Alternate protest procedure (JAN 1998); 852.237-70 Contractor Responsibilities (APR 1984); 852.246-71, Inspection (JAN 2008); 852.270-1, Representatives of Contracting Officers (JAN 2008). Information concerning clauses and provision incorporated by reference may be obtained at http://farsite.hill.af.mil/ All QUESTIONS AND QUOTES shall be submitted through email at Antionette.Collins-Somerville@va.gov All questions must be received by no later than May 30, 2017 at 10:00am E.S.T., to give reasonable time to respond to questions prior to close of the solicitation. No questions will be accepted after May 30, 2017 at 10:00am E.S.T. The solicitation closes on June 2, 2017 at 1:00PM EST.
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Document(s): Attachment; File Name: VA786-17-Q-0476 VA786-17-Q-0476.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519108&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-000.docx); Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519108&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-000.docx; File Name: VA786-17-Q-0476 ATTACHMENT A Contract Administration Covers Calverton.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519109&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-001.docx); Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519109&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-001.docx; File Name: VA786-17-Q-0476 ATTACHMENT B Price Cost Schedule Calverton Niche Covers.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519110&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-002.docx); Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519110&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-002.docx; File Name: VA786-17-Q-0476 ATTACHMENT C SOW for H1 Blank Niche Covers for Calverton.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519111&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-003.docx); Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519111&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-003.docx; File Name: VA786-17-Q-0476 A-BNC-1.pdf (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519112&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-004.pdf); Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3519112&FileName=VA786-17-Q-0476-004.pdf; Note: If links are broken, refer to Point of Contact above or contact the FBO Help Desk at 877-472-3779.
Place of Performance: Address: Calverton National Cemetery;210 Princeton Blvd.;Calverton, NY; Zip Code: 11933-103
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