Defense Supply Service-Washington, 5200 Army Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20310-5200

T -- PROVIDE A SERIES OF TRAINING PACKAGES AND SATELLITE VIDEOCONFERENCES COMPRISED OF MULTI-MEDIA TRAINING VIDEOS, AND THE ASSOCIATED INSTRUCTOR GUIDES AND GRAPHICS. POC Robert Price (703) 697-5900 The Defense Supply Service-Washington, on behalf of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition Reform), is issuing 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; proposals are hereby being requested. A written solicitation will not be issued. This is Request For Proposal DASW01-96-R-0053. Solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-32, 01 Oct. 95. Solicitation is 100 percent small business, SIC 7819 @ $14.5 million. DASW01-96-R-0053 will result in multiple award (minimum of 2), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Delivery order contracts. Each contract will have one (1) base period from date of award thru 30 Sep 96, and four (4) 12-month option periods for a total of five (5) years, with total requirements in value of approximately $4.5 million. Products for which delivery orders to be issued include contract line item numbers; CLIN 0001-ANIMATED VIDEO, 30 MINUTES, EACH (EA), QUANTITY (QTY), MINIMUM (MIN) (1)-MAXIMUM (MAX) (25), CLIN 0002-SCENARIO VIDEO, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0003-DOCUMENTARY VIDEO, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0004-INFORMATIONAL VIDEO, 15 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0005-GRAPHICS TO SUPPORT VIDEOS, CLIN 0005AA-ANIMATED, LOT (LT), QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0005AB-SCENARIO, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0005AC-DOCUMENTARY, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0005AD-INFORMATIONAL, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0006-HARD COPY SCRIPT OF VIDEOS, CLIN 0006AA-ANIMATED, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0006AB-SCENARIO, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), 0006AC-DOCUMENTARY, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), 0006AD-INFORMATIONAL, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0007-SATELLITE VIDEOCONFERENCE, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0008- GRAPHICS TO SUPPORT CLIN 0007, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0009-HARD COPY SCRIPT TO SUPPORT CLIN 0007, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0010- REPRODUCTION OF 30 MINUTE VIDEO, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0011- REPRODUCTION OF 15 MINUTE VIDEO, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0012- REPRODUCTION OF GRAPHICS TO SUPPORT VIDEOS, CLIN 0012AA-ANIMATED, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0012AB-SCENARIO, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0012AC-DOCUMENTARY, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0012AD-INFORMATIONAL, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0013-REPRODUCTION OF HARD COPY SCRIPT OF VIDEOS, CLIN 0013AA-ANIMATED, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0013AB- SCENARIO, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), 0013AC-DOCUMENTARY, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), 0013AD-INFORMATIONAL, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0014-VIDEO RECORDING OF CLIN 0007, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0015- REPRODUCTION OF GRAPHICS TO SUPPORT CLIN 0007, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN 0016-REPRODUCTION OF HARD COPY SCRIPT TO SUPPORT CLIN 0007, LT, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (2500), CLIN-0017, DELIVERY ORDER PROPOSAL PREPARATION, CLIN 0017AA-ANIMATED VIDEO, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0017AB-SCENARIO VIDEO, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0017AC-DOCUMENTARY VIDEO, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0017AD-INFORMATIONAL VIDEO, 15 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25), CLIN 0017AE-SATELLITE VIDEOCONFERENCE, 30 MINUTES, EA, QTY, MIN (1)-MAX (25); First Option Period is duplicate of base year with CLIN structure of 0101 series. Second Option Period is duplicate of base year with CLIN structure of 0201 series. Third Option Period is duplicate of base year with CLIN structure of 0301 series. Fourth Option Period is duplicate of base year with CLIN structure of 0401 series. Delivery/Acceptance/Freight on board (FOB) Destination-Pentagon, Washington DC 20310; Delivery dates-as set forth in Delivery order; Place of performance-within CONUS (Satellite videoconference sites-TBD in Delivery order, GOVERNMENT FURNISHED DATA-LINK); APPLICABLE PROVISIONS: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items is in use in its entirety, and offerors must adhere to all elements to be considered responsive; 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items, The Government will award IDIQ contracts resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offerors whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors in descending order shall be used to evaluate offers; (a) Past Performance-Evidence of having provided a wide range of high quality pre-production, production and post production on similar efforts; (b) Technical/Management Plan proposal with equipment and labor hours for each CLIN/SUBCLIN and their respective labor rates, and Sound management plan ensuring quality products, timely delivery, responsiveness to unique requirements; (c) Base year and option year prices, and all years will be evaluated based on the CLIN's minimum quantity; (d) Contractors ability to make available a wide range of state of the art equipment to ensure highest quality production and post production materials, e.g. editing, graphics preparation and sound production. Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items with offer; 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition in its entirety; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to implement Statutes Or Executive Orders-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition in its entirety; Statement for any other terms and contract conditions; (a) Provide lead times for CLINs 0001 thru 0004 and 0007; (b) Provide (1) Video product sample and its accompanying informational guide submitted with offer; (c) Qualifications (training/experience) of personnel expected to perform work; (d) Information about similar efforts performed by the contractor, provide descriptions of past similar jobs and contracts with name and phone number of reference; (e) Technical/Management Plan proposal is limited to ten (10) double sided, single spaced ten (10) font text on standard 8.5x11 inch paper, and upon award the technical/management plan proposal will become a contractual compliance document; (f) Awards shall be made without discussions; (g) Awards are subject to site visits; (h) Oral proposal for solicitation is accepted, maximum of two (2) hours presentation (on-site at Pentagon, Washington, DC, conference room capability with 15 amp 115 volt power source, standard VHS/VCR and monitor, and overhead projector), oral proposal offeror must adhere to solicitation closing date and time with written statement, Oral Proposal-Oral Presentation Requested. Oral Proposal Presentations will only be given to offerors in the competitive zone of consideration. Oral proposal presentations will be scheduled for the 4th and 5th of April 1996; (i) Oral proposal offeror must submit as a minimum, Past Performance evidence, Technical/Management Plan, sample product and its accompanying informational guide, Base year and Option year prices, and Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items FAR 52.212.3. (j) Contracting Officer or designated representative may authorize issuance of delivery orders via facsimile or electronic data interchange; (k) Delivery order proposals requested from the contract awardees shall be evaluated upon past performance, technical and price. Oral proposals for delivery orders shall be accepted; (L) Delivery order proposal preparation cost will be compensated to the unsuccessful offer(s) of the Contract awardees for each solicited delivery order. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES, Objectives: The objectives of this multiple award IDIQ contract is to provide a series of training packages and satellite videoconferences comprised of multimedia training videos, associated instructor guides and graphics to support the training videos. Inherent in the work involved to produce these training packages and videoconferences is pre-production, production and post-production support for wide range Acquisition Reform messages; The contractor shall perform specific tasks of; Task 1. VIDEOCONFERENCE PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, Consultation and design services for video programming. Consultation and design services for instructional materials to accompany video programming. Scripting services. Consultation and design of graphics and animation for video programming. Auditions and casting of professional actors. Location management. Production preparation. Post-production preparation. Pre-production administration. Broadcast quality location and studio production for video programming. Task 2. VIDEOCONFERENCE PRODUCTION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, Production and printing services for instructional materials to accompany video programming. Execution of pre-notification and marketing plan and materials to accompany video programming. Produce professional graphics and animation for broadcast quality video production. Production management. Broadcast quality location and studio production. Task 3. VIDEOCONFERENCE POST-PRODUCTION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, Non-linear off-line editing services. Broadcast quality on-line services. Duplication and distribution services. Post-production management. Task 4. VIDEOCONFERENCING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, Consultation, design and execution of live videoconferences, including: Pre-notification and marketing, Management of downlink sites, Videoconference pre-production, Videoconference production, Videoconference post-production. SUPPORT TO BE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTRACT AWARDEES: Government publications; archival materials; access to videotape, film, photo, and graphic art repositories; and access to such governmental employees and subject matter experts as are necessary and appropriate to satisfy the contractor's information requirements in completing project work. PROPOSALS DUE 29 Mar 96, 1200 Hrs, From: Offerors Return Address, To: Defense Supply Service-Washington, DASW01-96-R-0053, Rm. 1D245, The Pentagon, 5200 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310-5200, POC Mr. Robert Price, (703) 697-5900. FAX (703) 693-5733/34 and (703) 697-3221, QUESTIONS SHOULD BE FAXED. SEE NUMBERED Note 1. (0074)

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