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J -- MAINTENANCE OF MANDOWN & INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM SOL N00244-98-T-0019 DUE 091198 POC Point of Contact is Gwen Young, Contracting Officer at 619-532-2890; FAX 619-532-2347 WEB: Click here to learn more about FISC San Diego and additional, http://www.sd.fisc.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to submit your quote electronically or, gwen_young@fmso.navy.mil. IMPORTANT NOTICE: DFARS 252.204-7004 "Required Central Contractor Registration" applies to all solicitations issued on/after 6/1/98. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror/quoter INELIGIBLE FOR AWARD. Please ensure compliance with this regulation when submitting your quote. Call 1-888-227-2423 or visit the Internet at http://ccr.edi.disa.mil for more information. This announcement is published as a Total Small Business Set-Aside action per FAR 52.219-1 and 52.219-6; all eligible, responsible sources may submit an offer. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with FAR 13 and 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. Solicitation/RFQ No. N00244-98-T-0019 applies. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those ineffect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-05 and Defense Acquisition Circular 91-13. The standard industrial code is 7382 and the business size standard is $9.0 MILLION. The agency need is to establish an annual contract for maintenance and repair of the Mandown and Intrusion Detection system (manufactured and installed by FIRST Inc, Dallas, TX). PLEASE NOTE: All invoices shall be paid IN ARREARS ONLY please indicate when quoting if you would prefer to invoice monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or yearly. All work is to be performed in accordance with the schedules and statements of work outlined herein, on-site at the Naval Consolidated Brig, 46141 Miramar Way, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, San Diego, CA. All work shall normally be accomplished during the hours of 07:30 a.m. to 04:00 p.m. local/Pacific time Monday through Friday excluding Federal holidays. Work outside the normal working hours shall be paid at the approved overtime rate as quoted. Maintenance shall be performed in accordancewith the schedules outlined in Line Items 0001 through 0012 below. This requirement is for a fixed priced contract for a base year period commencing 10/01/98 through 9/30/99, plus two (2) option years from 10/1/99 thru 9/30/00 and 10/1/00 thru 9/30/01 -- for four (4) line items. System components to be covered under the resulting contract include one control panel in Central Control, 24 transmitters (various portable), 33 repeaters in various locations, 10 transmitters in various location, and 4 single button transmitters in Classrooms. (BASE YEAR 10/01/98 THRU 9/30/99) Line Item 0001: Routine maintenance/remedial repair to cover repair or replacement of all systems components that fail during normal service. Limited to 20 hours. Please provide hourly rate when quoting. Line Item 0002: Emergency response on nights, weekends, or Federal holidays. Contractor must respond within eight (8) hours of notification by the government of system failure. Limited to eight (8) hours. Please provide hourly rate when quoting. Line Item 0003: Replacement parts required as a result of damage beyond the contractor's responsibility, to be billed at the manufacturer's suggested retail price less any quoted discount. Parties are invited to provide an estimated amount for this item, but it will not be considered a firm/fixed quote (the government intends to set a limit for this item). Line Item 0004: Annual preventive maintenance service which includes inspection, cleaning, adjustment of components to established operating parameters, testing, and certification. Please provide a flat fee for this service. (OPTION YEAR I -- 10/1/99 THRU 9/30/00) Line Item 0005 thru 0008 (same as Line Items 0001 thru 0004 respectively.) (OPTION YEAR II -- 10/1/00 THRU 9/30/01) Line Items 0009 thru 0012 (same as Line Items 0001 thru 0004 respectively.) The government intends to make a single award to the responsible offeror whose offer is the most advantageous to the government considering price and price-related factors. Provision 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, applies, completed as follows: (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: (I) TECHNICAL CAPABILITY; (II) PAST PERFORMANCE; (III) PRICE. NOTE: The ability to meet technical capability requirements represents the MINIMUM criteria for acceptable award. Failure to meet this criteria shall render the quote to be technically unacceptable; technically unacceptable quotes shall NOT be considered for award. FACTOR I -- TECHNICAL CAPABILITY: For purposes of this procurement, the Government will use technical proposals (quotes) and {contractor's} OEM certifications, to evaluate a contractor's technical capability. Note: For evaluation purposes, the technical capability requirements stated above will be evaluated as a critical element in assessing the quoter's understanding of both required services/supplies, and the work effort required for implementation/performance. For evaluation purposes, Technical Capability and Past Performance are approximately equal in importance; the combination of Technical Capability and Past Performance is moderately more important than Price. FACTOR II -- PAST PERFORMANCE: Past Performance information submitted by quoters will be used to make a determination of whether the quoter has a satisfactory record of past performance. Quoters should, therefore, provide performance history and references to demonstrate satisfactory performance for at least three (3) prior similar contracts performed within the past year in the San Diego County area. Information utilized in evaluation will be obtained from references identified by the quoter, as well as any other sources who may have relevant information. Quoters lacking relevant past performance data will not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably for this factor. A proposal lacking past performance data may not represent the most advantageous proposal to the Government, and thus may be an unsuccessful proposal when compared to proposals of other quoters. Past Performance will be evaluated using the following adjectival ratings -- OUTSTANDING: No risk anticipated with delivery of quality product, on time, or of any degradation of performance, or lack of customer satisfaction based upon quoter's past performance; SATISFACTORY: Very little risk anticipated with delivery of quality product, on time, or of degradation of performance, or lack of customer satisfaction based upon the quoter's past performance; MARGINAL: Significant potential risk anticipated with delivery of quality product, on time, and of degradation of performance based upon the quoter's past performance. Technical Capability and Past Performance are approximately equal in importance; the combination of Technical Capability and Past Performance is moderately more important than Price. FACTOR III PRICE: For purposes of this procurement, the Government is using a greatest value analysis (GVA) technique. GVA is an acquisition strategy focusing on cost-performance tradeoffs to arrive at an affordable balance among performance and technical capability. The purpose of such cost-performance tradeoffs is to balance mission needs with available and projected resources, taking into account anticipated operational requirements and causing cost to become more of a constraint. Quoters are expected to provide a comprehensive technical approach in accordance with the Statement of Work, while remaining competitive in terms of pricing. QUOTERS ARE CAUTIONED THAT PRICE IS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN THE EVALUATION OF QUOTES. For evaluation purposes, Price is moderately less important than the combination of Technical Capability and Past Performance, which are approximately equal in importance. The importance of Price as an evaluation factor will increase proportionally with the degree to which other proposals are equal in the remaining evaluation factors. Award will be made to that quoter whose quote represents the best value to the Government. Quoters are advised that Technical Capability/Past Performance may be the deciding factors for source selection, considering whether highly evaluated Technical Capability/Past Performance warrants a higher price. Similarly, Price may be the deciding factor for source selection when Price is so significantly high as to outweigh the value of superior Technical Capability or highly-rated Past Performance. (b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). (c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, 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. The provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items applies. FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items, applies as well as the following addendum clauses: FAR 219-1, Small Business Program Representations; FAR 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside; FAR 52.211-5, Material Requirements; FAR 52.232-18, Availability of Funds; FAR 52.237-2, Protection of Government Buildings, Equipment, and Vegetation; FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of Options; FAR 52.217-6, Option for Increased Quantity; FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services; FAR 52.217-9, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract, with Paragraph (c) completed as follows: The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed three (3) years. The clause at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items applies with the following applicable clauses for paragraph (b): FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; and the following applicable clauses for paragraph (c): FAR 52.222-41, Service Contract Act of 1965; and FAR 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires -- completed as follows: General maintenance Worker at $16.86/hour. DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items, applies with the following clauses applicable for paragraph (b): DFARS252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payment Program. Offerors are required to complete and include a copy of the following provision with their quotes: FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representation and Certifications-Commercial Items. Note: The full text of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) can be accessed on the Internet at "www.arnet.gov" OR "www.deskbook.osd.mil". Parties responding to this solicitation may submit their quote in accordance with their standard commercial practices (e.g. on company letterhead, formal quote form, etc.) but must include the following information: 1) Company's complete mailing and remittance addresses, discounts for prompt payment, if any (e.g. 1% 10 days), and the company's CAGE Code, Dun & Bradstreet number, and Taxpayer ID number. All FAR certifications and representations specified above must also accompany your quote. Quotes must be received no later than 3:00 PM, local time, 091198, and will be accepted via fax (619-532-2347) or via e-mail (gwen_young@sd.fisc.navy.mil) ONLY. DO NOT mail. See Numbered Note(s) 1, 13. Posted 09/03/98 (W-SN245418). (0246)

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