Dept of Justice, Fed Prison Industries, 320 1st Street NW -- Material Mgt Branch, Washington, DC 20534-0001

59 -- CONNECTOR COMPONENTS SOL 1PI-R-1269-99 DUE 022499 POC Barry M. Page, Contracting Officer, 202-305-3887, FAX: 202-305-7363/7365 WEB: Click here to download a copy of this solicitation, http://www.unicor.gov/procurement/electronics/index.html. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, bpage@central.unicor.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The solicitation number is 1PI-R-1269-99, and this solicitation is issued as a Request for Proposals (RFP). The solicitation shall be obtained at http://www.unicor.gov/procurement/electronics/index.html. Click on the solicitation number and adobe acrobat will download the package. All required forms are available by clicking on the "Forms" link at the bottom of this webpage. Offerors must submit the following forms: 1.) ACH Vendor/Miscellaneous Payment Enrollment Form; 2.) FPI9999.999-9 -- Business Management Questionnaire; 3.) SF1449 -- Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items; 4.) 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items. Any proposals that reject the terms and conditions of this announcement or do not include all of the required forms may be excluded from consideration. The solicitation document and incorporated clauses and provisions are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-10. UNICOR, Federal Prison Industries, Inc. intends to enter into a five-year, requirements contract for the following commercial items: Line Item 0001 -- Female Contact, M, 55181/4-01, MW20F(M)A00, UNICOR Part No. CNT6213, estimated quantity: 2,000,000 each; Line Item 0002 -- Plastic Gasket, Neoprene, M, MW20F(M)A00, UNICOR Part No. GKT1087, estimated quantity: 500,000 each; Line Item 0003 -- Spanner Nut, D, RD-U-001056, per MIL-C-55181 and MIL-C-55181/4, UNICOR Part No. NUT5009, estimated quantity: 500,000 each; Line Item 0004 -- Shell "O"- Ring, M, MW20F(M)A00, UNICOR Part No. RNG1127, estimated quantity: 500,000 each; Line Item 0005 -- Contact "O"- Ring, M, MW20F(M)A00, UNICOR Part No. RNG1128, estimated quantity: 2,000,000 each; Line Item 0006 -- Brass Shell, M, MW20F(M)A00, UNICOR Part No. SHL0986, estimated quantity: 500,000 each; Line Item 0007 -- Plastic Insert Stud Assembly, M, MW20F(M)A00, UNICOR Part No. STD0020, estimated quantity: 500,000 each. Funds will be obligated by individual delivery orders and not by the contract itself. Any supplies to be furnished under this contract shall be ordered by issuance of delivery orders by the Federal Correctional Institution, Phoenix, AZ. Delivery orders must be delivered complete. No partial deliveries will be accepted. Required delivery is within 120 days of contractor receipt of each delivery order and will be FOB Destination to UNICOR Phoenix. The telephone contact for this acquisition is Barry Page, Contracting Officer at 202-305-3887. In accordance with FAR 52.216-19 ORDER LIMITATIONS, the minimum order limitations per delivery order for which the Government is obligated to purchase and the contractor is obligated to accept for each line item are as follows: Line Item 0001: 4,000 each; Line Item 0002: 1,000 each; Line Item 0003: 1,000 each; Line Item 0004: 1,000 each; Line Item 0005: 4,000 each; Line Item 0006: 1,000 each; Line Item 0007: 1,000 each. The maximum order limitations per delivery order for each line item are as follows: Line Item 0001: 40,000 each; Line Item 0002: 10,000 each; Line Item 0003: 10,000 each; Line Item 0004: 10,000 each; Line Item 0005: 40,000 each; Line Item 0006: 10,000 each; Line Item 0007: 10,000 each. The contractor will not be obliged to honor an order for any of these items for quantities exceeding these maximum order limitations. Also the contractor will not be obliged to honor a series of orders for any of these items from the same ordering office within seven days that together call for quantities exceeding these maximum order limitations. However, the contractor shall honor orders exceeding the maximum order limitation unless the order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within seven days after issuance with a written statement expressing the contractor's intent not to ship and the reason. In accordance with FAR 52.216-18ORDERING, orders may be issued under the resulting contract from the date of award through five years thereafter. In accordance with FAR 52.216-21 REQUIREMENTS, the contractor shall not be obligated to make deliveries under this contract after 120 days beyond the contract expiration date. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) No. 9000-0136 which expires February 28, 2001 applies to this solicitation under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The following clauses also apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS, 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, FAR 52.203-6 RESTRICTIONS OF SUBCONTRACTOR SALES TO THE GOVERNMENT with its Alternate I, FAR 52.232-18 AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, FAR 52.232-33 MANDATORY INFORMATION FOR ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER PAYMENT and FAR 52.204-6 CONTRACTOR IDENTIFICATION NUMBER -- DATA UNIVERSAL NUMBERING SYSTEM (DUNS) NUMBER. Offerors may submit signed and dated Federal Express or hand delivered offers to UNICOR, Federal Prison Industries, Inc., Material Management Branch, 400 First Street NW, Washington, DC 20534, 7th Floor, Attn: Bid Custodian. In accordance with FAR 52.215-5 FACSIMILE PROPOSALS, facsimile proposals will be accepted and shall be addressed to Barry Page, Contracting Officer at 202-305-7363/7365. The due date and time for receipt of proposals is 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 24, 1999. Each proposal must contain the name, address and telephone number of the offeror as well as any discount terms that are offered and the remit to address (if different from the mailing address). Offerors shall provide pricing in Section B of the solicitation for each component for each of the five years in the contract period. All offerors must hold their prices firm for 60 calendar days from the due date specified for receipt of proposals. Incremental pricing will not be accepted. Any amendments hereby issued to this solicitation will be synopsized in the same manner as this solicitation and must be acknowledged by each offeror. Any proposals or modifications to proposals received after the specified due date for receipt of proposals will not be considered. All offerors who have not provided these components to UNICOR Phoenix within the last four years must submit three each of all seven components to UNICOR Phoenix for technical evaluation prior to the closing date for receipt of offers. Failure to provide such components if not exempt will result in rejection of offer and ineligibility for award. The package(s) that these components are sent in should reference Solicitation 1PI-R-1269-99 and should be addressed as follows: UNICOR, Federal Prison Industries, Inc. 37940 North 45th Avenue, Department 1650, Phoenix, AZ 85027-7058, Attn: Mitzi Adams, Contract Specialist. Components submitted for technical evaluation will remain the property of the Government and will not be returned to the offeror. The technical evaluation of components will be done on a pass/no pass basis by UNICOR Phoenix. All offers which pass this technical evaluation will be evaluated further on price and past performance. In accordance with FAR 52.212-2 EVALUATION -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS, evaluation of offers will be based 50% on past performance and 50% on price. Discounts for early payment, if offered, will not be considered in the price evaluation. In order for the Government to evaluate past performance, each offeror must submit references of at least five previously performed contracts on the FPI9999.999-9 Business Management Questionnaire. Each reference must contain the name, address and telephone number of the company or Government agency for which the contract was performed as well as a contact person from that company or agency and the contract number if applicable. Award will be made on an all-or-none basis to the offeror whose components pass the technical evaluation by UNICOR Phoenix and who the receives the most evaluation points for price and past performance. The Government may make an award with or without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offeror's initial proposal should contain the offeror's best terms from a price standpoint. A written notice of contract 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 specified expiration date of an offer, the Government may accept that offer unless a written notice of withdrawal is received prior to award. Offerors shall specify business size and classification as required in FAR 52.212-3. All clauses and provisions referenced in this announcement may be accessed at the following website: http://www.gsa.gov/far/current. Drawings for each line item are available upon request. Requests for drawings may be faxed to the attention of Barry Page, Contracting Officer at 202-305-7363/7365 or may be e-mailed to bpage@central.unicor.gov. NO CALLS PLEASE***** Posted 02/05/99 (W-SN295633). (0036)

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