Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Code 1162 Bldg 2521, 300 Highway 361, Crane, Indiana 47522-5001

53 -- M72 LAW SIGHT BRACKET SOL N00164-99-R-0130 DUE 082699 POC Ms. Ellen Jarosz, Contract Specialist, 812-854-5315, FAX 812-854-5666 (Mr. S. Bingham, Contracting Officer) WEB: Click here to review Crane Division Acquisition Department, http://www.crane.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via, jarosz_e@crane.navy.mil. This is 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 being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation Number N00164-99-R-0130 is issued as a Request for Proposal. Solicitation documents and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-11 and Defense Acquisition Circular 91-13. The Standard Industrial Code is 3429. The Small Business size standard is 500 employees. The government is requesting offers for: CLIN 0001 -- 500 each M72 LAW Sight Brackets in accordance with the following NSWC Crane specification dated 6/30/99. Specification for M72 LAW Sight Bracket- Requirements: (1) TWO MIL-STD-1913 RAILS WITH CAPABILITY TO ADJUST FOR ELEVATION (2) REVERSIBLE FOR LEFT HAND USERS (3) GRID LINES FOR ELEVATION ADJUSTMENT SHOULD BE IN 50 M INCREMENTS. (4) THE BRACKET SHALL ATTACH TO THE M72A5 LAUNCHER AT THE POSITION WHERE THE BARREL DETENT IS LOCATED BUT WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE USE OF THE BARREL DETENT OR OPERATION OF THE UNIT IAW OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES. (5) IT SHALL RETAIN ZERO WHEN REMOVED/REPLACED FROM THE M72 LAW (6) IT SHALL UTILIZE AN AT-4 STYLE CLASP (SIMILAR TO THE PRC-77 RADIO CLOSURE CLAMP) (7) IT SHALL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO SIMULTANEOUSLY MOUNT AND OPERATE A NIGHT VISION SIGHT ON ONE RAIL AND A LASER DESIGNATOR ON THE OTHER RAIL. THE FOLLOWING NIGHT VISION SIGHTS AND LASER DESIGNATORS ARE INTENDED FOR USE ON THIS BRACKET: NIGHT VISION SIGHTS: AN/PVS-12, AN/PVS-12A, AN/PVS-4, M995, AN/PVS-17 LASER DESIGNATORS: AN/PEQ-2, AN/PAQ-4, AN/PAQ-4A (8) NO TOOLS REQUIRED FOR ATTACHMENT/DETACHMENT (9) ALLOW FOR UNOBSTRUCTED USE OF EXISTING SIGHTS ON THE LAW (10) ALLOW UNOBSTRUCTED USE OF ALL OF THE NIGHT VISION SIGHTS AND LASER DESIGNATORS IDENTIFIED ABOVE WHEN EACH IS MOUNTED ON THE BRACKET. EVALUATION CRITERIA: MUST MEET THESE MINIMUM CRITERIA (1) CAPABILITY TO WITHSTAND HARSH ENVIRONMENTS AND ROUGH HANDLING (SALT FOG TEST (BARE) IAW MIL-STD-810E, METHOD 509.3; 1.5M DROP TEST (BARE) IAW MIL-STD-331B)( MIN: Corrosion from Salt Fog is observed on the bracket and/or it sustains damage from the 1.5 drop; however, it can still be securely attached to the LAW (2) CAPABILITY TO WITHSTAND REPEATED USAGE (MIN: 250 TIMES) (3) WEIGHT- AS LIGHT AS POSSIBLE (any bracket over 1.3 pounds is not acceptable). This is anticipated to be a firm fixed-price contract. The shipping terms will F.o.b. Destination to Crane, IN with inspection and acceptance at Destination within 14 days after receipt of items. One product sample is required with submission of the contractor's proposal. The product sample will be tested in accordance with the evaluation criteria and must meet the specification requirements. Any firm submitting a product sample which does not meet all of the specification requirements may be eliminated from future consideration. The product sample provided does not count as a unit under the deliverable quantity of 500 specified. Delivery of the production quantity is due 180 days after award of contract. The Government intends to furnish one expended LAW launch tube as GFE/GFM within 20 days after the effective date of contract. SCHEDULE NOTES: SPECIAL NOTICE -- The Director, Defense Procurement has revised DFARS to require contractors to be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) as a condition for receipt of contract award effective 1 June 1998. Offerors may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements by calling 1-888-227-2423, or via the Internet at http://ccr.edi.disa.mil. For further details regarding the requirements of CCR, offerors are advised to review the requirements of DFAR 252.204-7004 contained herein. EXPEDITING CONTRACT CLOSEOUT (NAVSEA) (DEC 1995)(a) As part of the negotiated fixed price or total estimated amount of this contract, both the Government and the Contractor have agreed towaive any entitlement that otherwise might accrue to either party in any residual dollar amount of $500 or less at the time of final contract closeout. The term "residual dollar amount" shall include all money that would otherwise be owed to either part at the end of the contract except that, amounts connected in any way with taxation, allegations of fraud and/or antitrust violations shall be excluded. For purposes of determining residual dollar amounts, offsets of money owed by one party against money that would otherwise be paid by that party may be considered to the extent permitted by law. (b) This agreement to waive entitlement to residual dollar amounts has been considered by both parties. It is agreed that the administrative costs for either part associated with collected such small dollar amounts could exceed the amount to be recovered. The following clauses and provisions are applicable to the proposed procurement: Provisions 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial,is tailored with the additionof (o) STANDARD COMMERCIAL WARRANTY(NSWC) The contractor shall extend to the Government the full coverage of any standard commercial warranty normally offered n a similar commercials sale, provided such warranty is available at no additional cost to the Government. Acceptance of the standard commercial warranty does not waive the government's rights under the "Inspection" clause nor does it limit the Government's rights with regard to the other terms and conditions of this contract. In the event of a conflict, the terms and conditions of the contract shall take precedence over the standard commercial warranty. The standard commercial warranty period shall begin upon final acceptance of the applicable material and/or services listed in the Schedule. The contractor shall provide a copy of its standard commercial warranty (if applicable) with its offer. The warranty covers a period of _ months (offeror is to insert number.) and (t) Contractor Performance Reports. The government may evaluate the performance of the contractor awarded the contract resulting from this solicitation in accordance with FAR 42.1500. The following performance rating factors will be utilized: Quality, Cost Control, Timeliness of Performance, and Business Relations/Customer Relations. In addition, the product sample delivered for evaluation under this solicitation shall serve as a manufacturing standard for the corresponding production items delivered hereunder. The production brackets shall be manufactured with the tools, materials and methods which are the same as, or representative of the tools, materials, and methods which were used to manufacture the product samples. 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items is tailored with the addition of the following: 52.203-3 Gratuities, 52.211-15 Defense priority and Allocation Requirements, 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside, 52.225-11 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases, 52.242-15 Stop Work Order, 52.243-1 Changes Fixed Price, 52.245-4 Government Furnished Property (Short Form), 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (incorporating FAR 52.203-6 Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government Alt 1, FAR 52.219-8 Utilization of Small Business Concerns and Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns, FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting, FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity, FAR 52.222-35 Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans, 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers, 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era., 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration). DFARS 252.212-7001 Contract Terms & Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items (incorporating 252.225-7001 Buy American Act and Balance of Payment Program [if required include 252.225-7000 Buy American Act- Balance of Payments Program Certificate],252.225-7012 Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities, 252.225-7014 Preference for Domestic Specialty Metals (10 U.S.C. 3341 note), 252.227-7015 technical Data Commercial Items (10 U.S.C. 2320), 252.243-7002 Certification of Requests for Equitable Adjustments,252.247-7024 Notification of Transportation of Supplies by Sea (10U.S.C 2631), 52.211-14, notice of Priority Rating For National Defense Use-This is a DO rated Order). FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation- Commercial Items has been tailored as follows Paragraph (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- technical, past performance, price. These factors are listed in relative order of importance. Price is less important than technical and past performance. Paragraph (b) is hereby deleted. In addition, the product samples will be evaluated on the above evaluation criteria. Any sample that does not meet the minimums designated above will be unacceptable. The samples will be assessed a rating of poor, favorable and highly favorable based on these evaluation criteria. PAST PERFORMANCE During the source selection process, the Government will assess the offeror's past performance in the evaluation for contract award. Accordingly, each offeror is required to submit a list of up to five of its most recent contracts for the same or similar items. It is preferred that these contracts be with U.S. government customers, but contracts with other commercial concerns are also acceptable. Offerors are authorized to provide information relative to any problems encountered on the identified contracts and any corrective actions taken by the offeror. The Source Selection Authority (SSA)/Contracting Officer will evaluate the offeror's past performance; based upon the information furnished by the offeror, or other information obtained by the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or securing any information not identified in the offer. The SSA/Contracting Officer may, however, utilize all available information, including information not provided by the offeror, in the past performance evaluation. If available, the offeror should submit for evaluation evidence of relevant past performance on the part of the offeror's key/principal employees, as either a prime- or sub-contractor. Past performance is assessed by the SSA/Contracting Officer and is assigned a narrative rating in the evaluation. Each offeror will be given an adjectival rating on past performance: highly favorable, favorable, unfavorable, or highly unfavorable. Offerors who do not have same or similar past performance information reasonably available to the Contracting Officer will be rated neither favorably nor unfavorably. The Government reserves the right to award to other than the lowest priced offer as set forth elsewhere in the solicitation. In addition, the Government may accept other than the lowest priced offer if doing so would result in greater value to the Government in terms of technical performance, quality, reliability, life cycle cost, or lower overall program risk. As a part of the past performance evaluation, the Government will assess the offeror's previous compliance with the requirements of FAR 52.219-8 and 52.219-9 as applicable. Offerors responding to this announcement must provide the information contained in 52.212-1, Instruction to Offerors-Commercial Items (clause tailored to delete paragraphs e and h) and must include a completed copy of provision FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items (clause tailored to delete paragraphs f and g), DFAR 252.212-7000 Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items. The offeror should also provide its Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code, Contractor Establishment code (DUNS Number) and Tax Identification Number. If a change occurs in this requirement, only those offerors that respond to this announcement within the required time frame will be provided any changes/amendments and considered for future discussions and/or award. The offerors written offer and the above required information must be received at this office on or before 2:00PM Eastern Std Time on 23 August 1999., Note 1 is applicable. The individual to contact for information regarding this requirement is Ellen Jarosz (812)854-5315, FAX (812)854-5666 . Mailing address: Ms. Ellen Jarosz, Code 1162NZ Bldg 64, NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, 300 Hwy 361, Crane, IN 47522-5001. E-Mail address is jarosz_e@crane.navy.mil. Note: Hard copies of the drawings are available upon request per point of contact listed above. Copies may be downloaded via web sight: www/crane.navy.mil. Mr. S. Bingham, Contracting Officer sends. Posted 07/26/99 (W-SN359067). (0207)

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