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D -- INTERNET SERVICE FOR ELECTRONIC LEGAL RESEARCH SOL DABT59-00-D-1015 DUE 080900 POC Patsy L. Simmons, Contract Specialist, (804) 734-4575 WEB: Directorate of Contracting, www.lee.army.mil. E-MAIL: Patsy L. Simmons, simmons1@lee.army.mil. PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS SUBPART: SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL CLASSCOD: D-Information Technology Services, including Telecommunication Services OFFADD: The Directorate of Contracting, 1830 Quartermaster Road, Ft. Lee Va. 23801-1606 SUBJECT: D INTERNET SERVICE FOR ELECTRONIC LEGAL RESEARCH SOL: DABT59-00-R-1015 DUE: 080900 POC: Patsy L. Simmons, Contract Specialist (804) 734-4575 DESC: Subject acquisition is a combine Synopsis/Solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (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 for this acquisition is DABT59-00-R-1015, and is being issued as a Request For Proposal (RFP). Subject acquisition is an Unrestricted, requirement, and will be issued Full and Open Competition. Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) is 8748, and the small business size standard is $5 million. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which, if timely received, shall be considered by the Government. Subject solicitation is to be issued July 14, 2000 and close 09 August, 2000. All proposals should be completed and submitted to this office on this date. Contemplation of Award will be made on or before 21 August 2000; contract is for a period of one year. Subject publication contain narrative analysis, criticism or evaluation of current legal issues, case laws and statutes that are organized and indexed for research. The Proposal shall include the following information to be considered: CLIN 0001: Internet Service Providing Legal Research materials listed on attached sheet. Detailed description of Services: Firm Fixed Price contract for 136 passwords to be distributed to approximately 68 army law library sites to electronically access the following legal commercial legal research publications: (a.) Primary and secondarysource information which can be searched at the same time or searches can be performed by topic area all from the same site; (b.) Interactive contract and fiscal law forms enabling users to fill in forms on-screen and print completed documents for filing; (c.) Court cases that are organized and presented in hierarchical order, and headnotes that are back-referenced to other cases on point; (d.) Weekly updates to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and agency regulations, bimonthly updates to cases, monthly updates to Cost Accounting Standards, (CAS), QUARTERLY updates to FAR Archives; (e.) Training and /or tele-training and enhanced customer service; (f.) Integrated view of the major sources of law related to government contracting: i.e. FAR, Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) and other military and major civilian agency FAR Supplements in full text, and provides fully annotated, plain language explanations reflecting relevant US Supreme Court of Appeals, Federal Court of Claims, and Comptroller General Decisions and Digests of all decisions of the Boards of Contract Appeals; (g.) Pertinent regulations, directives with their amendments, along with applicable statutes and executive orders, OMB circulars OFPP policy letters and others are organized by government agency; (h.) Full text decisions, digests and citatory and case tables for all contracts appeal boards from July 1956 forward. (i.) Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board regulations and case law with detailed authoritative analysis explaining decisions that courts and boards have issued on CAS disputes, including the regulations of the CAS Board, pertinent portions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), supplemental regulations of relevant agencies, and relevant sections of the DCAA Manual. Opinions and interpretations issued by the Boards of Contract Appeals and other courts relevant to Cost Accounting Standards; (j.) Ability to access every version of every section of the Federal Acquisition Regulation dating back its inception in 1984 plus many military and civilian agency supplements to the basic regulations; (k.) Ability to compare FAR documents/clauses by simultaneously searching the current FAR against the FAR Archives. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-17. The provisions at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offers Commercial Items and Far 52.212-2, Evaluation Commercial Items shall apply. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror's 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: Price, technical and past performances. In order to facilitate the Government's technical evaluation process, offerors are required to submit written technical preposals that demonstrate the performance capabilities of their products and services. To evaluate past performancethe offerors shall provide names, contact points, and telephone number of three (3) commercial or government customers that are currently using the items being offered. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52-212-3, "Offeror Representations and Certifications Commercial Items", with their offer. The provision at FAR 52.212-4, "Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items", apply to this acquisition. The provision at FAR 52.212-5, "Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items", and the following checked Subparagraphs (b), (1),(5), (6), (8), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (22), apply to this acquisition and are hereby incorporated by reference. DFARS Clauses 252.212-7001, "Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items", 252.225-7012 "Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities", 252.227-7015, "Technical Data Commercial Items", add Addendum 252.204-7004, "Required Central Contractor registration". Contract Award: (a.) The Government may award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offer whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, cost or price and other factors considered. (b) The Government may reject any or all offers based on the following: (1) Reject any or all offers if such actions do not conform to the items that are being required. (2) Accept other than the lowest offer, and (3) Waive informalities and minor irregularities in offers received. (c) The Government may award a contract on the basis of initial offers received, without discussions. Therefore, each initial offeror should contain the offer's best terms from a cost or price and technical standpoint. All offerors are required to submit one original and one copy of the Technical Proposal; one original and one copy of the Cost/Price Proposal. Offers not in possession of the above referenced clauses in full text may obtain them at http://acqnet.sarda.mil. Responses to this solicitation are due in accordance with subj. above 4:00pm. 9 August 2000, and mailed as stated previously, to The Directorate of Contracting, 1830 Quartermaster Road, Fort Lee, Va. 23801-1606, attention Patsy L. Simmons, phone number (804) 734-4575, fax number, (804) 734-4633. Please reference solicitation number on your proposal. Offers must be in writing, offers via Fax will not be accepted. Potential offerors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database in order to be eligible for award. (reference DFAR 252.204-7004) Offers must be able to verify their Duns number, CAGE CODE, Federal and Tax ID NUMBER. The Proposal package shall include all information requested within this solicitation to considered. LINKURL: www.lee.army.mil LINKDESC: <A HREF="www.lee.army.mil LINKDESC: Directorate of Contracting">Directorate of Contracting</A> EMAILADD: simmons1@lee.army.mil EMAILDESC: <A HREF="mailto:simmons1@lee.army.mil EMAILDESC: Patsy L. Simmons">Patsy L. Simmons</A> Posted 07/14/00 (W-SN475067). (0196)

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