58 -- 58?DSCC-S9E -- DISTRIBUTOR PARTNERSHIP CONCEPT FOR COTS ITEMS

Notice Date

November 26, 2001

Contracting Office

Defense Logistics Agency, Logistics Operations, Defense Supply Center Columbus, P O Box 16595, Columbus, OH, 43216-6595

ZIP Code

43216-6595

Solicitation Number

FSG58SP090002RX203

Response Due

December 17, 2002

Point of Contact

John Rouse, Contract Specialist, Phone 614-692-2043, Email John.Rouse@dscc.dla.mil

Description

Solicitation SP0900-02-R-X203 This notification is to inform Vendors of this follow-on solicitation to our original Distributor Partnership solicitation/ concept. This solicitation is an RFP and will be available on the Internet at htttp://www.dscc.dla.mil/programs/contracts/distributorpartnership/ on or about December 18, 2001. Hard copies of this solicitation are not available. This solicitation is intended to remain open for one year. It is the government?s intent to reissue this or a modified solicitation annually or as necessary. All updates will be posted and public notification will be made of changes as they occur. The government intends to evaluate proposals immediately upon receipt; in the order they are received, in lieu of waiting until after the closing date. The contracts awarded under this solicitation, if any, are expected to be Firm Fixed Price Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery Type contracts. The contract period will be for 18 months with Firm-Fixed-Pricing for the entire contract period. This procurement is unrestricted, full and open competition, all responsible offers will be considered. Inspection and acceptance will be at destination. Shipping/transportation will be priced as FOB destination. In order to allow more specific pricing for shipping/transportation, two zones have been identified to allow separate pricing. While price may be a significant factor in the evaluation of offers, the final award decision will be based upon a combination of price, delivery, past performance and other evaluation factors as described in the solicitation. Please read the STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES closely. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES: DLA?s vision is to be the Best Value provider for their customers, the Armed Forces of the United States. Their goal is ?Right Item, Right Time, Right Place, Right Price?. To achieve this, DLA plans to radically reengineer their logistics process by shifting to commercial practices. The government can no longer afford to invest large sums of money on inventory, but must instead leverage existing private sector capabilities, while at the same time satisfy the Warfighter?s requirements. The Defense supply Center Columbus (DSCC) ? Commodities (Electronics), currently manages 1.2 million items in theses Federal Supply Classes (FSC?s): 1210, 1220, 1240, 1250, 1260, 1265, 1285, 1287, 1290, 1420, 1430, 1440, 5810, 5811, 5820, 5825, 5840, 5845, 5850, 5855, 5860, 5865, 5895, 5905, 5910, 5915, 5920, 5925, 5930, 5935, 5945, 5950,5955, 5960, 5961, 5962, 5963, 5965, 5980, 5985, 5990, 5996, 5998, 5999, 6004, 6005, 6006, 6007, 6008, 6010, 6015, 6020, 6021, 6025, 6026, 6029, 6030, 6031, 6032, 6033, 6034, 6035, 6040, 6050, 6060, 6070, 6080, 6099, 6145,6625. Commodities processes over 2 million requisitions and over 60,000 awards annually in support of more than 1200 weapon systems. Approximately 45 percent of the awards are processed by an automated system, while the remaining awards are done manually. Over half of the manual awards are under $2,500, and have an average administrative lead-time over 70 days. A large percentage of the items procured by Commodities are expected to be commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items. In an effort to reduce logistics response time, reduce inventory levels, and increase readiness, of COTS items, DSCC intends to establish Distributor Partnerships with suppliers capable of providing COTS items within 3 days for high priority items and within 10 days for all other items. Therefore, offerors are invited to submit a list of up to 1000 electronic COTS items which can be delivered within the time frame stated above. In order to facilitate the administrative effort necessary to process multiple proposals, each vendor will be restricted to submitting a maximum of 1000 items per proposal. Multiple proposals may be submitted for evaluation, however; only one proposal will be accepted during a 180-day period. This will allow all vendors to submit proposals and be considered for award on a first come first served basis. The government intends to evaluate proposals upon receipt, in the order they are received. If a proposal is not accepted for award, the contracting officer will notify the offeror in writing. At that time a new proposal may be submitted without regard to the 180-day limitation. Each acceptable proposal will be reviewed, in the order they are received, for evaluation. It is conceivable there will be more than one basic award allowing for the possibility of awarding duplicate NSNs. Each proposed item must have a corresponding, current and active, National Stock Number (NSN) currently managed by the Commodities Directorate. (Offerors who wish to propose items managed by DLA but which are not managed by the Commodities Directorate should contact the POC. Consideration will be given to expanding the scope to include other DLA inventory control points.) Offerors will not be evaluated against each other. The government will determine whether or not to make an award based upon each individual proposal evaluation. All responsible offerors will be eligible to receive an award of their proposed items that meet the technical, delivery, and price requirements as stated in the solicitation. Proposals will be evaluated as stated in the solicitation. In the event more than one acceptable proposal is received for the same item(s), the offeror, whose proposal was received the earliest by DSCC, will receive the delivery orders under $2,500 for that item(s). If an individual order for the duplicate NSN(s) totals over $2,500, the government will evaluate the offerors against all other valid contracts and award the order to the offeror representing the best value to the Government as defined by the Method of Evaluation in this solicitation unless at the time of order an exception as defined in FAR 16.505(b)(2) exists or if one of the duplicate offerors is a small business concern. If one of the offerors is a small business concern and the order is between $2,500 and $25,000, the award will go to the small business concern without further best value evaluation. All orders over $25,000 will utilize the best value determination. (Proposals received by facsimile will not be accepted.) If, during the contract period, that awardee fails to perform in accordance with the contract requirements for that particular item(s), the government may stop issuing delivery orders for that item(s) to the initial awardee, and begin issuing delivery orders for that item(s) to the offeror whose proposal for that item was received the next earliest. Each contract will have a minimum guarantee of 10% of the estimated contract dollar value at time of award or a minimum guarantee to be (no less than $1,000) negotiated at time of award. Without knowing which items will be proposed, the government, at this time, cannot estimate the dollar amounts of the contact(s). Likewise, the estimated quantity the government will order during the contract period is unknown. However, vendors are encouraged to request a preliminary scrub of their items in order to obtain estimated requirements prior to submission of their proposal by contacting John Rouse at 614-692-2043. Contractual estimates and maximums will be established and agreed to prior to award. All delivery orders will be for direct delivery shipments to the using activity. Delivery orders will be issued by DSCC using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Successful offerors must have EDI capabilities. At some point, the government may choose to place orders through the use of a credit card purchases directly by the customers. =20 LINKURL: htttp://www.dscc.dla.mil/programs/contracts/distributorpartnership LINKDESC: <A HREF="htttp://www.dscc.dla.mil/programs/contracts/distributorpartnership">Location of the Requests for Proposal (RFP)</A>

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