38--Acquisition of a Crawler Crane

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District intends to initiate a negotiated procurement to acquire one newly constructed crane of suitable quality and characteristics to be installed in a fixed location on a barge platform that will be procured under a separate contract. The applicable Naics code is 333120 with a size standard of 750 employees. The objective of this project is to provide the Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District with a safe, and effective, new crawler crane op erating from the barge to perform lifting operations in support of major repair jobs on gates in the locks of the Inland Waterway System of the Rock Island District. The acquisition will be a negotiated, best-value procurement performed using the Contracting by Negotiation procurement process prescribed in Part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Proposals will be reviewed for completeness in satisfying the requ irements of the Request for Proposal. The proposals will be evaluated on their merit based on the following factors: Technical Factors: Product, Management, Past Performance and Experience Price Factors: Price Reasonableness, Price Realism The technical factors, as a whole, are more important than price. However, price remains a significant factor in determining the best value. Award of a contract will be made to the responsible offeror whose proposal, conforming to the requirements of the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. Initial price proposals must be submitted along with initial technical proposals to the Contracting Officer in accordance with the requirements of 'Section L-Pr oposal Requirements and Evaluation Criteria' of the RFP. The Government may award a contract on the basis of initial proposals received without discussions; therefore, each proposal should contain the offerors best terms. Request for Proposal No. W912BU-06-R-0023 will be available on or about 19 July 2006 and proposals are due August 22, 2006, 4:00 p.m., local time. The official media of distribution for the Request for Proposal is the web. Hard copies will not be available . Contractors may download the solicitation (including any drawings) and any amendments via the hyperlink to the FedTeds web site, https://www.fedteds.gov/fedteds/start.nsf/frm.VendorLogin?OpenForm&SolicitationNumber=W912BU-06-R-0023 on (or after) the issu e date. Interested firms must be registered on the FedTeds website in order to access the solicitation. All amendments to the Request for Proposal will be posted on Fedbizopps and FedTeds, but contractors should monitor these sites for any amendments. Warranty of supplies/services, and liquidated damages will apply. Liquidated damages will be specified. All contractors are required to be registered in the DoDs Central Contract Registry before award, as required by DFARS 204.7300. Information on getting registered may be obtained by calling +1 (555) 000-0000 or by accessing the following internet website: http://www.ccr.gov. Also, firms who receive federal contracts in excess of $25,000.00 are required to submit an annual VETS-100 Report on employment of ta rgeted veterans in accordance with FAR 22.1310(b). Information on submitting this report may be obtained by calling +1 (555) 000-0000 or by accessing the following internet web site: http://vets100.cudenver.edu. This procurement is unrestricted. William A. Bailey Contracting Officer