BALTIMORE YELLOW RIBBON EVENT

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number assigned to this action is W912L5-17-T-0200. This acquisition is utilizing procedures in FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures and is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ) from the 166 MSG/MSC, New Castle, DE 19720. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 721110, Hotels (except casino hotels) and Motels with a size standard of $32.5 million. Interested parties must quote on all services outlined in the Statement of Work (SOW). Award will be made based on overall best value to the government. The solicitation document and incorporated clauses and provisions are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-92 and DPN 20161104. The Government intends to award a Single, Firm-Fixed Price order without discussions. The acquisition is SET ASIDE for SMALL BUSINESSES ONLY. Offerors should submit their best offer up front. Do not assume you will be able to revise your offer. Description of requirement: Yellow Ribbon Event to include lodging, meeting space (including rooms for childcare), audio visual equipment/set up, and meals. See the attached Statement of Work (SOW) for specific details. The descriptions of the commercial items are: CLIN 0001: Meeting Space / Break Out Rooms (SEE STATEMENT OF WORK FOR DETAILS) QTY: 1 JOB CLIN 0002: Lodging (SEE STATEMENT OF WORK FOR DETAILS) QTY: 1 JOB CLIN 0003: Meals (SEE STATEMENT OF WORK FOR DETAILS) QTY: 1 JOB CLIN 0004: Parking (SEE STATEMENT OF WORK FOR DETAILS) QTY: 1 JOB Date: The above service will be performed on the following dates; 27-29 JANUARY 2017 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted quote must include the following: (1) the solicitation number; (2) the name, CAGE CODE, address and telephone number of the offeror; (3) the price and discount terms (quote FOB Destination); (4) Acknowledgement of any solicitation amendments; (5) vendors proposal should include details of services to be provided for each requirement identified with pricing. Proposal should be submitted under company letterhead, with DUNS number, FTID, Company Name, Address and POC included. The Contracting Officer will evaluate equal products on the basis of information furnished by the quote or identified in the quote and reasonably available to the Contracting Officer. VENDOR CERTIFICATIONS: Prior to award, the vendor must be currently registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov. The Government reserves the right to award on a multiple award or an all or none basis. If you need to obtain or renew a DUNS number or CAGE code, please visit https://www.sam.gov. Lack of current registration in the SAM database will make an offeror ineligible for award. Submit all offers in response to this synopsis/solicitation to the Point of Contact (POC) MSgt Luz Rosario electronically to: luz.i.rosario.mil@mail.mil and Contracting Officer amy.l.kline.mil@mail.mil. Please submit all questions in writing by email to the aforementioned, questions or inquiries received by telephone will not be addressed. Offers received after 2:00pm Eastern on the required date of submission, 6 JAN 2017; may not be considered unless determined to be in the best interest of the government. The complete text of the Federal Acquisition Circulars, DFARS Change Notices, and Far DFARS clauses and provisions are available at the following internet site: http://farsite.hill.af.mil. This contract is subject to the Service Contract Act of 1965. The applicable wage determination in effect at the time of award will be incorporated into the subsequent contract. Current rates can be found at the following site: www.dol.gov The following provisions are included for the purposes of this combined synopsis/solicitation: 52.204-16 Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting; 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors -Commercial Items; 52.233-2 Service of Protest; 52.237-1 Site Visit; 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; 252.204-7008 Compliance with Safeguarding Covered Defense Information Controls; 252.204-7011 Alternative Line Item Structure; 252.215-7007 Notice of Intent to Resolicit; 252.215-7008 Only One offer; 252.222-7007 Representation Regarding Combating Trafficking in Persons; 252.225-7031 Secondary Arab Boycott of Israel; PROVISIONS INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT 52.212-2 Evaluation- Commercial Items As prescribed in 12.301(c), the Contracting Officer may insert a provision substantially as follows: Evaluation -- Commercial Items (Oct 2014) (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 Capabilities to Perform Services Past Performance Price Technical and past performance, when combined, are IMPORTANT (b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). (c) A written notice of 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 offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award. (End of Provision) 52.212-3 Alt 1 Offerors Representations and Certifications- Commercial Items Alternate I (Oct 2014). As prescribed in 12.301(b)(2), add the following paragraph (c)(11) to the basic provision: (11) (Complete if the offeror has represented itself as disadvantaged in paragraph (c)(4) of this provision.) [The offeror shall check the category in which its ownership falls]: ____ Black American. ___ Hispanic American. ___ Native American (American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians). ___ Asian-Pacific American (persons with origins from Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, China, Taiwan, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Korea, The Philippines, Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Samoa, Macao, Hong Kong, Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, or Nauru). ___ Subcontinent Asian (Asian-Indian) American (persons with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands, or Nepal). ___ Individual/concern, other than one of the preceding. 252.203-7994 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements- Representation. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH ENTITIES THAT REQUIRE CERTAIN INTERNAL CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS-REPRESENTATION (DEVIATION 2017-O0001)(NOV 2016) (a) In accordance with Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 114-223), or any other Act that extends to fiscal year 2017 funds the same prohibitions as contained in section 743, division E, title VII, of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Pub. L. 114-113), none of the funds appropriated (or otherwise made available) by this or any other Act may be used for a contract with an entity that requires employees or subcontractors of such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees or contactors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of a Federal department or agency authorized to receive such information. (b) The prohibition in paragraph (a) of this provision does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information. (c) Representation. By submission of its offer, the Offeror represents that it does not require employees or subcontractors of such entity seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign or comply with internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees or contactors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of a Federal department or agency authorized to receive such information. (End of provision) The following clauses are included for the purposes of this combined synopsis/solicitation and most current versions will be incorporated into any resulting order: 52.204-9 Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel; 52.204-10 Reporting Executive Compensation and First Tier Subcontract Awards; 52.204-18 Commercial and Government Entity Code Maintenance; 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment; 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations; 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Commercial Items (Dev,); 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside 52.219-28 Post Award Small Business Program Representation; 52.222-3 Convict Labor; 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.222-41 Service Contract Labor Standards; 52.222-42 Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires; 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons; 52.222-55 Minimum Wages Under Executive order 13658; 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policy to Ban Text Messaging While Driving; 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; 52.232-18 Continuing Resolution Act; 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer System for Award Management; 52.232-40 Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors; 52.233-3 Protest After Award; 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim; 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference, http://farsite.hill.af.mil 52.252-6 Authorized Deviations in Clauses; 252.203-7000 Requirements relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; 252.203-7002 Requirements to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights; 252.204-7012 Safeguarding of Unclassified Controlled Technical Information; 252.204-7015 Disclosure of Information to Litigation Support Contractors; 252.211-7003 Item Unique Identification and Valuation; 252.223-7008 Prohibition of Hexavalent Chromium; 252.225-7048 Export-Controlled Items; 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports; 252.232-7006 Wide Area Workflow Payment Instructions; 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments; 252.237-7010 Prohibition on Interrogation of Detainees by Contractor Personnel; 252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items; 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea; CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY FULL TEXT 252.203-7995 Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Confidentiality Agreements. Include the following clause in all solicitations and contracts, including solicitations and contracts for the acquisition of commercial items under FAR part 12, that will use funds made available by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 114-223) or any other Act that extends to fiscal year 2017 funds the same prohibitions as contained in section 743, division E, title VII, of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Pub. L. 114-113). Section 103 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 subjects the funding by that Act for FY 2017 to the same conditions set forth in section 743: PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH ENTITIES THAT REQUIRE CERTAIN INTERNAL CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS (DEVIATION 2017-O0001)(NOV 2016) (a) The Contractor shall not require employees or subcontractors seeking to report fraud, waste, or abuse to sign or comply with internal confidentiality agreements or statements prohibiting or otherwise restricting such employees or contactors from lawfully reporting such waste, fraud, or abuse to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of a Federal department or agency authorized to receive such information. (b) The Contractor shall notify employees that the prohibitions and restrictions of any internal confidentiality agreements covered by this clause are no longer in effect. (c) The prohibition in paragraph (a) of this clause does not contravene requirements applicable to Standard Form 312, Form 4414, or any other form issued by a Federal department or agency governing the nondisclosure of classified information. (d)(1) Use of funds appropriated (or otherwise made available) by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 114-223), or any other Act that extends to fiscal year 2017 funds the same prohibitions as contained in section 743, division E, title VII, of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Pub. L. 114-113) may be prohibited, if the Government determines that the Contractor is not in compliance with the provisions of this clause. (2) The Government may seek any available remedies in the event the Contractor fails to perform in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract as a result of Government action under this clause. (End of clause)