Electromechanical Test Frame System

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division is soliciting quotations for a firm fixed price contract to acquire a 100kN electromechanical test frame system, along with associated grips, adapters, on-site installation, calibration, and training. This solicitation, numbered N0016726Q0004, is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 334515 with a 750-employee size standard, and requires offerors to certify their small business status. The system is designed to replace aging hydraulic frames and deliver precise, high-fidelity mechanical testing for advanced materials, featuring a top-mounted actuator to prevent corrosion, closed-loop feedback control, integration with existing infrastructure, and ASTM-compliant test capabilities across a speed range of 0.000002 to 1 inch per minute, all operating on 120VAC. Delivery is F.O.B. Destination to NSWC Carderock in Bethesda, Maryland, with a 6-month period of performance from the award date. All items must be uniquely identified with a two-dimensional data matrix compliant with MIL-STD-130 and ISO/IEC 16022, encoded with enterprise identifier, serial number, and part/lot data using specified formats, and packaged in accordance with MIL-STD-129. Invoicing must be submitted electronically via WAWF, and payment will be processed through authorized DoDAAC codes. The evaluation will follow a lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) approach, where technical acceptability is a pass/fail threshold based on compliance with the performance work statement and minimum specifications, and award will be made to the lowest-priced offeror who meets all requirements. The contract includes numerous FAR and DFARS clauses covering small business set-asides, payment by electronic funds transfer, accelerated payments to small business subcontractors, cybersecurity safeguards including DFARS 252.204-7012 for safeguarding covered defense information, combating trafficking in persons, sustainable procurement, prohibitions on contracting with inverted domestic corporations and sanction regimes, child labor, equal opportunity, and termination for convenience. Offerors must also comply with organizational conflict of interest disclosures, adhere to post-contract restrictions on forming competing organizations with NAVSEA for three years, and submit representations confirming their size status, UEI, CAGE code, and absence of prohibited business ties. No contract value is stated as pricing is to be provided by offer