Extended Warranty & Preventitive Maintenace Packages for Mannequins

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with acquisition procedures provided in FAR Subpart 12.6, as a supplement with additional information included in this notice. This announcement and attached solicitation M00681-14-R-0006 is hereby issued. This solicitation document and incorporated provision and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular FAC 2005-76 and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement, current to DPN 20140828. As a result of this authority, certain requirements for soliciting, awarding, and notifying is streamlined. In accordance with FAR 12.102(c), when a policy in another part is inconsistent with FAR Part 12, Part 12 shall take precedence. This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside and the associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 339999, All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing with a small size standard of 500 employees. This requirement is a Small Business set-aside and only qualified offerors Laerdal authorized dealers may submit in response to this solicitation. In those instances where the words offer, offeror, and proposal are used, the reader should understand that the use of such words does not change the nature of this request for quotation. The resulting award will be a Firm Fixed Price Type Contract with a Base year and 4 options years for extended warranty Package & preventative maintenance package for six (6) SimMan 3G mannequins in support of 1st Medical Battalion located on MCB Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California. SUBMISSION DUE DATE: Submissions must be received by the Government no later than the date and time MONDAY 15 September 2014 2:00PM (PST). Offerors that fail to provide all required information due to a transmission error may be rejected as non-responsive. DELIVERY: Submissions may be emailed or submitted by commercial courier service (FedEx, UPS, etc.). Faxed submissions will not be accepted. �� Email Submission: For email submission, the Government office designated for receipt of the submissions are the email addresses indicated below. Notwithstanding the provisions at FAR 52.212-1(f) or FAR 52.215-1(c)(3), delivery is not accomplished until the addressee can open the email; delivery to a server or an email inbox on a server is not considered delivery to the designated Government office and the quotation is not under the Government's control until the addressee can open the email. The email shall not be considered to be delivered unless the entire content of the email and all attachments can be read by the addressee indicated above. Receipt of an electronic acknowledgment from the addressee establishes that a record was received but does not establish that the content sent corresponds to the content received. Email attachments are limited to no more than 2MB. Offerors are specifically warned that email may be subjected to spam filters or attachment stripping. All submissions shall be submitted to the email addresses: nina.kanoa@usmc.mil and doris.richardson1@usmc.mil �3. SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM): Contractors must be currently registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to eligible for award. For information and registration go to http://www.sam.gov. �4. REFERENCE THE FOLLOWING ATTACHMENTS: �� Attachment 1: SOLICIATION M00681-14-R-0006 with Brand Name Justification Basis of Award: Lowest Price Acceptable - Awardee shall be the lowest evaluated price meeting or exceeding the non-price factors. If during the evaluation period it is determined to be in the best interest of the Government to hold discussions, Offeror responses to clarifications/discussion notices will be considered in making the award decision. The Government reserves the right to make award solely on initial submissions received.