F--Stratigraphic and Glacial Deposit Information Study of Minnesota

The purpose of Amendment 0000001 is to dissolve the Small Business Set-aside requirements and extend the competition end date to 03/31/2015. This Solicitation Notice is a combined Solicitation/Synopsis to announce the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has a requirement for non-personal services Stratigraphic and Glacial Deposit Information Study of Minnesota in accordance with the solicitation's Work Statement. The solicitation number is G15PS00244 and is being issued as a Request For Quote (RFQ). The policies contained in FAR Part 13 shall be used for this acquisition. The associated NAICS code is 541380 Testing Laboratories; which has a Small Business Administration standard of $15.0 million. A copy of this solicitation may be accessed FedConnect (www.fedconnect.net). All requirements for preparation, submission, and receipt of quotes contained in the solicitation shall be adhered to. Evaluation Factors: Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation will be evaluated based upon the following non-price or non-cost factors, which are of equal importance. Factor (A) Past Performance: Offerors shall submit not less than two references for services performed during the past three years. Each reference shall include: the company or agency name, address, contract or order number, point(s) of contract phone number and email address(es). References provided may be contacted by the Government. Their statements will be used in the evaluation of the offeror¿s quotation. In addition, any information obtained by the Government from references outside of the offeror¿s quotation may also be used, in a similar manner, in the technical evaluation of the offeror¿s quotation to the extent appropriate. Past performance information provided by references, from Government records, or from other than the sources identified by the offeror may be used in the evaluation under any or all applicable evaluation factors. In addition to the foregoing, PIPRS.gov will be used as a source of past performance information in the source selection process, in addition to any other past performance information required under this solicitation. All past performance information will be used for both the responsibility determination and the best value decision. Factor (B) Technical Performance: Offeror must be established in the required services business. Offeror shall provide a narrative, not to exceed two pages, describing their capabilities to perform the services described in the Work Statement. Offeror shall provide accuracy information (in the form of % accuracy and % recovery) on previous analysis of the sediment cores. Options. This solicitation consists of a Base Year and an Option Year. 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 option(s) shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). Award: The award of this requirement shall be made using only the procedures found in Part 13.1 ¿ ¿Procedures¿ of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). Award shall be made to the vendor whose quotation, conforming to this RFQ, is determined to be the most advantages to the government, cost or price and the other non-cost or non-price factors listed above. In determining which quotation offers the greatest value or advantage to the Government, overall non-price merit will be considered more important than price or cost. The degree of importance of price or cost as an evaluation factor will increase with the degree of equality in the technical merits of the quotations. Between acceptable quotations with a significant difference in non-price merit, a determination will be made as to whether the additional technical merit or benefits reflected by a higher priced quotation warrants payment of the additional price or cost. Quotation Preparation and Submission Requirements. The offeror is cautioned to study the Evaluation Factors stated above along with their relative importance. Your offer shall address each of these factors since these are the standards against which your offer will be evaluated. It is the offeror¿s responsibility to include the appropriate documentation in its offer package to allow a complete technical/price evaluation. Failure to submit the appropriate documentation may result in the rejection of the offeror¿s offer. The offer shall be in two volumes. Volume One will be the complete non-price documentation package. Volume Two will be the complete price package including the signed RFQ SF18 and amendments, if any. Offers shall be accepted electronically only; either by using the FedConnect submission systems or by an email to Don Downey, contact@example.gov. Questions and Comments. Questions and comments received within the 5 days before this solicitation ends will be considered untimely and may not receive a response.