ICASS Van Purchase for FAC

Enclosed is a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for Purchase of one vehicle for U.S. Consulate Casablanca. 

If you would like to submit quotation, follow the instructions in Section 3 of the solicitation, complete the required portions of the attached document, and submit it to the address shown on Standard Form 1449 that follows this letter. 

The U.S. Government intends to award a contract/purchase order to the responsible company submitting an acceptable offer at the lowest price. We intend to award a contract/purchase order based on initial quotations, without holding discussions, although we may hold discussions with companies in the competitive range if there is a need to do so. 

Quotations are due by September 19 at 17:00 local Morocco time. No quotations will be accepted after this time. Proposals must be in English and incomplete proposals will not be accepted.  

Your quotation must be submitted electronically to Casablancaproc@state.gov It is important to make sure the submission is made in specific size and format; in MS-Word 2007/2010 or MS-Excel 2007/2010 or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format. The file size must not exceed 30MB. If the file size should exceed the 30MB, the submission must be made in separate files and attached to separate emails with less than 30MB each. 

All offers shall be Firm Fixed Price (FFP). The quoted price must include all labor, materials, overhead, profit, and transportation necessary to deliver the vehicle to the U.S. Consulate Casablanca. Payment will only be made for items explicitly itemized in the vendor’s quotation. No additional charges not included in the submitted quotation will be considered. The applicable Value Added Tax (VAT) should be separately listed in the quotation or invoice. 

 SAM Registration:   

• Notwithstanding FAR 4.203-1(b)(5)(ii), the Contracting Officer has determined that it is in the best interest of the U.S. Government to accept quotations from offerors that are and are not registered in the SAM (System for Award Management) database at https://www.sam.gov 

• Offerors with an active SAM registration need only provide their Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number and are not required to complete the information in 52.204-90 since relevant information is found in their SAM registration.  

• Offerors without an active SAM registration must complete FAR 52.204-90, Offeror Identification, in Section 5, Representations and Certifications. This information must be updated annually if option years are included in the solicitation or award.  

Interested parties shall submit their quotation electronically to CasablancaProc@state.gov Electronic submissions must not exceed 30MB in total size.  

 In order for a quotation to be considered, you must also complete and submit the following:  

1. SF-1449  

2. Section I, Pricing  

3. Section III Representations and Certifications