MC SCARLET STRIPE

SPE1C115Q0376 is being issued as a Total Small Business Set Aside for the manufacture and delivery of MC SCARLET STRIPE, NSN: 8455-00-269-0488 Quantity: 97,200 EA. Production Lead Time is 90 days. Destination for this item is Travis Association for the Blind; Austin, TX. Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) will be used to evaluate past performance. The Contracting Officer may make an award at other than the lowest evaluated price. All items must be 100% U.S. Made out of 100% U.S. Materials. Availability of solicitations, FAR 5.102(d) applies, as our office no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. Solicitation will be posted on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/ Detailed system requirements and instructions for registration can be found on the DLA DIBBS Home Page accessed on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/. A few highlights of the information that will be found include: 1. On the DLA Internet Bulletin Board System (DIBBS) Home Page, click the VENDOR REGISTRATION link to begin the registration process. 2. In order to register for access to secure portions of DLA DIBBS, the company you are representing must already be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) system. 3. A Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code registration will be processed immediately. A User ID will appear on the registration screen and a password will be sent separately to the email address of the Super User. If a CAGE is already registered on DLA DIBBS, the name and email address of the Super User will be provided. The Super User should be contacted to set-up additional accounts, logons and passwords for their CAGE. DIBBS Super User * If your CAGE has already been registered on DIBBS, the name and email address of the person designated as your super user will be provided. * The representative who starts the DIBBS registration process has the option to accept their SAMS registration POC as the DIBBS super user, or they can designate themselves or another person to act as the super user for the CAGE. * The super user acts as the account administrator for a CAGE. They can add up to ninety-eight (98) additional users, provide user IDs and passwords, modify existing users, and control the login status of each user for their CAGEs through My Account (Account Maintenance). DLA-Troop Support has developed a web-based system that allows manufacturers the ability to request specifications, patterns and drawings on our contracting page. To request technical data for DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles (C&T) solicitations, use the following link to the DLA-Troop Support C&T Technical Data Repository area at https://www.troopsupport.dla.mil/Portal/Public/Warning.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fPortal%2fAuthenticated%2fSpecReq.aspx The Defense appropriations and authorization acts and other statutes (including what is commonly referred to as The Berry Amendment) impose restrictions on the DoD's acquisition of foreign products and services. Generally, Clothing and Textile items (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7012) and specialty metals (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7014), including the materials and components thereof (other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to, and not normally associated with clothing), must be grown, reprocessed, reused, melted or produced in the United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico, unless one of the DFARS 225.7002-2 exceptions applies. Synopsis note: In addition to price and other related factors, the contracting officer, on this acquisition, may consider past delivery and quality performance as an evaluation factor using the Past Performance Information Retrieval System, and may make an award at other than the lowest evaluated price. *Variation in quantity is +/- 2% *FAR 52.248-01, Alt III Value Engineering is applicable to this award. *Five (5) first articles are due 30 days after date of award. Submit Samples to: DLA Troop Support 700 Robbins Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19111 Attn: Randall McArthur Bldg. 3A / WK Station 4057 NOTE: The Solicitation is not posted with this announcement.