Pedestal Bearing USNS MEDGAR EVERS

The contract pertains to the procurement of pedestal bearing components—including bearing shell sets, seals, and spacers—for the USNS MEDGAR EVERS (T-AKE-13), with delivery required on or before January 27, 2027, to the MSC Warehouse in Norfolk, Virginia, under FOB Destination terms. It is issued as a firm fixed price solicitation under N3220526Q7149, with responses due by May 11, 2026, and is evaluated under the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) methodology, where technical compliance is a binary pass/fail criterion and award is made to the offeror with the lowest fair and reasonable price. All items must comply with stringent Department of Defense Item Unique Identification (UID) requirements, including machine-readable two-dimensional Data Matrix symbology per MIL-STD-130, ISO/IEC 16022, and ANSI MH10.8.2, with full data submission to the IUID Registry via WAWF. Packaging and marking must adhere to MIL-STD-2073-1 or ASTM D3951, with ISPM No. 15 compliance for wood crates and stenciled 2-inch markings indicating the vessel name, requisition, and purchase order numbers. The contractor must also meet prohibitions on the use of covered telecommunications equipment, hexavalent chromium, materials from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and business operations with the Maduro regime, while affirming compliance with federal regulations on inverted domestic corporations, convict labor, and equal opportunity employment. Payment will be processed electronically via WAWF using DoDAAC N50082, with all deliveries inspected and accepted at the Norfolk receiving site. The contracting officer is James Parker of MSCHQ Norfolk, with no designated COR identified, and all offerors must maintain current SAM registration and provide UEI and CAGE codes as required by DFARS clauses. No contract value is specified due to unpopulated pricing fields, but the procurement involves four units each of three distinct bearing components.