Q-Radar Maintenance

THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR A COMMERCIAL ITEM PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN SUBPART 12.6 AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. Solicitation No. BEP-RFQ-13-0305 is issued as a Request For Quote (RFQ). The anticipated resultant award/order shall be Firm-Fixed-Price. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect from the Federal Acquisition Regulations 2005-062, effective November 20, 2012. The RFQ is set aside for small business. The associated North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code is 541519 and the size standard is $25.5 million. All interested qualified vendors may submit a quote referencing RFQ #BEP-RFQ-13-0305. All quotes shall be inclusive of all charges and fees. This requirement is total set-aside restricted to small business concerns. All small business concerns are encouraged to submit quotes. The U.S. Department of Treasury, Bureau of Engraving & Printing (BEP), Office of IT Operations has a requirement for the following QRadar Appliance Support Services; (1) Standard Maintenance for QR-3100-CON-NSM -Distributed Console Appliance (QUANTITY =1) (2) Standard Maintenace for QR-1701-OS-B - Flow Processor Appliance (QUANTITY=2) (3) Standard Maintenance for QR-1605-OS - High Capacity Event Processor (QUNATITY=2) Offerors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database before an award can be made to them. If teh offeror is not registered in SAM, they may do so through the SAM website at http://www.sam.gov The selected Offeror must comply with the following commercial item terms and conditions, which are incorporated herein by reference: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition; FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items - the selected offeror must submit a completed copy of the listed representations and certifications; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, and the following additional FAR clauses cited in the clause at paragraph (b) are applicable to this acquisition: (4) 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First Tier Subcontract Awards (Feb 2012) (6) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government's Interest when Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment (DEC 2010) (11) 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set Aside, (NOV 2011) (14) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns, (JAN 2011) (23) 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Representation (APR 2009) (26) 52.222-3, Convict Labor, (JUN 2003) (27) 52.222-19, Child Labor--Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (MAR 2012) (28) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities, (FEB 1999) (29) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity, (MAR 2007) (30) 52.222-35 Equal Opportunity for Veterans (SEP 2010) (31) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities, (OCT 2010) (32) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans, (SEP 2010) (38) 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policy to Ban Text Messaging While Driving (AUG 2011) (39) 52.225-1, Buy American Act -- Supplies, (FEB 2009) (47) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer - Central Contractor Registration, (OCT 2003) FAR Provision 52.212-2 Evaluation - Commercial Items (JAN 1999) with the following insertion in Para (a) FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items (Jan 1999), applies to this acquisition. (a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: LOWEST PRICE TECHNICALLY ACCEPTABLE Quote must be good for 30 days after close of RFQ.