Repair of two (2) steel dredge pump Impellers

(1) Action Code: Combined Synopsis and Solicitation (2) Date: January 29th (3) Year: 2016 (4) Contracting Office Zip Code: 19107-3390 (5) Classification Code: J (6) Contracting Office Address: USACE/Philadelphia District Wanamaker building 100 Penn Square East Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (7) Subject: Repair of two large (10,000 lbs. each) alloy cast steel dredge pump impellers by welding, hard facing, and machining as specified in the PWS/SOW (8) Solicitation Number: W912BU-16-T-0012 (9) Close Response Date: February 18th, 2016 at 14:00 (2:00 PM) EST (10) Contract Point of Contact: Bruce E. Hayes (11) Description: a. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 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. This office will not accept any telephonic, written, or faxed requests for a copy of the solicitation. b. The Solicitation Number for this acquisition is W912BU-16-T-0012 and a separate attachment (SF1449) is issued as a Request for Quotes (RFQ). c. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 20015-86. d. This requirement is being solicited as full and open competition under NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), size standard is 1000 Employees. e. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, intends to award a firm fixed price contract to repair two large (10,000 lbs. each) alloy cast steel dredge pump impellers by welding, hard facing, and machining as specified in the PWS/SOW. The contractor will provide all necessary plant, labor, material, equipment and services to perform the work specified in the PWS/SOW. Service Contract Act Wage Determination No. WD 05-2449 (Rev.-17) is applicable to this procurement. f. FAR Provisions and Clauses applicable to this acquisition are provided on an attached SF1449 and are incorporated in their entirety. Each offer is required to fill out and sign the SF1449 and return a signed copy along with their proposal by the closing date and time listed. g. All proposals shall be submitted electronically in accordance with the instructions listed in the "Instructions to Offers (ITO)" to Bruce Hayes at contact@example.gov. If there are any amendments to this requirement, all amendments must be acknowledged, signed, and electronically submitted with the proposal at time proposals are due. h. For information regarding this solicitation, the USACE Point of Contact is Mr. Bruce E. Hayes, +1 (555) 000-0000, contact@example.gov or MS. Linda M. Dobbs, +1 (555) 000-0000, contact@example.gov. (12) Additional Information: N/A Instructions to Offerors (ITO) The US Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District wishes to place a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Purchase Order for the repair of two large (10,000 lbs. each) alloy cast steel dredge pump impellers by welding, hard facing, and machining. The attached PWS/SOW describes this effort. The award of a purchase order resulting from this RFP is subject to the availability of funds. . THIS ITO IS NOT AN AUTHORIZATION TO START WORK. A. Please adhere to the following timelines: 1. A proposal shall be submitted via email to Mr. Bruce E. Hayes at contact@example.gov by the date and time specified within the contents of the RFP. This office will not accept any telephonic, written, or faxed proposals. 2. To schedule a site visit, you must call or submit a request, via email, to Mr. Richard Burns. The dates available are from 9 Feb 2016 to 11 Feb 2016. Mr. Richard Burns can be contacted by phone at (215)-365-5095 or email at contact@example.gov. B. Instructions: 1. Proposals, consisting of Cost/Price information and a Technical Proposal, shall be submitted. 2. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Proposals shall be submitted in two (2) separate sections. Section I- Cost/Price Proposal The contractor shall provide pricing on the supplied schedule B of the SF1449. Section II- Experience For Experience Evaluations, offerors shall demonstrate a clear understanding of all processes involved in solving the problems and meeting the requirements presented in the PWS/SOW. This is a FFP type purchase order; price must be submitted in accordance with the line items in the RFP. Experience will be determined by whether the contractor has the ability to work with and has worked on repairs to large steel impellers within the past 5 years. Contractors are required to describe a minimum of 2 jobs that they have performed within the past 5 years, describe how difficult the jobs were that they did, and what they did to be successful in completing the jobs. **Failure to provide this information will result in your proposal being deemed "Non-Responsive"** C. IMPORTANT NOTES: 1. This purchase order is governed, insofar as applicable, by the procedures set forth in FAR Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items & FAR 13.106-2(b) -- Evaluation of Quotations or Offers (b) Evaluation procedures. (1) The contracting officer has broad discretion in fashioning suitable evaluation procedures. (3) If using price and other factors, ensure that quotations or offers can be evaluated in an efficient and minimally burdensome fashion. Formal evaluation plans and establishing a competitive range, conducting discussions, and scoring quotations or offers are not required. Contracting offices may conduct comparative evaluations of offers. Submission of a proposal in response to this RFP constitutes the offeror's express acknowledgment to that effect. All other procedures are at the sole discretion of the Government as set forth in this RFP. 2. The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a purchase order without discussions. Therefore, the offeror's initial proposal should contain the offeror's best terms. Unclear proposals may not result in questions for clarifications. Proposals with an omission or unclear proposals may be judged to mean the contractor does not fully understand the requirements or understand what it takes to meet or exceed the requirements, regardless of the proposed cost/price. In that case, the offeror may be found unacceptable and ineligible for award. At the discretion of the Contracting Officer, the Government reserves the right to make award with or without discussions or exchanges. D. Additional Information: Please email any questions you may have regarding this effort to contact@example.gov and the Contracting Officer will coordinate a response. All questions must be received no later than 12 February 2016 @ 2:00PM (1400) Eastern Standard Time. Questions directly to the Contracting Officer's Representative are prohibited. If you have any procedural questions, please contact the Contract Specialist, Mr. Bruce Hayes at contact@example.gov. AWARD AND EVALUATION INFORMATION A. BASIS FOR AWARD Award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors. The two evaluation factors that will be used in determining the most beneficial proposal to the government are: Cost/Price and Experience. To receive consideration for award, a rating of no less than "Acceptable" must be achieved for the experience factor. Price will be the most significant factor in consideration of award. Tradeoffs are not permitted. Proposals are evaluated for acceptability but are not ranked using the non-cost/price factors. B. FACTORS TO BE EVALUATED 1. COST/PRICE 2. EXPERIENCE C. EVALUATION APPROACH 1. COST/PRICE EVALUATION APPROACH: The Government will evaluate price by adding the total of all prices, including all options. Pricing shall be in accordance with the CLIN structure detailed in Section B "Supplies or Services and Pricing" of the RFP. Further breakdown of each line item may be requested during evaluations to determine price reasonableness. 2. EXPERIENCE EVALUATION APPROACH Experience will be determined by the relevant narratives/returns the contractor provides describing the contractor's ability to repair large steel impellers within the past 5 years. If no Experience information is received from the offeror, the offeror will not be considered for this award and will be deemed as non-responsive. D. DEFINITIONS Experience - The experience rating will be expressed as an adjectival assessment of acceptable or unacceptable. a. Acceptable - Based on the offeror's provided experience narrative, the Government has a reasonable expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the requirement. If no information on the required experience is received from the offeror, they will receive an unacceptable rating. Due to the specialized nature of the work described in the SOW/PWS, it is necessary that the Offeror demonstrate satisfactory completion of repairs to large steel impellers. Rebuilding of the impellers is a specialized task that can cause potential loss to the Government should the impellers become warped or cracked due to improper repairs. Low to Moderate Performance Risk. b. Unacceptable - Based on the offeror's experience narrative, the Government has no reasonable expectation that the offeror will be able to successfully perform the requirement. Vendor has not met the experience levels described herein on similar jobs, on-site government personnel have had multiple negative experiences with the vendor's personnel, and customers the vendor provided as evidence of similar/like work were unsatisfied with overall vendor performance on similar jobs. - High Performance Risk. E. AWARD Award will be made to the lowest priced offer that meets or exceeds the required experience as specified in this ITO.