Replacement of Hydraulic Cylinder, USDA Forest Service, FPL, Madison, WI

The USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station intends to initiate a Request for Quotation (RFQ) procurement action and award a Firm-Fixed Price contract for the replacement and assembly of an elevator's hydraulic cylinder. The Contractor shall provide all labor and materials to perform the services at the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI. The acquisition will be solicited using the procurement process prescribed in Part 12, Commercial Items, of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). Award will be made on the basis of lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA). The Government will award the contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose quote, conforming to the RFQ will be the Best Value to the Government. Quotes will be reviewed for completeness and evaluated for acceptability against the following evaluation factors: Past Performance, Experience and Price. Price is more important than non-cost factors; however non-cost factors are significant to award. The Government may elect to conduct discussions with offerors whose quotes are technically acceptable (or which may be expected to be made acceptable by moderate modification) and fall within the competitive price range. The Government reserves the right, however, to award a contract based on initial offers without conducting discussions. Therefore, each proposal should be submitted from the offeror's most favorable technical and price standpoints. Award of the contract will be made as a whole to the offeror whose quote conforms to all requirements of the specifications and is the "greatest value" to the Government, cost and other factors considered. A site visit is scheduled for Thursday, July 1, 2014 at 10:00 am CENTRAL time (11:00 am EST). Please contact Ms. Bonnie A. Johnston, Procurement Assistant, by e-mail at contact@example.gov to register for the site visit. She may also be contacted by telephone at +1 (555) 000-0000. Solicitation documents, plans and specifications will only be available via the Federal Business Opportunties (FBO) homepage located http://www.fbo.gov/. An electronic copy of Solicitation Number AG-3604-S-14-0010 will be posted on this site on or about June 17, 2014. No hard copies will be issued and no written of fax requests will be accepted. Quotes are due on or about July 10, 2014 by 12:00 PM EST (11:00 AM CST) Quotes may be emailed to Briana Chalmers at the following e-mail address: contact@example.gov. Quotes may be sent by mail to the USDA Forest Service - Northern Research Station, 11 Campus Blvd., Suite 200, Newtown Square, PA 19073, ATTN: Briana Chalmers. The NAICS Code for this project is 238290 with a size standard of $14.0 million. It is the contractor's responsibility to monitor FBO for any amendments. All contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM as required by FAR 4.1102. Also, contractors who receive a federal contract of $25,000.00 or more are required by legislation to submit an annual VETS-100 Report on your employment of targeted veterans. Information on submitting your report may be obtained by calling +1 (555) 000-0000 or by accessing the following Internet web site: http://vets.dol.gov/vets100/. Service Contract Act Wage Rates will be applicable. Award will be made as a whole to one offeror.