Smiths Detection X-Ray Machines for DOT

Amendment No. 3 To Request for Quotations (RFQ) No. 693JK418Q500001 This Amendment No. 3 asks that all offerors, in submitting their proposals to DOT, please take the additional PRECAUTIONARY steps described in the next paragraph. AFTER simultaneously e-mailing your proposal to contact@example.gov and to contact@example.gov and to contact@example.gov and to contact@example.gov by the deadline specified in this RFQ, please send, to ALL of those SAME addressees, a SEPARATE follow-up e-mail: (a) which does NOT have your proposal attached to it; and (b) which merely confirms the precise time at which you had sent your PRECEDING e-mail that DID have your proposal to attached to it. And also please FORWARD, to all of those same DOT addressees, your PREVIOUSLY-sent e-mail that DID have your proposal attached to it, but with the proposal-attachment DELETED from that forwarding. Further, if and ONLY if, by 1:00 P Eastern Time on November 2nd, 2017, you have not received, from ANY of the DOT addressees specified above, an e-mailed CONFIRMATION that your e-mailed PROPOSAL has been RECEIVED by DOT, then please: (a) FAX your entire proposal to +1 (555) 000-0000 and to +1 (555) 000-0000; and (b) call Mr. Hank Clyatt at +1 (555) 000-0000 or Ms. Ellen Polsky at +1 (555) 000-0000, and obtain, from one of those persons, a DOT Security Office fax number, and then ALSO fax your entire proposal to that Security fax number; and (c) ship one original and 8 complete hard-paper copies of your entire proposal, via a dependable parcel-shipment-and-delivery-service, to Mr. James Mowery at: U. S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S. E., Workspace W83-497, Washington, D. C. 20590, Telephone +1 (555) 000-0000. The precautionary procedures described above are NOT intended as any extension or relaxation of the proposal-submission-deadline specified in the RFQ. Instead, they are an acknowledgement of the fact that DOT's e-mail-security-firewall sometimes BLOCKS incoming e-mails that have an attachment. If and ONLY if it hereafter becomes apparent, to this procurement's cognizant DOT employees, that DOT's e-mail-security-firewall DID block DOT's receipt of one or more proposals that were TIMELY e-mailed to the DOT e-mail addresses specified above, then DOT MIGHT exercise its hereby-reserved right to make some kind of equitable adjustment, such as, but not necessarily limited to, taking one or more of the following actions: (a) accepting, via fax and / or via parcel-shipment-and-delivery-service, each proposal whose offeror-company convinced DOT's cognizant employees that the offferor-company had indeed e-mailed its proposal to DOT by this RFQ's proposal-submission-deadline; and POSSIBLY (b) publishing, in FedBizOpps, a further RFQ-Amendment granting a proposal-submission-deadline-extension far enough out into the future to enable any interested company to submit a proposal to DOT within the same time-frame allowed by DOT for the "initial" offerors whose proposal-submission-e-mails had been blocked by DOT's security-firewall. Please note that none of the possible remedies mentioned in this paragraph would ever be invoked if it did not become apparent, to DOT's cognizant employees, that DOT's security-firewall had prevented any timely-e-mailed proposal from reaching DOT. James H. Mowery III Contracting Officer, DOT November 1, 2017