Temperature Bridge Upgrade

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-82, DAC 91-13, and Defense Publication Notice (DPN) 20150420. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotes are being requested and a written request for quotation (RFQ) will not be issued. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of amendments (if any). AFMETCAL at Heath OH intends to solicit and award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) in accordance with FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures and FAR Part 12-Acquisition of Commercial Items, for the purchase of Temperature Bridge Upgrades. The RFQ number is FA2263-15-Q-0018 and shall be referenced on any offer submitted. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334513 and the business size standard is 500 employees. This RFQ is being solicited as unrestricted. Offerors are requested to provide pricing for two (2) upgrades. It is anticipated that two (2) upgrades will be purchased in FY15. Products offered for the upgrade shall be commercially available. Items proposed for the upgrades shall be new units. Reconditioned, remanufactured, or used items are not acceptable and shall not be proposed. The units must meet the requirements of Statement of Work 15M-270A-TE Rev 2 dated 1 May 2015 with a standard commercial warranty and data in accordance with DD Form 1423. The Statement of Work and requirements for data delivery identified in the contract data requirements list are available for download at this site. Please review ALL documents carefully. Upon completion of the upgrades, both units will undergo acceptance testing which will be completed within 60 days after return receipt of the units at AFMETCAL in Heath Ohio. Invoices may not be submitted in Wide Area WorkFlow (WAWF) until the units have been accepted. Offerors will be required to provide pricing for a total of two (2) upgrades. The current versions of the following provisions and clauses, both by reference or full text, apply to this acquisition and are incorporated herein: FAR 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations; FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-2 "Evaluation--Commercial Items - (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: 1. Technical. Capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirements as stated in the Statement of Work; and 2. Price. Award will be based on technical acceptability (acceptable or not acceptable) and then lowest total evaluated price. Technical acceptability will be determined solely on the content and merit of the information submitted in response to this request for quotation. Technical Tradeoffs will not be made and no additional credit will be given for exceeding acceptability. All offeror's shall provide with their proposal: descriptive literature, brochures, and a technical proposal response. Offerors must submit sufficient technical literature, documentation, etc., in order for the Government to make an adequate technical assessment of the proposed unit. The technical proposal response MUST include a written line-by-line response to each paragraph number of the statement of work, and provide sufficient supporting technical literature. Solely restating the paragraphs of the statement of work or limiting the response to a simple statement of compliance is not acceptable. Where the technical literature demonstrates that the proposed unit meets the requirement of a specific statement of work paragraph, you may reference that page and paragraph of the technical literature in your technical response in lieu of restating it. The total evaluated price will be calculated as follows: (1) On the basic year, the evaluated price will be the unit price proposed multiplied by the specified unit quantity (e.g. 2 EACH). (2) The sum of all CLINs will represent the total evaluated price. FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items, with Alternate I. Each offeror shall include a completed copy of this provision. An offeror shall complete only paragraph (b) of this provision if the offeror has completed the annual representations and certificates electronically via the System for Award Management (SAM) Website accessed through http://www.acquisition.gov . If an offeror has not completed the annual representations and certifications electronically, the offeror shall complete paragraphs (c) through (p) of this provision; 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 (DEVIATION); FAR 52.219-28 Post-Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation; FAR 52.222-3 Convict Labor; FAR 52.222-19 Child Labor - Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; FAR 52.222-21 Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; FAR 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-36 Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-50 Combating Trafficking in Persons; FAR 52.223-18 Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving; FAR 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; FAR 52.232-33 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management; FAR 52.233-3 Protest After Award; FAR 52.233-4 Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim; FAR 52.245-1 Government Property; FAR 52.245-9 Uses and Charges; FAR 52.247-34 F.o.b. - Destination; DFARS 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; DFARS 252.204-7012 Safeguarding of Unclassified Controlled Technical Information; DFARS 252.211-7003 Item Identification and Valuation; DFARS 252.211-7007 Reporting of Government-Furnished Property; DFARS 252.215-7007 Notice of Intent to Resolicit; DFARS 252.227-7015 Technical Data - Commercial Items; DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Restrictive Markings on Technical Data; DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports; DFARS 252.232-7006 Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions; DFARS 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments; DFARS 252.244-7000 Subcontracts for Commercial Items; DFARS 252.245-7001 Tagging, Labeling, and Marking of Government-Furnished Property; DFARS 252.245-7002 Reporting Loss of Government Property; DFARS 252.245-7003 Contractor Property Management System Administration; DFARS 252.245-7004 Reporting, Reutilization, and Disposal; DFARS 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea; AFFARS 5352.201-9101 Ombudsman - When appropriate, potential offerors may contact Ombudsman Jill Willingham-Allen, AFLCMC/AQP at Phone 937-255-5472. It is the offeror's responsibility to be familiar with the applicable provisions and clauses. To view provisions and clauses in full text see website (http://farsite.hill.af.mil). Offers need to adhere to FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items; and include a completed FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications. The Government's preferred method is Online Representations and Certifications. The reps and certs in FAR 52.212-3 fill-in must be completed and returned with offer. This can be accomplished by registering in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov and completing the on-line Representations and Certifications. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OFFERORS: All prospective awardees are required to register at SAM and maintain active registration during the life of the contract. SAM can be accessed at https://www.sam.gov. Any award resulting from this solicitation will include DFARS Clause 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports. Section 1008 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2001 requires any claims for payment (invoices) under DoD contract to be submitted in electronic form. Wide Area WorkFlow-Receipt and Acceptance (WAWF-RA) is the DoD system of choice for implementing this statutory requirement. Use of the basic system is at no cost to the contractor. Contractors must complete vendor training, which is also available at no cost at https://wawf.eb.mil. Prior to submitting invoices in the production system, contractors must register for an account at https://wawf.eb.mil/. The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offeror's initial offer should contain the offeror's best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. The government reserves the right to limit the number of offers reviewed for award, for efficiency purposes. CLINs should be priced as follows: FY 2015 Basic Contract CLIN 0001 Temperature Bridge Upgrade (two (2) each) CLIN 0002 Data (two (2) each) The offer MUST: (1) be valid for a period of 90 days, (2) be for the item described in the Statement of Work, (3) be FOB Destination, (4) include a delivery schedule, (5) include copy of commercial price list, (6) include name of and be signed by an authorized company representative along with telephone number, facsimile number, and email address, (7) include taxpayer identification number (TIN), CAGE Code Number and DUNS Number, (8) include a technical proposal that includes a written line-by-line response to the SOW, (9) include copy of offeror's standard commercial warranty, (10) completed FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications. Offerors shall ensure information in SAM is current. The Government reserves the right to incorporate the successful offeror's technical proposal into any contract resulting from this solicitation. This will be a DO-A70 rated order. Offers are due by 22 May 2015 at 2:00 PM EDT to: Kathryn Vaccaro, AFMETCAL, 813 Irving-Wick Dr W, Bldg. 2, Heath OH 43056-1199. Facsimile submissions to 740-788-5157 are permissible with the follow-up of an original sent by overnight mail. Electronic submissions to kathryn.vaccaro@us.af.mil are permissible in a PDF compatible attachment with an original sent by overnight mail. Due to current Air Force requirements emails shall not include ZIP files. Offerors bare the risk for receipt of submitted offers being untimely. Offerors shall allow sufficient time for receipt of electronic submissions by the due date and time. Any offer or modifications to the offer received after the exact time specified for receipt of offers/quotes may not be considered. All responsible sources may submit an offer, which if received timely shall be considered by this agency.