W--LED Video Wall Lease

AMENDMENT NOTICE: This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The solicitation number is W9124B-24-Q-0XV4 and is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ), unless otherwise indicated herein. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2024-01. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 532210 with a small business size standard of $47.00M. This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside and only qualified sellers may submit bids. The solicitation pricing on https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com will start on the date this solicitation is posted, and, unless otherwise displayed at https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com, will end on: 2023-11-17 11:00:00.0 Eastern Time. This time supersedes the Offers Due Time listed above. FOB Destination shall be in the Statement of Work. The MICC Fort Riley requires the following items, Meet or Exceed, to the following: LI 001: Lease of one (1) 12 foot by 7 foot outdoor high resolution LED video Wall at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base (CPEN) from 03 March 2024 - 05 March 2024 in accordance with "Attachment 1 - Product Specifications"., 1, EA; LI 002: Lease of one (1) 12 foot by 7 foot outdoor high resolution LED video Wall at the National Training Center (Fort Irwin, CA) from 18 March 2024 - 20 March 2024 in accordance with "Attachment 1 - Product Specifications"., 1, EA; Solicitation and Buy Attachments ***Question Submission: Interested Sellers must submit any questions concerning the solicitation at the earliest time possible to enable the Buyer to respond. Questions must be submitted by using the 'Submit a Question' feature at https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com. Questions not received within a reasonable time prior to close of the solicitation may not be considered.*** For this solicitation, MICC Fort Riley intends to conduct an online competitive reverse auction to be facilitated by the third-party reverse auction provider, Unison Marketplace. Unison Marketplace has developed an online, anonymous, browser based application to conduct the reverse auction. A Seller may submit a series of pricing bids, which descend in price during the specified period of time for the aforementioned reverse auction. MICC Fort Riley is taking this action in an effort to improve both vendor access and awareness of requests and the agency's ability to gather multiple, competed, real-time bids. All responsible Sellers that respond to this solicitation MUST submit the pricing portion of their bid using the online exchange located at https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com. There is no cost to register, review procurement data or make a bid on https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com.Sellers that are not currently registered to use https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com should proceed to https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com to complete their free registration. Sellers that require special considerations or assistance may contact Marketplace Support at +1 (555) 000-0000 or via email at contact@example.gov. Sellers may not artificially manipulate the price of a transaction on https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com by any means. It is unacceptable to place bad faith bids, to use decoys in the https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com process or to collude with the intent or effect of hampering the competitive https://marketplace.unisonglobal.com process. Should Sellers require additional clarification, notify the point of contact or Marketplace Support at +1 (555) 000-0000 or contact@example.gov. Use of Unison Marketplace: Buyers and Sellers agree to conduct this transaction through Unison Marketplace in compliance with the Unison Marketplace Terms of Use. Failure to comply with the below terms and conditions may result in offer being determined as non-responsive. All of Fort Riley's buy terms apply to this solicitation. The following Combined Synopsis/Solicitation is a Request for Quote (RFQ)competed IAW FAR PART 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures; FAR PART 12, Commercial Items. Quotes failing to met all the terms and conditions of this solicitation; to include buy terms, line item descriptions, and attachments, may not be evaluated for award. One (1) firm-fixed price (FFP) contract will be awarded as a result of this solicitation. Any reference to the term "BID" in this solicitation is used synonymously with the word "QUOTE". Please see FAR 13.004-Legal effect of quotations. Far Clause 52.219-6 and 52.219-6 Alternate 1 Notice of total Small Business Set Aside Alternate 1 is applicable when the SBA waived the non-manufacturer rule. See current Class Waivers at http://www.sba.gov/content/class-waivers. Interested Offerors should submit any questions concerning the solicitation at the earliest time possible to enable the Government to respond. Questions shall be submitted by using the 'Submit a Question' button. Questions not received prior to the close of this solicitation may not be considered. IAW 52.212-1(k): Unless exempted by an addendum to this solicitation, by submission of an offer, the Offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the SAM database prior to award, during performance and through final payment of any contract resulting from this solicitation. If the Offeror does not become registered in the SAM database before the close of the solicitation, the Contracting Officer will proceed to award to the next otherwise successful registered Offeror. Offerors may obtain information on registration and annual confirmation requirements via the SAM database accessed through https://www.acquisition.gov. Registration information can be found at www.sam.gov. The applicable NAICS code for this procurement is 532210 with the related size standard of $47M. The Offeror shall be actively registered with that NAICS or a similar NAICS with the appropriate size standard prior to Award to be considered for any resulting contract. Failure to be properly registered under the appropriate size standard during evaluation and/or at the time of award deems the offer ineligible for award. A similar NAICS Code with the appropriate size standard other than the NAICS Code identified in this buy term may be used as a factor to determine technical capability. (Size standards do not apply to unrestricted set-aside solicitation/RFQ). Quote shall be good for 30 calendar days from the date of the quote submission. In accordance with DFARS 252.232-7003, "Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports", the contractor shall submit their payment request electronically using the Wide Area Workflow (WAWF). The WAWF website is located at https://wawf.eb.mil. There is no charge to use WAWF. Contractors shall register to use WAWF at this website and ensure an electronic business point of contact (POC) is designated in the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov. Contractor training is available at the website Home Page, under "about WAWF". Contractors may contact the WAWF Customer Support for assistance toll free at +1 (555) 000-0000; commercial: +1 (555) 000-0000; Fax commercial: +1 (555) 000-0000 or contact@example.gov. The Buyer is allowing Sellers to submit bids that either meet or exceed the requested specification. Sellers MUST enter exactly what they are bidding (including make, model, and description) into the blank description field in order for the bid to be considered.Offeror may submit quotes for alternate items, provided those items meet all of the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics specified by this solicitation. Alternate items will be evaluated against all listed required specifications provided by the Government. Offeror shall enter exactly what they are offering (including make, model and description) into the blank description field in order for the quote to be considered. The Government will evaluate items on the basis of information furnished by the Offeror or identified in the quote and reasonably available to the Government. The Government is not responsible for locating or obtaining any information not identified in the quote. Offeror shall present a line by line comparison of alternative products using manufacturer name, model/part number, and salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics specified by this solicitation. Offerors shall, at a minimum, respond with a feature to feature comparison in order for a product to be technically evaluated for technical sufficiency. Responses such as "bidding exact match" or "as specified" may be deemed technically unacceptable Far Clause 52.247-34 Free on Board (FOB) destination applies. Shipping shall be FOB destination CONUS (Continental U.S.), which means that the Offeror shall deliver the goods on its conveyance at the destination specified by the Government, and the Offeror is responsible for the cost of shipping and risk of loss prior to actual delivery at the specified destination Delivery shall be made within the specified number of days after receipt of order (ARO). The Offeror shall provide within its offer the number of days required to make delivery after it receives a contract from the Government. The Contractor shall NOT make partial line item shipments against any resulting contract issued as a result of this solicitation unless otherwise specified within the quote submitted. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARS) are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision may be accessed electronically at this address: http://farsite.hill.af.mil and/or http://www.acqnet.gov/far. Provisions: 52.204-7, 52.207-2, 52.212-1, 52.212-3,52.222-22, 52.209-2, 52.223-18, 252.203-7005, 252.206-7000 Clauses: 52.204-9, 52.204-10, 52.204-13, 52.209-10, 52.212-4, 52.212-5, 52.217-6, 52.217-8, 52.217-9, 52.219-28, 52.222-3, 52.222-19, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-50, 52.222-51, 52.223-18, 52.225-13, 52.252-2, 52.252-6, 52.232-19, 52.232-23, 52.232-39, 52.233-3, 52.237-2, 52.237-3, 252.201-7000, 252.203-7000, 252.203-7002, 252.204-7000(when applicable), 252.204-7003, 252.204-7004 Alt A, 252.223-7008, 252.225-7001, 252.225-7002, 252.232-7003, 252.232-7006, 252.243-7001, 252.244-7000, 252.225-7036 (Alternate I: ($25,000 to $49,999),Alternate II,($50,000 to $79,506), Alternate III:($79,507 to $100,000)) Solicitations and Contracts valued at $15,000 or above: 52.222-36 Solicitations and Contracts valued at $30,000 or above: 52.209-6 Solicitations and Contracts valued at $100,000 or above: 52.222-35 and 52.222-37, When applicable: FAR Clause 52.223: 15-Energy Efficiency in Energy-Consuming Products (Dec 2007) (42 U.S.C. 8259b). DFARS Clause 252.204-7000: Disclosure of Information (August 2013) FedBid is NOT a forum for filing protests against the Government. Attempts to file protests through FedBid will not be considered legitimate as they do not conform to the requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). It is preferable that protests be resolved as quickly as possible at the lowest level possible before considering the more formal process described below. To be timely, protests shall be filed within the periods specified in FAR 33.10. 1) All agency-level protests should be sent to the Contracting Officer for resolution. 2) The HQ, AMC-Level Protest Program is intended to encourage interested parties to seek resolution of their concerns within AMC, as an Alternate Dispute Resolution forum, rather than filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or other external forum. The address for filing a protest directly with AMC is: Headquarters U.S. Army Materiel Command Office of Command Counsel-Deputy Command Counsel 4400 Martin Road RM: A6SE040.001 Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000 Fax: +1 (555) 000-0000 or e-mail: contact@example.gov No protest under FAR Subpart 33.1 is authorized in connection with the issuance or proposed issuance of an order under a task-order contract or delivery-order contract, except for:(1) A protest on the grounds that the order increases the scope, period, or maximum value of the contract; or(2) A protest of an order valued in excess of $10M. Protests of orders in excess of $10M may only be filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in accordance with the procedures at 33.104.The authority to protest the placement of an order under (a)(10)(i)(B) of this section expires on September 30, 2016, for agencies other than DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard (41 U.S.C. 4103(d) and 41 U.S.C. 4106(f)). The authority to protest the placement of an order under (a) (10)(i)(B) of this section does not expire for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard.AFARS 5116.5(b) (c) Each HCA shall designate a task and delivery order ombudsman for the contracting activity. The ombudsman shall be a senior official, who is independent of the Contracting Officer and may be the Special Competition Advocate. The ombudsman shall be responsible for reviewing complaints from the contractors under multiple award task or delivery order contracts and ensuring that all the contractors are afforded a fair opportunity to be considered, consistent with the procedures in the contract.Summarize: the ombudsman will only determine if the government gave fair opportunity to a vendor who files a complaint. [AFARS Revision #25, Item XIII, dated April 1, 2010] IAW 52.212-1(g Contract award (not applicable to Invitation for Bids) The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offerors initial offer should contain the offerors 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 may reject any or all offers if such action is in the public interest; accept other than the lowest offer; and waive informalities and minor irregularities in offers received. Please contact the following for any concerns regarding the solicitation and/or award of this requirement: SFC Jared Casey Contracting Officer MICC - Fort Riley Com: +1 (555) 000-0000 Email: contact@example.gov Under FAR Part 12 Streamlined Procedures for Commercial Acquisitions, a debrief is not required. The Government will not offer a debrief for this requirement. Any offer, modification, revision, or withdrawal of an offer received at the Government office designated in the solicitation after the exact time specified for receipt of offers is "late" and may not be considered IAW with 52.212-1(f). At any time during and/or closing of the solicitation, all clarifications, discussions, or changes (as applicable) will be conducted ONLY by the Contracting Officer, MICC Fort Riley, Kansas. Any correspondence (electronic or verbal) presented to the vendor marketplace during the solicitation period by the FEDBID Staff, to include Quality Assurance, will be rejected by the Contracting Officer. No FEBBID correspondence will be accepted by MICC Fort Riley without prior coordination and approval from the Contracting Officer. Funds are not presently available for this contract. The Governments obligation under this contract is contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds from which payment for contract purposes can be made. No legal liability on the part of the Government for any payment may arise until funds are made available to the Contracting Officer for this contract and until the Contractor receives notice of such availability, to be confirmed in writing by the Contracting Officer. (a) Definitions. As used in this clauseCovered application means the social networking service TikTok or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited.Information technology, as defined in 40 U.S.C. 11101(6)(1) Means any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the executive agency, if the equipment is used by the executive agency directly or is used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that requires the use(i) Of that equipment; or(ii) Of that equipment to a significant extent in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product;(2) Includes computers, ancillary equipment (including imaging peripherals, input, output, and storage devices necessary for security and surveillance), peripheral equipment designed to be controlled by the central processing unit of a computer, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources; but(3) Does not include any equipment acquired by a Federal contractor incidental to a Federal contract.(b) Prohibition. Section 102 of Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117-328), the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, and its implementing guidance under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-23-13, dated February 27, 2023, No TikTok on Government Devices Implementation Guidance, collectively prohibit the presence or use of a covered application on executive agency information technology, including certain equipment used by Federal contractors. The Contractor is prohibited from having or using a covered application on any information technology owned or managed by the Government, or on any information technology used or provided by the Contractor under this contract, including equipment provided by the Contractors employees; however, this prohibition does not apply if the Contracting Officer provides written notification to the Contractor that an exception has been granted in accordance with OMB Memorandum M-23-13.(c) Subcontracts. The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in all subcontracts, including subcontracts for the acquisition of commercial products or commercial services. (a) Definitions. As used in this provisionItem risk means the probability that a product, based on intended use, will introduce performance risk resulting in safety issues, mission degradation, or monetary loss.Price risk means a measure of whether a proposed price for a product or service is consistent with historical prices paid for that item or service.Supplier risk means the probability that an award may subject the procurement to the risk of unsuccessful performance or to supply chain risk (see Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement 239.7301).(b) The Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS), available at https://piee.eb.mil/, will be used in the evaluation of the Quoter or Offerors performance. SPRS retrieves item, price, quality, delivery, and contractor information on contracts from Government reporting systems in order to develop risk assessments.(c) The Contracting Officer will consider SPRS risk assessments during the evaluation of quotations or offers received in response to this solicitation as follows:(1) Item risk will be considered to determine whether the procurement represents a high performance risk to the Government.(2) Price risk will be considered in determining if a proposed price is consistent with historical prices paid for a product or a service or otherwise creates a risk to the Government.(3) Supplier risk, including but not limited to quality and delivery, will be considered to assess the risk of unsuccessful performance and supply chain risk.(d) SPRS risk assessments are generated daily. Quoters or Offerors are able to access their risk assessments by following the access instructions in the SPRS user's guide available at https://www.sprs.csd.disa.mil/reference.htm. Quoters and Offerors are granted access to SPRS for their own risk assessment classifications only. SPRS reporting procedures and risk assessment methodology are detailed in the SPRS user's guide. The method to challenge a rating generated by SPRS is also provided in the user's guide. SPRS evaluation criteria are available at https://www.sprs.csd.disa.mil/pdf/SPRS_DataEvaluationCriteria.pdf.(e) The Contracting Officer may consider any other available and relevant information when evaluating a quotation or an offer.