SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- Infrared Spectrometer
- Notice Date
- 8/7/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, ASC - Aeronautical Systems Center, 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433-7218
- ZIP Code
- 45433-7218
- Solicitation Number
- FA8601-06-T-0143
- Response Due
- 8/21/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- INFRARED SPECTROMETER. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial item prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation FA8601-06-T-0143 is issued as a Request for Quotations (RFQ). This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-09. This acquisition is 100% set-aside for small business. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 334515. The small business size standard is 500 Employees. This RFQ is being conducted as a commercial item procurement using Simplified Acquisition Procedures (FAR Part 13). No paper copies of this solicitation will be provided. The RFQ has one (1) line item. LINE ITEM 0001: VERTEX 70 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, Quantity one (1) each with the Salient Characteristics that will be provided upon e-mail request to tammy.tobe@wpafb.af.mil. Brand Name or Equal quotes will be accepted. Offer/quote should include a technical description of the items being offered in sufficient detail to evaluate compliance with the requirements in the solicitation. This may include product literature, or other documents, if necessary. FOB point is Destination (Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433. Quoted prices should be delivered (FOB Destination) prices. The government intends to award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible quoter whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate quotes: price, technical, past performance, and delivery time. Solicitation provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors ? Commercial (Jan 2004) are hereby incorporated by reference. Award will be based upon best value to the government considering cost and technical acceptability, see FAR 52.212-2 ? Evaluation ? Commercial Items. All offerors shall include with their offers a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certification Commercial Items (Jan 2004). Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions, Commercial Items (Oct 2003), is hereby incorporated by reference. The following additional FAR clauses cited in FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders, Commercial Items (Jan 2004) are applicable to the acquisition: 52.211-6, Brand Name of Equal; 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, With Alternate I; 52.204-6, Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number; 52.222-19, Child Labor Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of Vietnam Era; 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer?Central Contractor Registration. The following DFARS clauses apply to this acquisition: DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders?Commercial Items; DFARS 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program; DFARS 252.225-7002, Qualifying Country Sources As Subcontractors; DFARS 252.204-7004, Required Central Contractor Registration. Copies of all provisions and clauses, including Representations and Certifications, are available at http://farsite.hill.af.mil/. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS: Any award resulting from this solicitation will include DFARS Clause 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests. Section 1008 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2001 requires any claims for payments (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 http://www.wawftraining.com. Prior to submitting invoices in the production system, contractors must register for an account at https://wawf.eb.mil/. By submission of a quote, the quoter acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardees must be registered in the CCR database prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract resulting from this solicitation. Mr. Stephen Miller has been appointed as Ombudsman to hear concerns from offerors, or potential offers, during the proposal development. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. Existence of the Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program director or the contracting officer. Accordingly, the Ombudsman does not participate in the preparation of solicitations, the evaluation of proposals or the source selection process and, therefore, for routine matters on individual solicitations, please contract the buyer at the telephone number listed herein. When requested the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. Should you desire to contact the Ombudsman, Mr. Miller can be reached at (937) 255-5315, DSN 785-5315. His address is 1755 Eleventh Street, Room 113, Bldg 570, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7404. All proposals, Representations and Certifications, and Central Contractor Registration Information are due 16:00 PM EDT on 21 August 2006 and must be submitted to Tammy Tobe, 88 CONS/PKBB, 1940 Allbrook Drive, Suite 3, Wright-Patterson AFB OH, 45433-5309, emailed to tammy.tobe@wpafb.af.mil, or faxed to (937) 257-3926. For information concerning this solicitation, contact Tammy Tobe at (937) 522-4639 or tammy.tobe@wpafb.af.mil. Two (2) documents (Representations and Certifications and Salient Characteristics) to this combined synopsis/solicitation will be provided upon e-mail request to the above contact. Contractors must be registered in CCR prior to award for solicitations issued after 31 May 1998. Tel: 1-888-CCR-2423 Fax: 1-703-696-0213. Duns/CCR Website: http://ccr.edi.disa.mil/ccr/cgibin//query.pl.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Wright-Patterson AFB OH
- Zip Code: 45433
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 45433
- Record
- SN01108143-W 20060809/060807220514 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |