Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, General and Industrial Directorate, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111-5096

W -- LEASING OF CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, FORKLIFTS, ENVIROMENTAL, SNOW REMOVAL, CRANES, FIREFIGHTING VEHICLES, SEWER CLEANERS AND AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT. SOL 00RFI-GH001 DUE 032800 POC James Singer, Program Manager, 215-737-7265 Also, See Below For E-Mail Points of Contact. E-MAIL: James Singer, Program Manager, jsinger@dscp.dla.mil. SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: 1. The Defense Supply Center Philadelphoia (DSCP) Heavy Equipment Program (HEPP)intends to issue a solicitation and possibly award multiple contracts to lease heavy construction, agriculture and road construction equipment, material handling equipment(specifically, forklifts), firefighting vehicles, snow removal equipment, sweepers, truck mounted sewer cleaners, etc. We are issuing a Request for Information (RFI) asking industry to provide preliminary proposals, information and recommendations. The approximate annual dollar value is unknown. Many different Government activities are looking toward leasing as a means of reducing storage and inventory costs. Interested parties should provide "pricing methodology only" at this time. Price proposals should not be submitted at this time. You are invited to furnish written preliminary, initial proposals/recommendations, without pricing, delineating your company's general approach and including specific provisions as well as individual strategies. The Government will not pay for information received under this RFI. After reviewing all submissions, the HEPP team intends to issue an RFP unless further discussion warrants a pre-solicitation conference. Vendors may tailor the categories within this RFI. It is requested that responses include, as a minimum, the following: Pricing methodology; contractual vehicle and process. 2. Essential Categories: a. Pricing -- submitter shall recommend a pricing method. This method must use Government pricing standards and must address cost of money and funding issues as a minimum. See FAR 32.703-2 through FAR 32.703-4. b. Contract Vehicle -- What type of contract? Also, third party contractual issues. c. Process -- Recommend a procedure from onset of customer inquiry to delivery and lease renewal. Address issues such as, but not limited to, lease purchase, maintenance, title, payments of lease fees, collection of money, lease cancellation, trade-in of machinery and residual dollar values. 3.Related Issues: Military usage; Deployment issues; Length of leases; Types of leases; Warranties and Third party arrangements. All interested parties are requested to submit a written work-up including the issues listed above and any other issues related but not mentioned. DSCP strives to be our customer's supplier of choice by providing the best and most comprehensive, available support. We are confident that by partnering with industry this endeavor will prove successful for all. All written, or e-mail responses are to submitted to the following Points of Contact by 4:00 P.M., EST within 60 days. Responses received after this date will be evaluated as time permits. 4. POINTS OF CONTACT P.O.C. EQUIPMENT E-MAIL Cathy Ford Cranes cford@dscp.dla.mil Judy Henry Sweepers, Snow Removal Equipment, jhenry@dscp.dla.mil Truck Mounted Sewer Cleaners Pat Greensweig Heavy Construction Equipment, pgreensweig@dscp.dla.mil Agriculural equipment, Road Construction Equipment Robert Hutkowski Firefighting Vehicles rhutkowski@dscp.dla.mil Joe McHenry Enviromental Equipment jmchenry@dscp.dla.mil Darrell Moresi Forklifts dmoresi@dscp/dla.mil Posted 01/28/00 (W-SN419775). (0028)

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