SOLICITATION NOTICE
66 -- X-Ray Diffractometer System
- Notice Date
- 7/15/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-04-Q-0731
- Response Due
- 7/26/2004
- Archive Date
- 7/27/2004
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation seeks quotes for NEW equipment only; the Government will not consider quotes for refurbished equipment. The Solicitation Number is SB1341-04-Q-0731. The solicitation is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 01-24. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) (see http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html) code for this solicitation is 334516, and the small business size standard for that NAICS code is 500 or fewer employees. For this solicitation, NIST intends to conduct an on-line competitive reverse auction to be facilitated by a third-party reverse auction provider, www.FedBid.com. www.FedBid.com has developed an on-line, anonymous, browser based application to conduct the reverse auction. Offerors may submit a series of pricing quotes, which descend in price during the specified period of time for the aforementioned reverse auction. NIST is taking this action in an effort to improve vendor access and awareness of requests while expediting its ability to gather multiple, competed, real-time offers. ALL RESPONSIBLE OFFERORS THAT RESPOND TO THIS SOLICITATION MUST SUBMIT THE PRICING PORTION OF THEIR OFFER USING THE ONLINE EXCHANGE LOCATED AT WWW.FEDBID.COM. There is no cost to register, review procurement data or make an offer on www.FedBid.com. Offerors that are not currently registered to use www.Fed.com Exchange should proceed to www.FedBid.com to complete their free registration. Offerors that require special considerations or assistance may contact the FedBid Helpdesk at 877-9FEDBID or via email at ClientServices@FedBid.com. Offerors may not artificially manipulate the price of a transaction on www.FedBid.com by any means. It is unacceptable to place bad faith offers, to use decoys in the www.FedBid.com process or to collude with the intent or effect of hampering the competitive www.FedBid.com process. The solicitation pricing on www.FedBid.com will start on the date this solicitation is posted and will end on July 26, 2004 at 12:00:00pm Eastern Time. The list of contract line item (CLIN) numbers and items, quantities and units of measure are as follows: CLIN 0001: X-Ray Diffractometer System that Meets or Exceeds the Minimum Specifications Provided for This Solicitation; Quantity: 1; Unit: Each; CLIN 0002; Contractor Installation and Acceptance Testing at NIST for Item No. 0001; Quantity: 1; Unit: Job; CLIN 0003: Training for Use of CLIN 0001; Quantity: 1; Unit: Job. DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS IN MICROSOFT WORD FORMAT FOR CLIN 0001, 0002 AND 0003 MAY BE OBTAINED BY EMAILING A REQUEST FOR THEM TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV. THE SPECIFICATIONS WILL ALSO BE POSTED WITH THE AUCTION AT WWW.FEDBID.COM. Delivery for Item Number 0001 will be required to be made to the address that will be specified in the purchase order (NIST, Building 301 Shipping and Receiving, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-0001). NOTE: ACCEPTANCE FOR CLIN?S 0001 AND 0002 WILL NOT OCCUR UNLESS ALL MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS FOR CLIN 0001 THAT ARE LISTED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS ARE MET. PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES THAT APPLY: The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition; the additional FAR clauses cited in that clause that apply to this solicitation include: 52.203-6; 52.219-4; 52.219-8; 52.222-3; 52.222-19; 52.222-21; 52.222-26; 52.222-35; 52.222-36; 52.222-37; 52.225-5; 52.225-13; 52.225-15; and 52.232-33. NOTE: All FAR provisions and clauses cited in this solicitation are accessible at http://www.acqnet.gov/far under Part 52 within ?Current FAR? at that site. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING OFFERS: THE OFFEROR MUST SUBMIT THEIR PRICING PORTION OF THEIR OFFER IN RESPONSE TO THIS SOLICITATION VIA THE ONLINE REVERSE AUCTION FOR THIS SOLICITATION AT WWW.FEDBID.COM. IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING THE OFFER PRICING AT WWW.FEDBID.COM FOR THIS SOLICITATION, each Offeror must provide responses to the following numbered items directly to joseph.widdup@nist.gov (not through fedbid.com) so that they are received at that email address no later than the closing date and time for this solicitation: (1) Detailed technical literature that shows what is being offered for each of the solicitation item numbers (including specifications that show dimensions, performance characteristics, functions, etc.); (2) At least three past performance references for SIMILAR contracts/orders completed within the past 3 years (or are currently being completed), to include the name of the Customer organization, a named point of contact in that organization that is familiar with the contract/order from a technical or contractual standpoint, their phone number, their email address, and their fax number, the nature of the product sold to them, when it was sold to them, and, if applicable, purchase order or contract number; (3) Indication of both duration of warranty AND nature of warranty offered for each item number (the Government requires that the standard commercial warranty be offered for items being quoted for this solicitation; extended warranty may offered, and, if offered, it must be priced separately in the quotation); (4) Detailed information regarding how warranty service would be provided, if necessary, by the contractor for item No. 0001 after award, including, at a minimum, responses to the following (a) through (d): (a) whether the item would have to be shipped by NIST to the Contractor or whether the Contractor would perform on-site (at NIST) warranty service; (b) If the item would have to be shipped to the contractor, the location(s) (city, state, country, etc.) to where it would have to be shipped for warranty service; (c) If the item would have to be shipped to the Contractor, who would pay for the shipping costs (NIST or the Contractor); and (d) Current availability and location(s) of spare/replacement parts for Item Number 0001; (5) Completed copy of FAR provision 52.212-3, which is accessible on the internet in .html format for .pdf format at http://www.acqnet.gov/far under the button Current FAR in Part 52 (may be faxed to Joseph Widdup at (301) 975-8884 if they cannot be emailed); (6) Indication of when (how many days after acceptance of order) that Item Number 0001 would be delivered to the NIST shipping and receiving dock after receipt of order; (7) List of what items and/or services that NIST would have to provide in addition to those listed in the specifications (if applicable) to the Contractor during installation for the Contractor to complete the installation and/or acceptance testing of Item Number 0001); and (8) List of assumptions made by the Offeror in submitting the quote that relate to Contractor performance after award. QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS SOLICITATION MUST BE SENT BY EMAIL ONLY TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV. Any amendments to this solicitation will be posted at www.fedbizopps.gov only and will not be released by other means to potential Offerors. EVALUATION FACTORS FOR AWARD: Award will be made using Simplified Acquisition Procedures under FAR Subpart 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. The Government will award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer confirming 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 acceptability of items offered, in terms of whether they meet or exceed the specifications listed in this solicitation; (2) Availability of spare/replacement parts; (3) Ease of obtaining timely warranty service for Item No. 0001; (4) past performance information for the Offeror, and (5) evaluated price. Non-price evaluation factors are equally important and, collectively, are approximately equal in importance to evaluated price. NOTE: After award, payment for each item will ONLY be made AFTER the Government receives it and accepts it, and the Contractor thereafter submits a proper invoice to the NIST Accounts Payable Office for those line items. (Advance payment for a given item number will not be made to the Contractor before NIST accepts the applicable line item.) Pricing on www.FedBid.com for CLIN?s 0001, 0002 and 0003 must be valid for at least 60 days. NONE OF THE FILES EMAILED TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV SHOULD CONTAIN ANY PRICING INFORMATION.
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- SN00623864-W 20040717/040716103235 (fbodaily.com)
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