SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Animation and Storyboarding Software
- Notice Date
- 6/28/2011
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 423430
— Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Mobility Command, 6th Contracting Squadron, 2606 Brown Pelican Ave., MacDill AFB, Florida, 33621-5000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 33621-5000
- Solicitation Number
- F2VUJS1172A001
- Archive Date
- 7/29/2011
- Point of Contact
- Melissa A Robertson, Phone: 813-828-6570, Alyson Gowin, Phone: 813-828-1872
- E-Mail Address
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melissa.robertson.3@us.af.mil, alyson.gowin@macdill.af.mil
(melissa.robertson.3@us.af.mil, alyson.gowin@macdill.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial product 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; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will NOT be issued. This is a Request for Quote (RFQ) and the solicitation number is F2VUJS1172A001. This acquisition is unrestricted. The 6th Contracting Squadron, MacDill AFB, Florida, requires the following: Animation and Storyboarding Software in the Tampa, FL area for SOCOM. DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT CLIN 0001 - Storyboard Pro 2.0 Consulting Version (Qty: 3) and Harmony Network Licenses (Qty: 10) OR EQUAL. CLIN 0002 - Base Year, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Storyboard Pro including free upgrades (Qty: 3); POP: 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2012 CLIN 0003 - Base Year, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Harmony Network licenses including free upgrades (Qty: 10); POP: 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2012 CLIN 0004 - 10 days Harmony and Storyboard Training including installation if needed. Your price should include all travel expenses (Qty: 10 days) CLIN 1001 - Option Year 1, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Storyboard Pro including free upgrades (Qty: 3); POP: 1 August 2012 to 31 July 2013 CLIN 1002 - Option Year 1, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Harmony Network licenses including free upgrades (Qty: 10); POP: 1 August 2012 to 31 July 2013 CLIN 2001 - Option Year 2, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Storyboard Pro including free upgrades (Qty: 3); POP: 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014 CLIN 2002 - Option Year 2, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Harmony Network licenses including free upgrades (Qty: 10); POP: 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014 CLIN 3001 - Option Year 3, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Storyboard Pro including free upgrades (Qty: 3); POP: 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015 CLIN 3002 - Option Year 3, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Harmony Network licenses including free upgrades (Qty: 10); POP: 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015 CLIN 4001 - Option Year 4, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Storyboard Pro including free upgrades (Qty: 3); POP: 1 August 2015 to 31 July 2016 CLIN 4002 - Option Year 4, Annual enhanced support and maintenance on Harmony Network licenses including free upgrades (Qty: 10); POP: 1 August 2015 to 31 July 2016 Please provide a BRAND NAME OR EQUAL quote. If an or equal quote is submitted, the proposal will be sent to the technical advisor for compatibility verification. ANY OFFEROR PROVIDING AN OR EQUAL PRODUCT SHOULD DESCRIBE THOROUGHLY HOW THEIR PRODUCT MEETS ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS LISTED. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL MAKE THAT OFFEROR NON-RESPONSIVE AND WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD. PLEASE NOTE: Contractor must be able to meet all specified requirements. Proposal should thoroughly describe how you will meet all the needs to this requirement. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is essential to the beginning of any audiovisual project. It helps you take an idea or message and bring it to life in a structured and professional manner. Storyboard Pro was developed in conjunction with seasoned storyboard artists and significantly speeds up the production and revision process. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro delivers powerful features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard. We require this Toon Boom product OR EQUAL. Proposed solution for USSOCOM must have to following abilities/ features: • ability to have multiple people work simultaneously on the same scene • ability to mix cut-out characters with traditional vector animation over 3D rendered props with high resolution bitmap backgrounds and maintain the production's creative look throughout the project • ability to create color models with independent palettes and easily change colors of any element during production, all in real-time • ability to output to all media from web to handheld devices, film and HD • ability to operate in a Mac based network environment • comfortable drawing position with the rotary light table, rotating canvas and onion skin • TWAIN support for scanning • advanced animation tools with tweening, forward kinematics, cell swapping and transform tool • 3D and intergrated multiplane camera with left and right hand capabilities • full object position, unique camera rotation and tilting on 3 axes • work in a single integrated pipeline • the ability to take inputs from the pressure sensitive drawing tablet cintiq 21x • unlimited style creation combining vectors and pixmap • have up to 100 staging clients • Live sync of Xsheet and Timeline The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-52 effective 31 May 2011, DFAR DPN 20110623 effective 23 June 2011 and AFFAR AFAC 2011-0421 effective 21 April 2011. The North American Industry Classification System code (NAICS) 423430, Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers. A firm fixed price contract will be awarded. All interested parties must bid on all items. BASIS FOR AWARD: Award will be made to the offeror that is determined to be technically acceptable and in the best interest of the Government. 52.212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Items (Jan 1999) (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: (i) technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement and all characteristics in the attachment (ii) price Award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors. (c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award. (End of Provision) DELIVERY ADDRESS: This software is to be procured on behalf United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), MacDill AFB (Tampa), FL 33621. PROVISIONS/CLAUSES: The following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), provisions and clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated by reference (provisions and clauses may be obtained via the internet: http://farsite.hill.af.mil, http://www.arnet.gov/far/, or http://safaq.hq.af.mil/contracting): FAR 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration; FAR 52.211-6, Brand Name or Equal on RFQ; FAR 52.212-1, Instruction to Offerors-Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions; FAR 52.247-34, F.O.B. Destination. The following FAR clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated in full text: FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representation and Certifications-Commercial Items (Offeror must submit a completed copy of this prevision with its proposal for the proposal to be considered. See https://orca.bpn.gov/ for online submittal); FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes Or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, within FAR 52.212-5, the following clauses apply: FAR 52.204-10 Reports on Subcontracting, FAR 52.209-6 Protecting the Government's Interest; FAR 52.219-28 Small Business Representations, 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 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities, FAR 52.223-18 Contractor Policy to Ban Text Messaging While Driving, FAR 52.225-13 Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases, FAR 52.232-33 Payment By Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration; FAR 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (fill-in = 30 days); FAR 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (fill-ins = 60 days, 30 days respectively); FAR 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference;. The following Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated by reference: DFARS 252.204-7003 Control of Government Personnel Work Product; 252.204-7004 (Alt 1) Required Central Contractor Registration; 252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments; 252.243-7001 Pricing of Contract Modifications. The following DFARS clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated in full text: DFARS 252.212-7000 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items; DFARS 252.212-7001 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items, within DFARS 252.212-7001, the following clauses apply: DFARS 252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials, DFARS 252.225-7001 Buy American Act and Balance of Payment Program, DFARS 252.225-7036 Buy American Act, Free Trade Agreements, Balance of Payment Programs, DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests, DFARS 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea. The following Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFFARS) clause applies and is incorporated in full texts: AFFARS 5352.201-9101, Ombudsman: (a) An ombudsman has been appointed to hear and facilitate the resolution of concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and others for this acquisition. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The existence of the ombudsman does not affect the authority of the program manager, contracting officer, or source selection official. Further, the ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, or the adjudication or protests or formal contract disputes. The ombudsman may refer the party to another official who can resolve the concern. (b) Before consulting with an ombudsman, interested parties must first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendations to the contracting officer for resolution. Consulting an ombudsman does not alter or postpone the timelines for any other processes (e.g., agency level bid protests, GAO bid protests, requests for debriefings, employee-employer actions, contests of OMB Circular A-76 competition performance decisions). (c) If resolution cannot be made by the contracting officer, concerned parties may contact the Center/MAJCOM ombudsman Mr. Michael R. Jackson, HQ AMC/A7K, 507 Symington Drive, Scott AFB, IL 62225-5022, (618) 229-0267, fax (618) 256-668, email: Michael.Jackson@scott.af.mil. Concerns, issues, disagreement, and recommendations that cannot be resolved at the MAJCOM/DRU level, may be brought by the concerned party for further consideration to the Air Force ombudsman, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (ADAS) (Contracting), SAF/ACQ, facsimile number (703) 588-1067. (d) The ombudsman has no authority to render a decision that binds the agency. (e) Do not contact the ombudsman to request copies of the solicitation, verify offer due date, or clarify technical requirements. Such inquiries shall be directed to the Contracting Officer. (End of clause) Also your quote must list your DUNS number, CAGE code, and Federal TIN with Company name, POC and phone number. If you need to obtain or renew a DUNS number or CAGE code, please visit www.ccr.gov. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. DEADLINE: Offers are due on 14 July 2011 by 9:00 AM EST. Submit offers or any questions to the attention of Melissa Robertson 6 CONS/LGCB by email to melissa.robertson.3@us.af.mil.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: US SOCOM, MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida, 33621, United States
- Zip Code: 33621
- Zip Code: 33621
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