SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Survey Software and Services - PWS
- Notice Date
- 3/4/2014
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Defense Budget and Contracts, 201 12th Street, Suite 203, Arlington, Virginia, 22202-5408
- ZIP Code
- 22202-5408
- Solicitation Number
- HQ0013-14-T-0006
- Archive Date
- 4/19/2014
- Point of Contact
- Woodrow W. Bell, Phone: 7036021464
- E-Mail Address
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woodrow.bell@dsca.mil
(woodrow.bell@dsca.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- 508 Sheet PWS Solicitation Number: HQ0013-14-T-0006 Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (i)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. (ii)This solicitation document, HQ0013-14-T-0006, is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ). (iii) This solicitation and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-58. It is the responsibility of the offeror to review the web page for notice of amendments, updates or changes to the solicitation. (iv)This solicitation is issued under FAR Part 13-Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The objective of this effort is to obtain survey software for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) to assess and monitor program effectiveness and outcomes. The North American Classification System (NAICS) code is 541519, size standard is $25.5 million. Award of this requirement will be in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. (v) The contractor shall deliver a fully integrated survey software tool, which includes all aspects of survey research, design, publishing, data collection, analysis, data/results import/export, and offer a variety of modes of survey administration (i.e. web-based, paper-based, scanned, mobile, offline devices, smartphones, kiosk, e-mail and telephone) with the capability to collect over 10,000 responses a year. The requirements are detailed in the attached Statement of Work. (vi) Surveys software shall generate publishable surveys specifically in English, French, Portuguese, including right to left script fonts like Arabic without additional integration tools. The survey software shall generate data that can be exported to external databases. Data shall be accessible for advanced multi-variate statistical methods such as factor and cluster analysis and internal/external benchmarking. (vii) Security/Hosting/Scanning: The software shall include the ability to use fully integrated paper-based surveys as a seamless point of data input in to the survey software as well as webhosted surveys. The contractor shall provide a minimum of 5 fully functional logins and 5 concurrent researcher logins. The requirement shall be Firm Fixed Price (FFP). (viii) The requirement shall be Firm Fixed Price (FFP). (ix) Requirements as follows: Offerors may submit quotes in their usual form. The individual billable items shall be detailed and clear. (x) Offerors shall provide information regarding cancellation policy. (xi)THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TAX EXEMPT. (xii) Provision at FAR 52.252-1, Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (available at http://farsite.hill.af.mil) applies to this acquisition. (xiii) Provision at FAR 52.252-1, Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (available at http://farsite.hill.af.mil) applies to this acquisition. (xiv) Provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation the most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors is considered. (xv) Instructions to Offerors a. Offerors shall provide a complete quote of items and services required to meet the Government's requirements. Any applicable warranty and maintenance information shall be included in the offeror's submission. b. Quotes shall be forwarded to Woodrow Bell via email at woodrow.bell@dsca.mil, No Later Than 11:00 am, on 4 April 2014 Offerors shall provide a complete quote of items and services required to meet the Government's requirements. Any applicable warranty and maintenance information shall be included in the offeror's submission. c. Offerors shall provide the names of two government agencies that have purchased the offered product. In lieu of government agencies, offerors may provide the names of companies that have purchased the offered product. For each agency/company submitted, offerors shall provide point of contact information. Point of contact information shall include: -Name of point of contact -Phone number of point of contact -Email address of point of contact (xvi) Evaluation Factors: a. Provision at FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation the most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors is considered. b. The awardee shall be selected with the use of Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Source Selection Process. c. Award will be made on the basis of the lowest evaluated price of proposals meeting or exceeding the acceptability standards for non-cost factors. d. Tradeoffs are not permitted. e. Proposals are evaluated for acceptability but not ranked using the non-cost/price factors. f. Exchanges may occur. g. Non-cost factors: The non-cost factors are Capabilities and Past Performance 1. Capabilities shall evaluate the capabilities and features discussed in the offerors' proposals 2. Past Performance shall be reviewed to determine relevancy. After a relevancy determination is made, the performance will be evaluated for acceptability. The evaluation ratings will be acceptable or unacceptable. h. MINIMUM ACCEPTABILITY STANDARDS. To be determined acceptable, offers have to meet or offer ALL of the following, at a minimum. 1. Analytics: Cross tabs, frequencies/grids, charts/graphs, descriptive statistic measures of central tendency, spread and distribution, mean, mode, quartiles, standard deviation, Chi-Square & significance testing. 2. Language: Software must generate publishable surveys in multiple languages; specifically in English, French, Portuguese, including right to left script fonts like Arabic without additional integration tools. 3. Must export to statistical databases for additional analysis. Data should be accessible for advanced multi-variate statistical methods such as Factor and Cluster Analysis, and internal/external benchmarking. 4. Modes: Must include the ability to use fully integrated paper-based surveys as a seamless point of data input into the survey software as well as web-hosted surveys. 5. Bureau Veritas Certified. (xvii)Provision at FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The Government will evaluate offers in response to this request in accordance with FAR Part 13.106 procedures and award a purchase order/contract to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to this request, will be most advantageous to the Government considering price and the ability to meet all of the solicitation requirements. (xviii)Provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition (offers are to include a completed copy.) The contractor shall be registered in the Online Representations and Certifications Application ORCA at http://orca.bpn.gov/. (xix)Clause at FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition Addendum to FAR 52.212-4. (xx)1. Invoicing WIDE AREA WORK FLOW (WAWF): All contractor invoices and receiving reports are required to be submitted electronically in accordance with DFARS 252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports. Contractors shall submit invoices through the WAWF System at https://wawf.eb.mil/. The Government will be using WAWF to accept/approve invoices and receiving reports. Payment will not be made unless and until both the contractor and the Government WAWF submissions are submitted and processed correctly. Contractor invoices must reflect the contract line times (CLINs) contained in the contract. Proper invoices also must reflect the prices stipulated in the contract and the service or supply must be delivered, inspected and accepted. WAWF Instructions an interactive self-paced training module is available for both contractor and Government personnel at http://wawftraining.com to learn how to use WAWF. WAWF also offers customer support and/or assistance at 1-866-618-5988. THE FOLLOWING CODES AND INFORMATION WILL BE REQUIRED TO ASSURE SUCCESSFUL FLOW OF WAWF DOCUMENTS. CONTRACT NUMBER: To be determined at time of award DUNS CODE: To be determined at time of award ISSUE BY DODAAC: HQ0013 ADMIN BY DODAAC: HQ0013 INSPECT BY DODAAC: HQ0013 ACCEPT BY DODAAC: HQ0013 LOCAL PROCESSING OFFICE DODAAC: HQ0013 PAYMENT OFFICE DODAAC: HQ0347 PAYMENT OFFICE FISCAL STATION CODE: DFAS INDIANAPOLIS (xxi) Clause at FAR 52.212-5(Dev), Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. Applicable clauses under FAR 52.212-5 are as follows (available at http://farsite.hill.af.mil). 52.203-6 ALT1, Restrictions on Subcontracting Sales to the Government; 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct; 52.209-10, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations;52.219.4 Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns; 52.219-28, Post Award small Business Program Representation; 52.222-3, Convict Labor; 52.222-19, Child Labor Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 523222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in persons; 52.223-18, Contractor Policy to Ban Text Messaging while Driving; 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer System for Award Management. Any resulting contract will be paid using the Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF) system at https://wawf.eb.mil/; 52.233-3, Protest after Award; 52.246-4, Inspection of Services-Fixed Price; 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Full Text (website provided by http://farsite.hill.af.mil). (xxii) Other clauses that apply. 52.202-1 Definitions NOV 2013 52.203-3 Gratuities APR 1984 52.203-13 Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct APR 2010 52.204-3 Taxpayer Identification OCT 1998 52.204-7 System for Award Management JUL 2013 52.209-10 Prohibition on Contracting With Inverted Domestic Corporations MAY 2012 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items SEP 2013 52.217-5 Evaluation Of Options JUL 1990 52.232-23 Assignment Of Claims JAN 1986 52.242-13 Bankruptcy JUL 1995 SECTION 508 COMPLIANCE. Section 508 Accessibility Standards are applicable to this acquisition: Section 1194.21 -- Software Applications and Operating Systems (12 provisions) Section 1194.31 -- Functional Performance Criteria (6 provisions) Section 1194.41 -- Information, Documentation and Support (3 provisions) (xxiii) The following DFAR clauses apply to this acquisition: DFARS 252.203-7002, Requirement to inform Employee's of Whistleblower Rights; DFARS 252.203-7003, Control of Government Personnel Work Product; DFARS 252.204-7004, Alternate A System for Award Management; DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisition of Commercial Items ;252.225-7002, Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors; 252.243-7001, Pricing of Contract Modifications; 252.243-7002, Request for Equitable Adjustment. Applicable additional clauses under DFARS 252.212-7001 are as follows: 252.203-7000, Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program; 252.225-7012, Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities; Gratuities; DFARS 252.232-7003, Electronic Submissions of Payment Requests; 252.247-7023,Transportation of Supplies by Sea. (xxiv)Submission of Quotes: Quotes shall be submitted by 4 April 11:00 AM EST to the point of contact listed below. (xxv) The point of contact (POC) for this acquisition is Woodrow Bell. Woodrow can be reached via email at woodrow.bell@dsca.mil or telephone at (703) 602-1464. (xxvi) A detailed requirement description is attached.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 300 5th Avenue SW, Bldg 20, Rm 003, Ft. McNair Washington, District of Columbia, 20319-5066, United States
- Zip Code: 20319-5066
- Zip Code: 20319-5066
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