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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF DECEMBER 09, 2015 FBO #5129
SOLICITATION NOTICE

84 -- Inclement Weather Combat Shirt - Draft Purchase Description

Notice Date
12/7/2015
 
Notice Type
Presolicitation
 
NAICS
315280 — Other Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing
 
Contracting Office
Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, MARCORSYSCOM, 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, Virginia, 22134, United States
 
ZIP Code
22134
 
Solicitation Number
M67854-16-R-1103
 
Point of Contact
Peggy L Smith,
 
E-Mail Address
peggy.l.smith1@usmc.mil
(peggy.l.smith1@usmc.mil)
 
Small Business Set-Aside
N/A
 
Description
Draft IWCS Purchase Description This Presolicitation Notice is being posted in advance of Solicitation No. M67854-16- R-1103 for the Inclement Weather Combat Shirt (IWCS). The forthcoming solicitation will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set-aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Certified Businesses. Information contained in this notice is subject to change. No proposals are being requested at this time. The Marine Corps System Command (MARCORSYSCOM), Product Manager for Infantry Combat Equipment (PdM ICE), requires a Berry Amendment compliant, IWCS. The IWCS provides similar protection, safety and comfort features required by other Flame Resistant Organizational Gear, such as flame protection, but also protection from cold and wet (inclement) weather. The estimated maximum IWCS quantity is 58,100. The NAICS code is 315280, All Other Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing, with a size standard of 500 employees. The Government anticipates awarding a Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to no more than one offeror that is capable of producing at least 35,000 IWCS within twelve months from the 1 st shipment of contract award. The ID/IQ contract will cover a four-year period of performance consisting of four one-year ordering periods. Evaluation factors will be set forth in the forthcoming solicitation. Potential offerors are advised that the evaluation will require offerors to submit a minimum of seven product demonstration models (Woodland or Desert) for compliance to an IWCS technical data package. A draft version of the IWCS Purchase Description (PD), dated November 2015, is included as Attachment 01 to this presolicitation notice. Draft patterns are also available in accordance with the following directions: • Copy and paste the link below into your Internet Explorer and click Save when prompted. https://nctrf.natick.army.mil/nctrf/workorder.nsf/0/EADE7C2B01B6953185257F07 00538C0A/$FILE/IWCS_3Nov2015.zip?OpenElement&Login&Username=glogin&password=password • If you are prompted for a username and password, the username is glogin and the password is password. • Import file into Accumark Explorer storage area. Disclaimer: If Accumark data is imported into V9 or higher, line annotation above #254 will not plot to identify internal markings. The Government does not take responsibility for bug in Gerber Accumark software. Verify in PDS for line information when using line annotation file. If using later versions of 8 there will be no issue. Interested offerors are advised that the PD and patterns, as included in this announcement, are in draft form and are subject to change. The final versions of the PD and patterns will be released with the solicitation. Solicitation Number M67854-16-R-1103 is anticipated to be issued within the next forty-five (45) days and will be posted on the internet at the Federal Business Opportunities website located at the following address: https://www.fbo.gov. The online version of the solicitation will include all documents of the solicitation package. No hard copies of this solicitation will be issued. Amendments, if any, will be posted at the same location as the original solicitation. The complete solicitation package, including amendments, should be received and reviewed prior to submitting a proposal. Proposals will be due no later than thirty days after solicitation issuance and shall be submitted in hard copy form only. No electronic submission of proposals will be accepted. Those responding to the solicitation have the responsibility to obtain all amendments and/or other applicable documents. Offerors are instructed to hold all questions until the solicitation has been issued. Offerors shall submit ALL questions in writing to Peggy.L.Smith1@usmc.mil. No phone calls will be accepted. All items, materials, and components thereof submitted shall be in full compliance with the Berry Amendment (10 U.S.C. 2533a). Offerors may be required to provide detailed information certifying compliance. In order to be eligible for award, interested parties much be registered into the System for Award Management (SAM), http://www.sam.gov. PLEASE NOTE: As part of the Government Furnished Information (GFI)- Specification/Pattern distribution process, an offeror's accessing of any of the GFI-Specification/Pattern is a confirmation of the offeror's agreement to the following: The offeror agrees that it shall not, without the express written permission of the Government, use, modify, reproduce, release, perform, or display any of the GFI-Specification/Pattern for any commercial purpose or disclose any of the GFI-Specification/Pattern to a person other than its subcontractors, suppliers, or prospective subcontractors or suppliers, who require any of the GFI- Specification/Pattern to submit offers for, or perform, contracts under this effort. Prior to disclosing any of the GFI- Specification/Pattern, the offeror shall require the persons to whom disclosure will be made to provide the Government with its agreement to the terms of this paragraph. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: The United States Marine Corps owns the patent rights in and to the design (ornamental) and the functional features of the MARPAT TM. Furthermore, the United States Marine Corps owns trademark rights in the MARPAT TM. Still further, the patterns including, but not limited to, the MARPAT TM, and each item including, but not limited to, the documents, materials and information, and all associated intellectual property, created, generated or produced in association with this effort are the sole property of the U.S. Government and not the contractor. Therefore, w ithout the prior written permission of the contracting officer neither the MARPAT nor any other data, documents, materials and/or information created or provided expressly for the contract shall be used by the contractor for any purpose other than those purposes that are in support of, or for its performance under, the contract. OTHER USES OF THE USMC TRADEMARKS In the event that an offeror is interested in seeking permission to use the MARPAT TM for other purposes, or is seeking to use other Marine Corps trademarks/service marks not described herein, please contact the Marine Corps Trademark Licensing Office through its website at: http://www.marines.mil/unit/divpa/tmlo/pages/welcome.aspx
 
Web Link
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DON/USMC/Contracts_Office_CTQ8/M67854-16-R-1103/listing.html)
 
Record
SN03963375-W 20151209/151207235317-e30f00bbf0b50b538e5e1e92b4484905 (fbodaily.com)
 
Source
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