SPECIAL NOTICE
71 -- Dormitory Beds, White City, OR VA Healthcare System Please see the pages below for the required items. NOTE: This is a solicitation.
- Notice Date
- 9/4/2018
- Notice Type
- Synopsis
- NAICS
- 423210
— Furniture Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office 20;5115 NE 82nd Ave, Suite 102;Vancouver WA 98662
- ZIP Code
- 98662
- Solicitation Number
- 36C26018Q9785
- Archive Date
- 10/4/2018
- Point of Contact
- jose.ronstadt@va.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 36C26018Q9785 FedBizOpps Special Notice * * * * CLASSIFICATION CODE * SUBJECT CONTRACTING OFFICE'S ZIP-CODE SOLICITATION NUMBER ARCHIVE DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE RECOVERY ACT FUNDS NAICS CODE CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS POINT OF CONTACT (POC Information Automatically Filled from User Profile Unless Entered) DESCRIPTION See Attachment AGENCY'S URL URL DESCRIPTION AGENCY CONTACT'S EMAIL ADDRESS EMAIL DESCRIPTION GENERAL INFORMATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION * = Required Field FedBizOpps Special Notice Rev. March 2010 71 Dormitory Beds, White City, OR VA Healthcare System Please see the pages below for the required items. NOTE: This is a solicitation. 98662 36C26018Q9785 30 N 423210 Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 20 5115 NE 82nd Ave, Suite 102 Vancouver WA 98662 José Ronstadt jose.ronstadt@va.gov Page 5 of 5 NOTE: This oral solicitation for the following will be conducted amongst Small Businesses only. Please provide discounted pricing for the following items: Real Safe II Twin Mattress 38x80, 16 CFR 1633. QTY: 65 EA Unit Cost: Real Safe II Boxspring, 38x80, 16 CFR 1633. QTY: 65 EA Unit Cost: Bed Base, Steel 7 1/2" H - Twin XL 38x80". QTY: 65 EA Unit Cost: Off Load, Set Up and Delivery Charges. QTY: 1 JB Unit Cost: Lists of salient characteristics for dormitory beds: Twin XL Innerspring mattress Box spring All Steel Bed Base 38 x 80 6 CFR 1633 Compliant Bed Bug Proof Inverted Seam Design Stain resistant nylon Pricing on the following item(s) is requested on a Brand-Name or Equal basis. See below for FAR Provision 52.211-6 and VAAR clause 852.211-73 regarding terms and conditions for Brand-Name or Equal procurements. If your quote includes items not exactly as listed or from another manufacturer, please provide enough information with your quote to substantiate that the items offered are Equal per the FAR Provision 52.211-6 and VAAR Clause 852.211-73. Additionally, ensure your quote: A. Includes warranty information (timeframe for parts/labor, etc.) B. Indicates that your firm is an authorized distributor/reseller C. Includes the number of calendar days to delivery after receipt of award D. Includes any freight charges within the above listed items. Do NOT have a separate line item for freight charges. Items shall be fully assembled by manufacturer, and delivered FOB Destination: VA Healthcare System 8495 Crater Lake Hwy. White City, OR 97503 Note: Carrier is responsible for the unloading of the items. Please provide quotes that will be effective for as long as possible as award might be delayed. Estimate is 60 days. Quotes are due no later than September 07, 2018. Quotes are to be sent to the contract specialist by email only. Send to jose.ronstadt@va.gov. 52.211-6 BRAND NAME OR EQUAL (AUG 1999) (a) If an item in this solicitation is identified as brand name or equal, the purchase description reflects the characteristics and level of quality that will satisfy the Government s needs. The salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics that equal products must meet are specified in the solicitation. (b) To be considered for award, offers of equal products, including equal products of the brand name manufacturer, must (1) Meet the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristic specified in this solicitation; (2) Clearly identify the item by (i) Brand name, if any; and (ii) Make or model number; (3) Include descriptive literature such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the Contracting Officer; and (4) Clearly describe any modification the offeror plans to make in a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements. Mark any descriptive material to clearly show the modification. (c) The Contracting Officer will evaluate equal products on the basis of information furnished by the offeror or identified in the offer and reasonably available to the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or obtaining any information not identified in the offer. (d) Unless the offeror clearly indicates in its offer that the product being offered is an equal product, the offeror shall provide the brand name product referenced in the solicitation. (End of provision) 52.232-40 PROVIDING ACCELERATED PAYMENTS TO SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTORS (DEC 2013) (a) Upon receipt of accelerated payments from the Government, the Contractor shall make accelerated payments to its small business subcontractors under this contract, to the maximum extent practicable and prior to when such payment is otherwise required under the applicable contract or subcontract, after receipt of a proper invoice and all other required documentation from the small business subcontractor. (b) The acceleration of payments under this clause does not provide any new rights under the Prompt Payment Act. (c) Include the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in all subcontracts with small business concerns, including subcontracts with small business concerns for the acquisition of commercial items. (End of clause) VAAR 852.203-70 COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING (JAN 2008) The bidder or offeror agrees that if a contract is awarded to him/her, as a result of this solicitation, he/she will not advertise the award of the contract in his/her commercial advertising in such a manner as to state or imply that the Department of Veterans Affairs endorses a product, project or commercial line of endeavor. (End of Clause) 852.211-73 BRAND NAME OR EQUAL (JAN 2008) (Note: As used in this clause, the term brand name includes identification of products by make and model.) (a) If items called for by this invitation for bids have been identified in the schedule by a brand name or equal description, such identification is intended to be descriptive, but not restrictive, and is to indicate the quality and characteristics of products that will be satisfactory. Bids offering equal products (including products of the brand name manufacturer other than the one described by brand name) will be considered for award if such products are clearly identified in the bids and are determined by the Government to meet fully the salient characteristics requirements listed in the invitation. (b) Unless the bidder clearly indicates in the bid that the bidder is offering an equal product, the bid shall be considered as offering a brand name product referenced in the invitation for bids. (c)(1) If the bidder proposes to furnish an equal product, the brand name, if any, of the product to be furnished shall be inserted in the space provided in the invitation for bids, or such product shall be otherwise clearly identified in the bid. The evaluation of bids and the determination as to equality of the product offered shall be the responsibility of the Government and will be based on information furnished by the bidder or identified in his/her bid as well as other information reasonably available to the purchasing activity. CAUTION TO BIDDERS. The purchasing activity is not responsible for locating or securing any information that is not identified in the bid and reasonably available to the purchasing activity. Accordingly, to insure that sufficient information is available, the bidder must furnish as a part of his/her bid all descriptive material (such as cuts, illustrations, drawings or other information) necessary for the purchasing activity to: (i) Determine whether the product offered meets the salient characteristics requirement of the Invitation for Bids, and (ii) Establish exactly what the bidder proposes to furnish and what the Government would be binding itself to purchase by making an award. The information furnished may include specific references to information previously furnished or to information otherwise available to the purchasing activity. (2) If the bidder proposes to modify a product so as to make it conform to the requirements of the Invitation for Bids, he/she shall: (i) Include in his/her bid a clear description of such proposed modifications, and (ii) Clearly mark any descriptive material to show the proposed modifications. (3) Modifications proposed after bid opening to make a product conform to a brand name product referenced in the Invitation for Bids will not be considered. The clause entitled "Brand name or equal" applies only to the following line items: Line Items 1-4 (End of Clause) VAAR 852.232-72 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF PAYMENT REQUESTS (NOV 2012) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause (1) Contract financing payment has the meaning given in FAR 32.001. (2) Designated agency office has the meaning given in 5 CFR 1315.2(m). (3) Electronic form means an automated system transmitting information electronically according to the Accepted electronic data transmission methods and formats identified in paragraph (c) of this clause. Facsimile, email, and scanned documents are not acceptable electronic forms for submission of payment requests. (4) Invoice payment has the meaning given in FAR 32.001. (5) Payment request means any request for contract financing payment or invoice payment submitted by the contractor under this contract. (b) Electronic payment requests. Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this clause, the contractor shall submit payment requests in electronic form. Purchases paid with a Government-wide commercial purchase card are considered to be an electronic transaction for purposes of this rule, and therefore no additional electronic invoice submission is required. (c) Data transmission. A contractor must ensure that the data transmission method and format are through one of the following: (1) VA s Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment System. (See Web site at http://www.fsc.va.gov/einvoice.asp.) (2) Any system that conforms to the X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) formats established by the Accredited Standards Center (ASC) and chartered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The X12 EDI Web site (http://www.x12.org) includes additional information on EDI 810 and 811 formats. (d) Invoice requirements. Invoices shall comply with FAR 32.905. (e) Exceptions. If, based on one of the circumstances below, the contracting officer directs that payment requests be made by mail, the contractor shall submit payment requests by mail through the United States Postal Service to the designated agency office. Submission of payment requests by mail may be required for: (1) Awards made to foreign vendors for work performed outside the United States; (2) Classified contracts or purchases when electronic submission and processing of payment requests could compromise the safeguarding of classified or privacy information; (3) Contracts awarded by contracting officers in the conduct of emergency operations, such as responses to national emergencies; (4) Solicitations or contracts in which the designated agency office is a VA entity other than the VA Financial Services Center in Austin, Texas; or (5) Solicitations or contracts in which the VA designated agency office does not have electronic invoicing capability as described above. (End of Clause) VAAR 852.246-71 INSPECTION (JAN 2008) Rejected goods will be held subject to contractors order for not more than 15 days, after which the rejected merchandise will be returned to the contractor's address at his/her risk and expense. Expenses incident to the examination and testing of materials or supplies that have been rejected will be charged to the contractor's account. (End of Clause) GRAY MARKET PREVENTION In accordance with VHAPM Part 813.106-1/2 (a) Gray market items are Original Equipment Manufacturer s (OEM) goods sold through unauthorized channels in direct competition with authorized distributors. This procurement is for new OEM medical supplies, medical equipment and/or services contracts for maintenance of medical equipment (i.e. replacement parts) for VA Medical Centers. No remanufactures or gray market items will be acceptable. (b) Vendor shall be an OEM, authorized dealer, authorized distributor or authorized reseller for the proposed medical supplies, medical equipment and/or services contracts for maintenance of medical equipment (i.e. replacement parts), verified by an authorization letter or other documents from the OEM, such that the OEM s warranty and service are provided and maintained by the OEM. All software licensing, warranty and service associated with the medical supplies, medical equipment and/or services contracts for maintenance of medical equipment shall be in accordance with the OEM terms and conditions. (c) The delivery of gray market items to the VA in the fulfillment of an order/award constitutes a breach of contract. Accordingly, the VA reserves the right enforce any of its contractual remedies. This includes termination of the contract or, solely at the VA s election, allowing the Vendor to replace, at no cost to the Government, any remanufactured or gray market item(s) delivered to a VA medical facility upon discovery of such items. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (04-SEP-2018); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT 877-472-3779 or fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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