76 -- RESEARCHING AND WRITING AN HISTORICAL BOOK-LENGTH MNAUSCRIPT ON THE AIR FORCE AND COMMAND STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCES

Notice Date

September 1, 2000

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Direct Reporting Units, 11th CONS, 110 Luke Avenue, Building 5681, Bolling AFB, DC, 20332-0305

ZIP Code

20332-0305

Solicitation Number

F49642-00-R-0073

Response Due

September 15, 2000

Point of Contact

Jennifer Spooner, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 767-7987, Fax (202) 767-7812, Email Jennifer.Spooner@bolling.af.mil -- Patti Reger, Contract Specialist, Phone 202-767-7946, Fax 202-767-7814, Email

E-Mail Address

Jennifer Spooner (Jennifer.Spooner@bolling.af.mil)

Description

THIS IS A REOPENING OF THE SOLICITATION (REFERENCE # F6043301930100)This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items and services 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 solicitation number F49642-00-R-0073 is issued as a request for proposal (RFP) and will result in a Firm Fixed Price type contract for a base period of approximately 25 September 2000 through 24 September 2001 with three one year Option periods. Award will be made on an all or none basis. Incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 97-18. This acquisition is being acquired on a 100% Small Business Set Aside. The SIC code is 8999 and the small business size standard is $5,000,000.00. The contract line items numbers and descriptions are: Base Period: CLIN 0001 _ Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL A001) QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0002 _ CDRL A002 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0003 _ CDRL A003 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0004 _ CDRL A004 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0005 _ CDRL A005 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0006 _ CDRL A006 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0007 _ CDRL A007 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0008 _ CDRL A008 QTY: 1 Each; OPTION Year 1: CLIN 0009 _ CDRL A009 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0010 _ CDRL A010 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0011 _ CDRL A011 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0012 _ CDRL A012 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0013 _ CDRL A013 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0014 _ CDRL A014 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0015 _ CDRL A015 QTY: 1 Each; OPTION Year 2: CLIN 0016 _ CDRL A016 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0017 _ CDRL A017 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0018 _ CDRL A018 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0019 _ CDRL A019 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0020 _ CDRL A020 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0021 _ CDRL A021 QTY: 1 Each; OPTION Year 3: CLIN 0022 _ CDRL A022 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0023 _ CDRL A023 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0024 _ CDRL A024 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0025 _ CDRL A025 QTY: 1 Each; CLIN 0026 _ CDRL A026 QTY: 1 Each. Description of Requirement/ Statement of Work (SOW): The SOW and CDRLs can be downloaded from the FedBizOpps web-site at www.eps.gov. Delivery and Acceptance shall be in accordance with the SOW after contract award. Award date is expected to be on approximately 25 September 2000. An award will be made to the offeror who submits a responsive quote for all items listed at the lowest cost to the Government. Offerors shall provide back-up information supporting the price offered. This could take the form of the most recent catalog price list, invoices from previous sales of same items, etc. Inspection and acceptance shall be made at destination. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, and FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Items, are incorporated by reference and apply to this acquisition. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representation and Certifications -- Commercial Items and DFAR 252.212-7000 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items with its offer. These clauses are available for download at http://farsite.hill.af.mil. The FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items is hereby incorporated by reference. The clauses at FAR 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items apply to this acquisition, specifically, the following cited clauses are applicable: 52.203-6 Alt I, 52.219-8, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, and 52.232-33. Additional FAR Clauses that are applicable are: 52.203-3 Gratuities, 52.204-4 Printing/Copying Double-sided on Recycled Paper, 52.209-6 Protecting the Government_s Interest When Subcontracting With Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment, 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors- -Commercial Items, 52.217-5 Evaluation of Options, 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside, 52.222-3 Convict Labor, 52.226-1 Utilization of Indian Organizations and Indian-Owned Economic Enterprises, 52.227-1 Authorization and Consent, 52.227-2 Notice and Assistance Regarding Patent and Copyright Infringement, 52.232-17 Interest, 52.233-3 Protest after Award, 52.242-13 Bankruptcy, 52.247-34 F.O.B. Destination. The following DFAR provisions and clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated by reference: 252.212-7001 Contract Terms and Conditions required to Implement Statutes Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial, 252.201-7000 Contracting Officer_s Representative, 252.204-7000 Disclosure of Information, 252.204-7003 Control of Government Personnel Work Product, 252.204-7004 Required Central Contractor Registration, 252.209-7003 Compliance with Veterans_ Employment Reporting Requirements, 252.209-7004 Subcontracting with Firms That Are Owned for Controlled By The Government of a Terrorist Country, 252.225-7012 Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities, 252.243-7001 Pricing of Contract Modifications, 252.243-7002 Requests for Equitable Adjustment, 252-246.7000 Material Inspection And Receiving Report, 252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea, 252.247-7032 Alt I Transportation of Supplies by Sea Alternate I, and 252.247-7024 Notification of Transportation of Supplies By Sea. Basis for Award: The Govt. will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to the solicitation and is determined most advantageous to the Govt. The following factors will be used to evaluate offers: technical, past performance and price. The evaluation will consider technical equal in importance to past performance and each higher than price. Contract award will be based upon _Best Value_ approach to permit the Govt. to have tradeoffs among cost or price and non-cost factors and to accept other than the lowest priced proposal. To determine best value, the Govt. will evaluate the technical proposal, past performance and price proposals from all offerors. Offerors should provide the proposed technical approach to meet all requirements of the SOW. Offerors who fail to meet the technical requirements as set forth in the SOW may be considered nonresponsive to the RFP. The Govt. will evaluate the quality of the offeror's past performance in distinct and separate evaluation from the Contracting Officer's responsibility determination. Each offeror will be assigned a subjective rating for Performance Confidence Assessment. The assessment of the offeror's past performance will be used as a means of evaluating the relative capability of the offeror to successfully meet the requirements of the solicitation. The offeror shall describe its past performance on all directly related or similar contracts held within the last five (5) years which are of similar scope, magnitude and complexity to this requirement. Offerors which describe similar contracts shall provide a detailed explanation demonstrating the similarity of the contracts to the requirements of the solicitation. The Govt. will consider Termination for Default, delinquencies, failure to comply with specifications and/or SOW requirements, cost overruns, amount of rework and any other information which reflects the overall quality of the offeror's past performance. The offeror shall provide the following information regarding past performance: contract number(s), name and reference POC at the federal, state or local Govt. or commercial entity for which the contract was performed, dollar value of the contract, detailed description of the work performed, names of subcontractor(s) and number, type and severity of any quality, delivery or cost problems in performing the contract, the corrective action taken and the effectiveness of the corrective action. The Govt. reserves the right to obtain information for use in the evaluation of past performance from any and all sources including sources outside the Govt. Offerors lacking relevant past performance history will receive a neutral rating for past performance. The offeror must provide information requested above for the past performance evaluation or affirmatively state that it possesses no relevant directly related or similar past performance. An offeror failing to provide the past performance or to assert that it has no relevant directly related or similar past performance will be considered ineligible for award. The Govt. reserves the right to award the contract without initiating discussions. Responses to this solicitation are due by 1430 on 15 Sep 00. The proposal shall be signed by an official authorized to bind the company. Offerors shall submit two copies of their proposal and the Representations and Certifications (FAR 52.212-3 and DFARS 252.212.7000) to be sent to Jennifer H. Spooner, 11 CONS/LGCN, 110 Luke Ave., Suite 250, Bolling AFB, DC. 20332-0305.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20000906/76SOL004.HTM (D-245 SN492713)