58 -- AIR DELIVERY SYSTEM SPARE PARTS

Notice Date

August 8, 2001

Contracting Office

Crane Division, Code 1165, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 300 Highway 361, Crane, IN 47522-5001

ZIP Code

47522-5001

Solicitation Number

N00164-01-R-0138

Response Due

August 17, 2001

Point of Contact

Ms. Vonda Pollock, Code 1165ZH, FAX 812-854-5066, e-mail address pollock_v@crane.navy.mil

Description

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 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. Solicitation Number N00164-01-R-0138 is hereby issued as a request for Proposal (RFP). This is being issued as a sole-source, to Northrop Grumman Corporation, Chicago IL IAW FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii), Only one responsible source. Incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-27 and 97-22 (correction) as well as DCN 20001213. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this procurement is 334220 and the size standard is 750 employees. This requirement is for the following Improved Air Delivery System Spare Parts. CLIN 0001 Port Plug Min 15/max 25; CLIN 0002 On/Off Switch Cap min 25/max 45; CLIN 0003 Cap Chain min 20/max 35; CLIN 0004 Battery Module Knob min 8/max 14; CLIN 0005 Air Deployable Body 20 min/max 38; CLIN 0006 Alkaline Battery Module min 12/max 21; CLIN 0007 Sensor Electronics Package Assembly min 12/max 21; CLIN 0008 Removable Radio Assembly min 12/max 21; CLIN 0009 GPS Module Assembly min 12 /max 33;CLIN 0010 Microphone Arm Assembly min 24/max 44; CLIN 0011 VHF Antenna min 20/max 18; CLIN 0012 Battery Interconnect Assembly 500/ea. Pricing is to include freight charges. Delivery is required CONUS and OCONUS within 300 days after award. Inspection and acceptance at source by Local DCM. Selection for award will be based on past performance and price. Offers that are non-compliant with any material requirement of this solicitation may be rejected without further consideration for award. This will be a firm fixed price contract and will be awarded utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The contractor shall extend to the Government the full coverage of commercial sale warranty provided such warranty is available at no additional cost to the Government. Clauses/provisions: 52.203-3; 52.211-14 (DO X ); 52.211-15; 52.212-1 Delete: paragraphs (d) and (e); 52.212-2 SINGLE AWARD FOR ALL ITEMS -- Due to the interrelationship of supplies and/or services to be provided hereunder, the Government reserves the right to make a single award to the offeror whose offer is considered in the best interest of the Government, price and other factors considered. Therefore, offerors proposing less than the entire effort specified herein may be determined to be unacceptable. Subject to the provisions contained herein, award shall be made to a single offeror for all line items within each contract line item. Offers must include each line item listed within a line item. Failure to do this shall be cause for rejection of the offer for that particular line item. BASIS FOR AWARD (NAVSEA) (SEP 1990). All units of all items will be awarded to one offeror. Offers, therefore, must be on the basis of furnishing all units of all items. Evaluation factors past performance and price. Single award for all items. Delete paragraph (b). ADD: PAST PERFORMANCE -- During the source selection process, the Government will assess the offeror's past performance in the evaluation for contract award. Accordingly, each offeror is required to submit a list of up to five of its most recent contracts within the past three years, either completed or on-going, for the same/similar products or services. It is preferred that these contracts be with U.S. government customers, but contracts with other commercial concerns are also acceptable. Offerors are authorized to provide information relative to any problems encountered on the identified contracts and any corrective actions taken by the offeror. The Source Selection Authority (SSA)/Contracting Officer will evaluate the offeror's past performance based upon the information furnished by the offeror and/or other information obtained by the Contracting Officer. The Contracting Officer is not responsible for locating or securing any information not furnished with the offer. The SSA/Contracting Officer may, however, utilize all available information, including information not provided by the offeror, in the past performance evaluation. The Government reserves the right to review less than all information submitted, and to only analyze sufficient information to make a reasonable determination of each offeror's past performance rating. If insufficient information regarding the offeror's corporate history is available, the offeror is encouraged to submit for evaluation evidence of relevant past performance on the part of the offeror's key/principal employees, as either a prime- or sub-contractor. Past performance is assessed by the SSA/Contracting Officer and is assigned a narrative rating in the evaluation. Each offeror will be given an adjectival rating on past performance: highly favorable, favorable, neither favorable nor unfavorable, unfavorable, highly unfavorable, or no same or similar history. Offerors who do not have same or similar past performance information reasonably available to the Contracting Officer will not be rated either favorable or unfavorable. The Government reserves the right to award to other than the lowest priced offer as set forth elsewhere in the solicitation. In addition, the Government may accept other than the lowest priced offer if doing so would result in greater value to the Government in terms of technical performance, quality, reliability, life cycle cost, or lower overall program risk. As a part of the past performance evaluation, the Government will assess the offeror's previous compliance with the requirements of FAR 52.219-8 and 52.219-9 as applicable.52.212-3 Alt l [FILL-IN] (NOTE: paragraph (b) of 52.212-3 is not applicable); NOTE: This provision MUST be filled out completely and submitted with the offer. 52.212-4 (Addendum: Add to paragraph (a) Item(s) All -- INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE LANGUAGE FOR F.O.B. ORIGIN (NAVSEA) (5605) Inspection and acceptance shall be made at source by a representative of the cognizant Contract Administration Office. Add to paragraph (o) Contractor is to provide their Standard Commercial Warranty (Attach a copy). ADD: paragraph (t) Past performance. The Government will evaluate the performance of the contractor awarded the contract resulting from this solicitation, in accordance with FAR 42.15. The following performance rating factors will be utilized: Quality, Cost Control, Timeliness of Performance, Business Relations; 52-212-5 (incorporating 52.203-6; 52.219-4; 52.219-8; 52.222-21; 52.222-26; 52.222-35; 52.222-36; 52.222-37; 52.225-13; 52.232-33; 52.247-64); 52.215-05 (** fax 812-854-5066); 52.223-15; 52.233-03; 52.242-15; 52.243-1; 52.247-29; 52.247-32; 252.204-7004; 252.212-7000; 252.212-7001 (incorporating 252.225-7001; 252.225-7012; 252.225-7014; 252.243-7002; 252.247-7024). Other clauses that apply: EXPEDITING CONTRACT CLOSEOUT (NAVSEA) (DEC 1995) (a) As part of the negotiated fixed price or total estimated amount of this contract, both the Government and the Contractor have agreed to waive any entitlement that otherwise might accrue to either party in any residual dollar amount of $500 or less at the time of final contract closeout. The term "residual dollar amount" shall include all money that would otherwise be owed to either part at the end of the contract except that, amounts connected in any way with taxation, allegations of fraud and/or antitrust violations shall be excluded. For purposes of determining residual dollar amounts, offsets of money owed by one party against money that would otherwise be paid by that party may be considered to the extent permitted by law. This agreement to waive entitlement to residual dollar amounts has been considered by both parties. It is agreed that the administrative costs for either part associated with collected such small dollar amounts could exceed the amount to be recovered. Delivery Orders will be placed against this contract by the Government using a DD1155 format. Delivery Orders placed under this contract will be placed by the Government no later than 5 years from award date. Identification marking of parts. Marking of Warranted items. Preparation of Delivery: OCONUS shipment: Packaging: Commercial -- Packing: Commercial IAW Specification: ATSM-D-3591 for Export, para 6.1 Marking IAW MIL-STD-129 with bar coding. Preparation of Delivery: CONUS shipment: Packaging: Commercial -- Packing: Commercial IAW Specification: ATSM-D-3591. Marking IAW MIL-STD-129 with bar coding. Prohibited Packing Material. All exterior shipping containers are to be conspicuously marker: "Stock-Provisioned items for TRSS UGSS (PIP) IADS ID# 09632A, Project F1Y, NAVCOMPT 2276. 30 day written notice of shipment is required to Supply Chain Management Center. Quality System Requirements in accordance with ISO-9001 or equivalent. DATE/TIME PROCESSING REQUIREMENT -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (NAVSEA) (JUN 2000)(5425) (a) All information technology (IT), whether commercial or noncommercial, delivered under this contract that will be required to perform date/time processing involving dates subsequent to December 31, 1999, shall be Year 2000 compliant if properly installed, operated, and maintained in accordance with the contract specifications and applicable documentation. If the contract requires that specific deliverables operate together as a system, this requirement shall apply to those deliverables as a system. (b) "Information Technology" or "IT," as used in this requirement, means "information technology" as that term is defined at FAR 2.101, and further including those items that would otherwise be excluded by paragraph (c) of that definition. "Year 2000 compliant" (as defined at FAR 39.002) means that the IT accurately processes date/time data (including), but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations, to the extent that other IT, used in combination with the IT being delivered, properly exchanges date/time data with it. The "proper exchange" of date/time data shall be in accordance with the interface requirements specification(s) of the contract. (c) For line item deliverables which are commercial items (as defined at FAR 2.101), and which include commercial IT, the terms and conditions of the standard commercial warranty covering such commercial IT shall apply in addition to, and to the extent such terms and conditions are consistent with, this requirement. Any applicable commercial warranty shall be incorporated into this contract by attachment. (d) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any other warranty of this contract, or in the absence of any such warranty(ies), the remedies available to the Government under this requirement shall include those provided in the Inspection clause(s) of this contract. Nothing in this requirement shall be construed to limit any rights or remedies the Government may otherwise have under this contract. (e) Unless specified elsewhere in the contract, the Contractor will also deliver to the Government a report summarizing any Year 2000 compliance testing that was performed, and the results thereof. (f) The remedies available to the Government for noncompliance with this requirement shall remain available until 31 January 2001, or one hundred eighty (180) days after acceptance of the last deliverable IT item under this contract (including any option exercised hereunder), whichever is later. Standard commercial warranty. Offeror to insert number of months for Standard Commercial Warranty. Technology improvements 5252.239-9605. 52.216-19 paragraph (1) 1 unit; paragraph (b) the minimum specified for each CLIN. 52.216-22 PARAGRAPH (D) FILL-IN "DELIVERY OF THE LAST DELIVERY ORDER ISSUED UNDER THIS CONTRACT; 52.223-7. 252.225-7000; 252-225-7017; 252.242-7003. The offeror shall provide its Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code, Contractor Establishment Code and Tax Identification Number. To be eligible for award you must be properly registered in the Government's Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Offerors may obtain information on CCR registration and annual confirmation requirements by calling 1-888-227-2423, or via the internet @ http://ccr.dlsc.dla.mil or http://www.ccr2000.com. If a change occurs in this requirement, only those offerors that respond to this announcement within the required time frame will be provided any changes/amendments and considered for future discussions and/or award. All responsible sources may submit an offer, which will be considered by the agency. Offers may be faxed or e-mailed to pollock_v@crane.navy.mil, FAX 812-854-5066. All required information must be received on or before (14:00 on 17 AUG 01) Eastern Standard Time. Our mission is to provide quality and responsive acquisition services for this Command. In an effort to continue to improve our services, we are conducting a survey of our vendors. This survey may be found on the World Wide Web at the following address: http://www.crane.navy.mil/supply/VendorSurvey.htm. Your comments will help us determine if we are accomplishing this and show us ways to improve our processes. Please consider taking the time to complete the survey. Note 21 applies.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010810/58SOL007.HTM (W-220 SN50U462)