R -- HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICES

Notice Date

August 23, 2001

Contracting Office

USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, 333 SW First Avenue, PO Box 3623, Portland, OR 97208-3623

ZIP Code

97208-3623

Solicitation Number

R6-01-029

Response Due

September 13, 2001

Point of Contact

Monty Bell, Procurement and Property Management, (503) 808-2384

Description

This is a combined synopsis / solicitation for commercial items 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; quotes are requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is solicited as a request for quotations (RFQ), No. R6-01-029. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-27. This solicitation contains one (1) item: HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICES. SCOPE OF CONTRACT A -- The purpose of this project is to secure services for classification and staffing actions for the Pacific Northwest Research Station and the Pacific Northwest Region (R-6) of the Forest Service. These are General Schedule scientist and non-scientist positions. B Classification of positions: Will determine title, series, grade consistent with the criteria and guidance issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Forest Service (FS). Contract classifier may be required to participate in implementation of new OPM position classification standards and grade evaluation guides. C Staffing Actions: Contractor shall review the position description to ensure it accurately describes the duties and responsibilities of the position. Identifies the knowledge, skills and abilities that will provide the basis for candidate evaluation and prepare Merit Promotion vacancy announcements and assist with Demonstration Project recruitment notices. Will evaluate qualifications and document basis for placement of applicants in the Eligible or Quality group. Will prepare certificate of candidates and / or list of eligibles. D Qualification and Analysis: Contractor will evaluate the experience of job applicants using the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook, apply educational criteria from those standards to determine minimum qualifications, and apply the legal and regulatory requirements for eligibility determinations. Will work directly with the staffing assistants on how to make basic qualification decisions and evaluate candidate knowledge, skills, and abilities. Contractor shall produce certificates and / or lists of eligibles for vacancy announcements / recruitment notices. E The Contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, supervision, transportation, operating supplies, and incidentals necessary to accomplish the work, except those items listed as Government-furnished. LOCATION: Services shall be performed either off-site or at a Forest Service office located in Oregon, Washington, or Alaska. If travel is required and authorized, the Government will reimburse the Contractor pursuant to the Federal Travel Regulations. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: A -- The Contractor will develop draft and final position descriptions. B -- The Contractor will develop vacancy announcements, receive and review applications for legally required information, determine minimum qualifications, rate applicants, and produce certificates and / or lists of eligibles for recruitment efforts of the Merit Promotion Plan. C -- The Contractor will help develop recruitment notice, determine qualifications, and produce candidate referral lists for recruitment efforts under the Demonstration Project. D -- The Contractor will determine minimum qualifications and produce certificates and / or lists of eligibles for vacancy announcements / recruitment notices. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED MATERIALS: The Government will furnish copies of the classification standards, qualification standards, merit promotion plan and any other Government regulations relative to the work to be accomplished. PERIOD OF CONTRACT: The contract period will be from date of award until December 31, 2003. This is an Indefinite Quantity / Indefinite Delivery contract with a Minimum Guarantee of $500.00 and a Maximum of $100,000. FAR 52-216-22. The Government anticipates a multiple award of approximately 3 awards, subject to offers received. FAR 52-216-27. This procurement is 100% set aside for small businesses. Wage Determination 94-2441, Revision 17 applies to this procurement. SCHEDULE OF ITEMS: 1-Position Classifications $____________/ea 2-Qualification Analysis $___________/ea 3-Complete Staffing Packages $______________/ea (Position Classifications and Qualification Analysis paid separately) Payment will be made upon satisfactory completion of each task order. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: (1) PAST PERFORMANCE -- including (a) quality of service and customer satisfaction (incl. problems encountered and resolutions), (b) timeliness (2) ORGANIZATION Experience of Staff. (3) PRICE. Price is of lesser importance than past performance and organization; however, the importance of price may become greater as the difference between the past performance evaluation decreases. Where past performance is determined to be substantially equal, price may control award. In addition to providing price, the offeror shall provide a list of major contracts completed in the past three years relevant to this request and respond to the evaluation factors contained herein. Quotes shall be received at the following address: Contracting Officer, USDA Forest Service, Procurement and Property Management, ATTN: Monty Bell, 333 SW First Avenue, Portland, OR 97204 by 4:30 PM, September 13, 2001. Quotes may be faxed to 503/808-2365. ATTN: Monty Bell. All quotes shall be clearly marked with offeror's name, telephone number, and RFQ number. The following clauses are incorporated by reference into this solicitation: FAR 52.212-1, 52.212-2, 52.212-3, 52.212-4, 52.212 5, 52.219-6 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.222-41. 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items (May 2001) (a) Definitions. As used in this provision: "Emerging small business" means a small business concern whose size is no greater than 50 percent of the numerical size standard for the NAICS code designated. "Forced or indentured child labor" means all work or service -- (1) Exacted from any person under the age of 18 under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily; or (2) Performed by any person under the age of 18 pursuant to a contract the enforcement of which can be accomplished by process or penalties. "Service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern" -- (1) Means a small business concern -- (i) Not less than 51 percent of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not less than 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more service-disabled veterans; and (ii) The management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more service-disabled veterans or, in the case of a veteran with permanent and severe disability, the spouse or permanent caregiver of such veteran. (2) Service-disabled veteran means a veteran, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(2), with a disability that is service-connected, as defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(16). "Small business concern" means a concern, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated, not dominant in the field of operation in which it is bidding on Government contracts, and qualified as a small business under the criteria in 13 CFR part 121 and size standards in this solicitation. "Veteran-owned small business concern" means a small business concern -- (1) Not less than 51 percent of which is owned by one or more veterans (as defined at 38 U.S.C. 101(2)) or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not less than 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more veterans; and (2) The management and daily business operations of which are controlled by one or more veterans. "Women-owned business concern" means a concern which is at least 51 percent owned by one or more women; or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of its stock is owned by one or more women; and whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more women. "Women-owned small business concern" means a small business concern -- (1) That is at least 51 percent owned by one or more women; or, in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more women; and (2) Whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more women. (b) Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) (26 U.S.C. 6109, 31 U.S.C. 7701). (Not applicable if the offeror is required to provide this information to a central contractor registration database to be eligible for award.) (1) All offerors must submit the information required in paragraphs (b)(3) through (b)(5) of this provision to comply with debt collection requirements of 31 U.S.C. 7701(c) and 3325(d), reporting requirements of 26 U.S.C. 6041, 6041A, and 6050M, and implementing regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (2) The TIN may be used by the Government to collect and report on any delinquent amounts arising out of the offeror's relationship with the Government (31 U.S.C. 7701(c)(3)). If the resulting contract is subject to the payment reporting requirements described in FAR 4.904, the TIN provided hereunder may be matched with IRS records to verify the accuracy of the offeror's TIN. (3) Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). ( ) TIN: _____________________. ( ) TIN has been applied for. ( ) TIN is not required because: ( ) Offeror is a nonresident alien, foreign corporation, or foreign partnership that does not have income effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States and does not have an office or place of business or a fiscal paying agent in the United States; ( ) Offeror is an agency or instrumentality of a foreign government; ( ) Offeror is an agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government. (4) Type of organization. ( ) Sole proprietorship; ( ) Partnership; ( ) Corporate entity (not tax-exempt); ( ) Corporate entity (tax-exempt); ( ) Government entity (Federal, State, or local); ( ) Foreign government; ( ) International organization per 26 CFR 1.6049-4; ( ) Other _________________________. (5) Common parent. ( ) Offeror is not owned or controlled by a common parent; ( ) Name and TIN of common parent: Name ___________________. TIN _____________________. (c) Offerors must complete the following representations when the resulting contract is to be performed inside the United States, its territories or possessions, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or the District of Columbia. Check all that apply. (1) Small business concern. The offeror represents as part of its offer that it ( ) is, ( ) is not a small business concern. (2) Veteran-owned small business concern. [Complete only if the offeror represented itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of this provision.] The offeror represents as part of its offer that it ( ) is, ( ) is not a veteran-owned small business concern. (3) Service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern. [Complete only if the offeror represented itself as a veteran-owned small business concern in paragraph (c)(2) of this provision.] The offeror represents as part of its offer that it ( ) is, ( ) is not a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern. (4) Small disadvantaged business concern. [Complete only if the offeror represented itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of this provision.] The offeror represents, for general statistical purposes, that it ( ) is, ( ) is not a small disadvantaged business concern as defined in 13 CFR 124.1002. (5) Women-owned small business concern. [Complete only if the offeror represented itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of this provision.] The offeror represents that it ( ) is, ( ) is not a women-owned small business concern. Note: Complete paragraphs (c)(6) and (c)(7) only if this solicitation is expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. (6) Women-owned business concern (other than small business concern). [Complete only if the offeror is a women-owned business concern and did not represent itself as a small business concern in paragraph (c)(1) of this provision.] The offeror represents that it ( ) is a women-owned business concern. (7) Tie bid priority for labor surplus area concerns. If this is an invitation for bid, small business offerors may identify the labor surplus areas in which costs to be incurred on account of manufacturing or production (by offeror or first-tier subcontractors) amount to more than 50 percent of the contract price: ___________________________________________ (8) Small Business Size for the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program and for the Targeted Industry Categories under the Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program. [Complete only if the offeror has represented itself to be a small business concern under the size standards for this solicitation.] (i) [Complete only for solicitations indicated in an addendum as being set-aside for emerging small businesses in one of the four designated industry groups (DIGs).] The offeror represents as part of its offer that it ( ) is, ( ) is not an emerging small business. (ii) [Complete only for solicitations indicated in an addendum as being for one of the targeted industry categories (TICs) or four designated industry groups (DIGs).] Offeror represents as follows: (A) Offeror's number of employees for the past 12 months (check the Employees column if size standard stated in the solicitation is expressed in terms of number of employees); or (B) Offeror's average annual gross revenue for the last 3 fiscal years (check the Average Annual Gross Number of Revenues column if size standard stated in the solicitation is expressed in terms of annual receipts). (Check one of the following): Average Annual Gross Number of Employees Revenues __ 50 or fewer __ $1 million or less __ 51 -- 100 __ $1,000,001 -- $2 million __ 101 -- 250 __ $2,000,001 -- $3.5 million __ 251 -- 500 __ $3,500,001 -- $5 million __ 501 -- 750 __ $5,000,001 -- $10 million __ 751 -- 1,000 __ $10,000,001 -- $17 million __ Over 1,000 __ Over $17 million (9) [Complete only if the solicitation contains the clause at FAR 52.219-23, Notice of Price Evaluation Adjustment for Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns, or FAR 52.219-25, Small Disadvantaged Business Participation Program -- Disadvantaged Status and Reporting, and the offeror desires a benefit based on its disadvantaged status.] (i) General. The offeror represents that either -- (A) It ( ) is, ( ) is not certified by the Small Business Administration as a small disadvantaged business concern and identified, on the date of this representation, as a certified small disadvantaged business concern in the database maintained by the Small Business Administration (PRO-Net), and that no material change in disadvantaged ownership and control has occurred since its certification, and, where the concern is owned by one or more individuals claiming disadvantaged status, the net worth of each individual upon whom the certification is based does not exceed $750,000 after taking into account the applicable exclusions set forth at 13 CFR 124.104(c)(2); or (B) It ( ) has, ( ) has not submitted a completed application to the Small Business Administration or a Private Certifier to be certified as a small disadvantaged business concern in accordance with 13 CFR 124, Subpart B, and a decision on that application is pending, and that no material change in disadvantaged ownership and control has occurred since its application was submitted. (ii) * Joint Ventures under the Price Evaluation Adjustment for Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns. The offeror represents, as part of its offer, that it is a joint venture that complies with the requirements in 13 CFR 124.1002(f) and that the representation in paragraph (c)(7)(i) of this provision is accurate for the small disadvantaged business concern that is participating in the joint venture. [The offeror shall enter the name of the small disadvantaged business concern that is participating in the joint venture:___________________.] (d) Representations required to implement provisions of Executive Order 11246 -- (1) Previous contracts and compliance. The offeror represents that -- (i) It ( ) has, ( ) has not participated in a previous contract or subcontract subject to the Equal Opportunity clause of this solicitation; and (ii) It ( ) has, ( ) has not filed all required compliance reports. (2) Affirmative Action Compliance. The offeror represents that -- (i) It ( ) has developed and has on file, ( ) has not developed and does not have on file, at each establishment, affirmative action programs required by rules and regulations of the Secretary of Labor (41 CFR parts 60-1 and 60-2), or (ii) It ( ) has not previously had contracts subject to the written affirmative action programs requirement of the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Labor. (e) Certification Regarding Payments to Influence Federal Transactions (31 U.S.C. 1352). (Applies only if the contract is expected to exceed $100,000.) By submission of its offer, the offeror certifies to the best of its knowledge and belief that no Federal appropriated funds have been paid or will be paid to any person for influencing or attempting to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress or an employee of a Member of Congress on his or her behalf in connection with the award of any resultant contract. (f) Buy American Act -- Balance of Payments Program Certificate. (Applies only if the clause at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.225-1, Buy American Act -- Balance of Payments Program -- Supplies, is included in this solicitation.) (1) The offeror certifies that each end product, except those listed in paragraph (f)(2) of this provision, is a domestic end product as defined in the clause of this solicitation entitled "Buy American Act -- Balance of Payments Program -- Supplies" and that the offeror has considered components of unknown origin to have been mined, produced, or manufactured outside the United States. The offeror shall list as foreign end products those end products manufactured in the United States that do not qualify as domestic end products. (2) Foreign End Products: Line Item No Country of Origin ______________ _________________ ______________ _________________ ______________ _________________ [List as necessary] (3) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of FAR Part 25. (g)(1) Buy American Act -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Israeli Trade Act -- Balance of Payments Program Certificate. (Applies only if the clause at FAR 52.225-3, Buy American Act -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Israeli Trade Act -- Balance of Payments Program, is included in this solicitation.) (i) The offeror certifies that each end product, except those listed in paragraph (g)(1)(ii) or (g)(1)(iii) of this provision, is a domestic end product as defined in the clause of this solicitation entitled "Buy American Act -- North American Free Trade Agreement -- Israeli Trade Act -- Balance of Payments Program" and that the offeror has considered components of unknown origin to have been mined, produced, or manufactured outside the Unit

Record

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