Sample Preparation Mobile Laboratory

Country:

United States

Notice/Contract Number:

fbo:pr-nc-08-10658

Publication Date:

Sept 18, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 18, 2008

Funding Agency:

Environmental Protection Agency

Buyer:

Office of Acquisition Management

Original Language:

English

Address:

United States

34900000 - Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts

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; PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. The solicitation number is PR-NC-08-10658, and the solicitation is being issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) using FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 05-20. This requirement will be 100% Small Business Set-Aside. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 336999, which has a small business size standard of 500 employees. A firm fixed-price contract award will result from this solicitation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Radiation and Indoor Environments National Laboratory, Las Vegas, NC has a requirement for the new construction and delivery of one (1) Sample Preparation Mobile Laboratory on a modified trailer body with installed equipment as specified below. The trailer is to be based on a 40 foot long, 102 inch wide dry van style semi-trailer which can be custom built. The sides of the trailer shall be expandable - slide out on either side to increase floor place and accommodate equipment. The trailer body shall be modified as specified and include contractor installed bench tops, fume hood, safety shower, and desk areas. This Sample Preparation Mobile Laboratory will be used to process environmental emergency response samples potentially contaminated with radioactive materials, so the utmost care must be given to the design and construction of the laboratory to provide a facility for the safe handling of these materials. The Specifications and Evaluation Criteria for this requirement are posted on EPA's website at the following address: http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd. The Government will make an award to the responsible offeror who proposes the "Best Value," based on the total assessment of three factors; Technical/Design, Past Performance, and Price. All offerors are to include with their offers a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications--Commercial Items and 52.219-1 Small Business Program Representations. The following FAR clauses apply to this acquisition: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items; 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions; 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders--Commercial Items; 52.204-6 Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number; 52.204-7 Central Contractor Registration and the following additional FAR clauses which are cited in Clause 52.212-5; 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set Business Set-Aside; 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting; 52.222-3, Convict Labor; 52.222-21, Prohibitions of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52-222-35, Affirmative Actions for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons; 52.223-15, Energy Efficient in Energy-Consuming Products; 52-225-1, Buy American Act-Supplies; 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer- Central Contractor Registration. The following FAR clauses also apply: 52.232-1, Payment; 52.232-11, Extras; 52.232-23, Assignment of Claims; 52.233-1, Disputes; 52.242-15, Stop-Work Order; 52.243-1, Changes- Fixed Price; 52.246-2, Inspection of Supplies-Fixed Price; 52.246-16, Responsibility for Supplies; 52.247-34, F.O.B. Destination; 52.249-2, Termination for the Convenience of the Government (Fixed Price); 52.249-8, Default (Fixed-Price Supply and Service). Additional clauses for this requirement which are included in full text are: Material Requirements (FAR 52.211-5) (AUG 2000)(a) Definitions. As used in this clause? ?New? means composed of previously unused components, whether manufactured from virgin material, recovered material in the form of raw material, or materials and by-products generated from, and reused within, an original manufacturing process; provided that the supplies meet contract requirements, including but not limited to, performance, reliability, and life expectancy. ?Reconditioned? means restored to the original normal operating condition by readjustments and material replacement. ?Recovered material? means waste materials and by-products recovered or diverted from solid waste, but the term does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process. ?Remanufactured? means factory rebuilt to original specifications. ?Virgin material? means? (1) Previously unused raw material, including previously unused copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, iron, other metal or metal ore; or (2) Any undeveloped resource that is, or with new technology will become, a source of raw materials. (b) Unless this contract otherwise requires virgin material or supplies composed of or manufactured from virgin material, the Contractor shall provide supplies that are new, reconditioned, or remanufactured, as defined in this clause. (c) A proposal to provide unused former Government surplus property shall include a complete description of the material, the quantity, the name of the Government agency from which acquired, and the date of acquisition. (d) A proposal to provide used, reconditioned, or remanufactured supplies shall include a detailed description of such supplies and shall be submitted to the Contracting Officer for approval. (e) Used, reconditioned, or remanufactured supplies, or unused former Government surplus property, may be used in contract performance if the Contractor has proposed the use of such supplies, and the Contracting Officer has authorized their use. Time of Delivery (FAR 52.211-8) (JUN 1997)(a) The Government requires delivery to be made according to the following schedule: 9 Months After AwardThe Government will evaluate equally, as regards time of delivery, offers that propose delivery of each quantity within the applicable delivery period specified above. Offers that propose delivery that will not clearly fall within the applicable required delivery period specified above, will be considered nonresponsive and rejected. The Government reserves the right to award under either the required delivery schedule or the proposed delivery schedule, when an offeror offers an earlier delivery schedule than required above. If the offeror proposes no other delivery schedule, the required delivery schedule above will apply.Offeror?s Proposed Delivery Schedule ITEM NO. QUANTITY WITHIN DAYS AFTER DATE OF CONTRACT 0001 (Sample Lab) 1 Each ________________________________ (b) Attention is directed to the Contract Award provision of the solicitation that provides that a written award or acceptance of offer mailed, or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror, results in a binding contract. The Government will mail or otherwise furnish to the offeror an award or notice of award not later than the day award is dated. Therefore, the offeror should compute the time available for performance beginning with the actual date of award, rather than the date the written notice of award is received from the Contracting Officer through the ordinary mails. However, the Government will evaluate an offer that proposes delivery based on the Contractor?s date of receipt of the contract or notice of award by adding (1) five calendar days for delivery of the award through the ordinary mails, or (2) one working day if the solicitation states that the contract or notice of award will be transmitted electronically. (The term ?working day? excludes weekends and U.S. Federal holidays.) If, as so computed, the offered delivery date is later than the required delivery date, the offer will be considered nonresponsive and rejected. Warranty of Supplies of a Complex Nature (FAR 52.246-18) (MAY 2001)(a) Definitions. As used in this clause? ?Acceptance? means the act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assumes for itself, or as an agent of another, ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of the contract. ?Supplies? means the end items furnished by the Contractor and related services required under this contract. The word does not include ?data.? (b) Contractor?s obligations. (1) The Contractor warrants that for the period of one year after delivery, the Mobile Laboratory furnished under this contract will be free from defects in material and workmanship and will conform with all requirements of this contract; provided, however, that with respect to Government-furnished property, the Contractor?s warranty shall extend only to its proper installation, unless the Contractor performs some modification or other work on the property, in which case the Contractor?s warranty shall extend to the modification or other work. (2) Any supplies or parts thereof corrected or furnished in replacement shall be subject to the conditions of this clause to the same extent as supplies initially delivered. This warranty shall be equal in duration to that set forth in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause and shall run from the date of delivery of the corrected or replaced supplies. (3) The Contractor shall not be obligated to correct or replace supplies if the facilities, tooling, drawings, or other equipment or supplies necessary to accomplish the correction or replacement have been made unavailable to the Contractor by action of the Government. In the event that correction or replacement has been directed, the Contractor shall promptly notify the Contracting Officer, in writing, of the nonavailability. (4) The Contractor shall also prepare and furnish to the Government data and reports applicable to any correction required (including revision and updating of all affected data called for under this contract) at no increase in the contract price. (5) When supplies are returned to the Contractor, the Contractor shall bear the transportation costs from the place of delivery specified in the contract (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) to the Contractor?s plant and return. (6) All implied warranties of merchantability and ?fitness for a particular purpose? are excluded from any obligation contained in this contract. (c) Remedies available to the Government. (1) In the event of a breach of the Contractor?s warranty in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause, the Government may, at no increase in contract price? (i) Require the Contractor, at the place of delivery specified in the contract (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) or at the Contractor?s plant, to repair or replace, at the Contractor?s election, defective or nonconforming supplies; or (ii) Require the Contractor to furnish at the Contractor?s plant the materials or parts and installation instructions required to successfully accomplish the correction. (2) If the Contracting Officer does not require correction or replacement of defective or nonconforming supplies or the Contractor is not obligated to correct or replace under paragraph (b)(3) of this clause, the Government shall be entitled to an equitable reduction in the contract price. (3) The Contracting Officer shall notify the Contractor in writing of any breach of the warranty in paragraph (b) of this clause within 45 days after discovery of defects. The Contractor shall submit to the Contracting Officer a written recommendation within 30 days as to the corrective action required to remedy the breach. After the notice of breach, but not later than 30 days after receipt of the Contractor?s recommendation for corrective action, the Contracting Officer may, in writing, direct correction or replacement as in paragraph (c)(1) of this clause, and the Contractor shall, notwithstanding any disagreement regarding the existence of a breach of warranty, comply with this direction. If it is later determined that the Contractor did not breach the warranty in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause, the contract price will be equitably adjusted. (4) If supplies are corrected or replaced, the period for notification of a breach of the Contractor?s warranty in paragraph (c)(3) of this clause shall be 30 days from the furnishing or return by the Contractor to the Government of the corrected or replaced supplies or parts thereof, or, if correction or replacement is effected by the Contractor at a Government or other activity, for 30 days thereafter. (5) The rights and remedies of the Government provided in this clause are in addition to and do not limit any rights afforded to the Government by any other clause of the contract. Incorporation Of Contractor's Technical Proposal (EP 52.210-120) (APR 1984) The Contractor's technical proposal entitled, "_____________________" dated ______________, is incorporated by reference and made part of this contract. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this contract and the Contractor's technical proposal, the contract provisions take precedence. All questions shall be forwarded via email to the Contract Specialist at the following email address: shands.lanelle@epa.gov, no later than July 28, 2008. If you obtain a copy of the RFQ via the Internet, it will be your responsibility to frequently check the same site where the RFQ is posted for any amendments. All responsible sources may submit proposal packages to: U.S. EPA, Attn: Lanelle T. Shands, 4930 Old Page Road, RTP Procurement Operations Division (D143-01), Durham, NC 27703, on/or before August 18, 2008 by 12:00 p.m EST. No telephonic, electronic or facsimile requests will be honored.
Set-aside code: Total Small Business
Contact: LANELLE T. SHANDS, Contract Specialist, Phone: 919-541-4278, E-Mail: shands.lanelle@epa.gov

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