QUOTE SUBMISSION INFORMATION: E-mail is the required method for offer submission. The Contracting Specialist or Officer will send a confirmation email once your quote is received. If you do not receive a confirmation email, the Government did not receive your quote.
Your offer shall include but is not limited to the following:
- Complete (must be signed) Page 2 of RFQ
- One unredacted copy and one redacted copy. The redaction should hide any identifying information to include company name, addresses, tax ID numbers, Cage/UEI numbers, employee information, previous contract numbers.
3. FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications
4. Technical Approach
5. Quality Control Plan
6. Specification breakout of proposed washers and dryers
7. Acknowledgement of all Amendments made
Please submit questions to the email address, kasey.hutton.1@us.af.mil, NLT 23 December 2024, 3:00 p.m. (CST). An amendment will be issued with answering all questions received. The Government has the right to award all, some, or none of the machines.
Deadline for receipt of offers: 3 January 2025, 10:00 a.m. (CST). All quotes can be emailed to kasey.hutton.1@us.af.mil.
Evaluation of Offers: The evaluation for this acquisition will be solely based on best value to the Government with no ranking to include past performance, price, and technical capability. Offerors must submit sufficient descriptive data to validate each item proposed meets the salient characteristics in the DESCRIPTION column below. Offerors MUST have the aforementioned assigned NAICS to be considered for award. Offerors MUST have the correct socio-economic set-aside as mentioned on page 1 under aforementioned assigned NAICS to be considered for award. By signing its offer, the offeror certifies that each price stated on each CLIN includes an appropriate apportionment of all costs, direct and indirect, all state and local taxes, overhead, and profit.
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- If you do not have the correct NAICS on your SAM profile (NAICS: 532210) You have until the extension date to correct this and have it reflect in SAM, if it is not in your profile when I pull your report after the close date, your business will not be considered for award. Your company must also be considered a SMALL BUSINESS under this NAICS. If not, your company will not be considered for award.
- If your SAM profile is inactive and it is not resolved by the aforementioned date, then your company will not be considered for award.
- If you are providing a quote your company MUST be a SMALL BUSINESS under the assigned NAICS or your company will not be considered for award.
- Please note that there are two RFQ documents. One RFQ Template for stand-alone washers and dryers that will be stacked and placed on a rail system in the Quads, and and RFQ Template for COMBO Units that will be put in the Quads. How the quantities are broken out for these units are different on each document depending on which type of unit you plan on quoting on. Please pick the correct RFQ document based on what type of washer and dryer systems you plan on submitting in your solicitation documents. We need this in order for continuity and transparency of pricing when evaluating quotes.
- As stated in the RFQ document, offerors must submit sufficient descriptive data to validate each item proposed meets the salient characteristics. This will ensure you are providing washers and dryers IAW the specification sheet listed in the solicitation. Please, provide part/model numbers and a description of the washers and dryers specifications to ensure we can determine technical acceptability. If not, your company will not be considered for award.
- Also, please review the documents above as they are also all required to be sent with your quote (these are also listed in SAM.gov and your RFQ documents). If you do not provide all documents by the aforementioned deadline, your company will not be considered for award.
- I highly encourage that your review your pricing on your quotes thoroughly before submitting. Many quotes pricing and totals were incorrect which slows the evaluation process substantially when we have to reach out and confirm or correct pricing.
- If quotes are missing any of the aforementioned mandatory quote submission requirements, your submission cannot be considered for award.
****Amendment 1: Updated PWS to "Attachment Performance Workstatement v2" (see document for changes), uploaded "Questions and Answers 1 Washer Dryer Lease", ALSO, there will be site visit on Wednesday, 18 December 2024 at 10:00 a.m. (CST). Please respond if you intend to attend the site visit to kasey.hutton.1@us.af.mil, and notify me if you will need an escort/pass on base.******
