SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Enhanced Smoke Management Program Facilitation Services
- Notice Date
- 12/19/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, R-3 Southwestern Region, 333 Broadway, SE Acquisition Mgmt. Regional Office, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
- ZIP Code
- 87102
- Solicitation Number
- R3-03-05
- Archive Date
- 1/18/2003
- Point of Contact
- Rufus Cole, Contract Specialist, Phone 505-842-3342, Fax 505-842-3457, - Christine O'Guin, Contract Specialist, Phone (505) 842-3317, Fax (505) 842-3457,
- E-Mail Address
-
rcole01@fs.fed.us, cogin@fs.fed.us
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- USDA Forest Service, Southwest Regional Office is seeking specialized facilitation services for creation of an Enhanced Smoke Management Program for the state of New Mexico. Facilitator must have demonstrated expert working knowledge of Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission Report, Regional Haze Rule, and Western Regional Air Partnership Policy for ESMP for Visibility. Level of effort is to include teleconference calls and physical meetings, individual and group guidance/consultation for approximately 400 hours from January 2003 - June 30, 2003. Travel expenses to and from various sites within New Mexico will be reimbursed per Federal Travel Regulations. Contractor travel time to and from said sites will be billed at one half of contractor's hourly rate. Quoters are to submit 3 separate evaluation items in response to this solicitation: Item 1- A detailed synopsis of quoters specialized experience that address the experience criteria stated above; Item 2 - past performance information from past 3 years which includes the following elements of information: Contract name and address, contract no., dollar amount of contract, brief description of contract, contact name(s) and phone number(s); Item - 3 - Cost per hour. All three items will be considered by the evaluation team as being significantly equal in importance. Quoters will be evaluated on the basis' of Quality, Timeliness and Business Relations for past performance criteria. Award will be firm fixed price under FAR Part 12 Commercial Items Acquisition. 12.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial items. (a) In accordance with Section 8002 of Public Law 103-355 (41 U.S.C. 264, note), contracts for the acquisition of commercial items shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include only those clauses- (1) Required to implement provisions of law or executive orders applicable to the acquisition of commercial items; or (2) Determined to be consistent with customary commercial practice. (b) Insert the following provisions in solicitations for the acquisition of commercial items, and clauses in solicitations and contracts for the acquisition of commercial items: (1) The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items. This provision provides a single, streamlined set of instructions to be used when soliciting offers for commercial items and is incorporated in the solicitation by reference (see Block 27a, SF 1449). The contracting officer may tailor these instructions or provide additional instructions tailored to the specific acquisition in accordance with 12.302. (2) The provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. This provision provides a single, consolidated list of certifications and representations for the acquisition of commercial items and is attached to the solicitation for offerors to complete and return with their offer. This provision may not be tailored except in accordance with Subpart 1.4. Use the provision with its Alternate I in solicitations issued by DoD, NASA, or the Coast Guard that are expected to exceed the threshold at 4.601(a). Use the provision with its Alternate II in solicitations for acquisitions for which small disadvantaged business procurement mechanisms are authorized on a regional basis. (3) The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items. This clause includes terms and conditions which are, to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with customary commercial practices and is incorporated in the solicitation and contract by reference (see Block 27, SF 1449). The contracting officer may tailor this clause in accordance with 12.302. (4) The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items. This clause incorporates by reference only those clauses required to implement provisions of law or executive orders applicable to the acquisition of commercial items. The contracting officer shall attach this clause to the solicitation and contract and, using the appropriate clause prescriptions, indicate which, if any, of the additional clauses cited in 52.212-5(b) or (c) are applicable to the specific acquisition. When cost information is obtained pursuant to Part 15 to establish the reasonableness of prices for commercial items, the contracting officer shall insert the clauses prescribed for this purpose in an addendum to the solicitation and contract. This clause may not be tailored. Use the clause with its Alternate I when the head of the agency has waived the examination of records by the Comptroller General in accordance with 25.1001. (c) When the use of evaluation factors is appropriate, the contracting officer may- (1) Insert the provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation- Commercial Items, in solicitations for commercial items (see 12.602); or (2) Include a similar provision containing all evaluation factors required by 13.106, Subpart 14.2 or Subpart 15.3, as an addendum (see 12.302(d)). (d) Use of required provisions and clauses. Notwithstanding prescriptions contained elsewhere in the FAR, when acquiring commercial items, contracting officers shall be required to use only those provisions and clauses prescribed in this part. The provisions and clauses prescribed in this part shall be revised, as necessary, to reflect the applicability of statutes and executive orders to the acquisition of commercial items. (e) Discretionary use of FAR provisions and clauses. The contracting officer may include in solicitations and contracts by addendum other FAR provisions and clauses when their use is consistent with the limitations contained in 12.302. For example: (1) The contracting officer may include appropriate clauses when an indefinite-delivery type of contract will be used. The clauses prescribed at 16.506 may be used for this purpose. (2) The contracting officer may include appropriate provisions and clauses when the use of options is in the Government's interest. The provisions and clauses prescribed in 17.208 may be used for this purpose. If the provision at 52.212-2 is used, paragraph (b) provides for the evaluation of options. (3) The contracting officer may use the provisions and clauses contained in Part 23 regarding the use of recovered material when appropriate for the item being acquired. (f) Agencies may supplement the provisions and clauses prescribed in this part (to require use of additional provisions and clauses) only as necessary to reflect agency unique statutes applicable to the acquisition of commercial items or as may be approved by the agency senior procurement executive, or the individual responsible for representing the agency on the FAR Council, without power of delegation.
- Place of Performance
- Address: USDA Forest Service, Southwest Regional Office, 333 Broadway Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM
- Zip Code: 87102
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 87102
- Record
- SN00226880-W 20021221/021219213454 (fbodaily.com)
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