MODIFICATION
65--65 -- Flexible Removable Partial Dentures
- Notice Date
- 1/13/2006
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Capitol Network Acquisition Center, Contracting Officer, (688/90C), 50 Irving Street, NW, Washington, District Of Columbia 20422
- ZIP Code
- 20422
- Solicitation Number
- 688-36-06
- Response Due
- 1/25/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/24/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- 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 notice constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is being issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ) number 688-36-06. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular number 2005-7. The NAIC code for this solicitation is 339116. The small business size standard is 500 employees. This supply contract shall include four one year options request support for the Dental Laboratory located at the VAMC Washington, DC. Contractor shall provide fully fabricated flexible removable partial dentures, setups, and complete and/or partial dentures with Lucitone 199. Provide pick up and delivery service free of charge. Casework is to be completed in a satisfactory manner and returned to the VAMC within 7 workdays from the date of pick up. Master/opposing casts will be articulated by the VAMC. Duplicated master cast and denture teeth with or without a metal framework and FRS or Valpast will be provided by the VAMC. Casework will be created with adequate retention (Diatorics) to prevent denture teeth from loosening or detaching from the flexible base. All prostheses will be returned on the original, undamaged master cast, exhibiting quality assured fit, retention, occlusion and esthetics. Trial wax setup and/or processing will include esthetics and anatomic mucosal/gingival contours, as well as bilaterally stable occlusion. All casework will be completed fabricated, setup and/or processed at a flat rate including the teeth, retention, rests, molds of denture teeth, and with or without provided metal framework. PRICE SCHEDULE (Based on estimated quantities.) 1. BASE YEAR (02/01/06 -01/31/07) A. Flexible Removable Partial Dentures 300 cases @ $_____________ for a total of $_____________ B. Denture Trial Setup or Wax up Process. 760 cases @ $ _____________ for a total of $ ___________. 2. OPTION YEAR 1 (02/01/07 ? 01/31/08) A. Flexible Removable Partial Dentures 300 cases @ $___________ for a total of $____________ B. Denture Trial Setup or Wax up Process. 760 cases @ $ ___________ for a total of $___________3. OPTION YEAR 2 (02/01/08 ? 01/31/09) A. Flexible Removable Partial Dentures 300 cases. @ $___________ for a total of $______________ B. Denture Trial Setup or Wax up Process. 760 cases @ $ ___________ for a total of $____________. 4. OPTION YEAR 3 (02/01/09 ? 01/31/10) A. Flexible Removable Partial Dentures 300 cases @ $___________ for a total of $_______________ B. Denture Trial Setup or Wax up Process. 760 cases @ $ __________ for a total of $_____________. 5. OPTION YEAR 4 (02/01/10 ? 1/31/11) A. Flexible Removable Partial Dentures 300 cases @ $_____________ for a total of $_____________ B. Denture Trial Setup or Wax up Process. 760 cases @ $ ___________ for a total of $_____________. GRAND TOTAL ITEMS 1-5 $________________. Acceptance time will be 60 days from bid opening date. The following provisions apply to this solicitation: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-commercial, 52.212-3 Representations and Certifications- Commercial Items, 52.212-5 -- Contract Terms and Conditions Required Implementing Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items. (a) The Contractor shall comply with the following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.233-3, Protest After Award. (b) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (b) that the contracting officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items:[X] 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Aside; [X] 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business; [X] 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting; [X] 52.222-3, Convict Labor; [X] 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities;[X]52.222-26, Equal Opportunity;[X] 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; [X] 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; [X] 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; [X] 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; [X] 52.246-17 Warranty of Supplies of a Noncomplex Nature (1) Notwithstanding inspection and acceptance by the Government of supplies furnished under this contract, or any condition of this contract concerning the conclusiveness thereof, the Contractor warrants that for 10 years after time of delivery --(i) All supplies furnished under this contract will be free from defects in material or workmanship and will conform with all requirements of this contract; and(ii) The preservation, packaging, packing, and marking, and the preparation for, and method of, shipment of such supplies will conform with the requirements of this contract. (2) When return, correction, or replacement is required, transportation charges and responsibility for the supplies while in transit shall be borne by the Contractor. However, the Contractor?s liability for the transportation charges shall not exceed an amount equal to the cost of transportation by the usual commercial method of shipment between the place of delivery specified in this contract and the Contractor?s plant, and return. (3) Any supplies or parts thereof, corrected or furnished in replacement under this clause, shall also be subject to the terms of this clause to the same extent as supplies initially delivered. The warranty, with respect to supplies or parts thereof, shall be equal in duration to that in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause and shall run from the date of delivery of the corrected or replaced supplies. (4) All implied warranties of merchantability and ?fitness for a particular purpose? are excluded from any obligation contained in this contract. (1) The Contracting Officer shall give written notice to the Contractor of any breach of warranties in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause within 30 days. (2) Within a reasonable time after the notice, the Contracting Officer may either -- (i) Require, by written notice, the prompt correction or replacement of any supplies or parts thereof (including preservation, packaging, packing, and marking) that do not conform with the requirements of this contract within the meaning of paragraph (b)(1) of this clause; or (ii) Retain such supplies and reduce the contract price by an amount equitable under the circumstances. (3)(i) If the contract provides for inspection of supplies by sampling procedures, conformance of supplies or components subject to warranty action shall be determined by the applicable sampling procedures in the contract. The Contracting Officer --(A) May, for sampling purposes, group any supplies delivered under this contract; (B) Shall require the size of the sample to be that required by sampling procedures specified in the contract for the quantity of supplies on which warranty action is proposed; (C) May project warranty sampling results over supplies in the same shipment or other supplies contained in other shipments even though all of such supplies are not present at the point of reinspection; provided, that the supplies remaining are reasonably representative of the quantity on which warranty action is proposed; and (D) Need not use the same lot size as on original inspection or reconstitute the original inspection lots. (ii) Within a reasonable time after notice of any breach of the warranties specified in paragraph (b)(1) of this clause, the Contracting Officer may exercise one or more of the following options: (A) Require an equitable adjustment in the contract price for any group of supplies. (B) Screen the supplies grouped for warranty action under this clause at the Contractor?s expense and return all nonconforming supplies to the Contractor for correction or replacement. (C) Require the Contractor to screen the supplies at locations designated by the Government within the contiguous United States and to correct or replace all nonconforming supplies. (D) Return the supplies grouped for warranty action under this clause to the Contractor (irrespective of the f.o.b. point or the point of acceptance) for screening and correction or replacement. (4) (i) The Contracting Officer may, by contract or otherwise, correct or replace the nonconforming supplies with similar supplies from another source and charge to the Contractor the cost occasioned to the Government thereby if the Contractor -- (A) Fails to make redelivery of the corrected or replaced supplies within the time established for their return; or (B) Fails either to accept return of the nonconforming supplies or fails to make progress after their return to correct or replace them so as to endanger performance of the delivery schedule, and in either of these circumstances does not cure such failure within a period of 10 days (or such longer period as the Contracting Officer may authorize in writing) after receipt of notice from the Contracting Officer specifying such failure. (ii) Instead of correction or replacement by the Government, the Contracting Officer may require an equitable adjustment of the contract price. In addition, if the Contractor fails to furnish timely disposition instructions, the Contracting Officer may dispose of the nonconforming supplies for the Contractor?s account in a reasonable manner. The Government is entitled to reimbursement from the Contractor, or from the proceeds of such disposal, for the reasonable expenses of the care and disposition of the nonconforming supplies, as well as for excess costs incurred or to be incurred. (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 this contract. (c) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (c), applicable to commercial services, that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: [X] 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services; the Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within 30 days. [X] 52.217-9 -- Option to Extend the Term of the Contract. (a) The Government may extend the term of this contract by written notice to the Contractor within 30 days; provided that the Government gives the Contractor a preliminary written notice of its intent to extend at least 60 days before the contract expires. The preliminary notice does not commit the Government to an extension.(b) If the Government exercises this option, the extended contract shall be considered to include this option clause.(c) The total duration of this contract, including the exercise of any options under this clause, shall not exceed 60 months [X] 52.216-19 Order Limitations (a) Minimum order. When the Government requires supplies or services covered by this contract in an amount of less than $100.00, the Government is not obligated to purchase, nor is the Contractor obligated to furnish, those supplies or services under the contract. (b) Maximum order. The Contractor is not obligated to honor-- (1) Any order for a single item in excess of $2,800.00; (2) Any order for a combination of items in excess of $50,000.00; (3) A series of orders from the same ordering office within thirty (30) days that together call for quantities exceeding the limitation in subparagraph (b)(1) or (2) above. (c) If this is a requirements contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection 52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in paragraph (b) above. (d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) above, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within one (1) day days after issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor's intent not to ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons. Upon receiving this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from another source. [X] 52.216-22 Indefinite Quantity (a) This is an indefinite-quantity contract for the supplies or services specified and effective for the period stated, in the Schedule. The quantities of supplies and services specified in the Schedule are estimates only and are not purchased by this contract. (b) Delivery or performance shall be made only as authorized by orders issued in accordance with the Ordering clause. The Contractor shall furnish to the Government, when and if ordered, the supplies or services specified in the Schedule up to and including the quantity designated in the Schedule as the "maximum." The Government shall order at least the quantity of supplies or services designated in the Schedule as the "minimum." (c) Except for any limitations on quantities in the Order Limitations clause or in the Schedule, there is no limit on the number of orders that may be issued. The Government may issue orders requiring delivery to multiple destinations or performance at multiple locations. (d) Any order issued during the effective period of this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed by the Contractor within the time specified in the order. The contract shall govern the Contractor's and Government's rights and obligations with respect to that order to the same extent as if the order were completed during the contract's effective period; provided, that the Contractor shall not be required to make any deliveries under this contract after two (2) weeks upon expiration of the contract.. [X] 852.216-70 Estimated Quantities--As it is impossible to determine the exact quantities that will be required during the contract term, each bidder whose bid is accepted wholly or in part will be required to deliver all articles or services that may be ordered during the contract term, except as he/she otherwise indicates in his/her bid and except as otherwise provided herein. Bids will be considered if made with the proviso that the total quantities delivered shall not exceed a certain specified quantity. Bids offering less than 75 percent of the estimated requirement or which provide that the Government shall guarantee any definite quantity, will not be considered. The fact that quantities are estimated shall not relieve the contractor from filling all orders placed under this contract to the extent of his/her obligation. Also, the Department of Veterans Affairs shall not be relieved of its obligation to order from the contractor all articles or services that may, in the judgment of the ordering officer, be needed except that in the public exigency procurement may be made without regard to this contract. [X] 52.233-2 Service of Protest: (a) Protests, as defined in section 33.101 of the Federal Acquisitions Regulations that are filed directly with an agency and copies of any protests that are filed with General Accounting Office (GAO), shall be served on the Contracting Officer by obtaining written and dated acknowledgement of receipt from Purchasing and Contracting (688/90c), 50 Irving Street NW, Room 3D233, Washington, DC 20422. (b) The copy of any protest shall be received in the office designated above within one day of filling protest with the GAO; 852.233-70 Protest Content; 852.233-71, Alternative Protest Procedure; 52.232-19, Availability of Funds for Next Fiscal Year; 852.236-86, Worker?s Compensation; 852.270-1, Representatives of Contracting Officers; 852.170-4 Commercial Adverting; 852.211-71 (A) Guarantee; [X] 52.212-2 Evaluation Commercial Items (a) 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: Technical and past performance, when combined is equally as important but price is slightly more important. 1. Technical capability ? A resume of the company including a brief history, a list of at least three current or recent contracts or binding agreements to perform the work that is the same or similar to the required work. A resume of the individual(s) who will manage the operations of the VA work under a resultant contract. .2. Past performance ? at least three references and evidence of financial stability etc. 3. Price. (b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). (c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Offerors may obtain copies of the referenced provisions and clauses at http://arnet.gov. Quotations must be received by 1:00 PM local time January 25, 2006, VA Medical Center (688/90C), Room 3D233, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422. Web based and faxed offers will be accepted. All responsible sources will be considered.
- Place of Performance
- Address: VA Medical Center, 50 Irving St., NW Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20422
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 20422
- Record
- SN00966371-W 20060115/060113211959 (fbodaily.com)
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