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The A-TAP is listed on the AbilityOne Procurement List for 50% of the Army’s requirement. Per Federal Register Notice 2023-02556 dated February 7, 2023, DLA Troop Support will procure 50% of the Army’... The A-TAP is listed on the AbilityOne Procurement List for 50% of the Army’s requirement. Per Federal Register Notice 2023-02556 dated February 7, 2023, DLA Troop Support will procure 50% of the Army’s A-TAP requirement using the procedures set forth in FAR 8.7 – Acquisition from Nonprofit Agencies Employing People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. By and through this solicitation, DLA Troop Support will procure the remaining 50% of the Army’s A-TAP requirement from commercial sources using competitive acquisition procedures as detailed herein. This acquisition is for the manufacture and delivery of the A-TAP (NSN: 8465-01-682-0448). This item is manufactured in accordance with purchase descriptions purchase description CO-PD-02-02N dated September 2019. The A-TAP is a part of the modular lightweight load carrying equipment (MOLLE) ensemble. The Government intents to have a three (3) year ordering period with three (3) 12-month tier periods under any resultant contract. The Government will be obligated to order the guaranteed minimum quantity of 9,750 each prior to the final expiration and it is likely that the Government will procure this quantity at the time of contract award. The annual estimated quantity of 120,000 each is the Government’s best faith estimate of the quantity to be ordered within each tier period and is based on the current demand and the forecasted demand provided by the military customers for this item. This does not obligate the Government to order this quantity each year and is provided only for informational purposes. The Government is not obligated to order the maximum quantity of 438,750 each; however, the Government has the legal right to order up to this quantity prior to the final expiration of any resultant contract. The contractor shall be capable of producing at least 9,750 A-TAPs per month. The leadtime of the first delivery order will be 210 days – which included 90 days to submit first article samples, 30 days for the Government to review the samples, and 90 days for the awardee to start delivering after first article approval. The leadtime for all subsequent orders will be 90 days from the date of issuance. Deliveries will be made to Lansing, MI, Austin, TX and Pendergrass, GA. The solicitation will be issued on an FOB destination basis and inspection and acceptance will occur at the source. First article testing will be required under this acquisition in accordance with FAR 52.209-04 – First Article Testing – Government Testing. Two (2) ATAPs will be required for this evaluation within 90 days of award. First article testing samples will not be separately priced. This acquisition will utilize best value, trade-off source selection procedures in accordance with the DoD Source Selection Procedures dated August 20, 2022. The solicitation's evaluation factors are socioeconomic program support - technical risk and past performance - performance confidence assessment. The subfactors of past performance - performance confidence assessment includes the following subfactors: a. Recency b. Relevancy of Prior Contracts c. Quality of Products 1) Past Quality of Items 2) Past Delivery Performance 3) Past Socioeconomic Support Performance The past performance - performance confidence assessment is more important that socioeconomic program support - technical risk. Within the past performance - performance confidence assessment factor, the elements of recency, relevancy of prior contract, and quality of products are of equal importance. Within quality of products, the elements of past quality of items and past delivery performance are of equal important and are more important than past socioeconomic support performance. Price evaluation: all offered prices will be evaluated against the requirements of the solicitation. The offered prices (and if requested with initial proposal or during discussions, cost or pricing data or information other than cost or pricing data) will be evaluated in accordance with FAR 15.4 to ensure that award will be made at fair and reasonable prices. The planned acquisition will be issued on an unrestricted basis with 10% HUBZone preference. The government intends to make a single award to the responsible offeror whose proposal meets all terms and conditions of the solicitation, is determined to be the best value to the Government and submits an overall price that is determined to be fair and reasonable by the contracting officer. All offered products MUST meet the provisions of DFARS 252.225-7012 Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities. Availability of solicitations, FAR 5.102(d) applies, as our office no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. It is estimated that the solicitation will be posted on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/ within 15 days of this notice. Detailed system requirements and instructions for registration can be found on the DLA DIBBS Home Page accessed on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/. A few highlights of the information that will be found include: A. On the DLA Internet Bulletin Board System (DIBBS) Home Page, click the VENDOR REGISTRATION link to begin the registration process. B. In order to register for access to secure portions of DLA DIBBS, the company you are representing must already be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). C. A Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code registration will be processed within five business days. A User ID will appear on the registration screen and a password will be sent separately to the email address of the Super User. If a CAGE is already registered on DLA DIBBS, the name and email address of the Super User will be provided. The Super User should be contacted to set-up additional accounts, logons and passwords for their CAGE. DIBBS Super User * If your CAGE has already been registered on DIBBS, the name and email address of the person designated as your super user will be provided. * The representative who starts the DIBBS registration process has the option to accept their SAM registration POC as the DIBBS super user, or they can designate themselves or another person to act as the super user for the CAGE. * The super user acts as the account administrator for a CAGE. They can add up to ninety-eight (98) additional users, provide user IDs and passwords, modify existing users, and control the login status of each user for their CAGEs through My Account (Account Maintenance). The Defense appropriations and authorization acts and other statutes (including what is commonly referred to as "The Berry Amendment") impose restrictions on the DoD's acquisition of foreign products and services. Generally, Clothing and Textile items (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7012), including the materials and components thereof (other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to, and not normally associated with clothing), must be grown, reprocessed, reused, melted or produced in the United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico, unless one of the DFARS 225.7002-2 exceptions applies. Interested vendors can request the corresponding drawings, specifications or patterns through DIBBS and/or the Contract Specialist AFTER the solicitation has been posted to DIBBS. Requests for the documents prior to this date will not be entertained.