Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION (FAR 12.603) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or services prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with ad... COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION (FAR 12.603) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or services prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 140R3023Q0060 is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2023-04. It is the responsibility of the contractor to be familiar with the applicable clauses and provisions. They may be accessed in full text at the following websites: https:/www.acquisition.gov/far/ and https://www.acquisition.gov/diar. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334513 with an associated small business size standard of 750 employees. This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside, and only qualified contractors may submit a quote. Reclamation requires a SonTek brand RiverSurveyor M9 model (see attached Brand Name Justification), i.e., a floating or boat-mounted flow-measuring water flow meter device that uses the Doppler effect to calculate discharge, also known as an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP/ADP). This device will be used for discharge measurements at several gaging locations. To maintain the required precision and accuracy for a discharge measurement, a technician must be able to quality-check the data and make corrections in the field during the measurement. The device must alert the user to problems during the measurement. The device is required to include real-time kinematics (RTK) as a GPS option due to the narrow width of the canals in which it will be used; sub-centimeter positional accuracy is required. The device must be able to be mounted to a manned boat or mounted in a stand-alone floating tethered platform. CLIN 0010: SonTek River Surveyor M9/RS-M9 Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), quantity one (1) each at $__________________ for a total of $__________________. CLIN 0020: 2.4 GHz Telemetry / External Power / SonTek RTK GNSS Multi-constellation Module for remote data collection, quantity one (1) at $__________________ for a total of $__________________. CLIN 0030: Torrent Board v7 for M9 systems/ TB-MAX, quantity one (1) at $__________________ for a total of $__________________. CLIN 0040: Shipping, quantity one (1) at $__________________ for a total of $__________________. Total quoted price for above four items: $__________________ Total price shall be inclusive of all applicable fees and taxes. The required delivery date is 30 days after receipt of order. Inspection and acceptance will be performed by the Government at destination. F.O.B. Destination at [to be provided with award document], Boulder City, NV. The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors ¿ Commercial Products and Commercial Services, applies to this acquisition. This addendum replaced the term ¿offer¿ with ¿quote¿ within the provision 52.212-1. In addition to the requirements of the Instructions to Offerors - Competitive Acquisitions provision of this solicitation, each quoter shall submit a quote in accordance with the instructions contained in this provision. (1) Quoter shall submit a price quote for the line items listed at paragraph (v). (2) Submit the following information: (a) Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): ______________ (b) Contractor E-mail Address: ______________________________ The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation ¿ Commercial Products and Commercial Services, applies to this acquisition. The specific evaluation criteria to be included in paragraph (a) of that provision is as follows: Determination of award will be based on the lowest-priced responsive quote from a responsible quoter. The provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ¿ Commercial Products and Commercial Services, must be completed and be active online at http://www.sam.gov. Prospective contractor is advised to ensure that the NAICS code identified for this procurement is contained in its online representations and certifications in the System for Award Management registry. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions ¿ Commercial Products and Commercial Services, applies to this acquisition. The following select clauses at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders ¿ Commercial Products and Commercial Services, apply to this acquisition: 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards (Jun 2020) 52.204-27, Prohibition on a ByteDance Covered Application (Jun 2023) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government¿s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment. (Nov 2021) 52.219-6 Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside (Nov 2020) 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation (Mar 2023) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (Jun 2003) 52.222-19, Child Labor¿Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (Dec 2022) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Apr 2015) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Sep 2016) (E.O.11246) 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jun 2020) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Nov 2021) 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving (Jun 2020) 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (Feb 2021) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer¿ System for Award Management (Oct 2018) 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference (Jan 1991) (xiii) Additional contract requirements include the following clauses and provisions: 52.204-7, System for Award Management (Oct 2018) 52.204-13, System for Award Management Maintenance (Oct 2018) 52.204-16, Commercial and Government Entity Code Reporting (Aug 2020) 52.242-15, Stop-Work Order (Aug 1989) DOI-AAAP-0028 ELECTRONIC INVOICING AND PAYMENT REQUIREMENTS-INVOICE PROCESSING PLATFORM (IPP) (APR 2013) Payment requests must be submitted electronically through the U. S. Department of the Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform System (IPP). 'Payment request' means any request for contract financing payment or invoice payment by the Contractor. To constitute a proper invoice, the payment request must comply with the requirements identified in the applicable Prompt Payment clause included in the contract, or the clause 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items included in commercial item contracts. The IPP website address is https://www.ipp.gov. Under this contract, the following documents are required to be submitted as an attachment to the IPP invoice: None Concurrent to submitting an invoice in IPP, the contractor may submit any supporting documentation to the contract specialist at pwoodhouse@usbr.gov. Contractors are cautioned that supporting documentation e-mailed to the contracting officer must not conflict with the IPP submission. Conflicts between the IPP submission and supporting documentation may result in a delay in approval and/or rejection of submitted invoices. When e-mailing supporting documentation to the contracting officer, the subject line of the email shall be formatted as follows: Contract Number, Invoice Number, Contracting Officer's last name (e.g., 140R2018R00000_Invoice No. 1_Smith). The invoice shall be attached to the email and named using the following format: Contract Number, Contractor Name, Invoice Number, Invoice Amount (e.g., 140R2022R00000_World Test, Inc. - Inv. No. 1 - $5,678). Invoices shall not include information that would compromise Personally Identifiable Information, such as full social security numbers, dates of birth, etc. The final invoice shall be submitted and will be approved in accordance with payment terms and conditions contained in the contract, after all, if any, settlement actions are complete. The contractor must clearly identify the last payment as the ¿Final Invoice.¿ The Contractor must use the IPP website to register access and use IPP for submitting requests for payment. The Contractor Government Business Point of Contact (as listed in SAM) will receive enrollment instructions via email from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRBSTL) within 3¿5 business days of the contract award date. Contractor assistance with enrollment can be obtained by contacting the IPP Production Helpdesk via email IPPCustomerSupport@fiscal.treasury.gov or phone (866) 973-3131. If the Contractor is unable to comply with the requirement to use IPP for submitting invoices for payment, the Contractor must submit a waiver request in writing to the Contracting Officer with its proposal or quotation. (End of Local Clause) DIAR 1452.215-71 USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PROPOSAL INFORMATION¿DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (APR 1984) (a) Definitions. For the purposes of this provision and the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552), the following terms shall have the meaning set forth below: (1) ¿Trade Secret¿ means an unpatented, secret, commercially valuable plan, appliance, formula, or process, which is used for making, preparing, compounding, treating or processing articles or materials which are trade commodities. (2) ¿Confidential commercial or financial information¿ means any business information (other than trade secrets) which is exempt from the mandatory disclosure requirement of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. Exemptions from mandatory disclosure which may be applicable to business information contained in proposals include exemption (4), which covers ¿commercial and financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential,¿ and exemption (9), which covers ¿geological and geophysical information, including maps, concerning wells.¿ (b) If the offeror, or its subcontractor(s), believes that the proposal contains trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, (5 U.S.C. 552), the cover page of each copy of the proposal shall be marked with the following legend: ¿The information specifically identified on pages ____________ of this proposal constitutes trade secrets or confidential commercial and financial information which the offeror believes to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The offeror requests that this information not be disclosed to the public, except as may be required by law. The offeror also requests that this information not be used in whole or part by the government for any purpose other than to evaluate the proposal, except that if a contract is awarded to the offeror as a result of or in connection with the submission of the proposal, the Government shall have the right to use the information to the extent provided in the contract.¿ (c) The offeror shall also specifically identify trade secret information and confidential commercial and financial information on the pages of the proposal on which it appears and shall mark each such page with the following legend: ¿This page contains trade secrets or confidential commercial and financial information which the offeror believes to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and which is subject to the legend contained on the cover page of this proposal.¿ (d) Information in a proposal identified by an offeror as trade secret information or confidential commercial and financial information shall be used by the Government only for the purpose of evaluating the proposal, except that (i) if a contract is awarded to the offeror as a result of or in connection with submission of the proposal, the Government shall have the right to use the information as provided in the contract, and (ii) if the same information is obtained from another source without restriction it may be used without restriction. (e) If a request under the Freedom of Information Act seeks access to information in a proposal identified as trade secret information or confidential commercial and financial information, full consideration will be given to the offeror's view that the information constitutes trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information. The offeror will also be promptly notified of the request and given an opportunity to provide additional evidence and argument in support of its position, unless administratively unfeasible to do so. If it is determined that information claimed by the offeror to be trade secret information or confidential commercial or financial information is not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, the offeror will be notified of this determination prior to disclosure of the information. (f) The Government assumes no liability for the disclosure or use of information contained in a proposal if not marked in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this provision. If a request under the Freedom of Information Act is made for information in a proposal not marked in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c) of this provision, the offeror concerned shall be promptly notified of the request and given an opportunity to provide its position to the Government. However, failure of an offeror to mark information contained in a proposal as trade secret information or confidential commercial or financial information will be treated by the Government as evidence that the information is not exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, absent a showing that the failure to mark was due to unusual or extenuating circumstances, such as a showing that the offeror had intended to mark, but that markings were omitted from the offeror's proposal due to clerical error. (End of provision) Written, signed quotes on company letterhead with contact information are due no later than 18 August 2023 by e-mail to pwoodhouse@usbr.gov. For information regarding this RFQ, please contact Patricia Woodhouse, pwoodhouse@usbr.gov, 702-293-8581.