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The USPS requires lease procurement of hydrogen fueling infrastructure for its fleet of Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIVs) for the Brooklyn NY Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) located at 1050... The USPS requires lease procurement of hydrogen fueling infrastructure for its fleet of Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIVs) for the Brooklyn NY Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) located at 1050 Forbell Street Brooklyn, NY and the New Jersey Network Distribution Center (NDC) located at 80 County Road, Jersey City, NJ as part of its Powered Industrial Vehicle (PIV) Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) National Deployment Program. Fuel cells for the PIV equipment will be procured separately and are not a part of this solicitation. To be considered, a company must meet the following minimum requirements: (1) LICENSE(S): Contractors must be licensed, as required by the State or Federal entity, to perform the work stated in this solicitation. The USPS does not exempt suppliers from licensure on federal projects. (2) Contractors must have been in the construction business for a minimum of five consecutive years as of the date of this solicitation. There is no requirement that eligible contracting firms remained the identical entity for the five-year period, although legal entity changes (such as from a partnership to a corporation) that occurred during this five-year period should be clearly explained, and if key personnel were retained, this should also be clearly explained. (3) Contractors must provide evidence of their current EMR rating on insurance company letterhead. If the EMR rating is greater than 1.0, the contractor must provide a written explanation from its insurance carrier along with evidence of your previous two years EMR ratings on insurance letterhead. An EMR more than 1.5 may be grounds for eliminating a firm from further consideration by the evaluation team. (5) Company must submit information for three comparable hydrogen delivery infrastructure projects that have been completed within the past five years. Comparable projects are defined as projects with similar scopes of work and costs of $500,000 or more. If the infrastructure cost for comparable projects is less than this amount, please explain. The Qualification/Evaluation Package will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria stated. The price proposals for only the most highly qualified contractors will be considered. For the award of this solicitation, price is more important than the technical response. However, the Postal Service may not necessarily make an award at the lowest price in order to achieve a small price savings if better value can be achieved with a superior technical response. The evaluation factors outlined in Section 2-26.2 of the Supplying Principles and Practices, listed in descending order of importance, will be used in the evaluation of proposals. QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: Gloria Sanders, Gloria.P.Sanders@usps.gov. Deadline for questions is 12:00 Noon Eastern Time on October 15, 2021. The OFFEROR'S PROPOSAL RETURN PACKAGE: should be submitted via the USPS COUPA application by the proposal due date & time. It is the contractor’s responsibility to seek confirmation of the receipt of their proposals. If not currently registered in COUPA, utilize the following URL to start the process: https://about.usps.com/suppliers/becoming/registration.htm. Once registration has been completed, notify the contact listed above via email so that they can then send your company a COUPA invitation to the project allowing access to view the solicitation documents. For help with the eSourcing program, please email the eSourcing COUPA helpdesk at esourcing@usps.gov. There will be no public opening of offers. All proposal information received is CONFIDENTIAL until award of a contract. Upon award, the name of the successful offeror and the amount of the contract will be released as public information. The names of offerors and the amount of their offers will not be released as public information. This information is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, Exception 4.