CHANGES 8 November 2023 - Administrative adjustment to Contact Information. Provided updated contact information. 09 July 2023 - The Contracting Officer is suspending submission eligibility until further notice; all prior submission are retained by the contracting office until such time as the Contracting Officer proceeds with award of current agreement applications. 07 June 2023 - Added draft BPA document 19 May 2023 - Posting questions and answers #5 & #6. 18 May 2023 - Added Instructions to Interested Parties, Questionairre, Updated Capabilities Matrix, Published ELIN, and Published PWS 23 MARCH 2023 - Added responses to RFIs submitted via e-mail to the end of the notice. 7 MARCH 2023 - Solicitation release is delayed due to ongoing revisions. The Contracting Officer will notify all interested contractors upon issuance of the solicitation. NOTICE OF INTENT- INDO-Pacific Theater Wide BPA DESCRIPTION OF BLANKET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (BPA) : The 921st Contracting Battalion (CBn), 413th Contracting Support Brigade (CSB), located at Wheeler Army Airfield, HI intends to solicit for Prime Contractors in order to provide non-personal supplies and services at multiple locations throughout the Indo-Pacific. The intent of this BPA is to provide a long-term, contractual logistics solution for multiple countries. . CONTRACT TYPE : Awarded BPA Calls will be firm-fixed-price (FFP) type contracts. This contract type provides for a price that is not subject to any adjustment on the basis of the contractor’s cost experience in performing the contract. This contract type places upon the contractor maximum risk and full responsibility for all costs and resulting profit or loss. CATAGORIES OF PERFORMANCE: Base Life Support Transportation and Material Handling (Land and Marine) General Support and Port Services (Handling and Husbandry) Field Feeding Services Conference Support (non-lodging) Construction Materials and Equipment (Bill of Materials) Miscellaneous Supplies BPA GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE AREA: See Capabilities Matrix *Performance under subsequent agreements excludes the United States and its territories. **Performance within the Korean Peninsula is subject to agreement and concurrence from the 411th Contracting Support Brigade (Korea). BPA ORDERING PERIOD : BPA will remain in effect for a period of ten (10) years from the date of issuance and subject to annual review and/or supplemental agreement. INSTRUCTIONS TO INTERESTED PARTIES To be considered for the award of an agreement, contractors shall submit their response with the following items: 1) Experience statement (Resume) (for no less than three and not more than five international contract performances) including: Event title, dates of performance, locations of performance, services rendered, and a reference (name, e-mail, and phone number) for your performance quality. 2) Capabilities matrix attachment identifying what countries and capabilities (by CLIN) that they can provide services. 3) Vendor Questionairre. SAM Registration/Responsibility – The government requires SAM registration and completion of all required representations and certification for award consideration. Failure to complete full registration (i.e. certifying 52.204-26) will result in your submission being considered non-responsive. All documents must be submitted to the following e-mail address for consideration: usarmy.shafter.413-contr-spt-bde.list.921st-cbn-cspo@army.mil EVALUATION FACTORS FOR AWARD 1 - Past Performance – Contractors requesting Blanket Purchase Agreements under this solicitation will be evaluated utilizing government past performance databases including but not limited to SAM, FAPIIS, and SPRS for past performance ratings that constitute unacceptable risk to the government. Unfavorable past performance is constituted by one or more marginal or unsatisfactory ratings in the preceding three years where the contractor does not adequately address unsatisfactory performance recorded in SAM.gov and the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE). 2 - Technical Capability – Contractors requesting Blanket Purchase Agreements under this notice will be evaluated for their ability to perform one or more of the capabilities provided in the schedule as a Prime Contractor (managing both organic and subcontractor capabilities). Contractor are responsible for providing a capabilities statement and vendor questionnaire with an experiential record for the preceding three with successful management of local subcontractors to accomplish performance objectives related to commercial contracts. -At the Call Level- Price - Contractors requesting Blanket Purchase Agreements under this solicitation will compete for performance at the call level. Calls shall be evaluated for price, or price and other factors pursuant to FAR 13. Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important for award of a Blanket Purchase Agreement. INDIVIDUALS AUTHORIZED TO PURCHASE UNDER THE BPA : Any warranted 413th Contracting Support Brigade contracting officer (KO) is authorized to solicit and award BPA Calls against this BPA. PURCHASE LIMITATIONS UNDER THIS BPA : Blanket Burchase Agreements are not constrained by a dollar threshold; calls issued subsequent to Agreements are constrained by the thresholds specified in FAR 13.5. SOLICITATION / CLOSING RESPONSE DATE : This is a continuous open notice for interested parties to be considered for Agreements and addition to known/approved vendor lists for the USINDOPACOM Area of Operations. It remains in effect until cancelled by the Contracting Officer or Superceded by a subsequent notice. RELEASE OF INFORMATION : A high level of business security must be maintained in order to preserve the integrity of the acquisition process. Contracting officials may make available maximum information to the public, except information: (1) On plans that would provide undue or discriminatory advantage to private or personal interests; (2) Received in confidence from an offeror; (3) Otherwise requiring protection under Freedom of Information Act or Privacy Act; or (4) Pertaining to internal agency communications (e.g., technical reviews, contracting authority or other reasons, or recommendations referring thereto). This policy applies to all Government personnel who participate directly or indirectly in any stage of the acquisition cycle. INDUSTRY REQUEST FOR INFORMATION RESPONSES: (notice responses may be subject to change pending publication of the solicitation): Q1 – Is it acceptable to propose servicing a specified portion of the geographic area, or will a proposal need to be made to cover the entire geographic area listed in the proposal? A1 - The evaluation criteria are currently under review; it is currently planned to provide a capabilities matrix (government furnished template) that contractors will submit with their agreement package for evaluation to list areas support capabilities by region. The government has yet to determine if this will be used as an evaluation criterion. Q2 – What is the scope of services being requested for: Field Feeding Services, Conference Support (non-lodging), Construction Materials and Equipment (Bill of Materials), Miscellaneous Supplies A2 - The finalized ELIN and PWS is pending approval and will be diseminated via solicitation providing the scope of each service. The lines of effort in question are overarching and include a variety of sub-lines that are currently pre-decisional. The proposed agreement under FAR 13 is conseptually broad in scope to allow its application in a variety of circumstances. Q3 – Is updated response due date 03Apr23? A3 - This notice does not currently contain an RFQ. The anticipated response due date is deleted and "to be determined" subject to the issuance of the RFQ. Q4 - Is it possible to have the information about the current incumbent or any relevant past performance for this contract? A4 - This is a new effort to consolidate performance across the Pacific to establish a prime vendor base that can provide support across the pacific. As this isn’t a recomplete, no historical data is available and there is no incumbent. Q5. When is due of submission of instructions to interested parties(1. Expereince Statement, 2. Capabilites Matrix Attachment and 3. Vendor Questionnaire)? A5. There is no due date... this is an open announcement for parties interested in participating. Q6. On SAM website, it shows that Updated Response Date as Dec 31, 2027 12:00 am HST. Please confirm. A6. SAM requires a response date. The items requested are for qualification purposes, not comparative analysis. There is no cutoff date, but the office may suspend or cancel the announcement if it is in the best interests of the government.
