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The Agricultural Research Service, Northeast Area Administrative office, Acquisition and Personal Property office intends to solicit and award a single firm-fixed-price requirements contract for providing as-needed deliveries of feed to Franklin, ME. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6 – Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items and supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This combined synopsis/solicitation is issued under Request for Quotation (RFQ) number 12305B23Q0022.

All FAR references are based off FAC 2022-08, Effective 28 Oct 2022.

This firm-fixed-priced award will be awarded as a requirements contract with a base period and four option years.

FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation of Offerors, is applicable to this acquisition.

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. FAR Part 13.5 Simplified Acquisition Procedures for Certain Commercial Products and Commercial Services utilizing Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable (LPTA) factors will be used for the evaluation process. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

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      1. Technical Factor #1. Vendor shall submit a summary letter addressing the technical requirements 1 – 9 in the attachment. Failure to submit this shall cause the vendor to rated unacceptable.
      
      
      2. Factor #2. Price. Vendor shall submit a completed Bid Schedule. Failure to price any of fields or leave them blank or $0.00 shall cause the offer to be rated unacceptable.
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   

If an offeror receives an adjectival rating of “unacceptable” in any factor they will not be eligible for contract award.

FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition.

FAR Clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and applicable clauses within 52.212-5 to this acquisition have been marked with an X.

Offers are due to the Contract Specialist, Mr. Falcon Albino, at falcon.albino@usda.gov by 3:00 PM (EST) January 13, 2023.

Notice to Offeror(s): The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, either before or after the closing date. In the event the Government cancels this solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs incurred.

Questions must be submitted in writing via email to falcon.albino@usda.gov. Questions received after January 06, 2023, may not receive a response. Responses will be posted to sam.gov.

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