UNICOR intends to enter into a firm fixed price requirements type contract for Micro Fiber Boards/Panels. Product is to be delivered FOB Destination FCI Mckean, Pa and FCI Ashland, KY. The solicitation number is FN1228-05 and this solicitation is issued as an Request For Proposal (RFP). Item – 0001, UNICOR Stock# PLM0008-1/4"SBPX49"X97",FP612K,MOROCCO-DBL-FACED, Estimated Qty: 7,500, U/I: Each. Item 0002 - UNICOR Stock# PLM0008-1/4"SBPX49"X97",FP612K,MOROCCO-DBL-FACED, Estimated Qty: 300, U/I: Each. Please note quantities are for a five year period and they are estimated quantities. This is a full and open competitive Request for Proposal for Micro Fiber Boards/Panels. Offerors are advised that the Government intends to evaluate offers and award on an all or none basis. 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. This is a best value procurement. Evaluation criteria is as follows: Specification, Past Performance, and Price. Additional information and specifications will be provided in solicitation document. All responsible offerors may submit an offer which will be considered All questions must be sent via email to
[email protected] or fax at 202-353-7794. All amendments issued must be signed and returned before offer closing date and time. All offerors must complete the Business Management Questionnaire in Section L with at least three references that are similar in size and scope of this requirement. A completed ACH form must be on file prior to contract award as well as verification of registration in the CCR database. If you have not registered in the CCR you may do so by logging onto www.ccr.gov and click on start new registration. Offerors can obtain a copy of the ACH form by logging onto www.unicor.gov, Business Commercial Opportunities, Navigate to, Scroll down to Procurement forms, click on ACH Form, print and return completed form with written proposal.Effective January 1, 2005, all offers are required to complete Section K, Representations and certifications by logging onto http://orca.bpn.gov as part of the proposal submission process . You are required to key in your DUNS# and MPIN to gain access to the representations and certifications. Your MPIN is the nine digit code containing one alpha character and one number (no special character or spaces). The MPIN is created, by you, in your company CCR record when your CCR registration has been completed. You can add your representations and certifications and update using this site. It is the offerors responsibility to ensure data is up to date at all. ORCA is a web-based system that centralizes and standardizes the collection, storage and viewing of many of the FAR required representations and certifications previously found in solicitations. With ORCA, you now have the ability to enter and maintain your representation and certification information, at your convenience, via the Internet at http://orca.bpn.gov. In addition, rather than receiving and reviewing paper submissions, government contracting officials can access ORCA and review your information online as a part of the proposal evaluation process. You will no longer have to submit representations and certifications completed in ORCA with each offer. Instead, a solicitation will contain a single provision that will allow you to either certify that all of your representations and certifications in ORCA are current, complete and accurate as of the date of your signature, or list any changes. Although architect-engineer firms can voluntarily submit the Standard Form (SF) 330 Part II through ORCA, they still must submit this form to each agency for which it wants to be considered for projects that are not publicly announced. To prepare for this requirement and to register in ORCA, you will need to have two items: an active Central Contractor Registration (CCR) record and a Marketing Partner Identification Number (MPIN) identified in that CCR record. Your DUNS number and MPIN act as your companys ID and password into ORCA. (Visit www.ccr.gov for more information on creating and entering your MPIN). The basic information provided in your CCR record is used to pre-populate a number of fields in ORCA. Vendors are reminded to protect their MPIN from unauthorized use. Once in ORCA you will be asked to review pertinent information pre-populated from CCR, provide a point of contact, and answer a questionnaire that contains up to 26 questions. The questionnaire is to help you gather information you need for the clauses. The questionnaire is not the official version. Be sure to read the provisions carefully. The answers you provide are then automatically entered into the actual FAR provisions. You are required to review your information, as inserted, in context of the full-text provisions for accuracy; acknowledge three additional read only provisions; and click a time/date stamp before final submission. You will need to review and/or update your ORCA record when necessary, but at least annually in order to maintain its active status. Detailed information regarding ORCA, how to submit your record, and whom to call for assistance can be found on ORCAs homepage at http://orca.bpn.gov under Help. Offerors may submit signed and dated offers by facsimile to 202-353-7794 to the attention of Tatea Cavanaugh, Contracting Officer, by any available express mail service or hand delivery to 400 First Street NW, Washington, DC 20534. Original copies of proposals must be received within two days of offer closing date and time for receipt of proposals. The fax cover sheet and the front of the envelope shall reference the solicitation number, closing date and time. Offeror must hold prices firm for 30 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers. Offers received after the exact time and date specified will not be considered. The solicitation will be available on UNICOR’s website at www.unicor.gov and www.eps.gov on or about April Wednesday April 27, 2005 . No copies of the solicitation will be mailed. All responsible offerors may submit an offer which will be considered.