THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION... THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION... THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION... The Oregon Army National Guard is seeking information on the selling and distribution of Cold and Wet weather boots. The Oregon Army National Guard has a requirement to provide safety boots / shoes for dual status Federal Employees. Procurement of Cold Weather and Wet weather boots cannot be supported by the Standard Army Requisition system and the standard type safety shoe/boot is deemed by the installation commander (designated safety officer representative) as inadequate protection against the hazards particular to the individual's occupational specialty and location in which they work. The requirements are as follows: The requested boots are: -Cold Weather Boots -Wet Weather Boots -Mens & Womens The boots are required to: -Meet AR 670-1 Requirements -Meet DA Pam 670-1 Requirements -Comply with ANSI and / or ATSM standards -Have an impact rating and compression rating per ASTM F2413 -Tan -8 quote mark Height The features of the boots must be: -Cold Weather comparable to Danner Rivot TFX 8 quote mark Tan NMT -Wet Weather comparable to Danner Rivot TFX 8 quote mark Tan 400G The services required for this contract include the following: - On site sizing of the employee at their location; multiple facilities statewide - Delivery of boots within 10 days of receipt of order to one location - Special sizes ordering available Respond to this sources sought by providing the following information to Jody Owens via e-mail at
[email protected]: 1. Company Name 2. Company Address 3. Company POC with address 4. DUNS Number 5. Declaration of Business Size - Small Business - Small Disadvantaged Business - Women Owned Business - Small Disadvantaged Veteran Owned Business - Large Business 6. Demonstrate that your firm provides these supplies and services via literature from your company. Note that it is not the government's desire to contract with the person or firm who will buy these goods and services from a producer and then re-sell it to the government. 7. Affirm that if this project were advertised that your firm would participate in the proposal process. Please provide the requested information to Jody Owens via e-mail at
[email protected] no later than 1000 PST on 23 February 2015. At this time due to shortage personnel and increase requirements meetings with potential vendors or contractors will not be accepted. In the event that requirements are solicited for in the future, there will be an opportunity to meet with government officials prior to proposal due date. This notice is for planning purposes only and does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any contractor responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the government to determine the contractor's qualifications to perform work. Respondents are advised that the government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.