Description
ITEM: SHOE, WOMEN'S, DRESS LEATHER Items to be manufactured in accordance with NAVY Certification Numbers: COVE (15B25-001348-75-27 (M); 15B25-001349-85-27 (W)) CAPPS (15B25-001547-75-34 (W)); BATES (15B25-000875-75-27 (M); 15B25-000896-85-27 (W); or other certifications received prior to award Quantity: BASE & OPTIONS I thru IV (MIN) – 10,746 PR; BASE & OPTIONS I thru IV (MAX) – 53,724 PR; ITEM: SHOE, WOMEN'S, DRESS POROMERIC (THIN SOLE) Items to be manufactured in accordance with PD 94-05 dated 3 May 1995 Quantity: BASE & OPTIONS I thru IV (MIN) – 21,462 PR; BASE & OPTIONS I thru IV (MAX) – 107,298 PR; Solicitation Number: SPM1C1-09-R-0079. Destination: VSEQ (Poromeric), VSTN, VSTZ (Leather). Production lead-time is 105 days after date of award. Procurement will be issued on a Total Small Business Set-Aside basis and will be evaluated under Best Value Procedures with the following factors: Product Demonstration Model (For Poromeric Shoe Only) and Experience/Past Performance. One total Small Business Set-Aside award, will be made for the total quantities listed above. The Leather Shoe requires Navy certification. With respect to products requiring certification, awards will be made only for products which are, at the time of award of contract, qualified for inclusion in the United States Navy Protective Clothing and Equipment Certification Program whether or not such products have actually been so listed by that date. The attention of the contractors is called to these requirements, and manufacturers are urged to arrange to have the products that they propose to offer the Federal Government tested for qualifications in order that they may be eligible to be awarded contracts for the products covered by this purchase description. Information pertaining to qualifications of products may be obtained from Navy Clothing and Textile Research, Donna Streets, NAVY Clothing and Textiles Research Facility, Attn: N2, Bldg. 86, Kansas St, Natick MA. 01760. Availability of solicitations, FAR 5.102(d) applies, as our office no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. Offeror should register to receive notification of this solicitation or solicitation amendments. Solicitation will be posted on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/ after March 31, 2009. Detailed system requirements and instructions for registration can be found on the DLA DIBBS Home Page accessed on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/. The Defense appropriations and authorization acts and other statutes (including what is commonly referred to as “The Berry Amendment”) impose restrictions on the DoD”s acquisition of foreign products and services. Generally, Clothing and Textile items (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7012) and “specialty metals” (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7014) must be grown, reprocessed, reused, melted or produced in the United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico, unless one of the DFARS 225.7002-2 exceptions applies.