36" Air Shear

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with FAR Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Offers are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number W50S7F26Q0040 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a 36” Pneumatic Air Shear. This acquisition is set-aside 100% for small business concerns. North American Industrial Classification Standard 333515applies to this solicitation; business size standard is 500 employees. The Contracting Officer reserves the right to award under a different NAICS if the company qualifies as a small business under the solicited NAICS. This solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses by reference. The full text of provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov. The Minnesota Air National Guard 148th Fighter Wing intends to issue a firm fixed price contract for the following items: 1 each 36” Pneumatic Air Shear with the following minimum salient characteristics: -Capable of cutting 14-gauge mild steel and 0.100” aluminum -Must not require more than 85psi of compressed air for operation -Installed air filter and lubricator -OSHA compliant guarding -Installed air shutoff valve -Four-edged reversible blades -Movable foot switch -Footprint NO LARGER THAN 40” wide and 27” deep -Delivery to Duluth, MN REFERENCE PART NUMBER for example only: Famco A36 Preparing and Submitting your Quote: Offerors shall provide pricing for the above items inclusive of delivery to the Minnesota Air National Guard, 4680 Viper Street, Duluth, MN 55811-6022. These items must be delivered within 60 days after date of contract. If you cannot meet this request, please provide your best delivery date. Please make quotes valid for a minimum of 60 days. Response is encouraged to include past performance information: other military, commercial, and civilian companies with whom you have done business. Include place of manufacture for all items. Include feasible delivery dates. Preferred CLIN structure: CLIN0001: Air Shear, 1 EA CLIN0002: Delivery to Duluth, MN All questions and quotes must be directed to Joshua Fish at joshua.fish.1@us.af.mil and Rebecca Dimler at rebecca.dimler@us.af.mil no later than two business days prior to quote due date. All questions and answers must be in writing. Do not contact other Government personnel, as this will only delay receipt of answers. All questions and the answers provided will be released to all eligible offerors on a non-attribution basis. All terms and conditions remain unchanged unless amended in writing. Place the solicitation number in the subject line of any email. Evaluation: The Government plans to award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the offer conforming to the solicitation which will be most advantageous to the Government and on the basis of a Best Value approach. Quotes will be evaluated using price, technical, delivery, and past performance. Technical, delivery, and past performance, when combined, are approximately equal to price. All solicitation specifications are not absolute and the 148FW will consider innovative solutions to this requirement. Quotes may be comparatively evaluated in compliance with FAR 12.203. Be sure to submit/attach enough additional information to enable the Government to fully ascertain the specifications/capabilities of any products quoted. The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. Therefore, the offeror’s initial offer should contain the offeror’s best terms from a price and technical standpoint. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. The Government may reject any or all offers if such action is in the public interest; accept other than the lowest offer; and waiver informalities and minor irregularities in offers receive...