Multiple award IDIQ contract for metals logistics support to military and federal activities across CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, and worldwide via container consolidation points. Base period of 2 years with up to four 2-year option periods. FOB destination pricing. Contractors must maintain 90% on-time delivery rate, 95% line-item fill rate, and quote on at least 90% of RFQs. Requires EDI capabilities (ANSI X12 transactions), purchasing system, and at least three suppliers per FSC category. Small business reserve for one award. Delivery orders competed among all awardees via BidWiser platform.
Delivery dates are established per delivery order. The contractual on-time delivery rate requires a minimum 90% based on the contractually required delivery date (CDD). The CDD is defined as the delivery date that is established when the delivery order is issued.
Invoicing is at line-item level via EDI 810 transaction. Payment is processed through DLA Enterprise Business System (EBS) matching price and quantity per line item with customer material receipt acknowledgement. The governments processing system, known as dla enterprise business system ebs, will be matching price and quantity per lineitem, along with the customers material receipt acknowledgement mra, to make payment.
TLS contractors must provide at least the same warranty terms offered to the general public in customary commercial practice. In addition to the warranties contained in far ****, tls contractors must provide at least the same warranty terms, including offers of extended warranties, offered to the general public in customary commercial practice for the items acquired under the contract.
Awards are based on best value determination. The best value determination will be based on tradeoff procedures, lowest price technically acceptable procedures, or other procedures, as specified in the rfq. The best value award decision factors normally will include price and delivery however, other factors such as past performance may be included.
Offerors must have business alliances with at least three suppliers within each FSC category and demonstrate capability to supply all product categories. The offerortls contractor must have at least three suppliers within federal supply classes fscs ****, ****, ****, ****, ****, ****, ****, ****, and ****.
Failure to meet performance metrics may result in adverse contract action. Failure to do so may result in an adverse contract action, including, but not limited to, termination for cause, adverse rating in annual cpars report, etc.
Failure to provide complete technical data package for alternate items may exclude them from consideration. Failure to provide a complete technical data package sufficient to establish that the alternate item is an acceptable substitute to the exact item requested shall be grounds to exclude the alternate item from consideration.
™