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This is a small business set-aside procurement for one (1) round test **** tool and one (1) Surftest **** manufactured by Mitutoyo American Corporation. Updated documents are attached. The procurement involves various clauses related to compensation, whistleblower rights, telecommunications equipment, supplier performance risk system, hexavalent chromium, Buy American, qualifying country sources, business operations with certain regimes, Xinjiang region procurements, electronic submission of payment requests, levies on contract payments, transportation of supplies by sea, confidentiality agreements, System for Award Management (SAM) registration, inverted domestic corporations, subcontracting with excluded entities, commercial products and services, submission of offers in English and US currency, child labor, convict labor, equal opportunity for workers with disabilities, combating trafficking in persons, DEI discrimination, sustainable products, Buy American/Free Trade Agreements/Israeli Trade Act, text messaging while driving, accelerated payments to small business subcontractors, protest after award, applicable law for breach of contract, security prohibitions and exclusions, subcontracts for commercial products/services, preference for domestic commodities, acquisition of items from communist Chinese military companies, incorporation of representations and certifications, unenforceability of unauthorized obligations, F. O. B. destination, control of government personnel work product, pricing of contract modifications, and sources of electronic parts. It also includes clauses on covered defense telecommunications equipment or services, wide area workflow payment instructions, item unique identification and valuation, and small business program representations. The evaluation of commercial products and services will consider price, technical capabilities, specifications, past performance, and options. Offers must be submitted electronically via SAM. gov.
The contractor shall use the following information when submitting payment requests and receiving reports in WAWF for this contract or task or delivery order: Document type. The contractor shall submit payment requests using the following document types: i for cost-type line items, including labor-hour or time-and-materials, submit a cost voucher. ii for fixed-price line items a that require shipment of a deliverable, submit the invoice and receiving report specified by the contracting officer. invoice 2in1 combo contracting officer: insert applicable invoice and receiving report document types for fixed price line items that require shipment of a deliverable. b for services that do not require shipment of a deliverable, submit either the invoice 2in1, which meets the requirements for the invoice and receiving report, or the applicable invoice and receiving report, as specified by the contracting officer. na contracting officer: insert either invoice 2in1 or the applicable invoice and receiving report document types for fixed price line items for services. iii for customary progress payments based on costs incurred, submit a progress payment request. iv for performance-based payments, submit a performance-based payment request. v for commercial financing, submit a commercial financing request. fast pay requests are only permitted when Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR **** is included in the contract.
The contractor shall ensure a payment request includes documentation appropriate to the type of payment request in accordance with the payment clause, contract financing clause, or Federal Acquisition Regulation ****, Allowable Cost and Payment, as applicable.
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. The following factors will be used to evaluate offers: insert evaluation factors in the relative order of importance. For requests for proposals, state: evaluation factors other than price when combined are significantly more important than price, approximately equal to price, significantly less important than price. For invitations for bids, list only price and price-related factors. Price, Technical Capabilities, Specifications, Past Performance.
The contractor shall deliver all items under a contract line, subline, or exhibit line item.
Any person who misrepresents a firm's status as a business concern that is small, HUBZone small, small disadvantaged, service-disabled veteran-owned small, economically disadvantaged women-owned small, or women-owned small eligible under the WOSB program in order to obtain a contract to be awarded under the preference programs established pursuant to section 8, 9, 15, 31, and 36 of the Small Business Act or any other provision of Federal law that specifically references section 8(d) for a definition of program eligibility, will be 1 punished by imposition of fine, imprisonment, or both 2 subject to administrative remedies, including suspension and debarment and 3 ineligible for participation in programs conducted under the authority of the Act.
