Yorkshire Swine for Plum Island Animal Disease Center

The Agricultural Research Service, Plains Area Administrative office, Acquisition and Personal Property office intends to solicit and award a single firm-fixed-price contract for the purchase of 42 Yorkshire Swine for Orient Point, NY. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6 – Streamlined Procedures for Evaluation and Solicitation for Commercial Items and supplemented with additional information included in this notice.

This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This combined synopsis/solicitation is issued under Request for Quotation (RFQ) number 12805B24Q0483. This requirement is being solicited under NAICS code 112210, Hog and Pig Farming and is set-aside for 100% Total Small Business. All FAR references are based off FAC 2024-05, Effective 22 May 2024. This firm-fixed-priced award will be awarded as firm-fixed price contract.

Delivery to Plum Island/Orient Point, NY must occur on September 17, 2024. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, is applicable to this acquisition. An addendum will be added on page 13. FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation of Offerors, is applicable to this acquisition. 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.

FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures utilizing Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable (LPTA) factors will be used for the evaluation process. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Technical Factor #1. – Swine provided meet all the specifications spelled out in Attachment 1, Specifications. All addressed specifications must be addressed. Failure to not address any of the specifications will result in the vendors quote being found unacceptable.

Technical Factor #2 – Certification that swine will arrive for delivery on 17 September 2024 and will not have traveled more than 350 miles, per the specifications. Failure to not certify this will result in the vendors quote being found unacceptable. If an offeror receives an adjectival rating of “unacceptable” in any factor they may not be eligible for contract award. Offeror must sign and date the 52.212-1 Addendum found of page 11, along with all amendments posted to SAM.gov for 12805B24Q0483.

FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and no addendum has been added. FAR Clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and applicable clauses within 52.212-5 to this acquisition have been marked with an X. Other additional FAR Clauses have been added to this synopsis/solicitation. If they are incorporated by reference in this synopsis/solicitation, use acquisition.gov to read them in their entirety.

Submittals Formats: Only Electronic submissions via email will be accepted due to Contract Specialist working remotely. Offers are due to the Contract Specialist, Mr. Brian Workman, at brian.workman@usda.gov by 1700 ET 22 August 2024. For information regarding this synopsis/solicitation, please contact Mr. Brian Workman at brian.workman@usda.gov. Only written submitted questions will be given a response. They will be answered via a Questions from Industry posting to sam.gov. Due to USDA-ARS operating remotely, Mr. Workman is only available via email.

Notice to Offeror(s): The Government reserves the right to cancel this solicitation, either before or after the closing date. In the event the Government cancels this solicitation, the Government has no obligation to reimburse an offeror for any costs incurred.

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