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This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is a request for quotes under solicitation number: 36C26224Q1392 The Department of Veterans Affairs Phoenix VA Healthcare System, Phoenix, AZ 85012 has a requirement for a Base Plus Four Option Year Indefinite Quantity contract for medical uniforms. The Contractor shall furnish all supplies/services at the Phoenix VA Healthcare System. Shipping included in cost. NOTE: Potential offers must be aware that the items being acquired are procured as Brand Name or Equal. For those items that are or equal , a description of the salient characteristics are outlined below. The FAR Clause 52.211-6 Brand Name or Equal applies to this acquisition. Any items quoted as equal not confirming to the requirements of clause 52.211-6 will be considered non- responsive and not considered for award. No remanufactures or gray market items will be acceptable. Vendor shall be an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), authorized dealer, authorized distributor or authorized reseller verified by an authorization letter or other documents from the OEM. See Attachment A Uniforms See Attachment B Uniform Embroidery Contract Year Quantity UOM Total Cost Base 1 JB Option Year 1 1 JB Option Year 2 1 JB Option Year 3 1 JB Option Year 4 1 JB The solicitation will be in accordance with FAR Part 12, 13, and 19 Acquisition of Commercial Items, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, Small Business, and Veteran Affairs Acquisition Regulations as supplemented with additional information in this notice. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 315210, Size Standard 750 Employees. The Contractor shall adhere to all federal and state laws and regulations in effect during the term of this contract. The Government intends to award a firm-fixed-price contract. The Contract begins on the date of award. Key solicitation milestones are: Submit any questions regarding this procurement via email to adrienne.brown4@va.gov no later than 9AM Pacific Local Time Thursday, August 8, 2024. No questions will be answered after this date/time unless determined to be in the best interest of the Government as determined by the Contracting Officer. Telephonic questions will not be accepted or returned. RFI responses will be responded to as necessary in amendment format which will be posted to contract opportunities at http://SAM.gov. Due to time constraints, responses to the solicitation shall be due on Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 9:00AM Pacific Local Time. Offerors are advised that it is your responsibility to review and monitor the website frequently to ensure you have the most up to date information, including amendments. Correspondence or questions may be directed to Adrienne Brown, Contracting Officer at adrienne.brown4@va.gov with \"36C26224Q1392, VA Phoenix Uniforms in the subject line within 48 hours of release of this notice. Telephone inquiries will not be honored. Inquiries after the allotted period may not be responded to due to the time constraints of the procurement. All offerors must be registered in www.sam.gov to do business with the Government. 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This is not an extension and responses are due on 8/15/2024 by 0900 PT local time. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. Initial Order Quantity: The quantities listed in Attachment A (the Excel sheet) are estimates and are not guaranteed purchases. Could you please clarify if these estimated quantities apply only to the base year, or do they extend to the option years as well? If so, will the estimated quantities remain the same each year, or are adjustments expected? Answer: The estimated minimum value for this contract will be based on dollar value of $175.00 and a maximum of $250,000.00 over each period of performance. The total estimated value base plus option years is $1,000,000.00. Proof of SDVOSB Status: What specific documentation is required to prove SDVOSB status? Is a screenshot from the SBA certification database sufficient, or is there a preferred format? Answer: There is no preferred format. SDVOSB vendors must be registered in VetCert at https://veterans.certify.sba.gov/ at the time offers are received. Authorization Letter from OEM: Is there a specific format or template required for the authorization letter from the OEM? Should the authorization letter be addressed to the VA Phoenix Healthcare System, or is a general authorization letter acceptable? Answer: The authorization letter should be a business letter signed by the OEM with contact information for verification. A general authorization letter is acceptable. Bid Submission Form: Is there a specific bid or submission form that we need to use for this solicitation, or can we use our own format as long as all required information is included? Alternatively, should we use Standard Form 1442 for the submission? Answer: There is no specific form required but all line-item prices must be provided and a total cost for base plus option years must be provided as well. The SF1449 was not used in this solicitation. The combined synopsis has provisions attached that must be filled out by the offeror. Those responses must be marked and signed as applicable at the time of submission. Just wanted to clarify that this solicitation was purely for procurement of uniforms where the Phoenix VA Healthcare system will own the uniforms outright and without any additional services attached. I kept receiving that question from my subs and told them with near certainty it was just the sale of uniforms but figured I would clarify with you. Answer: This contract is for the procurement of uniforms and boots as required by Phoenix VA Healthcare System. 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The updates in the SOW are bolded and/or highlighted. Contract Clause 52.232-1 Payments. was added. The update to the Attachment A Uniforms provides updated tabs for base plus option year pricing and a Totals tab for ease of reference when submitting pricing. The quantities have been changed to (1). This amendment is not an extension offers are due 8/15/2024 by 0900 PT Local Time. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged except as noted herein. Question 1: Statement of work states contractor shall deliver 15 days ADO. However, a couple lines down on page 8 it states three weeks after notification of award. Please clarify timelines for ADO. Answer: I will use the terminology that is posted in the solicitation for clarity. The statement of work (SOW) states the following: Contractor shall deliver supplies within (15) business days from date of order. Business days are defined as, Monday thru Friday excluding federally recognized holidays. If the contractor is not able to meet the (15) day delivery timeframe from date the order is placed, the contractor shall provide a notification to the ordering medical center and contracting point of contact within 48 hours, which specifically states that the order request is declined. The SOW goes on to state: All delivery orders shall be delivered within 3 weeks of notification of award. Since there are typically 5 days in a business week, excluding weeks with holidays, 3 weeks would then equal out to 15 business days. This is redundant information and since it is confusing, I will remove, All delivery orders shall be delivered within 3 weeks of notification of award. from the SOW for clarity. See updated SOW for further changes. Question 2: For products that require embroidery, 15 days ADO for embroidered items is unrealistic, even with product sitting on the shelves. Does delivery timeline apply to embroidery / custom products? Answer: This is standard industry delivery timeframes; however the government has taken note of the issues with logistics and supply chain. An updated delivery timeframe for embroidered items has been added to the SOW which allows deliveries no later than (120) days from date of order. Question 3: For uniform requirements on page 9, the maximum price per uniform item is $175 in accordance with VHA Phoenix Uniform Allowance. Please clarify that $175 is for a single item, such as pants, shirt, boots, etc. versus $175 for a complete uniform? Answer: The guidance reference has been updated from VHA Uniform Allowance to VHA Uniform Issue. The total of cost of $175.00 is per complete uniform per employee. Question 4. Reference partial delivery. Every one of our clients desire complete shipments. This is one of the most common requests / desires by government and commercial clients. Complete shipment is possible but 1) drastically increases costs, 2) decreases flexibility in timely support to the VA, and 3) seriously impacts delivery timeline. For example, Phoenix VA orders 50 pants and the manufacturer creates 49 before the manufacturing line experiences an outage or there s an issue with the manufacturer s supply chain, which happens occasionally and is outside our control or the government s control. Complete shipment would require we hold the 49 pants at our warehouse and possibly wait weeks or months for the manufacturer to resolve their issues and send us just one pair of pants. Thus, instead of shipping 49 pants under the required 15 day ADO, we re holding-up the entire order until it s complete. Imagine if the one pair takes a month? That s outside our control. That s a manufacturer issue. That s not how the market operates and it s not industry standard. From a cost perspective, as the government s responses to Q&A are shared with all bidders, we won t publicly provide the percentage increase in costs that are incurred by the manufacturers and VARs as a result of holding-up shipments until complete. This is not how the manufacturers operate. Yes, we can have all the manufacturers ship direct to our warehouse. We do this on occasion as we maintain stock or we serve as a stock dealer. But it s the exception, not the rule. Shipping all product to our warehouse, versus industry standard drop ship (for some of the CLINs), increases freight, administrative burden, and overall cost. There are multiple layers of additional costs if the government requires complete shipment. We understand that partial shipments are difficult to track, but the costs for complete shipment will be drastically more expensive than what the VA pays on its current contract. We recommend industry standard of partial shipments to control costs, to maintain 15 days ADO (minus manufacturer exceptions due to backlog, supply chain, or other issues), and require vendors to provide a narrative of how the vendor will coordinate and managed orders, with the customer, to alleviate common administrative challenges on shipments. Question please confirm that complete shipment is the requirement? 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The updates in the SOW are bolded and/or highlighted. Contract Clause 52.232-1 Payments. was added. The update to the Attachment A Uniforms provides updated tabs for base plus option year pricing and a Totals tab for ease of reference when submitting pricing. The quantities have been changed to (1). This amendment is not an extension offers are due 8/15/2024 by 0900 PT Local Time. All other terms and conditions remain unchanged except as noted herein. Question 1: Statement of work states contractor shall deliver 15 days ADO. However, a couple lines down on page 8 it states three weeks after notification of award. Please clarify timelines for ADO. Answer: I will use the terminology that is posted in the solicitation for clarity. The statement of work (SOW) states the following: Contractor shall deliver supplies within (15) business days from date of order. Business days are defined as, Monday thru Friday excluding federally recognized holidays. If the contractor is not able to meet the (15) day delivery timeframe from date the order is placed, the contractor shall provide a notification to the ordering medical center and contracting point of contact within 48 hours, which specifically states that the order request is declined. The SOW goes on to state: All delivery orders shall be delivered within 3 weeks of notification of award. Since there are typically 5 days in a business week, excluding weeks with holidays, 3 weeks would then equal out to 15 business days. This is redundant information and since it is confusing, I will remove, All delivery orders shall be delivered within 3 weeks of notification of award. from the SOW for clarity. See updated SOW for further changes. Question 2: For products that require embroidery, 15 days ADO for embroidered items is unrealistic, even with product sitting on the shelves. Does delivery timeline apply to embroidery / custom products? Answer: This is standard industry delivery timeframes; however the government has taken note of the issues with logistics and supply chain. An updated delivery timeframe for embroidered items has been added to the SOW which allows deliveries no later than (120) days from date of order. Question 3: For uniform requirements on page 9, the maximum price per uniform item is $175 in accordance with VHA Phoenix Uniform Allowance. Please clarify that $175 is for a single item, such as pants, shirt, boots, etc. versus $175 for a complete uniform? Answer: The guidance reference has been updated from VHA Uniform Allowance to VHA Uniform Issue. The total of cost of $175.00 is per complete uniform per employee. Question 4. Reference partial delivery. Every one of our clients desire complete shipments. This is one of the most common requests / desires by government and commercial clients. Complete shipment is possible but 1) drastically increases costs, 2) decreases flexibility in timely support to the VA, and 3) seriously impacts delivery timeline. For example, Phoenix VA orders 50 pants and the manufacturer creates 49 before the manufacturing line experiences an outage or there s an issue with the manufacturer s supply chain, which happens occasionally and is outside our control or the government s control. Complete shipment would require we hold the 49 pants at our warehouse and possibly wait weeks or months for the manufacturer to resolve their issues and send us just one pair of pants. Thus, instead of shipping 49 pants under the required 15 day ADO, we re holding-up the entire order until it s complete. Imagine if the one pair takes a month? That s outside our control. That s a manufacturer issue. That s not how the market operates and it s not industry standard. 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