THIS SOLICITATION IS BEING ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH FEDERAL ACQUISITION PROCEDURES 12.3 and Contracting by Negotiation FAR PARTS 15.101-1 and 15.3 PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION AND SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS-AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE.
The Government intends to make its award decisions by selecting the proposal that represents the best value to the Government. FAR 2.101 defines "best value" as the expected outcome of an acquisition that, in the Government's estimation, provides the greatest overall benefit in response to the requirement. In this acquisition, the Government will obtain best value by using the Tradeoff Process source selection approach defined at FAR 15.101-1; i.e., an approach which permits tradeoffs among cost or price and non-cost factors and allows the Government to accept other than the lowest priced proposal.
Per FAR 52.212-1 offerors that fail to submit all the information necessary to evaluate their proposal with their initial proposal may be determined to be nonresponsive and no longer considered for award.
This solicitation is a Request for Proposals (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular. Applicable FAR clauses are incorporated by reference and may be viewed on the following website (s)
https://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html
http://www.dm.usda.gov/procurement/policy/agar_x/agarbase/index.html
This Solicitation is a 100% Small Business Set Aside in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.219-6 (Alternate I) . The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 325320 - Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing.). The Small Business Standard Size is 500 employees.
The USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Plant Protection and Quarantine Facility at Moore Airbase in Edinburg, TX is in need of a Firm Fixed Priced Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery type Contract for Z-3 Hexenol Lures and Manuka Oil Lures for a base period and 4 option periods.
Interested vendors please see attached SF1449 for details
See solicitation for details on pre proposal conference.
All Questions regarding this Solicitation must be emailed only to : [email protected], and are due 15 days prior to closing date . No questions submitted after this date will be answered.
Proposals need to be sent to the attention of Carol Dingess at the Email address [email protected], Fax # 612-336-3550, or address listed on page 1 of the 1449 form box 15 by COB of Solicitation due date.

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