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Item: Man's, Air Force (AF) Lightweight Jacket, NSN: 8405-01-298-6881(s), specification is MIL-J-87250 and a pattern dated 1 March 1993 Woman's, AF Lightweight Jacket, NSN: 8410-01-299-9536 specification is MIL-J-87251 and a pattern 1 March 1993 General Officer's (GO) Jacket, NSN: 8415-01-109-3366 specification is PD YAGC 93-2 and a pattern dated 11 May 1993 This acquisition will be issued as a Total Small Business Set-Aside for the manufacture and delivery of AF Lightweight Jacket, Man, Woman, and GO (PGCs 02088, 02089, and 17672). The AF Lightweight Jacket, Man, Woman, and GO shall be manufactured in accordance with appropriate specifications. The acquisition will result in one award of an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity, Firm Fixed Price Type contract with a one (1) year base term and four (4) one (1) year option terms. The guaranteed minimum quantity will be: Man's, AF Lightweight Jacket: 20,592 Minimum each per term and the Annual Estimated Quantity (AEQ) is 64,350 each. Woman's, AF Lightweight Jacket: 5,484 Minimum each per term and the Annual Estimated Quantity (AEQ) is 17,136 each. The maximum dollar value will be $35,000,000.00 over the life of the contract. Government Furnished Material (GFM) will not be utilized in the final construction of the end items. All materials used in the fabrication of the end item are to be furnished by the contractor. Under the initial delivery order there will be three (3) monthly deliveries that will be required starting 120 days after the date of award with subsequent orders due in 90 days. The delivery destination for these items is Travis Association for the Blind in Austin, TX 78744. Source Selection criteria will be used for award evaluation purposes in accordance with FAR 15.101-1. For award evaluation purposes technical merit is more important than price. Evaluation Factors for award are Product Demonstration models (PDM) and Past Performance. The Government intends to use FAR Part 12 for this acquisition. All items must be 100% U.S. Made out of 100% U.S. Materials. Offerors will be required to submit one (1) Product Demonstration Model (PDM) of each of the AF Lightweight Jacket, Man (40R), Woman (12R), and GO (40R) and they shall be manufactured in accordance with appropriate specifications. Offerors will also be required to submit a history of their experience/past performance record for the period one year prior to the solicitation closing date. PDMs must be submitted with offers. The PDMs will be the most important evaluation factor and will be evaluated for conformance to the specification, follows by Past Performance, then price. Availability of solicitations, FAR 5.102(d) applies, as our office no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. The Solicitation will be posted on Dibbs or Fedbizopps. Please check both. Refer to the following when viewing solicitation on Dibbs: The Solicitation will be posted on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/ Detailed system requirements and instructions for registration can be found on the DLA DIBBS Home Page accessed on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil/. A few highlights of the information that will be found include: 1. On the DLA Internet Bulletin Board System (DIBBS) Home Page, click the VENDOR REGISTRATION link to begin the registration process. 2. In order to register for access to secure portions of DLA DIBBS, the company you are representing must already be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)(https://www.sam.gov). 3. A Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code registration will be processed immediately. A User ID will appear on the registration screen and a password will be sent separately to the email address of the Super User. If a CAGE is already registered on DLA DIBBS, the name and email address of the Super User will be provided. The Super User should be contacted to set-up additional accounts, logons and passwords for their CAGE. DIBBS Super User * If your CAGE has already been registered on DIBBS, the name and email address of the person designated as your super user will be provided. * The representative who starts the DIBBS registration process has the option to accept their SAM registration POC as the DIBBS super user, or they can designate themselves or another person to act as the super user for the CAGE. * The super user acts as the account administrator for a CAGE. They can add up to ninety-eight (98) additional users, provide user IDs and passwords, modify existing users, and control the login status of each user for their CAGEs through My Account (Account Maintenance). ****The Defense appropriations and authorization acts and other statutes (including what is commonly referred to as "The Berry Amendment") impose restrictions on the DoD's acquisition of foreign products and services. Generally, Clothing and Textile items (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7012) and "specialty metals" (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7014), including the materials and components thereof (other than sensors, electronics, or other items added to, and not normally associated with clothing), must be grown, reprocessed, reused, melted or produced in the United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico, unless one of the DFARS 225.7002-2 exceptions applies. DLA Troop Support has developed a web-based system that allows manufacturers the ability to request specifications, patterns and drawings on our contracting page. To request technical data for DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles (C&T) solicitations, use the following link to the DLA Troop Support C&T Technical Data Repository area at: http://www.dla.mil/TroopSupport/ClothingandTextiles/SpecRequest.aspx