A RFQ will be issued for Pad, Support Lumbar for a quantity of 300 each. The applicable NSN is 8475-00-657-3557. This item is to be made in accordance with Design Control Reference 58F3580, Rev D. The RFQ will be issued as a Total Small Busines Set Aside. The destinations for delivery are Defense Depots New Cumberland, PA and Tracy, CA. Deliveries are due 60 days after the date of award consisting of 2 deliveries of 150 each. See numbered notes 1,9,13. Availability of solicitations, FAR 5.102(d) applies, as our office no longer issues solictations in paper form. Offeror should register to receive notification of this solicitation. Copies of the solicitaiton can be found on the DLA Procurement Gateway at http://progate.daps.dla.mil/home AFTER November 11, 2004. From the Gateway homepage, select "Search RFQs" from the left-hand sidebar. Then choose the RFQ you wish to view. You must be registered in order to download RFQs. If you are not, you will be directed to register at time of download. In order to ensure e-mail notification of RFPs, prospective vendors MUST go to the RFP Information page and select DSCP Clothing & Textiles (C&T) as the commodity center from which notices will be sent. The solicitations will be in a downloadable, printable format when viewed with an Adobe Acrobat Reader. Free software is available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Gateway technical assistance is available at
[email protected]. DSCP 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 DSCP Clothing and Textiles (DSCP C&T) solicitations, use the following link to the DSCP C&T Technical Data Repository area at https://phl1s410.dscp.dla.mil/pls/portal/CUSTOM_DSCP_APP.CTSREQ_DYN_PATTERN.show. Important Note on Foreign Content 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) 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.