Procurement Summary
Country : USA
Summary : This is a Special Notice of Intent to Award a Sole-Source Contract
Deadline : 15 Mar 2025
Other Information
Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 113971985
Document Ref. No. : 1202SC25R2500
Competition : ICB
Financier : Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership : Public
Tender Value : Refer Document
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Description
The intent of this Special Notice is for informational purposes only. The United States Department of Agriculture/Forest Service (USDA/FS) Procurement and Property Services (PPS), Incident Procurement Operations (IPO), Logistics Contracting Branch (LCB) intends to award a non-commercial, sole source, Requirements contract to Compass Minerals for supply of aerial Long-Term Fire Retardant (LTFR) product (Qela) and ancillary support at designated Airtanker base (ATB) locations, for the purpose of an Operation Field Evaluation (OFE) on their conditionally qualified aerial LTFR product for testing purposes during Wildland Firefighting efforts. The aerial LTFR product required and supplied must be conditional/interim qualified on the Qualified Products List (QPL) in accordance with USDA, USFS Specification 5100-304d, Interim Amendment 1 (or latest revision), qualified through the Qualification Requirement (QR).
The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition is 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, titled "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements." Justification for other than full and open competition (JOFOC) is attached and will be posted in accordance with FAR 6.305.
This notice of intent is not a request for proposals or quotes. All interested and responsible sources, meeting the agency-s requirement including meeting the conditional/interim qualification and be listed on the QPL as a conditional/interim qualified aerial LTFR product as stated above, may submit a capabilities statement, proposal, or quotation. All responses must be submitted to the Government primary point of contact at the contracting office address shown below. Any responses received within 15 calendar days of publication of this notice, shall be evaluated and considered by the agency. If no written responses are received within 15 calendar days of publication of this notice, the cont...
Active Contract Opportunity
Notice ID : 1202SC25R2500
Related Notice
Department/Ind. Agency : AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier : FOREST SERVICE :
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Special Notice (Original)
Original Published Date: Jan 29, 2025 10:29 am PST
Original Response Date: Mar 15, 2025 04:30 pm PDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
Original Inactive Date: Mar 30, 2025
Initiative: None
Classification
Original Set Aside:
Product Service Code: 6850 - MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL SPECIALTIES
NAICS Code: 325998 - All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing
Place of Performance: Boise, ID USA
Documents
Tender Notice
Final-JOFOC-Signed.pdf