Amendment 0002 - The purpose of this amendment is to provide additional questions and answers, and to verify that the due date is as listed in the SAM header: Apr 04, 2025 10:00 AM PDT.
Amendment 0001 - The purpose of this amendment is to provide questions and answers, and to revise the pricing sheet. Ensure you utilize pricing sheet v.1.3.
This is a solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.2, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number is 70B03C25Q00000157 and is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses (including Attachment Two to the solicitation) are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-03. The associated NAICS code for this procurement is 312112 – (Bottled Water Manufacturing) with a small business size standard of 500 employees.
This requirement is a Small Business set-aside, all qualified bidders may submit quotes.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), United States Border Patrol (USBP) Tucson Sector has a requirement for the purchase and deliver of Bottled Drinking Water for Detainees held by USBP. The Contractor shall deliver commercial grade quality bottled drinking water of requested sized, as required at the eleven (11) USBP locations identified in the attached Statement of Work.
This is a tradeoff evaluation, conducted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.5. The Government will award a contract to the Offeror whose solicitation represents the best value to the Government, based upon an assessment of the evaluation factors listed in the RFQ. Award decision will be made in accordance with the basis for selected as established in the RFQ, which is that quoter which is the most advantageous to the Government.
See Attachment 1 and 2 for the full solicitation requirements.
Quote submissions must be submitted only by email to the Contracting Officer: Christopher Shaw at: christopher.j.shaw@cbp.dhs.gov Subject line of the email should read: 70B03C25Q00000157 Quotation Submission: USBP Tucson Bottled Water. All quote pricing must be valid for up to 60 calendar days after close of the solicitation.
Interested Quoters must submit any questions concerning the solicitation at the earliest time possible to enable the Government to respond. Questions must be submitted directly to the quote submission point of contact as indicated above. Questions not received by the question submission deadline of: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM PDT may not be considered.
List of Attachments to this Solicitation:
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Solicitation Clauses and Provisions
In Accordance with Executive Order (E.O.) 14173, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, and E.O. 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, Section 2 of the E.O. 14148, “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” which revoked E.O. 14057 and Section 2 of the E.O. 14208, “Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws," the following is included in this solicitation.
System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations, including 52.223-22, Public Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduction Goals—Representation, and paragraph (t) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Components shall not consider or use these representations.
Contracting officers will not consider the following representations when making award decisions or enforce requirements:
•Paragraph (d) and (t) of 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Products and Commercial Services;
•Paragraphs (b)(33), (b)(34), (e)(1)(ix), and (e)(1)(x) of 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services. Additionally, per this deviation, in paragraph (b)(46), E.O. 14057 does not apply;
•Paragraphs (e)(1)(ii)(I) and (e)(1)(ii)(J) of Alternate II of 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Products and Commercial Services; and
•Paragraphs (a)(1)(vii) and (a)(1)(viii) of 52.213-4, Terms and Conditions—Simplified Acquisitions (Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services). Additionally, per this deviation, in paragraph (b)(1)(xvii), E.O. 14057 does not apply.
Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM.
