As prescribed in 16.506(f)(92) insert the following clause:
Single or Multiple Awards (APR 2008) - DLAD
(a) In accordance with FAR 52.216-27, Single or Multiple Awards, the Government may elect to award a single task/delivery order contract or to award multiple task/delivery order contracts for the same or similar supplies or services to two or more sources under this solicitation.
(b) Evaluation Criteria for Award: Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation provision(s) specified in the solicitation. In the event of multiple awards, the same evaluation criteria will be used to determine which proposals represent the best value to the Government. The exact number of awards is left to the discretion of the Contracting Officer based on the best interest of the Government, considering factors such as the administrative burden to the Government to administer multiple awards, the recurring nature of the requirement, the need to increase the active production base for military requirements, and the benefits that may be achieved through order-level competition.
(c) Task/Delivery Order Placement Procedure: In the event of multiple awards, each awardee will be provided an opportunity to compete for individual task/delivery orders unless an exception at FAR 16.505(b)(2) applies. However, all testing and approval requirements, such as, but not limited to, first article testing, shall be satisfactorily completed prior to participating in order competition. Requests for order proposals may be transmitted to awardees by electronic, facsimile or oral means. The Contracting Officer shall establish a common cut-off date for the submission of proposals. As a minimum, evaluation criteria for order placement will include price. The Government reserves the right to consider additional factors such as past performance on earlier orders under the contract, quality, timeliness, cost control, and delivery. The request for order proposals will specify the evaluation factors
(d) Conditional Award on Alternate Offer. The Government reserves the right to include amongst the multiple awardees any offeror who has submitted an alternate offer that has not yet been approved, but which has a reasonable likelihood of being approved within 180 days. This award would be a conditional award by which the alternate offeror would only be eligible to compete for orders in the event that the alternate offer is approved. The purpose of this conditional award is so that award to known acceptable sources to the Government is not delayed pending review of the alternate offer. In the event that the alternate offer is subsequently approved, and any required first article test is successfully completed and approved, that offeror will be eligible to compete for all subsequent task/delivery orders. In the event that the alternate offer is rejected, the conditional award will be subject to a no-fault termination at no cost to the Government. For alternate offer items, the Government reserves the right to impose first article test if recommended by the Engineering Support Activity. In such cases, the modification finalizing the award will also add the first article requirement. From the time the modification is issued, the contractor is legally bound to perform on delivery orders and shall comply with all terms and conditions of the contract.
(e) The competition advocate at each contracting activity/office (as defined in DLAD 2.101) shall act as the activity task and delivery order contract ombudsman pursuant to FAR 16.505(b)(5). The ombudsman shall attempt to resolve contractor complaints relative to placement of individual task and delivery orders at the local level. Complaints which cannot be so resolved will be resolved by the DLA competition advocate. Task/delivery order complaints must specify they are being filed pursuant to FAR 16.505.
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