Combined Benchtop Uniform Light Source

**RFQ DEADLINES HAS BEEN EXTENDED from 12 March 2025 to 26 March 2025** AMENDMENT 0001: Be advised, government needs for this requirement has significantly changed. All interested vendors are required to reevaluate the solicitation and review the new Statement of Work (SOW) in its entirety prior to providing or resubmitting their quotes. (Changes in the SOW are in RED) Please see attachment for updated documents. (New documents will be marked with (C) in the title) Combined Synopsis/Solicitation AFLCMC/PZI Installation Contracting Support Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45323 Date: 11 March 2025 Title: AFIT Combined Benchtop Uniform Light Source Request for Quote (RFQ) / Solicitation Number: FA860125Q0044 Quotes Due: 26 March 2025 at 4:30 PM EST Contact Point(s): SrA Yusheng Chou, Contract Specialist Email: yusheng.chou@us.af.mil Contact Point(s): Amanda J. Hoyng; Contracting Officer; Email: amanda.hoyng@us.af.mil Requirement: AFIT requires two (2) spectrical and radiometrically accurate tunable light source solutions. Refer to SOW for minimum specifications. Period of Performance: The Period of Performance (POP) is 8 weeks ADC. Request for Information (RFIs): The Government will accept questions concerning solicitation number FA860125Q0044 until 17 March 2025 at 4:00 PM EST. Answers will be posted within 2-3 calendar days. Email your questions on a .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls or .xlsx document to yusheng.chou@us.af.mil and amanda.hoyng@us.af.mil. Any questions received after this date and time may not be considered. Quotes Due Date: Quotes must be submitted electronically to the Contract Specialist via e-mail at to yusheng.chou@us.af.mil and Contracting Officer amanda.hoyng@us.af.mil. Quotes must conform to the requirements of this solicitation and be received no later than 26 March 2025 at 4:30 PM EST. It is the responsibility of the offeror to ensure that the quote and its attachments are received. Any correspondence sent via e-mail must contain the subject line FA8601-25-Q-0044, AFIT Combined Benchtop Light Source The entire quotation must be contained in a single e-mail that does not exceed 5 megabytes including attachments, if any. E-mails with compressed files are not permitted. Note that e-mail filters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are designed to filter e-mails without subject lines or with suspicious subject lines or contents (i.e., .exe or .zip files). Therefore, if the specified subject line is not included, the e-mail may not get through the e-mail filters. Also be advised that .zip or .exe files are not allowable attachments and may be deleted by the email filters at Wright-Patterson. If sending attachments with email, ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls or .xlsx documents are sent. The email filter may delete any other form of attachments. If a DoDSafe drop off is needed, please notify the contract specialist or contracting officer at least 48 hours before quotes are due. Any quotes received after designated closing date and time need not be considered. Quotes must include aggregate total of base plus all option year CLINS, if requested (IAW FAR 52.217-5 Evaluation of Options). All quotes shall conform to the Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) structure of attached solicitation. Description: This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information, included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and an additional written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation is conducted as a commercial procurement using Simplified Acquisition Procedures (FAR Part 13). This notice is expected to result in award of a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract for a commercial commodity to the responsible offeror who submits a quotation that: (1) conforms to the requirements, (2) complies with the minimum requirements stated in the Statement of Work (SOW) as evidenced by providing a complete description of the equipment provided, and (3) that submits the quotation with the lowest price technically acceptable, provided that the price is determined to be fair and reasonable. This requirement shall be 100% small business set aside under NAICS 334516 with a size standard of 1,000 Employees. The Government reserves the right to conduct interchanges with some, none, or all offerors, or make no award at all depending upon: 1) the quality of quotations received, and 2) whether proposed prices are determined to be fair and reasonable. List of Attachments: Solicitation Statement of Work Amendment 0001 (SF30)