Wiley Journals

(B) Volume II – Price - The Offeror shall submit a firm-fixed price quote for all items described within the SOW. The Government will evaluate the price by adding the total of all line-item prices, including all options and an estimated cost to exercise FAR 52.217-8. The Total Evaluated Price will be that sum. (C) Documentation that reflects your entity is an authorized reseller/distributor of these journals from the publisher or intellectual property holder. FACTORS TO BE EVALUATED 1. Technical 2. Price The award will be made to the response most advantageous to the Government. Responses should contain your best terms, conditions. All Offerors are advised that, in the interest of efficiency, the Government reserves the right to conduct the evaluation in the most effective manner. Specifically, the Government may first evaluate the total proposed price of all Offerors. Thereafter, the Government will evaluate the technical quote of the lowest priced Offeror only. If the lowest priced Offeror’s technical quote is determined to be rated as Acceptable, the Government may make award to that Offeror without further evaluation of the remaining Offerors’ technical quotes. If the lowest priced Offeror’s technical proposal is determined to be rated as Unacceptable, then the Government may evaluate the next lowest priced technical quote, and so forth and so on, until the Government reaches the lowest priced technical quote that is determined to be rated as acceptable. However, the Government reserves the right to evaluate all Offerors’ technical quotes should it desire to conduct discussions, or otherwise determine it to be in the Government’s best interest. Please be advised that any Offeror-imposed terms and conditions which deviate from the Government’s material terms and conditions established by this solicitation may render the Offeror’s proposal Unacceptable and thus, ineligible for award. 1. TECHNICAL EVALUATION APPROACH The technical evaluation process will consider the following: (1) The evaluation process will consider whether the quote demonstrates a clear understanding of the technical features involved in meeting the solicitation requirements and whether the Offeror’s methods and approach have adequately and completely considered, defined, and satisfied the requirements in the Solicitation. 2. PRICE EVALUATION APPROACH Firm Fixed Price: The Government will evaluate offers by adding the total of all line-item prices, including all options. In addition, FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services applies to this solicitation. As such, evaluation of options under FAR 52.217-8 will also include using the prices offered for the last option period to determine the price for an additional 6-month option period in the event an extension is issued under FAR 52.217-8. The Offeror’s proposed total base year price, total option period prices, and the additional 6-month option period price will then be added together to arrive at the Offeror’s Total Evaluated Price. The Total Evaluated Price will be that sum. Award will be based upon a comparative evaluation of quotes in accordance with RFO Part 12. Comparative evaluation is the side by side pairwise comparison of quotes based on factors resulting in a Contracting Officer decision for the quote most favorable to the Government. The award will be made to the response most advantageous to the Government. Responses should contain your best terms, conditions. To facilitate the award process, all quotes must include a statement regarding the terms and conditions herein as follows: "The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document without modification, deletion, or addition." OR "The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document with the exception, deletion, or addition of the following:" Quoters shall list exception(s) and rationale for the exception(s), if any. 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. Contracting officers will not consider these representations when making award decisions or enforce requirements. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM. Questions regarding this solicitation shall be received not later than 9 AM EST, September 15, 2026, via email to Erich Hoffman, [email protected] The deadline for submissions regarding this RFQ is 1:00PM EST, September 18, 2026, via email at [email protected] . Quotations received after this date and time will not be reviewed. Phone calls will not be accepted. Late submissions shall be treated in accordance with the solicitation provision at RFO 52.212-1(f). Any questions or concerns regarding this solicitation should be forwarded in writing via e-mail to the Point of Contact listed below. Point of Contact Erich Hoffman, Contract Specialist [email protected]